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August 1, 2012, 12:25 PM
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Goes Public With Excluded Evidence to Undercut Apple's Design Claims — Denied the opportunity to make the argument in court that the design of the original iPhone was derived from Sony concepts, Samsung has decided to make it in the court of public opinion.
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ZDNet, Fortune, Gizmodo, Forbes, BBC, SlashGear, InfoWorld, iLounge, Sammy Hub, The Verge, Wired, Mashable!, Phones Review, TUAW, IntoMobile, TechEye, PhoneArena, VatorNews, Guardian, Know Your Cell, PadGadget, Examiner, Android News, Rumours …, Bloomberg Tech Blog, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Softpedia News and AppleInsider
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Inspired by Sony — Eric Raymond: This isn't speculation — an Apple employee copied Sony's design, circulated it to his bosses, and testified to these facts in court. From now on, when anyone heaps phrase on Apple's design excellence and superlative innovation, just point and laugh.
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VentureBeat and Evolver.fm
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon Instant Video app for iPad hits the App Store with offline viewing and Prime streaming — Click to view slideshow. — Just 24 hours after Hulu started popping up on Apple TV, We now see Amazon's Instant Video Store in the App Store for iPad. It looks like a full app capable …
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CNET, USA Today, GeekWire, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, GigaOM, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Engadget, Liliputing, Macworld, MobileBurn.com, The Verge, TUAW, Business Insider, Macgasm, Zatz Not Funny!, Geeky-Gadgets, Lifehacker, Mashable!, IntoMobile, GadgeTell and App Advice. Thanks:@llsethj
| Aditya Agarwal / The Dropbox Blog: |
Security update & new features — A couple weeks ago, we started getting emails from some users about spam they were receiving at email addresses used only for Dropbox. We've been working hard to get to the bottom of this, and want to give you an update. — Our investigation found …
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ZDNet, VentureBeat, BBC, PC Magazine, Naked Security, InfoWorld, Help Net Security, DailyTech, GigaOM, Gartner, InformationWeek, Softpedia News, The H Security, The Verge, The Register, AllThingsD, Computer Business Review, Engadget, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, CNET, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Krebs on Security and Lifehacker
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
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| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
The Power of Internet Censorship, in 1 Chart — Sometime late in the evening of July 28, Twitter suspended the account of journalist and NBC naysayer Guy Adams. Earlier today, with apologies from Twitter's lawyer to Adams, the service reinstated his account. — There are many lessons to be learned from this brief affair.| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Twitter restores reporter's account, tweet with NBC e-mail remains — Two days after his account was suspended, the U.K. reporter who touched off a media kerfuffle about corporate control of speech is back on Twitter. The Independent's Guy Adams, who made his name bashing NBC's Olympic coverage … | Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Apple's CPU architect Jim Keller departs to head up chipmaker AMD's processor group — Chipmaker AMD this morning announced that it has hired Jim Keller as corporate VP and chief architect of the company's microprocessor cores. — Before, Keller was a director in the platform architecture group at Apple …
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Market Wire, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, Engadget, AppleInsider, Macworld, TUAW, AnandTech, iClarified, PhoneArena and VentureBeat
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The @outlook.com email addresses Microsoft forgot to reserve — Microsoft's new Outlook.com webmail service launched yesterday as a public preview, leaving thousands of Hotmail users scrambling to reserve their shiny new @outlook.com email addresses. After a million signups in just a few hours …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
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Tweets: @outlook and @fmorgan2k9
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft completes Windows 8 development, announces RTM — Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 development is now complete. The final Release to Manufacturing (RTM) code will now be delivered to the company's hardware partners within the next few days to ready PCs and tablets …
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The Windows Blog, MSDN Blogs, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Engadget and Business Insider
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Digg launches redesign and new app with editorial curation, no comments — Digg's “Rethought' redesign after its acquisition by Betaworks has just gone live, just one day after the company showed off its v1 preview that was the result of a very rapid 6-week redesign process.
