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Apple ‘AirPlay Direct’ planned for September launch — Hifi manufacturers are preparing for Apple to launch ‘AirPlay Direct’ technology that allows wireless music playback without the need for a WiFi network. — Apple's Steve Jobs launched AirPlay in 2010
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| AnandTech: |
Preparing for the iPhone Next: Rumors Analyzed — While we typically don't comment on rumors we don't know to be true at AnandTech, we often get requests to help set rational expectations ahead of major iDevice launches. The shroud of secrecy around major Apple launches can pave the way for both sensible and unrealistic conclusions.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| Sam Biddle / Gizmodo: |
How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual — We recently showed you just how badly some of Apple's retail elite behave when no one's watching, but surely they were taught better, right? You bet they were: Apple tells its new recruits exactly what what to think and say.| Bloomberg: |
Isis Mobile-Payment System To Debut In September After Delays — Isis, the mobile-payment joint venture backed by AT&T Inc. (T), Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc., is on track for a debut in September, following months of delays and a change in strategy last year.
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
The Talented Ms. Hornstein: How @Shirls Fooled The Valley — Silicon Valley is full of hustlers, and that's often a good thing. But there's a difference between hustling and flat-out lying, and when people deceive company after company, it's time to call them out.
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @minimaxir, @tconrad, @spencerchen, @sacca, @ryanlawler, @ashleymayer, @bxchen and @sarahlane
| Ethan Smith / Digits: |
Google Reinstates Controversial Music-Streaming App Grooveshark — More than a year after Google Inc. removed the controversial Grooveshark music-streaming service from its app store for Android smartphones, the app was quietly reinstated Tuesday afternoon, despite ongoing copyright infringement lawsuits against the company.
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| Mike Torres / The Windows Blog: |
SkyDrive for Android phones now available — A few weeks ago we announced our intention to release an official SkyDrive app for Android phones. Today we're excited to announce that the app is now available for download. We want to ensure that you're able to have your files accessible across … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
OnLive lost: how the paradise of streaming games was undone by one man's ego — “I'm the one that brought you here. I'm the one that ultimately made decisions, and I'm the one that ultimately takes responsibility. So I am sorry, and it didn't end up exactly as we'd hoped.”| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Zynga's Chief Creative Officer Mike Verdu Exits to Start a New Company — Mike Verdu confirmed to AllThingsD that he is leaving Zynga to start his own game company in which Zynga will be an investor. — As Chief Creative Officer at Zynga, Verdu oversaw a number of the company's game studios … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Judge Koh Sets Dec. 6 Hearing on Apple's Request to Ban Several Samsung Phones — Though the verdict is in, the paperwork continues in the patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. — Aiming to put some limits on things, Judge Lucy Koh on Tuesday established a schedule for post-trial filings …
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| Erick Schonfeld / Techonomy: |
The Andreessen Horowitz Effect — In the three short years since Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz set up shop as venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road, they've already established Andreessen Horowitz as one of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley, right up there with Accel, Benchmark, Greylock, Kleiner, and Sequoia.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
Time Warner Cable invests $25M to build 1Gbps fiber network — Time Warner Cable is following Google's lead with a 1Gbps fiber network in New York City, except Time Warner will focus on business customers and it hasn't yet announced pricing. — Time Warner Cable announced Tuesday …
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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.| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Half of All Mobile Phones Will Be Smartphones by 2013, Two Years Earlier Than Forecast — Those smartphones are growing up so fast. — It seems like just yesterday they were sending their first emails from their baby keyboards, and now they are poised to take over the world.
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| Elinor Mills / CNET: |
Hackers vow ‘hellfire’ in latest major data leak — Team GhostShell says it published one million records, allegedly from banks, government agencies, consulting firms and others — and claims there's more to come. — A group of hackers has released a vast quantity of data from banks …
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Network World, Imperva Data Security Blog, Betabeat and SC Magazine
| 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 …
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| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
RealNetworks cutting up to 160 jobs in overhaul — Another big layoff is happening at RealNetworks as the struggling digital media company tries to reorganize and regain its foothold. — Up to 160 jobs are being cut, reducing Real's employment by up to 14 percent.
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| Topher Kessler / CNET: |
New Java 7 exploit can potentially affect Macs — While there are no known attempts to use a newly discovered vulnerability to target Mac users, the exploit has been successfully triggered in both Safari and Firefox on Macs running Mountain Lion. — A new vulnerability was found last week in the latest Java 7 runtime from Oracle.
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VentureBeat, BGR, The Next Web, Computerworld, US-CERT, TrendLabs, MacRumors, TUAW and The Next Web
| 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.| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Death To The Restaurant Buzzer: NoWait Raises $2 Million For iOS-Based Waitlisting System — NoWait, a mobile waitlisting management service based in Pittsburgh, is announcing today it has closed on a $2 million Series A round of funding led by Birchmere Ventures.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flipboard Hits 20 Million Users, 3 Billion Flips Per Month — Oh hey, remember when Flipboard had 5 million users? That was the official figure at the end of last year. It was also the number that came out just as the social magazine app was launching on iPhone, after having previously been an iPad-only app.
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Mashable!, The Verge, Macgasm, Inside Flipboard, CNET, The Next Web, PhoneArena, VatorNews, AllThingsD and VentureBeat
| Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat: |
Foxconn International hit with $226M loss on slumping smartphone orders — Declining orders from big smartphone clients like Nokia have handed Foxconn International it largest-ever first-half loss. — The Foxconn Technology subsidiary, which only gives earnings twice a year …
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Engadget, TechCrunch and DailyTech
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft looks to simplify adding Azure cloud support to Windows 8 apps — Summary: A free preview of Windows Azure Media Services is available to Windows 8 developers now, with additional support for iOS, Android and Windows Phone coming soon. — Microsoft is looking to make it easier …
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BetaNews, The Register, Scott Gu, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, Computerworld, WMPoweruser, Neowin and OakLeaf Systems
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
YouTube's Ad Overhaul Moves on to Xbox. Next Stop, Apple? — Hey, look at this: Yet another YouTube app overhaul, which features a bunch of ... features. See if you can guess what's most important about the new Xbox app from Google's perspective, via a PR email YouTube sent out this morning.
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Google+, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Engadget
| Steve Gorman / Reuters: |
Second accused LulzSec hacker arrested in Sony Pictures breach — (Reuters) - A second suspected member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec was arrested on Tuesday on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI said.
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