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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 iPhone display, shows possible next-generation device user-interface — Mockup of rumored next-generation iPhone design — With the next-generation iPhone's announcement and release approaching for next month, one of the most present rumors is a larger, nearly-four inch display.
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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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| Matt Cutts: |
Please turn on two-factor authentication — You should read Mat Honan's heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple's security practices, but I would still advise everyone to turn on Google's two-factor authentication …
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist's Devastating Hack — Be careful with your Amazon account — or someone might buy merchandise on your credit card, but send it to their home. Photo: luxuryluke/Flickr — Amazon changed its customer privacy policies on Monday … | 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Only Windows Phone 8 will support in-app purchasing — Microsoft has revealed that its plans to support in-app purchasing on Windows Phone will be limited to its upcoming version 8 release. In MSDN documentation, the software maker advises developers that you can only add in-app products to Windows Phone 8 apps.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
| Chris Urmson / The Official Google Blog: |
The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels — Technology is at its best when it makes people's lives better, and that's precisely what we're going for with our self-driving car project. We're using advanced computer science to try and make driving safer and more enjoyable.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The New Yorker Lands on the iPhone, With Help From Lena Dunham and Jon Hamm — Here's another way to crack the “big stack of old New Yorkers you don't have time to get to” problem: You can now read the magazine on your iPhone, via a new app. — If you've used the New Yorker's iPad app … | Todd Wasserman / Mashable!: |
Apple's ‘Genius’ Ads Disappear From the Olympics — 1 of 3 — Have you noticed that Apple's much-debated “Genius” ads have disappeared from the Olympics? — Well, you're not imagining things. A rep for TBWA/Media/Arts Lab, Apple's ad agency, says the ads are not running anymore, but that was the plan all along.
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| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Craigslist reportedly removes listings from search engines, blocking 3Taps and PadMapper — Listings site Craigslist has reportedly asked all general search engines to stop indexing its postings, effectively obsolescing data provider 3Taps and sites and apps which use its API, including the popular PadMapper.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
LinkedIn to Developers: We'll Give You the Clarity the Other Platforms Won't — In light of frustration with platform policy changes on other social media services like Twitter, LinkedIn today pushed out updated terms of service, a revamped developer resources Web site and a more explicit approved-developer program.
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| Jason Feifer / Fast Company: |
Who's That Woman in the Twitter Bot Profile? — They're sometimes called “bimbots”—the army of Twitter bots with pretty profile pictures. Who are the women pictured in those photos? This is the story of the quest to find out. — After weeks of trying, I'd nearly found the real person behind a Twitter bot.
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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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Office 2013 RT for Windows RT tablets will ship as Preview, lack macros and other features — Microsoft is planning to remove certain features from its Office 2013 RT edition, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The software maker is planning to ship a Preview version …
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| Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM: |
Facebook says ‘Likes’ are free speech in sheriff case — Facebook is supporting the court appeal of a deputy sheriff who lost his job after he ‘Liked’ the Facebook campaign page of his boss's rival. The case is helping to define the extent of free speech rights in the age of social media.| Herman Lai / M.I.C. Gadget: |
This Time, Apple's FaceTime Got Sued! — A Tawinese man recently filed a lawsuit against Apple for allegedly infringing his technology patent that he claimed is used on Apple's FaceTime. The Intermediate People's Court in Zhenjiang has confirmed that they had accepted the case on July 31 … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
Cloud telephony startup Infratel lands $3M, adds ‘click-to-call’ to Facebook pages — Infratel, a Seattle startup that provides cloud-based telephony services to small businesses, has raised $3 million in startup financing. Investors in the round include Prostor Capital and Runa Capital.
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| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
“We're coming for you, bitches!” 500 Startups' Dave McClure takes over Mexican.VC — Mexican.VC, a startup accelerator based in Mexico City, announced today it is merging with 500 Startups to source and fund a growing number of promising Spanish-speaking startups.| Brendon Lynch / TechNet Blogs: |
Do Not Track in the Windows 8 Setup Experience — With Windows 8's recent release to manufacturing, we know many people are interested in how customers will discover Do Not Track (DNT) in Internet Explorer 10. DNT will be enabled in the “Express Settings” portion of the Windows 8 set-up experience.
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| David Kaplan / Houston Chronicle: |
Houston-born blog guru stays true to his roots — WordPress made Matt Mullenweg a multimillionaire — Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the blogging software WordPress, keeps an apartment in Houston, his hometown, to get away from the East and West coasts. He's one of the most influential people in the tech world.| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Demonoid Operators Face Criminal Investigation in Mexico — Confirmation came out of Ukraine yesterday that not only had Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack, it had also been raided by the authorities. — In the middle of last week government investigators arrived at ColoCall, Demonoid's webhost, to shut Demonoid down.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Calling on steroids: Korea's SK Telecom to launch world's first HD voice over LTE service — Fresh from launching the world's first multi-carrier mobile service last month, Korea's SK Telecom has claimed another new landmark as the first operator to introduce an HD voice over LTE service.
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