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| Matt Macari / The Verge: |
Apple identifies which Samsung products it will try to ban in US — With the trial stage just completed Friday afternoon, Apple wasted no time identifying which Samsung products it will now seek to have banned in the US. Despite having received a finding of infringement from the jury …
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| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google responds to Apple v. Samsung verdict: most claims 'don't relate' to ‘core Android’ — In the wake of Friday's $1.049 billion jury verdict, Apple and Samsung quickly released statements to the press — but one company that remained conspicuously silent was Google.
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| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
Analysis: Friend and foe; Samsung, Apple won't want to damage parts deal — (Reuters) - While Samsung Electronics is reeling from a patent pounding by its smartphone rival Apple Inc, this is unlikely to damage the other part of their relationship - where Samsung is the sole supplier …
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
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| Paul Haddad / Tapbots: |
Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go? — As some of you may have already noticed the download link for the Tweetbot for Mac alpha no longer works. Twitter's latest API Changes means now we have a large but finite limit on the number of user tokens we can get for Tweetbot for Mac.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter no longer displays what client tweet was posted with on web, emphasizing first-party apps — Twitter has removed the ability for users to determine exactly what client was used to post a message to its service from the web client. This was previously removed from its official iPhone client … | Peter Farago / Flurry Blog: |
iOS and Android Adoption Explodes Internationally — The rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history. Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
OnLive founder Steve Perlman is out: investor Gary Lauder assumes control — Last week, OnLive said that founder Steve Perlman would stay on as the new CEO, after the company underwent a painful insolvency that resulted in the dissolution of the original cloud gaming company. Not anymore.
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| Jaime Rivera / Pocketnow: |
Exclusive: Meet The Future Sony VAIO Duo 11 — Say hello to our future little friend. With all the Windows 8 fever that's about to begin, we just came upon some details on a future Sony VAIO convertible tablet that'll definitely win some hearts for its beauty.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
RadioShack No Contract Wireless rate plans leak, $60 will get you everything — We're just about a week out from the rumored launch of RadioShack's Cricket-based No Contract Wireless plans, and more details are beginning to trickle out about the prepaid service.
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PC Magazine, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo and CNET
| Business Wire: |
Kathy Savitt Joins Yahoo! as Chief Marketing Officer — COMPANIES: — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) announced today that Kathy Savitt is joining the company as chief marketing officer, responsible for all worldwide marketing and branding. Savitt will join the company on September 14 and will report directly to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer.
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VentureBeat, CNET, AllThingsD, Business Insider, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Forbes and Xconomy
Tweets: @tim and @jonerlichman
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple promotes Mac software head Craig Federighi and hardware chief Dan Riccio to SVP, says Bob Mansfield to stay on — Apple has today announced that it is appointing Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio as Senior Vice Presidents. It also announced that the previously-thought-to-be-retiring Bob Mansfield …
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Computerworld, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, CNET, Apple, GigaOM, Engadget, The Verge, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, Forbes, MacStories and Macworld. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@thatdrew
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Touch goes out of stock, sparks conspiracy theories — We hope your heart wasn't set on snagging a Kindle Touch before heading off to school this fall. Both the WiFi and 3G versions of the reader are no longer available as new devices from Amazon's US pages …
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| Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab: |
Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing Maps — Craigslist has just gotten a major cartographic upgrade. The popular classified advertising website has quietly begun testing embedded maps on ads for housing in the San Francisco Bay and Portland, Oregon areas. — Craigslist's new housing ad maps use data … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
No more VRAM: VMware abandons controversial pricing model — SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—Just over a year ago, VMware shocked many of its longtime customers with a new pricing model that charged customers based on the amount of virtual infrastructure they used instead of the amount of physical infrastructure.
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| AppleInsider: |
Rumor: NFC chip spotted in photos of purported next-gen iPhone front assembly — New images thought to be of the front assembly for Apple's next-generation iPhone show a component never seen before in the company's handsets, prompting some to speculate the mystery part is a near field communication device.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google discloses paid bloggers and journalists, says Stanford professor Mark Lemley is outside counsel — Google has followed up with a judge's order to disclose anyone it might have paid to influence coverage of its trial against Oracle, and the list includes a well-known Stanford professor … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Samsung to reveal Windows 8 transforming tablet at IFA 2012 — Samsung has been teasing its transforming Windows 8 tablet recently, and it appears the company has set a date for its unveiling. In a Facebook post from Samsung Notebook, the company says “don't worry, it's just around the corner …
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BGR, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, CNET and The Tech Report
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Not to be outdone by Twitter, Facebook launches its own real-time Election Insights tool with CNN — Earlier this month, Twitter announced the Political Index, which allows users to track sentiment towards candidates around the upcoming US presidential election.| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 specs allegedly leak in full — Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 phablet is believed to be only days from its official release, but a Korean newspaper claims to have jumped the gun on what, exactly, the stylus-toting handset will bring to the table.
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9to5Google, Gizmodo, CNET, Ars Technica, Latinospost, The Verge, AndroidGuys, BGR, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, SiliconANGLE and Phones Review
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Diaspora Founders To Move On, Handing Over Decentralized Social Network ‘To The Community’ — It was a good run, but it looks like the founders of Diaspora have reached the end of the road — at least for their full-time leadership of the project. — Diaspora, the Kickstarter-backed initiative launched …
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PandoDaily, Betabeat, Diaspora*, AllThingsD and The Next Web
| Reuters: |
German consumer group sets Facebook privacy ultimatum — (Reuters) - Germany's biggest consumer lobby group believes Facebook is violating privacy laws with its new app centre and has set a deadline for the social network operator to fix it, or potentially face legal action.
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PC Magazine, AllFacebook, Ars Technica and Marketing Pilgrim
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