Techmeme: It appears Google has quietly killed its weather API (Emil Protalinski/The Next Web)

August 28, 2012, 12:20 PM

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Samsung Vows to Fight Ban — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would fight Apple Inc.'s attempt to ban the sale of some of its smartphones in the U.S. with “all necessary measures.” — After winning a jury verdict for patent infringement against Samsung in a U.S. court last week …

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Samsung Case Puts Apple Closer to Google Fight — SAN FRANCISCO — Steven P. Jobs minced no words when talking about Android, Google's mobile operating system, which he saw as too similar to the iPhone's. He told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, that Android was “a stolen product” and said …

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Matt Macari / The Verge:

Apple identifies which Samsung products it will try to ban in US

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

No NFC in Next-Generation iPhone — With Apple having announced its new Passbook digital wallet for iOS 6, speculation regarding the potential for the incorporation of near field communications (NFC) in the next-generation iPhone has ramped up. The technology would allow for contactless payments …

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Brad Molen / Engadget:

Motorola RAZR M 4G LTE pics and specs revealed: 4.3-inch qHD display, ICS, 1.5GHz dual-core — We've been hearing about the Motorola XT907 — an LTE device bound for Verizon — for quite some time now, but we just got our hands on a full set of specs and even a few pics to go along with it.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

It appears Google has quietly killed its weather API — Last month, Google announced plans to shutter iGoogle, among a bunch of other services. Many developers and users were (and still are) outraged, but at least they have some time to breathe: iGoogle isn't going away until November 1, 2013.

More: 9to5Google and Softpedia News

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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Paul Haddad / Tapbots:

Where did the Tweetbot for Mac Alpha go?

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David Beren / TmoNews:

T-Mobile Adding microSIM Kits For iPhone 4/4S, Training Employees For “Selling Against The iPhone” — Based on both pieces of information that just came into our inbox, we're trying to draw two conclusions, one that T-Mobile isn't getting the iPhone 5, which shouldn't surprise anyone.

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Andrew Kameka / MobileBurn.com:

Google Wallet to challenge iPhone Passbook by storing ID, boarding passes, and more — News by Andrew Kameka on Monday August 27, 2012. — Aside from the payment and loyalty card information that Google Wallet already stores, Google hopes to include boarding passes, identification cards, and everything you'd find in a normal wallet.

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Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Samsung unveils new Series 7 and Series 5 AIOs: Windows 8 and gesture recognition for $749 and up — Samsung teased a Series 7 all-in-one running Windows 8 — on a 10-point touch display — at Computex in June, and today the machine gets official with pricing and specs.

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Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak — Mozilla has released Firefox 15 for PCs, smartphones, and tablets. The most standout features are a completely silent background updater (like Chrome), significant memory footprint improvements, a built-in PDF reader …

More: Engadget, BetaNews, The Next Web, Ehsan Akhgari and Nicholas Nethercote

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing — SEATTLE — Within a few years, Amazon.com's creative destruction of both traditional book publishing and retailing may be footnotes to the company's larger and more secretive goal: giving anyone on the planet access to an almost unimaginable amount of computing power.

More: The Verge

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Google's Nexus 7 tablet pops up in rare home page ad — In a first, Google is actually touting a product on its home page, which is typically free of advertisements. — Google really wants people to take a look at its Nexus 7 tablet. — The $199 tablet started popping up on Google's home page today …

More: GeekWire, TechCrunch, Marketing Pilgrim and InfoWorld

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Apple strikes licensing deal with Motorola in Germany, heralds more peaceful times? — Motorola's war with Apple has certainly been overshadowed by the showdown with Samsung. But, with the latter melodrama shifting into quiet mode, focus is coming back to the battle with Moto.

More: FOSS Patents, 9to5Google and PhoneArena

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iTunes Festival 2012 Live Streaming App Appears on Apple TV — Back in May, Apple announced that its annual iTunes Festival in London would be moving to September for 2012, with the event once again offering 30 days of free concerts at The Roundhouse. While tickets to the shows have been awarded …

More: VentureBeat, everythingiCafe, iLounge, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, Macgasm, 9to5Mac, The Verge and MacNN

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

LG Optimus G revealed: 1.5GHz quad-core CPU, ICS, LTE, 4.7-inch screen with in-cell touch — LG has been teasing its upcoming Optimus G smartphone for weeks and now we finally have the full specs. When it arrives in Korea next month it will be the first with LTE integrated into a quad-core CPU …

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Samsung attempts to revive the Windows 8 Start Menu with new S Launcher widget — Samsung has revealed that it plans to package an S Launcher application on its Windows 8 PCs that will mimic the Windows 7 Start Menu on Microsoft's new operating system. Mashable got a chance to play around …

More: Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Computerworld and Associated Press

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Kim Dotcom offers developers early API access to the upcoming Megaupload reboot — Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has had a bone to pick with authorities since the service was shut down and he was arrested earlier this year. It looks like he's going to be a thorn in the side for them for some more time …

More: Softpedia News and WebProNews. Tweets: @kimdotcom and @kimdotcom

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

IBM Envisions Watson As Supercharged Siri For Businesses — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) researchers spent four years developing Watson, the computer smart enough to beat the champions of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” Now they're trying to figure out how to get those capabilities into the phone in your pocket.

More: ZDNet. Thanks:@sarahfrier

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Your Twitter Followers Aren't Fake, They're Just Shy — A handful of recent reports have shined light on Twitter's “fake follower” problem. But Twitter claims they're not really fake — and more importantly, not a problem. — For the first time in its short history …

More: the Econsultancy blog and Softpedia News

Alex Williams / TechCrunch:

Rackspace Acquires Mailgun, A Y Combinator Startup That Gives App Developers An API For Creating And Managing Online Mailboxes — Rackspace has acquired Mailgun, a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup that has developed an API for creating and managing online email inboxes for apps and websites.

More: SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Forbes, GigaOM, Business Wire and Mailgun Blog

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World — I.B.M. is introducing on Tuesday a new line of mainframe computers, adding yet another chapter to a remarkable story of technological longevity and business strategy. — The new model, the zEnterprise EC12, has strengthened …

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Om Malik / GigaOM:

Why I think Evernote CEO Phil Libin is underrated — Evernote, the digital locker software, is an unlikely success story in Silicon Valley. Last week at the Evernote Trunk Conference, its annual developer lovefest in San Francisco, the company announced that it has around 40 million users.

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