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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 … | 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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The Next Web, PandoDaily, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, Red Sweater Blog, Marco.org and Insanely Great Mac. Tweets: @theromit
| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Player 5.8, pockets everywhere brace for impact — We hope you wear baggy pants, because you're going to want big pockets to carry Samsung's giant new jukebox. The Galaxy Player 5.8 is dominated by its namesake 5.8-inch, 960 x 540 LCD — a screen that makes … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
The FAA is studying expanding device usage on flights, but don't worry, voice calls are off limits — Today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it has formed a ‘government-industry’ group to study the use of consumer electronics devices on flights.
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The Verge, GigaOM, FAA, Techland, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, USA Today, Skift and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @rafat
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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.| Takashi Kamiguri / The Asahi Shimbun: |
Sony to leave disc drive market, nears end of restructuring — Asahi Asia Antenna - — Sony Corp. will abandon the optical disc drive business, nearly completing a restructuring of money-losing divisions it initiated after suffering huge losses in fiscal 2011.
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| 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.| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Lenovo's 9-inch IdeaTab A2109 shows up at Best Buy, flaunts Tegra 3, $300 price tag — Lenovo's upcoming IdeaTab A2109 didn't drop in on the FCC with its seven-inch brother, but that hasn't stopped it from reaching stores. The nine-inch device appears to be in stock on Best Buy's online store …
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CNET, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, Ubergizmo and Android Community
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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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