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Sharp to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple this month — (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. — “Shipments will start in August …
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| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
Apple seeks patent for Smart Cover with embedded secondary display — According to an application to the USPTO this morning, Apple believes it's possible to build a flexible display into an iPad cover in order to “greatly enhance” the functionality of the tablet itself.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Schadenfreude, Anyone? In Wake of Facebook Bullying Claims, Google+ Chief Vic Gundotra Woos Developers — When our enemies stumble publicly, some take the high road and steer clear of mentioning our adversary's folly. But for others, some things are just too good to pass up.
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell's Mixed Media Labs Board — Wednesday was an ugly day for infighting in the Valley, after Dalton Caldwell, a Silicon Valley veteran and serial entrepreneur, posted a withering missive to his personal blog on Wednesday, in which he accused Facebook … | Dalton Caldwell: |
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| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
BlackBerry: other manufacturers could license our new BB10 platform — Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research in Motion, has told the Telegraph that manufacturers such as Sony or Samsung could licence the new BlackBerry operating system. — New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins introduced BlackBerry 10 in Florida
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills — A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants' legal costs. Introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) …
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| Emil Protalinski / CNET: |
Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users — Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. — Follow @emilprotalinski — Does she have a Facebook account? — Last week, during … | Yoni Heisler / Network World: |
Apple initially wanted an iPhone with shaped glass, deposition reveals — The Apple-Samsung trial has provided us with an absolute treasure trove of information regarding Apple's iPhone prototypes. Below is why Apple initially shied away from shaped glass and why an iPhone prototype resembling …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
3-week old Jelly Bean hits 0.8% Android device adoption, as Ice Cream Sandwich reaches 15.9% — It's been just over a month since Google officially announced Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and barely three weeks since the first rollout, but already the latest flavor of Android is installed …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Dead Trigger goes free on iOS, where piracy is apparently also a problem — Madfinger Games, the studio behind mobile first-person shooter Dead Trigger, earned a fair bit of notoriety recently by making its game free on Android in response to what it called an “unbelievably high” piracy rate.| Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
Facebook Stories: A Facebook Site With Collected Stories and Infographics — A lot of people — close to 950 million, in fact — are sharing their lives on Facebook. As it turns out, Facebook thinks many of them have some interesting stories. Some of them are so interesting that they could be part …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With Three Key Exits, Facebook's Top Talent Departures Continue — The question on everyone's minds after Facebook's May IPO — How long till the brain drain starts? — Apparently, not that long. Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships at Facebook, announced on Wednesday via Facebook that he will soon leave the company.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IDC: Apple's iPad Grew Q2 Tablet Share To 68% As It Braces For Windows 8, Amazon And Nexus Competition — After Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire tablet last autumn, a lot of observers thought it could prove to be the competition to Apple's iPad that other Android tablets had so far failed to deliver.
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
AT&T acquires NextWave Wireless for $25m up front, to boost mobile Internet capacity — US telecommunications powerhouse AT&T has announced that it has agreed to acquire NextWave Wireless, which holds key licenses in the Wireless Communication Services (WCS) and Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) bands.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Cisco expands its board of directors with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Kristina Johnson — Networking equipment giant Cisco this morning announced that Marc Benioff, co-founder and chief executive officer of enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com, has joined its board of directors.
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check — David Cheriton wrote a $100,000 check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Today that check is now worth more than $1 billion in Google shares. (Martin Klimek / Getty Images)Thanks:@gerryshih
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Parking Payment Startup QuickPay Raises $3.5M, Powerset Founder Barney Pell Becomes CEO — QuickPay, a startup that helps drivers find and pay for parking, has brought on a new CEO — Barney Pell, the founder of semantic search company Powerset (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for a reported $100 million).
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung starts mass-producing 4x faster mobile flash memory, kickstarts our phones and tablets — Samsung isn't content to leave fast NAND flash memory to traditional solid-state drives. Its Pro Class 1500 promises a big jolt to the performance of frequently pokey smartphone and tablet storage.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] — Google has just bought social marketing software developer Wildfire, which lets brands serve marketing and ad campaigns on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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| Billy Gallagher / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Rose Responds To Reddit AMA: Biggest Digg Regrets, Thoughts On New Digg, More [Video] — Last night, I wrote about Kevin Rose not responding to questions on his AMA on Reddit. Rose was at a birthday party last night but has returned to Reddit today and has posted YouTube responses to five Redditers' questions.
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Past Apple-Twitter Investment Talks Were Tied to Product Integration — Apple Inc. floated the idea of investing in Twitter Inc. as the companies discussed integrating the social service into Apple's mobile operating system last year, according to people familiar with the discussions.
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Mobile Marketing Watch, AppleTell, Apple Bitch, Macgasm, iPhone and Business Insider
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Aereo Celebrates a Court Victory with Clever Marketing: Free Web TV for an Hour, or a Dollar for a Day — Fresh off the heels of a court victory, Barry Diller's Aereo is ramping up its marketing push with a clever new pricing scheme: The TV-on-the-Web service is rolling out new plans …
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| Emily Goodin / Hillicon Valley: |
Cybersecurity Act fails Senate vote — The long battle for cybersecurity legislation ended Thursday as the Senate failed to pass a motion to end debate on the bill. — The Cybersecurity Act, introduced by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), was rejected on a 52-46 vote …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Drops Below $20: Worth Less Than What MSFT Offered For Yahoo In 2008? — Today, Facebook hit a new milestone, perhaps one that it won't be celebrating much: the stock went down past $20 a share. In fact, as this post is being written it's trading at $19.99.| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook announced, on sale in Canada 9 August — Research In Motion has confirmed that it will be launching a 4G version of the BlackBerry Playbook on the 9 August in Canada. — The new 4G LTE? BlackBerry PlayBook?tablet will available in Canada on select carriers beginning August 9th …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Licenses Rovi's Program Guide Patents For Its New Fiber TV Service — One of the main surprises of Google's Fiber announcement in Kansas City last week was that the company also plans to provide its own TV service to the residents of its ‘fiberhoods.’ There are some issues …
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