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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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| Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times: |
Apple-Samsung jury foreman says evidence ‘spoke overwhelmingly’ — Velvin Hogan, foreman of the jury in the Apple-Samsung trial, gives an interview on Bloomberg TV. — Velvin Hogan, the jury foreman in the Apple-Samsung patent infringement case, has been making the media rounds following the jury's stunning verdict last week.| Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
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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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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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| 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: |
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.| 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 … | Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
VMware Incoming Chief Says ‘Time to Move On’ to Cloud — VMware Inc. (VMW)'s incoming chief executive officer, Pat Gelsinger, plans to accelerate growth by expanding in software for managing computer networks and storage devices, stepping up competition with Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO)
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| 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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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Barnes & Noble announces John Lewis as its first Nook retail partner ahead of October UK launch — Last week we reported that Barnes & Noble was finally bringing its NOOK e-readers and digital bookstore to the UK, launching some time in the autumn. — As the company noted at the time … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene — Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are heading west. — The Winklevoss twins, the 31-year-old Harvard grads who are probably best known for their years-long legal fight with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook …
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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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| Lex Friedman / Macworld: |
When using Apple Store's EasyPay isn't so easy — Student blames arrest on EasyPay mistake—how safe is Apple's checkout system? — Apple's EasyPay service promises Apple Store shoppers a fast way to conduct business at the company's retail outlets, letting them buy items without even talking to a store employee.| 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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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Inside Huawei, the Chinese tech giant that's rattling nerves in DC — A Congressional committee wants to know if this telecommunications powerhouse is a national security threat. Why? CNET went to China to find out. — Huawei has a workforce with an average age of 27.Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Justin Rubio / The Verge: |
New Nokia patent reveals possible ‘Lumia Arrow’ design — A recently granted design patent may have revealed one of the two handsets we expect to see from Nokia and Microsoft at their upcoming Windows Phone 8 event. Filed with the US Patent Office on August 21st, the drawings show …
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Nokiapoweruser, WMPoweruser, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, The Nokia Blog and Electronista
| 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 …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Bluetooth gets physical with new fitness certifications — The Blutooth Special Internet Group has seen the coming quantified-self revolution and has released two new certifications aimed at devices that track running and cycling. The group, which certifies Bluetooth accessories … | 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 … | 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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Latinospost, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, BGR, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, Phones Review, WebProNews, Ars Technica, PhoneArena and CNET
| Joseph Walker / Wall Street Journal: |
Computer Programmers Learn Tough Lesson in Sharing — Workplace ‘Pairing’ Brings Tech Couples Close Together; ‘Just Grunt and Point’ — Virginia Woolf argued that a woman writer needs a room of her own. In Silicon Valley, some companies are questioning whether software programmers even need their own cubicles.| Matt Rosoff / CITEworld: |
Michael Dell is not worried about the post-PC era — Michael Dell defied predictions of the PC's doom, noting that PC sales have more than tripled since the term “post-PC” was first coined in 1999. — Dell was speaking at a CEO roundtable today in San Francisco at VMworld 2012, VMware's annual convention for customers and partners.
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