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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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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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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher — Last month I tried to think this smaller iPad thing all the way through. Didn't quite make it all the way through, though, so let's dig deeper. — We've got the display. 7.85 inches diagonally, 1024 × 768 pixels at 163 PPI …
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| Evan Williams / medium.com: |
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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.
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| 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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| 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.| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
| 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.
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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 … | 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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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.| 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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Critical Skills Education SaaS EverFi Raises $10M From Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Ev Williams And Others — Washington D.C.-based education technology company EverFi has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Jeff Bezos, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Rethink Education … | Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Facebook's Push to Woo Big Advertisers — After joining Facebook as vice president of marketing last year, Carolyn Everson made it her mission to win over skeptical ad executives who complained that spending on the giant social network wasn't paying off.| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
JiWire builds a location graph to make mobile ads relevant — As Internet expert Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has helpfully pointed out, mobile still has huge monetization potential that is still largely untapped. Location-based advertising may prove to be one of the key ways …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
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