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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 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 review — Is a stylus all we ever really needed? It's no secret that I've been excited to review the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for weeks now. I spend all day editing and critiquing documents, and I've been imagining a parallel world created by the Note's stylus … | David Pogue / New York Times: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 now available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers — Microsoft's final version of Windows 8 is now available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Known as the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version, this final copy of the operating system is the same one that will ship … | 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.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Microsoft to begin banning all apps with ‘metro’ in the title from the Windows Store — Microsoft is stepping things up in its plan to rid itself of the Metro branding, as the company's app naming guide for developers has been updated with a clause that bans the term from app titles.
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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.
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
iPad mini will look like a large iPod touch with smaller side bezels [Gallery] — Nexus 7 vs. iPad Mini mockup made from Sizeall comparisons — Over the past few weeks we've gotten a number of tips from sources we have reason to believe have knowledge of Apple's plans on the upcoming iPad Mini.
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| 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.
| 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 …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Federal court rules cops can warantlessly track suspects via cellphone — A pair of mobile phones betrayed the location of drug trafficker Melvin Skinner. — beketchai — In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled (PDF) that law enforcement … | 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.
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| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
Trello versus Asana — For the past several years I've undertaken many initiatives to “get more organized,” which basically means to make another attempt at implementing and running a solid task list that I can share with others with whom I collaborate. — I seem to be really good at kicking off …
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| Somini Sengupta / NYT Bits: |
Hulu Faces Privacy Test in Court — Can a privacy law passed in the era of videotape rentals be applied in the era of Internet streaming? — Hulu, the online video content provider, is about to face the test. A lawsuit filed in a federal court in California says Hulu violated … | Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Apple reportedly talks iPhone 5 LTE support with Korean carriers — Officials from Korean carriers SK Telecom and KT say they've been chatting with Apple about offering the upcoming iPhone on their LTE networks. — Will the iPhone 5 support 4G LTE? It seems almost a given at this point, but here's yet another potential sign.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
The Carlyle Group, Getty Images founders and management acquire Getty Images for $3.3 billion — There's some pretty big news in the stock photography and video industry today after it was announced that The Carlyle Group and key Getty Images management figures have teamed up and agreed …
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| Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: |
RIM's First Test: A Preview With Carriers — NEW YORK—Research In Motion Ltd. will start delivering nearly complete versions of its new smartphones to carriers next week—the start of a crucial effort to convince consumers and carriers alike that the BlackBerry can compete with the iPhone and Android devices.| Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal: |
Payments Network Takes On Google — Retailers Including Wal-Mart, Target and 7-Eleven to Unveil Mobile System Employing Smartphones — More than a dozen big merchants are expected to announce Wednesday their plans to jointly develop a mobile-payments network that would battle similar services …
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