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Motorola to Cut 20% of Work Force, Part of Sweeping Change — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Motorola Mobility, the ailing cellphone maker that Google bought in May, told employees Sunday that it would lay off 20 percent of its work force and close a third of its 94 offices worldwide.
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Apple has licensed design patents to Microsoft: executive — (Reuters) - Apple Inc licensed its prized design patents to Microsoft Corp but with an “anti-cloning agreement” to prevent copying of its iPhone and iPad, an Apple executive said on Monday. — The testimony from Apple patent …
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Samsung in Apple patent talks: Rock vs. hard place — Now we know that Apple came to Samsung to offer it a deal to license its patents, but it's not that simple. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Whether or not you agree that Samsung copied the look and feel of Apple's products … | Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
AT&T planning for iPhone launch in late September, clearing schedules through October — According to a trusted AT&T (T) source, the carrier is currently planning to launch Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone during the third or fourth week of September, with an all-hands-on-deck policy … | Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
iPhone 5 pre-orders planned for September 12, second release wave for first week of October — A couple of weeks ago iMore reported that Apple would be holding their iPhone 5 event on September 12, 2012. We've since learned that iPhone 5 pre-orders are currently planned to begin that same day …
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Google to Buy Frommer's Travel Brand — Google Inc. is acquiring the Frommer's travel brand from publicly traded publishing house John Wiley & Sons Inc. for an undisclosed price in order to bolster its offerings of local reviews around the world. — The deal is expected to close shortly.
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| Simson Garfinkel / Technology Review: |
The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold — Does society really want extremely private mobile devices if they make life easier for criminals? Apple's newly toughened standards sharpen the focus on that question. — Less than a month after Apple first shipped the iPhone in June 2007 …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Photos of alleged next-generation iPhone motherboard surface, point to new antennas, battery — A WeiPhone forums user posts a couple of photos of what is apparently claimed to be a motherboard/logicboard for the next-generation iPhone. If legitimate, the part appears to be a prototype unit …
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Kim Dotcom promises that disruptive new music service, Megabox, will launch this year — Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has dropped the biggest hint yet that his disruptive new music project is on schedule to launch before the end of the year, according to a tweet from the German … | Lukasz Lindell / Day4: |
How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community — Have you heard the phrase “That's true because I saw it on TV” at some point? It was often the truth in the old days when people only had the TV or newspaper to relate to. What you saw or read was the truth, although it obviously wasn't always so.| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Groupon Sales Force Cracks Under Pressure — Groupon Inc. is facing a new hurdle: strains on its sales force. — Such pressures are a boon to people like Mike Silagadze. The chief executive of education-software firm Top Hat Monocle Inc. said that over the past month …
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Windows Next: Just call it ‘Blue’? — Summary: Windows 9 might not be Microsoft's next version of Windows. Instead, ‘Blue’ could be the interim release that shows up first. — It's been a couple weeks of Microsoft naming madness. To top it all off at the end of last week …
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| Somini Sengupta / New York Times: |
A Steep Climb Back for Facebook's Stock — SAN FRANCISCO — The Facebook spring is over. The dog days of August have taken hold. — In May, when investors tripped over themselves to buy a piece of Facebook, not even the skeptics predicted what has happened.| Adam Rifkin / TechCrunch: |
| Cliff Edwards / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Struggling GameStop reinventing itself — In an effort to avoid the fate of Blockbuster, Circuit City and others in the remainder bin of failed retailers, GameStop has embarked on a daring, if inglorious, strategy: refashioning itself from a console-game purveyor into a repairer and reseller …
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