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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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Bloomberg, CNNMoney.com, ReadWriteWeb, Los Angeles Times, Android News, Rumours …, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Macgasm, Droid Life, TUAW, Reuters, MacRumors, Forbes, Know Your Cell, CNET, 9to5Google, Edible Apple, FierceWireless, Android and Me, FOSS Patents, TechCrunch, The Next Web, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo and everythingiCafe. Tweets: @jvascellaro
| 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 … | 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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VentureBeat, CNET, DailyFinance.com, 9to5Google, The Next Web, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, NYT Bits, BBC, Marketing Land, Techland, AppleInsider, ZDNet, PhoneArena, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Android and Me, Gizmodo, DailyTech, LAPTOP Magazine, PadGadget, fiercemobilecontent.com, Engadget, Android News, Rumours … and FierceWireless
| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
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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 …
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VentureBeat and Mashable!. Tweets: @jsnell, @dannysullivan and @danielabarbosa. Thanks:@matthewmspace
| 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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PandoDaily, MacRumors, parislemon, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iMore, Daring Fireball and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @reneritchie
| 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 …
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Mobile Marketing Watch, PC Magazine, Redmond Pie, BGR, GigaOM, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET and TechCrunch
| 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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TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, SlashGear, eWeek, WinBeta, Engadget, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint and Ubergizmo
| 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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CNET, Mercury News, The Next Web, GigaOM, TechCrunch and AllThingsD
| 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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CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Forbes, AllThingsD and Xconomy
Tweets: @tim and @jonerlichman
| 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
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Managing Expectations for Amazon's Upcoming Kindle Event — In less than two weeks, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will take the stage at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., to announce a lineup of new Kindle devices. — It was only a year ago that Bezos introduced a plethora …
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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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The Register, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, InfoWorld, ZDNet, InfoWorld, ZDNet and Business Insider
| 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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PC Magazine, PC World, Computerworld, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Apple, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, GigaOM, The Verge, CNET, AllThingsD, Engadget, SlashGear, MacStories and Macworld. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@thatdrew
| 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.| 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, Latinospost, Ars Technica, BGR, AndroidGuys, CNET, The Verge, Android News, Rumours …, Phones Review and SiliconANGLE
| 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, The Tech Report, CNET, TechnoBuffalo and ZDNet
| 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 … | 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.
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CNN, CNET, Austin Startup, Daily Dot, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews, Marketing Land and AllFacebook
| 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
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
UPS Invests in Same-Day Delivery Service Shutl Ahead of U.S. Launch — London-based Shutl, which aims to build a fast delivery service, has received $2 million from one of the biggest logistics companies of them all: UPS. — UPS — Shutl says it plans to use the cash to expand its engineering team … | 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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NYT Bits, The Technology Chronicles, PandoDaily, Betabeat, Diaspora* and AllThingsD
| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Twitter files an appeal in the New York case of Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris — You might remember, back in July, when a New York judge ruled that Twitter had to turn over three months' worth of tweets that were written by user Malcolm Harris, known by his Twitter handle of @destructuremal.
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CNET, GigaOM, Betabeat, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TPM IdeaLab, ACLU and TechCrunch
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
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