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Engadget, Business Insider, Inquirer, Betabeat, Laughing Squid, Digg Blog, IntoMobile, CNET, Macgasm, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, NYT Bits, kottke.org, Neowin, iMore, App Advice, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Mashable!, digitaltrends.com and GadgeTell
Tweets: @joshconstine, @ohnorosco, @omarg, @choire, @kevinrose, @anildash and @mathewi
See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Craigslist Now Wants Your Postings Under ‘Exclusive’ Terms: Padmapper Fallout Continues — Another development in the ongoing Craigslist data scraping story: Craigslist has added in a new proviso for those posting ads, telling them that Craigslist now becomes the “exclusive licensee” of the content in that ad.
Tweets: @nytimesbits
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Tightens Up App Policy, Gets Stricter On Naming/Icon, Payments, Privacy, Ads And Spam Rules [Developer Letter] — Looks like Google Play is growing up, combing its hair and trying to move away from its Wild West image: Android's app store team has sent out a letter to its tens … | Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards — On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed. — Upon its reception, most of the public attention focused on a single passage … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Google suspends Nexus Q launch, will send free dev devices to pre-order customers — Google has just let us know that it is delaying the launch of the Nexus Q as it works to improve the device. The Nexus Q order page on Google Play has been taken down, and now simply leaves customers with a note that the device “is coming soon.”| Benjamin Jackson / The Next Web: |
First Look: Simple Reimagines Banking — You and I probably don't see eye to eye on everything. You may not agree with my taste in music, or my politics, or my positions on the Oxford comma and tucking in of collared shirts (pro, and only when worn with a tie).| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Better Get Mobile Quick. 102M People Accessed Solely From Mobile In June, Up 23% Since March — There's a staggering new statistic in Facebook's 10-Q SEC document today: 102 million people accessed Facebook solely from mobile in June, a massive 23% increase over the 83 million mobile-only users in March.
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Business Insider, SocialTimes, The Verge, CNET and Mobile Entertainment. Tweets: @carleenlikes. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
New Rules on Kids' Web Ads — Social networks and Internet advertisers are likely to face new restrictions on how they interact with children online. — The Federal Trade Commission is expected to announce Wednesday new rules that close loopholes that currently allow companies … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Back to square one: Hulu blocks overseas Apple TV owners streaming via US iTunes accounts — A number of us across TNW's global team got rather excited when appeared that Hulu was allowing Apple TV owners to use its service from anywhere in the world so long as they had a US iTunes account …
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ReadWriteWeb, I4U News and The Verge
| Dave Greenbaum / GigaOM: |
Google Fiber in the real world: Here's what's good and what needs work — Although Google Fiber is not yet available to residential customers, select Retail Partners in Kansas City went live on Saturday, July 28th. One of these places was Mud Pie Vegan Bakery.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nearly 40 iPhone and iPad prototypes revealed in Samsung trial — Today at the Apple vs. Samsung trial, Apple designer Christopher Stringer took to the stand as Apple's first witness. In the course of his testimony about Apple's design process, he showed dozens of rejected iPhone and iPad designs …
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Gizmodo, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, CNET, Phones Review, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, AllThingsD and Engadget
| Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal: |
FBI Files Go Digital, After Years of Delays — Computer System 12 Years in the Making Is Aimed at Better Sharing of Information; Effort Cost More Than $600 Million — WASHINGTON—Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have finally ditched paper files for a new computer system …
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The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget and PC Magazine
| Alexandra Berzon / Wall Street Journal: |
Poker Site Pays $731 Million Fine — PokerStars agreed to pay $731 million to end a Justice Department lawsuit alleging bank fraud, money laundering and violations of gambling regulations against it and a another poker website. — Under the terms, PokerStars, based in the Isle of Man … | Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo — Really bad business plans 101 — A French company trying to trademark the Anonymous logo and slogan for commercial purposes has inspired an angry response from a team claiming to be affiliated with the hacking group.
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ITworld.com, seczine.com, Wired.co.uk, WebProNews, Forbes, Betabeat and ZDNet
| Alex Williams / TechCrunch: |
HelloFax Creates HelloSign - A Free Digital Signature Service — The founders at HelloFax needed a simpler way to help customers get their documents signed. And so they developed a digital signature tool. In short time, they realized they had stumbled into a new space.
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VentureBeat and BetaKit
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google Gets Its Social Ad Start-Up by Buying Wildfire — Google tried and failed to buy its way into the social ad business a couple months ago. This time, it got it done: The ad giant has picked up Wildfire, which helps marketers manage their presence on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
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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 …
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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.
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“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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