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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.
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Wikipedia's main page down, article pages loading incorrectly — Wikipedia appears to be experiencing severe technical problems, with users around the world unable to access the site's main page and article pages lacking images or stylesheet information. Pointing a browser at “en.wikipedia.org” … | Bloomberg: |
Best Buy Founder Offers $26 A Share To Buy Retailer — Best Buy Co. founder Richard Schulze, who stepped down as chairman this year, offered to take the electronics retailer private at $24 to $26 a share, according to a copy of a letter he sent to the board today.
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| 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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| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government — Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared the worst when their beloved site disappeared from the Internet. Many thought that the site had been busted, but were eventually relieved to hear that it was ‘only’ a massive DDoS attack.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Strategy Guru Jim Heckman Leaves — Here's another Yahoo executive departure in the wake of Marissa Mayer's arrival: Jim Heckman, the company's SVP of strategy, is out. — This one was very much expected, as Heckman was closely tied to former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 coming worldwide this month, UI shown off on YouTube — We've got a good few updates rolling in on the Galaxy Note 10.1 front today. For starters, Samsung has announced that the S-Pen equipped slate will available globally from August in WiFi and 3G varieties … | Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Mother of ‘Happy Mac’ graphic to testify in Apple v. Samsung — Susan Kare, the graphic designer who created some of the interface designs and best known graphics for the original Mac OS is scheduled to appear in the patent case. — Apple lawyers are reaching back into the company's history for help against Samsung.
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9to5Mac, The Next Web, PhoneArena, TUAW and AllThingsD
| 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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Mac Performance Guide and TUAW
| Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga's Rocky Shift to Mobile — To turn around its flagging business, Zynga Inc. is betting big on mobile games and creating a network that connects mobile-game players. — But how to carry out that shift remains up for debate. — At Zynga's San Francisco headquarters last month …
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Chinese search giant Baidu fires three employees arrested for deleting forum posts for cash — After reports of the incident leaked out over the weekend, Chinese search engine leader Baidu confirmed that local police have arrested three now former employees for allegedly accepting bribes to delete posts from its TieBa forum service.
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Wall Street Journal, Inquirer, Gizmodo, SlashGear, BBC, The Global Times, ZDNet, memeburn, Ubergizmo, The Register, Softpedia News and The Verge
| 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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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:
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance — Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk. We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
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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