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August 9, 2012, 1:50 PM

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Joe Pollicino / Engadget:

OUYA's Kickstarter funding is complete: over $8.59 million raised, starts shipping in March — It's a wrap! Suffice it to say, it's a been a relatively short, yet astoundingly fruitful — and initially record-breaking — funding run for OUYA, the hackable, Android-based gaming console.

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Mat Smith / Engadget:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon Confirms Cloud Player, Its Would-Be iTunes Killer, Now Works On Sonos, More Devices Coming Later This Year — At the end of July, Amazon updated its Cloud Player to be in fighting form as an iTunes killer, with a load of new audio features like Scan and Match technology and licensing deals with a number of labels.

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Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Mobile tech firm Vringo to sell $31.2m worth of stock to buy over 500 Nokia patents for (at least) $22m — Vringo, a publicly-listed mobile technology company that's really mostly about ‘protecting’ the intellectual property its owns in that space, this morning announced that it will raise $31.2 million …

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Phil Muncaster / The Register:

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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:

Digia to acquire Qt business from Nokia, port it to Android and iOS — Up to 125 Qt personnel at Nokia will join Digia to continue Qt development. — Finnish software company Digia announced today that it is acquiring the Qt software business from Nokia.

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Akamai: peak internet speeds jumped 25 percent year-to-year in Q1, Germany tops the mobile world — If you thought world internet access speeds were facing a large-scale slowdown, you can stop fretting for now. Data from Akamai suggests that average speeds were just 2.6Mbps …

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Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 — 1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Price Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. — Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed.

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Lenovo's ‘ultra-portable’ ThinkPad T430u will be available later this month for $779

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Competition Weighs On T-Mobile USA: Q2 Sales Down To $4.9B, Customer Figures ‘Continue To Present Challenge’ — With parent company Deutsche Telekom posting its quarterly earnings today, T-Mobile USA has reported its Q2 operating results. Despite moves it is making to ramp up its network …

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Kim Zetter / Wired:

Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious Payload — A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infiltrated machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in the Middle East, according to researchers.

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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Amid Lawsuits From Publishers, Boundless Launches A Free, Open Alternative To Textbooks — Since it first appeared earlier this year, Boston-based educational startup Boundless has been on a mission to ensure that college students have a free alternative to the pricey and bulky world of physical textbooks.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up — Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address.

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Grant McCool / Reuters:

U.S. will not challenge computer fraud case to high court — (Reuters) - The government has decided not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a divided appeals court ruling in a criminal case that drew attention to a 28-year-old computer hacking law that critics argue is being used too broadly.

More: The Verge and CNET

Yezel Rosales / The Big Blog:

Introducing new Skype Cards in Mexico — Skype is always working towards more and more ways to bring people together whenever they are apart. At Skype today we are happy to introduce a new payment option for the Mexico market, Skype Cards. — Skype users in Mexico will now have all the benefits …

More: CNET, Pulse2 Technology … and Ubergizmo

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

40% of top brands use Instagram, love image filters — Today, Seattle-based Simply Measured launched its Instagram analytics tool for both the public, and its enterprise customers. In conjunction with that release, the company made public a study that it executed of the Interbrand 100 firms, concerning their usage of Instagram.

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