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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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| 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.
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| 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 … | AppleInsider: |
Court documents allegedly show Samsung copied iPhone icons — New Apple v. Samsung court documents, presented by Apple on Monday as part of the ongoing Apple v. Samsung trial, allegedly show Samsung's proprietary home-screen icon designs are nearly identical to that of the iPhone's.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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Neowin, Windows 8 Beta, VentureBeat, The Next Web, WinBeta and Redmond Pie
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Kleiner's Bing Gordon Is In A Tough Spot All Of A Sudden — Amazon and Zynga just went to war with the launch of Amazon's first social game. — The companies share a board member: Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Bing Gordon, the voluble and beloved former chief creative officer of Electronic Arts.| 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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| 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 …
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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.| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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:
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| 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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MacDailyNews and iDownloadBlog.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.
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ABCNEWS, VentureBeat, Inside Social Games and Mashable!
| 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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9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, CNET, Engadget, WebProNews and TodaysiPhone.com
| 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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| Danny Sullivan / CNET: |
iPad Mini or iPod Touch Maxi — it may not matter — Will Apple's rumored 7-inch tablet be a smaller iPad or a bigger iPod Touch? The Nexus 7 experience suggests it might make no difference, especially when content is the new killer app. — It's widely expected that Apple will release a 7-to-8-inch tablet next month.
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| 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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ARM, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Liliputing, Computerworld, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Register, AnandTech and SlashGear
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC preparing a 5-inch phone with 1080p display for September, say reports — Are 720p displays not enough for you? HTC is reputedly working on cramming Full HD resolution into its next flagship smartphone, a purported 5-inch device that is expected to launch in either September or October.
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