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August 15, 2012, 10:20 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple's New Front in Battle for TV — Apple Inc. is in talks with some of the biggest U.S. cable operators about letting consumers use an Apple device as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to people familiar with the matter. — The talks represent Apple's …

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @jvascellaro

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple reportedly focusing efforts on a new set-top box device for live TV broadcasts and other content — Apple has begun talks in preparation for a set-top box device that could be used to watch live TV as well as view other content, reports Jessica E. Vascellaro and Shalini Ramachandran at The Wall Street Journal.

More: GigaOM, Business Insider, AppleInsider, CNET, Ubergizmo and iClarified

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Surprise! What you can expect from Windows 8 RTM — Summary: Microsoft has officially made the final release of Windows 8 available to subscribers of its MSDN and TechNet services. You'll find a handful of small surprises, one very large change from Windows 7, and a momentous name change.

More: Engadget, InfoWorld, Computerworld, GeekWire, TechCrunch and The Verge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 now available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers

More: Ars Technica, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, The Tech Block and Engadget. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Microsoft to begin banning all apps with ‘metro’ in the title from the Windows Store (update)

More: TechSpot, istartedsomething, Windows Dev Center, MarkedUp, Engadget, WMPoweruser, MarkedUp and VentureBeat. Tweets: @theromit

Tom Warren / The Verge:

90-day trial version of Windows 8 now available to download

More: CNET, Engadget, Liliputing, Computerworld and Lifehacker

Christopher Van Der Westhuizen / The Official …:

Google Maps now has schedules for more than one million public transit stops worldwide — Since 2005, we've collaborated with hundreds of transit authorities around the world to make a comprehensive resource for millions of riders to find out which bus, train, subway or tram can take them to their next destination.

More: CNET, Computerworld, TechCrunch, parislemon, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, PhoneArena, Skift, VentureBeat, The Verge, 9to5Google and WebProNews. Tweets: @mattcutts

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Hits Stores August 16: $499 For 16GB, $549 For 32GB — As expected for quite a while, Samsung has just announced pricing and availability for the Galaxy Note 10.1. As you may have guessed, it's a 10-inch WiFi tablet that includes the somewhat-pointless …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 review

More: TechCrunch, AllThingsD, CNET, ZDNet, GigaOM and Gotta Be Mobile

David Pogue / New York Times:

Samsung's Tablet Raises an Inconsistent Challenge

More: 24/7 Wall St. and AllThingsD

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Nokia and Microsoft holding Windows Phone 8 press event on September 5th — We've been waiting to find out when Nokia would unveil its first lineup of Windows Phone 8 devices, and it looks like we'll be getting all the details on September 5th at 9:30AM in New York City.

More: Computerworld, VentureBeat, Reuters, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, The Tech Block, Current Editorials, BGR, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, WebProNews and PC World. Tweets: @mpanzarino

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Give Peace a Chance, Judge Says, Asking Apple and Samsung CEOs to Meet One Last Time — The federal judge overseeing the Apple-Samsung patent trial on Wednesday asked the chief executives of both companies to meet one last time to see if some sort of settlement might be reached.

More: eWeek, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Wired, The Verge, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, CNET, WebProNews, iDownloadBlog.com, IntoMobile, Edible Apple, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Mercury News, Macgasm, Neowin and TUAW

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads — In recent months, at least four of the most interesting new startups — all either from or backed by people with deep roots in the current internet, including Twitter cofounders and many of the most prominent VCs in Silicon Valley …

More: The Awl. Tweets: @hamburger, @jwherrman, @gaberivera and @tomewing. See also Mediagazer

Andrew Chen / @andrewchen:

Mobile app startups are failing like it's 1999 — Stop the madness — The long cycle times for developing mobile apps have led to startup failures that look more like 1999 - it's like we've forgotten all the agile and rapid iteration stuff that we learned over the last 10 years. Stop the madness!

Tweets: @cdixon

Kevin McLaughlin / CRN:

HP Says Its Windows 8 Tablet Will Include ‘Unique’ Technology — Despite last year's epic failure of the TouchPad, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) still believes it can knock Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s iPad off its lofty perch in the enterprise tablet market. HP has been teasing its forthcoming Windows 8 tablet …

More: The Verge, BGR, windows8update.com, Engadget, TechSpot, Gizmodo and VentureBeat

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

HP Is Just Fine With Microsoft's Surface Tablet, Thank You

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Hope For Flickr? Marissa Mayer Joins Photo-Sharing Site, Reportedly Doubles Team [Update: It Wasn't Her] — Update: I still haven't heard anything from Yahoo, but we've learned that the account was fake — apparently Mayer does have an account, but it's set to private.

More: TechCrunch, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, digitaltrends.com, PetaPixel, Macgasm and PandoDaily. Tweets: @scobleizer. See also Mediagazer

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Android Tablet Clears the FCC — Do you recall all those rumors about Amazon is working on a larger Kindle Fire, and how that tablet is expected to be released this fall? I think it cleared the FCC yesterday. — Now here's something guaranteed to wake you up this morning.

More: Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google, Macgasm, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, GeekWire, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Liliputing, SlashGear and Business Insider

Anna Heim / The Next Web:

Netflix introduces post-play feature to keep you watching TV for hours — Netflix is introducing a ‘post-play’ feature that makes it easier for users to watch several movies or TV episodes in a row, the film & TV streaming company announced today on its official blogs.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge, The Official Netflix Blog, TechCrunch and GadgeTell

Kelly Hodgkins / IntoMobile:

Verizon expands its LTE coverage to blanket 75 percent of the U.S. population — Verizon is expanding its LTE coverage on Thursday and will blanket over three-quarters of the US population with its 4G LTE service. It will roll out LTE in 34 new markets and expand coverage in 38 new markets later this week.

More: DSLreports, Droid Life, Stockhouse Investor Community, 9to5Google, The Verge, iMore.com and GigaOM

Derek Kessler / webOS Nation:

webOS GBU to become quasi-independent cloud and UX company: meet GRAM — If you've been wondering where HP's webOS Global Business Unit was going under the leadership of HP Chief of Staff Martin Risau, you're not alone. For a while now we've been wondering what the next steps …

More: PC World, CNET, The Register, TechCrunch, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneNews.com, SlashGear, VentureBeat, PalmAddict, AllThingsD, Liliputing, TechSpot and ZDNet. Tweets: @trevoragilbert

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

Penny Arcade reaches $525,000 Kickstarter goal with six minutes to spare, no ads on homepage for one year — Last month gaming webcomic Penny Arcade launched a Kickstarter experiment, attempting to replace its advertising income with funding from fans — and it turned out to be a success.

More: VentureBeat and Marco.org

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious — [With apologies to Wallace Stevens, the finest poet to ever serve as vice president of the Hartford Livestock Insurance Company.] — I. — Medium is a new online publishing platform from Obvious Corp. It launched yesterday.

More: GigaOM, msnbc.com, Laughing Squid, Engadget, Computerworld and PetaPixel. See also Mediagazer

Karen Haslam / Macworld UK:

Microsoft not planning to fix Retina Display Office issues — Office for Mac users are complaining that the Retina Display makes Office look ‘crap’ — Mac users are complaining that Microsoft Office for Mac is unusable on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

More: TUAW, BGR, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Macgasm and MacNN

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

Germans Reopen Facebook Privacy Inquiry — BERLIN — Data protection officials in Germany reopened an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition technology Wednesday, saying the social networking giant was illegally compiling a vast photo database of users without their consent.

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, AllFacebook, PC Magazine, Mashable!, Washington Post and Pulse2 Technology …

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