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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note II official with 5.5-inch screen and Android Jelly Bean (video preview) — After dominating IFA 2011 with its Galaxy Note introduction, Samsung is hoping to repeat the feat today with the Galaxy Note II. Now thinner and lighter, the new Note device comes with a redesigned S Pen stylus … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Ativ S officially announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, Windows Phone 8 — It's official: Samsung is first out of the gate to announce a Windows Phone 8 device: The Ativ S. As we revealed just a short time ago, it has a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor …
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Samsung announces EK-GC100 Galaxy Camera with Android Jelly Bean, massive 4.8-inch display, 21x zoom, WiFi and 4G connectivity (hands-on) — During a visit to Samsung's headquarters in Korea earlier this year, we had a chance to talk shop with company execs.| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
Samsung ATIV Tab official, 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet — As we predicted earlier, Samsung has announced a 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet live on stage at IFA 2012. Dubbed ATIV Tab. In terms of specs, we've learned that the device will be powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Sony Xperia Tablet S official: slimmed-down design, Tegra 3, IR remote and Android 4.0, starts at $400 — Looks like those leaked slides showing Sony's Xperia-branded tablet were right about pretty much everything. (Well, everything except the price, anyway).
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Computerworld, BetaNews, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Inquirer, PC World, ABCNEWS, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable!, The Next Web, Business Insider, dailywireless.org, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista and Know Your Cell. Tweets: @reckless
| Alana / Nielsen Wire: |
Apps Dominate Mobile Time Spent Accessing Travel in U.S. — As the summer travel season comes to a close, Nielsen looked at the usage of travel-related mobile apps and websites during June 2012. Findings showed that U.S. Android and iOS users spent 95 percent of their time accessing travel information …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Yelp Surges After Lockup Expires — While early investors in Yelp got their first chance to sell shares in the online reviews site on Wednesday, it appears they are holding on to their stakes for now. — When a so-called lockup period expires, a stock typically falls, as investors sell their shares.| Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint: |
Apple Geniuses: Now help you online in UK — Apple has announced a new feature to its Online store in the UK. Apple Geniuses to help you pick the right iPhone. — “Now there's a whole new way to shop for an iPad or iPhone at the Apple Online Store,” says Apple.| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
President Obama hits Reddit on ‘Ask Me Anything’ — President Obama will be participating in an open question-and-answer session this afternoon on the Web community Reddit, as the subject of one of the site's regular “Ask Me Anything” threads. — Reddit announced that the president …
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Apple win whacks Android resale prices … While many experts predict Apple Inc.'s court victory over Samsung could shake up the wireless industry over the long term, it's already having an impact on one key area: the resale market. — Since the $1.05 billion verdict Friday …
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Fortune, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Know Your Cell, Considering Apple, iPhone, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @danfrakes
| John Letzing / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Wins Approval to Issue Stock for Instagram Deal — Facebook Inc. won approval from the state of California to issue stock for its purchase of Instagram Inc. that has lost a significant amount of value since the deal was reached earlier this year. — At a hearing before California's …
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Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video — Tablet content aggregators like Flipboard and Zite have found favor by re-imagining modern web text as linear pages of ye olde magazines. But can the same paradigm work for other online content? — Flipboard on Wednesday launched … | Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo integrates with Dropbox for easier video uploads and shares — Video sharing service Vimeo has finally integrated with cloud storage service Dropbox after many requests from the vocal Vimeo community, the company announced today. — With the integration, Vimeo users can now add …
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
ClearSlide nets $28M to give sales teams better presentation tools — Sales communications startup Clearslide has raised $28 million in its second round of funding aimed at opening a New York City office, developing new products, and increasing marketing efforts, the company announced today.
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Motorola's Intel phone set for September launch — Motorola's invite suggests there will be at least one handset reveal using Intel's technology — Google's Motorola unit has confirmed plans to release its first smartphone powered by an Intel chip. — The firm will unveil the device in London on 18 September.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Pandora's Q2 2013: $101.3M In Revenue, 54.9M Active Users, And A Net Loss Of $5.4M — Internet music service Pandora just announced its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2013. The company posted total revenue of $101.3 million, which was up 51 percent year-over-year.| Katherine Boehret / AllThingsD: |
TiVo Stream Gets Viewers Off the Couch — With my time limited, I'm continuously working to chip away at the ever-growing list of programs and movies on my TiVo. — For the past week, I've been testing a device that solves a lot of my problems: TiVo Stream.
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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Kobo to Replace Google E-Books for Independent Booksellers — Kobo has struck a deal to sell e-books and its line of e-readers through independent U.S. booksellers, giving the Toronto firm a new chance to establish a foothold in the American digital books market.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google lands patent for automatic object recognition in videos, leaves no stone untagged — Google has already been working on patents that could pick out faces and song melodies in our YouTube clips. Now, it might just have the ultimate tool: the technique in a just-granted patent could pick …
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CNET, Geekosystem and Pocket-lint
| David Fisher / New Zealand Herald: |
Dotcom secures $6m for lawyers, living costs — Kim Dotcom has secured the use of $6 million from seized funds to pay for his lawyers and cover living costs. — A decision from the High Court at Auckland has cleared the way for Dotcom to pay current and future legal bills of $3.6m …
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TorrentFreak, Softpedia News, Wired, GamePolitics blogs and Ars Technica
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Big Brother on a budget: How Internet surveillance got so cheap — The surveillance powers of CCTV are coming to a network near you, thanks to deep packet inspection and big data analytics. — ogglog — When Libyan rebels finally wrested control of the country last year away …
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google.com starts displaying birthday reminders before you start searching for things — Before you perform your next overly-complicated Google search, you might be met with the reminder of a special someone's birthday. As part of the Google+ platform, the company has rolled out birthday reminders … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Unreal Engine 3 Running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT — NVIDIA proudly announced today that Epic Games ported the UE3 powered Epic Citadel demo to Windows RT, and showed it running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT. The Citadel demo first made its big splash on iOS, later paving the way for the Infinity Blade franchise on Apple's mobile platform.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Google just made it easier for developers to monetize their maps — Even with competition from OpenStreetMap, Google's Maps service continues to be the clear favorite for developers when it comes to integrating mapping into their sites and apps. Now, after years of offering nothing … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Google+ in the workplace: Google previews enterprise Hangouts for Calendar and restricted posts — Even when Google Wave was still around, you could tell that Google was playing around with the notion of changing the way we collaborate and communicate. With Wave, the number usage …
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digitaltrends.com, CITEworld, Google Enterprise Blog, Los Angeles Times, NYT Bits, Engadget, The Verge and CNET. Thanks:@rscdigital
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