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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone version — Apple obviously did away with Google Maps in iOS 6, but another of the web giant's biggest properties won't be available as a default option, either. The latest beta version of iOS 6 has removed …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Why is Apple ditching the YouTube app from iOS 6? It's about money and machismo — If the reports coming in today are accurate, then Apple will remove the YouTube app from its iOS devices with the iOS 6 software update this fall. Both Macrumors and 9to5Mac are reporting that it is gone from the current beta and
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, parislemon, MacStories, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors and Mashable!. Thanks:@thatdrew
| David Christopher / ATT Blogs: |
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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Computerworld, MacRumors, Engadget, iPhone, eWeek, PhoneNews.com, MacDailyNews, Mobile Marketing Watch, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena, Washington Post, Android News, Rumours …, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, AndroidGuys, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, iDownloadBlog.com and GadgeTell. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal: |
Bruised Mobile Carriers Fight Back at Apple — The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and made Apple the world's most valuable company. But it hasn't been all good news for the mobile carriers. — The biggest benefit of the iPhone, and the touch-screen devices that followed …
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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.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft said to block ability to boot straight to desktop in Windows 8 — Summary: Leaked builds of Microsoft's Windows 8 are providing more clues as to what kinds of user behaviors will and won't be permitted. — If you were one of those business users counting on being able to circument …
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PC World, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Neowin, The Tech Report, The Next Web, Engadget and TechSpot
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple design expert calls Samsung a copycat — On the witness stand for Apple, an industrial designer says that Samsung is clearly infringing on multiple patents with its phones and tablets. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple is once again turning to designers to help make its case that Samsung lifted …
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
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| Robert MacPherson / Agence France Presse: |
Apple co-founder Wozniak sees trouble in the cloud — WASHINGTON — Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted “horrible problems” in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. — Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washington of …
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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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google Slaps $100M Golden Handcuffs On Wildfire To Retain Employees After $350M Acquisition — After buying social marketer Wildfire for $350 million, Google wants to ensure it keeps earning money and the employees don't bail. That's why Google set up $100 million in earn-outs and retention bonuses, multiple sources confirm.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Quietly Cuts iPhone 4S Price to $149 — Sprint over the weekend dropped the price of the iPhone 4S to $149 — a $50 price drop. — The move comes ahead of what is expected to be the introduction of a new iPhone as soon as next month. Apple is planning a media event for the week of Sept. 9.
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat, MacRumors, The Next Web, parislemon, TechGlued, IntoMobile and TUAW
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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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CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo, BGR, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, WebProNews, Apple Bitch and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Facebook's Stock Crash Has Created A Bunch Of New Problems For The Company... Facebook's stock crash has done more than blindside investors who figured that no price was too high for the IPO. — The crash has also created a bunch of new problems for the company:
Tweets: @pkedrosky
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
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.| Mat Honan / Wired: |
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking — Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. … In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball and NYT Bits
Tweets: @paleofuture, @wired, @edbott and @mat
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Chrome rises: Google browser grabs 1/3 of the global market (StatCounter) — Remember when Google's Chrome browser overtook Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser for a week back in May? And next, for a full calendar month? — Well, Chrome is still on top … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans textbook rentals as cheaper option for students — [Updated below with Amazon news release.] — Amazon.com is moving into the business of physical textbook rentals, expanding its footprint by offering a cheaper alternative to students, according to a support page on the company's site.| Robert Tait / Telegraph: |
Iranian state goes offline to dodge cyber-attacks — Iran is to move key ministries and state bodies off the worldwide internet next month in an effort to shield them behind a secure computer wall from disruptive cyber attacks like the Stuxnet and Flame viruses. — A student surfing the internet in Tehran
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ibtimes.co.uk and Times of India
| Sharif Sakr / Engadget: |
ARM's eight-core Mali GPUs promise ‘dramatic’ boost to mobile graphics — The current flagship for ARM's mobile graphics technology is undoubtedly the Galaxy S III, which contains a quad-core Mali 400 GPU and delivers some wild benchmark scores. By the end of this year though …
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Computerworld, The Register, ARM, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, AnandTech, SlashGear, Liliputing and The Verge
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Google's Motorola, Windows 8, iPhone Are Key Variables in Sprint's 2013 Plans — Sprint sees several question marks for the wireless industry as the company wraps up its product planning for next year. — The carrier said it has 90 percent of its product lineup for the first half of next year set …
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Phone Scoop, PhoneArena and FierceWireless
| 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 …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Unannounced HP tablet glimpsed in official picture (again), could be Slate 8 — HP's Make it Matter site features a shot of a medical-type person using a mysterious device that's the spitting image of one we saw in July. While the company's made no secret of its plans for a Windows 8 tablet … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon jumps into games: New studio makes its debut with a Facebook game — The market for casual games just got even more competitive. Amazon.com this afternoon confirmed the existence of its own Amazon Game Studios and launched the studio's first social game on Facebook … | 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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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 …
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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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