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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Stocks Up on Components for September iPhone Launch — Apple hasn't yet officially announced the fall event at which it is expected to debut the next iteration of the iPhone, but it's definitely planning one. — IMore was first to report that the company has scheduled a special event … | Rene Ritchie / iMore.com: |
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The Loop, iLounge, PC Advisor, Reuters, VatorNews, 9to5Mac, eWeek, Pocketables, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, parislemon, Computerworld, CNET, WebProNews, Macworld Australia, Forbes, MacRumors, The Verge, App Advice, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, The Register, everythingiCafe, Gotta Be Mobile, Mashable!, Current Editorials, GeekSugar and iClarified. Thanks:@marvinvista. See also Mediagazer
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo — As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. — Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure …
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The Register, TechEye, DealBook, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, paidContent, ValueWalk, CNET, VatorNews, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, Reuters, Bloomberg, The Verge, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, Marketing Land, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Mashable! and ReadWriteWeb
Tweets: @emilychangtv and @pkafka
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
Samsung Product Chief: 'It's Unreasonable That We're Fighting Over Rectangles' — Kevin Packingham, Samsung's Chief Product Officer, at Wired's San Francisco office. — Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired — The Apple v. Samsung trial that begins in a San Jose federal courtroom on Monday …
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PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com, Android News, Rumours …, Gizmodo, 9to5Google and The Verge. Tweets: @gracerodriguez. Thanks:@strngwys
| John Koblin / Deadspin: |
NBC's No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter — Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended—supposedly because NBC had it cut off after he complained:
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Tweets: @producermatthew, @timwindsor, @hblodget and @dannysullivan
See also Mediagazer| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung readying 11.8-inch tablet with ‘retina’ display, say court documents — Court documents made public in the epic Apple v. Samsung trial that kicked off in California today reveal that Samsung is working on a tablet codenamed “P10” that would include LTE connectivity and an 11.8-inch display at 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Twitter rolls out clickable stock symbols, or “Cashtags”, so you can keep up with your investments — Twitter is now rolling out the ability for you to click on stock symbols with a $ sign in front of them. Once you click them, you'll be able to see all of the conversation about a particular company, much like you would a hashtag.
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Tweets: @twitter, @ericjackson and @howardlindzon
Thanks:@jfalconer| Howard Lindzon: |
The Twitter Hijacking of Stocktwits $ ...The Cashtag — It's interesting that Twitter has hijacked our creation of $TICKER ie. $AAPL. It only took four years to ‘fill’ this hole, though a few months back they told me in a detailed email it was not a hole they wanted to fill.
| Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk: |
Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money — Apple's goal is not to make money, but to make good products, said Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, speaking at the British Embassy's Creative Summit. — “We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money.
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| Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars — Google and Facebook are using a controversial legal doctrine to channel money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and other groups that share their hostility to online copyright enforcement.
Tweets: @robertblevine_, @warren_allen, @helienne, @zarawesome, @valleyhack and @jsto
| David Pogue / Pogue's Posts: |
One of Apple's Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse — I think the MagSafe connector is one of Apple's best ideas ever. It's on the end of every Mac laptop's power cord. It attaches to the laptop with a powerful magnet—but if anybody trips on it, it detaches and falls harmlessly to the floor.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Is Open To A Radical Change In Facebook Strategy — It's not often that a public company CEO suggests that he might be open to an entirely new product strategy, but that's exactly what Mark Zuckerberg did on Facebook's earnings call last week. — Allow us to explain.
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v1 preview — Digg v1 will launch this week after a six-week sprint to rebuild the site from scratch. Here's a first glimpse. We want the new Digg to deliver the best of what the Internet is talking about right now. It must be alive and responsive to its participants.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Lockers Available For Delivery In Silicon Valley, Too — It looks like Amazon.com is expanding its Lockers program, which allows customers to have their deliveries sent to, yes, nearby lockers. — The idea was first reported last fall. It may seem like an inconvenient alternative …
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Mysterious 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook appears in Vietnam — The last we heard, all notions of a 10-inch PlayBook had been shelved, with rumors suggesting that RIM wanted to concentrate on its BB10 plans and next-gen smartphones instead. However, we've just received these images from Tinthe …
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TechEye, Pocketables, Liliputing, The Verge, BGR, BB Geeks, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow and MobileSyrup.com
| DealBook: |
Alibaba Is Said to Be Close to Raising $8 Billion — Some American Internet companies may be unpopular with investors these days, but a Chinese one is finding plenty of takers. — The Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce giant, is close to completing a more than $8 billion round of financing … | Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Facebook introducing ‘save for later’ feature — Facebook is reportedly rolling out an update to its mobile platform that allows users to save friends' posts for reading later. According to iMore, users will soon see a notification letting them know that they can 'press and hold anywhere … | Center for Democracy & Technology: |
Why Fibbing About Your Age Is Relevant to the Cybersecurity Bill — [Editors Note: This is one in a of series of blog posts from CDT on the Cybersecurity Act, S. 3414, a bill co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Collins that is slated to be considered on the Senate floor soon.]
Tweets: @dangillmor
| Christopher Soghoian / slight paranoia: |
Tech journalists: Stop hyping unproven security tools — Preface: Although this essay compares the media's similar hyping of Haystack and Cryptocat, the tools are, at a technical level, in no way similar. Haystack was at best, snake oil, peddled by a charlatan.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Republic Wireless reopens its unlimited $19 per month beta, starts offering Motorola Defy XT — Republic Wireless is finally ready for more customers on its low price cellphone service, announcing today that it's reopening signups for its beta and offering customers a new phone.
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| Ken Segall / Observatory: |
New Mac ads: landing with a serious thud — Repeat after me: “The sky is not falling. The sky is not falling.” — I know it's hard to say after viewing the new batch of Mac ads that debuted on the Olympics. I'm still in a bit of shock myself. — Sure, Apple has had a low point …
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook revamps photos with new mosaic view and simpler UI — Facebook just rolled out a new look to its user Photos page that includes a mosaic view of all of a user's photos, as well as three new tabs that adorn the top of the page: photos of you, photos you've shared, and albums you've created.Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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