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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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AT&T Mobile Share Plans Available August 23 — Our new AT&T Mobile Share plans will be available starting Thursday, Aug. 23. — As families prepare to send students back to school, many are looking for a convenient way to connect tablets and laptops or add new smartphones.
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iOS 6 beta 4, Xcode 4.5 Developer Preview 4 released to developers — Three weeks after it released iOS 6 beta 3, Apple has unleashed a fourth beta of the next-generation version of iOS to developers. The new beta is currently available as an over-the-air update to those running iOS 6 beta 3 …
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Apple to roll new Dock connector out across entire iOS product lineup this fall — iMore has learned that Apple intends to update their entire lineup of iOS device products to support the new, miniaturized Dock connector, and to do it as early the rumored September 12 special event this fall.| 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.
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Yahoo Gets Googley Q&A Tool at Friday FYI and Uses It to Ask About Exec Accountability and Leaks — Well, it wasn't as tasty as free food this week at Yahoo, but in her second official all-hands meeting with employees — now reportedly called “Friday FYI” — new CEO Marissa Mayer rolled … | 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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| 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 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Online Radio Service TuneIn Raises $16M From Sequoia, General Catalyst And More, Hits 40M Monthly Active Listeners — TuneIn, the popular online radio service, just announced that it has raised a $16 million funding round led by General Catalyst Partners. Other participants …
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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.| 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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Microsoft's Office Store now open for business, productivity-boosting apps just a click away — You've known it was coming, and today the doors to Microsoft's Office Store were flung wide open. In short, it's a newfangled portal that enables avid Office and SharePoint users to search for, discover and install apps.
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Apple Needs Sharp With Foxconn Stake As New IPhone Nears — Taiwan billionaire Terry Gou built a manufacturing empire that assembles iPhones and iPads. His Foxconn Technology Group may be key to ensuring Sharp (6753) Corp.'s survival and a stable supply of components for Apple Inc. (AAPL)
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| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu Fires 4 Suspected of Being Paid to Delete Content — BEIJING—Baidu Inc. fired four employees suspected of taking payments to delete material from its website, a common form of misconduct on the Chinese Internet. — Although the development is unlikely to have a major effect …
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Verizon teams with Microsoft to offer Office 365 to businesses — Verizon Wireless is making a strong bid for small businesses today with the announcement that it's offering Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity suite. — Verizon made the announcement together with Microsoft at a small press gathering in New York City today.| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Google records show book scanning was aimed at Amazon — Google has so far spent more than $180 million on book scanning and, at the outset of the project, one of its stated goals was to keep web searchers away from Amazon. — These are among the details set out in a new court filing by the Authors Guild … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Microsoft commits to WebRTC - just not Google's version — Microsoft officially announced its own proposal for plugin-free real-time communication Monday. “Customizable, Ubiquitous Real Time Communication over the Web,” or short CU-RTC-Web, is Microsoft's contribution to the W3C WebRTC working group …
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