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| Adam Ewing / Bloomberg: |
Nokia's Fight For AT&T Shelf Space Shows Hurdle For Lumia — When Angelo Amato, a former Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) customer, went to get a new smartphone at an AT&T Inc. (T) store in Manhattan last week, he never got a chance to even see the Finnish company's models.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia rumored to announce Windows Phone 8 handsets ‘as early as’ next month — Microsoft is expected to finalize its Windows Phone 8 software in September and recent reports suggest that Nokia may announce its first next-generation devices at the same time.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
eBay Is Launching A Same-Day Shipping Service Called eBay Now — eBay today invited some San Francisco users to a new same-day shipping service called eBay Now. An iOS app, eBay Now's beta will let SF residents get $5 same-day shipping on products from local stores. It's now signing up users for an “exclusive beta”.
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| Christopher Jackson / The Next Web: |
Y Combinator's first batch: where are they now? — From small seeds grow mighty oaks. — When a tree grows, at what point do you say it has achieved success? When it has reached its full height, and stopped growing? When it has dropped seeds of its own, to produce new shoots to hopefully grow into their own huge trees?| Economist: |
Huawei: The company that spooked the world — The success of China's telecoms-equipment behemoth makes spies and politicians elsewhere nervous — BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple's Case Against Samsung in Three Pictures — Since it first sued Samsung for patent infringement, Apple has derided the Korean company as a “copyist” whose Galaxy devices “slavishly” ape the original designs of the iPhone and iPad. — “Samsung chose to copy Apple, not to innovate,” …
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| Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Succès De Scandale: Olympics Suspension Fiasco Drove Signups — There's no such thing as bad publicity. A source tells TechCrunch that mainstream news mentions of the temporary suspension of an NBC Olympics coverage tweeter / hater gave Twitter's signup rate a boost.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked MPAA Memo Reveals TV-Shack Press Strategy — Last year Richard O'Dwyer was arrested by police for operating TVShack, a website that listed user-submitted link to TV-shows. — The UK student has since fought a looming extradition to the US, but thus far without success.
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Apple Wants To Buy Pinterest Rival, The Fancy — Apple is in talks to acquire The Fancy, a fast-growing social commerce site backed by cofounders of Twitter and Facebook, Business Insider has learned. — The objective: to secure a role for Apple in the growing e-commerce market …
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Ubergizmo, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, CNET, ZDNet, SlashGear, iMore.com, Apple Bitch, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and iClarified. Thanks:@forrestkoba
| David Morgenstern / ZDNet: |
Mountain Lion's Save As still a disaster — Summary: Changes in the behavior of Save As in OS X Lion and now Mountain Lion make problems for longtime users of Macs. — David Morgenstern — Many sites reported the “happy” news that OS X Mountain Lion restores the Save As command, which was removed in OS X Lion.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Saving Private RIM — Over the past couple weeks, we've read a number of bedtimes stories about RIM's next move. They all start with the same trope: Once upon a time, late last century, Apple was on the edge of the precipice and still managed to come back — and how!
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| Tadhg Kelly / TechCrunch: |
Zyngapocalypse Now (And What Comes Next?) — Significant losses, declining ARPUs, failing mobile acquisitions and shareholder selloffs. A stock price down to $3.01. A product catalog repeating previous mistakes. Media coverage ranging from the mystified to “I told you so”.
Tweets: @jussil, @tim_oneil, @pyplatini and @daveg
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nuance's ‘Nina’ to add Siri-like features to customer service apps on iOS and Android — After Nuance's aggressive push to get its voice recognition technology in front of consumers via first-party apps, the company is taking a small turn and offering it to third party apps.
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