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August 7, 2012, 1:50 AM

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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 …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Why is Apple ditching the YouTube app from iOS 6? It's about money and machismo

More: PadGadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, MacStories, TechCrunch and parislemon. Thanks:@thatdrew

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

iPhone Caused “Crisis of Design” at Samsung (Memo) — At the end of Monday in week two of the Apple versus Samsung case, a damning internal Samsung email was admitted into evidence — an email containing charged language from JK Shin, Samsung's head of mobile communications.

More: Daring Fireball and Ars Technica

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 …

More: San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac and BGR

AppleInsider:

Court documents allegedly show Samsung copied iPhone icons

More: Gizmodo, CNET and Ubergizmo

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 …

More: ZDNet, MacRumors, VentureBeat, GigaOM, digitaltrends.com, CNET, Matt Cutts, The Verge, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, TUAW, InfoWorld, The Mac Security Blog and Boing Boing

Tweets: @counternotions, @wired, @bxchen, @robpegoraro, @mat, @paleofuture and @edbott

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 …

More: BGR, Washington Post, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, msnbc.com, PC Magazine, ZDNet, The Register, Computerworld and Forbes

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 …

More: Computerworld, Neowin, The Next Web, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Engadget

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.

More: Computerworld, PhoneNews.com, MacDailyNews, Mobile Marketing Watch, Washington Post, eWeek, Seattle Times, iPhone, Macgasm, Macgasm, AndroidGuys, DSLreports, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, Droid Life, GadgeTell, IntoMobile, MacNN, Ubergizmo, GeekWire, TechCrunch and PhoneArena. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Business Insider, CNET, MacRumors, TechGlued, VentureBeat and IntoMobile

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 …

More: VentureBeat, CNET, paidContent, Mashable!, LockerGnome, The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times and Inside Social Games

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Kleiner's Bing Gordon Is In A Tough Spot All Of A Sudden

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Exclusive: Microsoft's Windows 8 packaging revealed — Microsoft announced the finalization of its Windows 8 operating system last week with some gloriously crazy Start Screen improvements. The final copy may have leaked online already, but if you're waiting to secure an official boxed copy …

More: Windows 8 Beta, Neowin, VentureBeat, The Next Web, WinBeta and Redmond Pie

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

Counting the Mobile Costs for Bing — As search goes mobile, Microsoft could pay heavily for the ride. — More searches these days are made on mobile phones and tablets, and most of them take place through Google. That is because Google is on so many mobile devices …

More: Neowin

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Kno starts offering K-12 textbooks on tablets, scores industry-first deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Kno's tablet textbooks have only ever been available to the college crowd; the younger among us have typically had to get a comprehensive digital education from either the tablet maker's own solution …

More: Business Insider, GigaOM and AllThingsD. Tweets: @wsjtech

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Acer CEO warns Microsoft to ‘think twice’ about Surface — Microsoft knew it would be stepping on the toes of its partners when it announced plans to make the Surface tablet computer — competing with Windows 8 tablets from the major PC makers. And now we have some public evidence of one of those partners feeling bruised.

More: Financial Times, CNET, Asa Dotzler, Financial Times and Reuters

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Inside NASA's Curiosity: It's an Apple Airport Extreme... with wheels — Late last night, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity successfully navigated its way through Seven Minutes of Terror and touched down on the surface of the Red Planet, heralding a new age of extraterrestrial exploration …

More: BBC, VentureBeat, Electronista and Computerworld

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

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 …

More: MacDailyNews and iDownloadBlog.com

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 …

More: AppleInsider, CNET, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, WebProNews and TodaysiPhone.com

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Inside Zynga and the making of its next hit, ChefVille — So you've got a team that has worked on a game for quite some time, going “live” has to be a pretty anxious moment, right? I spent some time last week with the Zynga team working on the game ChefVille, which will be launching its baby to the world this week.

More: VentureBeat, Mashable!, Inside Social Games and ABCNEWS

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.

More: ZDNet

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.

More: Ubergizmo, BuzzFeed, BGR, Geek.com, SlashGear, PC Magazine, The Verge, ZDNet and Techdirt

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 …

More: BGR, USA Today, PC Magazine, Engadget, VentureBeat and 9to5Google. Thanks:@robinwauters

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.

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 …

More: ARM, Gizmodo, Liliputing, The Verge, TechSpot, Computerworld, VentureBeat, AnandTech, SlashGear and The Register

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