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August 23, 2012, 11:50 PM
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Facebook Is Basically Forcing Its Employees To Use Android Phones Because Its Android App Is Just Awful — Facebook just updated its iPhone app. Great! — That's no consolation to its employees, who are increasingly getting nudged, cajoled, and even ordered to give up their iPhones for Android devices.
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AllFacebook, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneArena, Android and Me, Inside Facebook, Droid Life and WebProNews. Tweets: @mikeisaac
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook for iOS goes native, waves goodbye to HTML 5 — Facebook today announced the culmination of more than six months of work, a native version of the Facebook app for iOS that's twice as fast. “Up until now we've looked at scale,” iOS Product Manager Mick Johnson says …
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Tweets: @scobleizer, @facebook, @danielpunkass, @stevestreza, @stevestreza and @trevoragilbert
| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
Facebook Speeds Up iPhone and iPad Apps — Facebook on Thursday released major upgrades to its iPhone and iPad apps. Those who have suffered from the sluggishness of the current apps can breathe a collective sigh of relief: these new versions are much faster. — The apps look nearly identical to their predecessors.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple vs. Samsung: inside a jury's nightmare — Will nine strangers be able to decide the tech trial of the decade? — By Nilay Patel, Matt Macari, and Bryan Bishop — After weeks of trial and impassioned closing arguments from both sides, the historic Apple vs. Samsung lawsuit is now in the hands of the jury.| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
S. Korean court rules that Samsung and Apple infringed on each other's patents — Via @EvanRamstad from WSJ: — A Seoul court ruled Friday that Apple had infringed on two of Samsung's technology patents and “must stop selling the infringing products in South Korea”.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
| Janet I. Tu / Seattle Times: |
Microsoft gets a new logo for the first time since 1987 — A lot is at stake when a company changes its logo, and Microsoft changed it a number of times in its early years. — For the first time in 25 years, Microsoft is changing its corporate logo. — Microsoft, which has used its solid …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Sharing the Stage — Back in February, MG Siegler, among others, noted a remarkable milestone: … You'd be on solid ground arguing that the iPhone is the single most profitable product in the world today, and without question, it is the most important single product in Apple's lineup.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Digital Chief Jon Miller Leaving News Corp. — According to sources close to the situation, News Corp.'s Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller will soon be leaving the media giant. — It seems to be a cordial, although perhaps inevitable, parting — sources said Miller will remain …
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Zynga's CityVille Loses Mayor to Kixeye — With Zynga's stock price sinking - and morale along with it - employees have started to head for the door. — The latest exit, following its COO John Schappert, is Alan Patmore, Zynga's general manager of CityVille, who has joined Kixeye as their VP of Product.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
FCC approves Verizon's controversial spectrum purchase from cable companies — Following the Department of Justice's lead last week, the FCC has now approved Verizon's acquisition of a large swath of AWS spectrum from a consortium of cable companies operating as SpectrumCo that includes Comcast and Time Warner.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
WhatsApp hits new record with 10 billion total messages in one day — Popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp is on fire, apparently. Today, the company shared that it had hit a new daily record with 4 billion outbound messages sent, and 6 billion messages received.
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Amazon to hold press conference on September 6th in Santa Monica, Kindle Fire 2 or Phone are our bets — TNW has just been invited to an Amazon press conference for September 6th, although we're not sure what it's all about. We'll be there though. — Could it be the new Kindle Fire?
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TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Verge, Business Insider, Pocketnow, WebProNews, Current Editorials, Gotta Be Mobile, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, BetaNews, 9to5Google, GeekWire and Digits. Tweets: @stevekovach. Thanks:@panzer. See also Mediagazer
| Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
‘Wiki Weapon Project’ Aims To Create A Gun Anyone Can 3D-Print At Home — An AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a 3D-printed lower receiver for the weapon shown below it. Both images were posted Defense Distributed's website. — Cody Wilson has a simple dream: To design the world's first firearm … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
OnLive CEO stays on board to take the company ‘to a higher level’ — OnLive has revealed to OnLive Fans that it will keep Steve Perlman as its CEO following the turmoil the company has seen over the past week. Perlman's position was up in the air when the company shut down last week and laid off many of its staffers.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Autodesk down 22% in after-hours trading on disastrous earnings — Design software firm Autodesk has lost 22 percent of its value in after-hours trading on the NASDAQ exchange after a particularly bad earnings report for its fiscal second quarter. — Autodesk is a leading maker of 3D design and engineering software.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia set to unveil ‘Arrow’ and ‘Phi’ Windows Phone 8 handsets with AT&T as main carrier — Nokia is planning to unveil two new Windows Phone 8 devices at a joint event with Microsoft on September 5th. Sources familiar with the two companies' plans have revealed that Nokia is working on an … | Patrick May / Mercury News: |
Tim Cook ends first year as Apple's CEO on a high note — It was a heck of a way to celebrate his first year on the job. Earlier this week, just four days before his anniversary as Apple's (AAPL) top executive, Tim Cook learned he was now CEO of the most valuable company on the face of the planet — ever.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Video Comparison of ‘iPhone 5’ Front Panel and Flex Cables to iPhone 4S Parts [iOS Blog] — Repair firm SmartPhone Medic has just posted a new video comparing several parts from the next-generation iPhone to their counterparts from the iPhone 4S. — The parts shown include the front panel …
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TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, PC World, The Verge, eWeek, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, Know Your Cell, BGR and Macgasm
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
DOJ compares Apple and publishers to big oil in ebooks case — In its response to recent filings from Apple, publishers and booksellers on its proposed ebook settlement with three publishers, the Department of Justice addresses few specific complaints (PDF; full filing embedded below).| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
1DollarScan Integrates With Evernote To Add Your Scanned Books To Evernote's Data Store [Updated] — View Staff Page Follow me on twitter — Ingrid is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining February 2012, based out of London. She comes from paidContent.org, where she was a staff writer …
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| Alina Selyukh / Reuters: |
Obama campaign to start accepting text message donations — (Reuters) - In a election dominated by multimillion-dollar donations, Democratic President Barack Obama's campaign is about to give small donors a new weapon by starting to accept text message donations for the first time in history.
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Fierce Mobile Content, SiliconANGLE, Mashable!, VentureBeat, DSLreports and The Verge
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Pandora Ships Its Biggest Android Update Yet With A Redesign, Music Exploration Features And More — Pandora has been fairly open about the fact that mobile is a major focus for the music streaming company. More than 70% of listening on Pandora takes place on a mobile device …
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