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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 … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Judge Refuses to Toss Most of Apple's Suit Against Samsung — With Apple having finished its primary case, the court took time on Monday to hear Samsung's arguments that the Cupertino-based company failed to meet its legal burden and that the case should be dropped.
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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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Computerworld, Phones Review, The Verge, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, Current Editorials, Mobile Magazine, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, PC Magazine, Know Your Cell, Pocketnow, Examiner, App Advice, Apple Bitch, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, The Tech Block, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, Business Insider, 9to5Mac and Techie Buzz
| 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 … | Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
RIM Says BlackBerry 10 Will Soon Be Ready For Licensing — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said it will soon be ready to license the company's new BlackBerry 10 operating system to other manufacturers, even as it races to release its own devices with the software by early next year.| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs … Windows 8 and Windows RT each reached the RTM milestone, and we are hard at work in collaboration with ecosystem partners, including PC manufacturers, Silicon partners, and other component suppliers, to complete high quality Windows RT and Windows 8 PCs that we think you'll love.
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GigaOM, The Verge, CNET, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, eWeek, The Register, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, Pocketables, Wired, Mashable!, TechSpot, PC World, Computerworld, PC Magazine, GeekWire, HotHardware.com News, bit-tech.net, Liliputing, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget and Neowin. Thanks:@rajupp
| 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.
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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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Wiley, Skift, CNET, Forbes, AdExchanger, AllThingsD, FairSearch.org, Android News, Rumours …, GigaOM, ZDNet, Washington Post, Pulse2 Technology …, Betabeat and BGR
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Think App.net is just a Twitter clone? Then you're missing the point — Much of the coverage of App.net — the ambitious project from entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell that just raised $500,000 through a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding campaign — has focused on the idea that Caldwell is building a “paid version of Twitter.”
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The Next Web, Alex Hillman, Orian Marx, AllTwitter, Daily Dot and parislemon
Tweets: @allnick, @counternotions, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan and @hunterwalk
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ReadWriteWeb, 9.blog, The Tech Block, memeburn, digitaltrends.com and Technology Review. Tweets: @rsarver
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Retail Stores Seeing Significant Layoffs of Recent Hires? — Over the past couple of weeks, we've been receiving reports that Apple has been laying off a number of recently-hired staff members at its retail stores. Most of the reports have been coming from Apple retail employees … | Klint Finley / TechCrunch: |
Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet — It's long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them.| Matthew Dierker / Facebook Newsroom: |
New Life Event for Timeline, “Expecting a Baby” — Now, you can choose to add ‘Expecting a Baby’ as a Life Event on timeline. — Life Events are easy and expressive ways to mark significant moments in your life such as getting married, buying a house or traveling to new places.
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SlashGear, CNET, Daily Dot, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, Mashable! and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine
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Groupon stock dives 20 percent after poor earnings report — Groupon's stock took a sharp turn today, falling 20 percent in after hours trading. The daily deals company missed Wall Street estimates in its second quarter earnings. — The stock hit a low of $5.95 a share … | Eric Savitz / Forbes: |
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Business Insider, The Verge, Groupon, Inc., MarketBeat and The Next Web
Tweets: @scottmaustin, @dcurtis, @hblodget, @dcurtis, @danprimack and @emilychangtv
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Pixel Perfect — I've spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the screen was a matrix of dots, like animated graph paper. I loved graph paper.
Tweets: @wellsriley and @jonathanhoover
| David Beren / TmoNews: |
Is This T-mobile's First Windows Phone 8 Smartphone? With LTE? — Windows Phone fans, now would be a really great time to pay attention as believe we've discovered T-Mobile's first Windows Phone 8 device — with LTE. That's right, your eyes are not deceiving you as the user agent string indicates … | Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
In a valley of VC clones, Google Ventures does more than just write checks — Joe Kraus isn't just a Google Ventures partner. He's also a poker player, and I think he knows that both pursuits involve a certain amount of gambling, regardless of how much skill you think you have.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Apple scores courtroom wins in Motorola FRAND case — The iPhone maker claims that Google-owned handset maker is unfairly seeking excessive royalty payments for patents covering video streaming and Wi-Fi technology. — While most of the patent litigation attention is currently focused …
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Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop — Smartphones have transformed our daily lives. A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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