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| Brandon Miniman / Pocketnow: |
Exclusive: Galaxy Note II Official Specs, Details, Images — Thanks to a tipster, we've been handed the official press release for the Galaxy Note II, which is expected to be announced at IFA 2012 in just a few hours. The display of the Galaxy Note II will be 5.5″ and 1280×720 resolution … | Chris Ziegler / 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.
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| 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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Engadget, BetaNews, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Inquirer, ABCNEWS, The Verge, LAPTOP Magazine, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Mashable!, dailywireless.org, Electronista, Know Your Cell, AllThingsD and The Verge. Tweets: @reckless
| Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch: |
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, Know Your Cell, Pocket-lint, Considering Apple, iPhone, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog and Datamation.com. Tweets: @danfrakes
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| 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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9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, iClarified, Skift and Mashable!
| 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.| 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.| Matt Warman / Telegraph: |
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| 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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TUAW, Pocket-lint, The Verge and App Advice
| 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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SiliconANGLE and Pocket-lint
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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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PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Android and Me, 9to5Google, The Verge, AnandTech and Pocket-lint
| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Uh Oh! Amazon Researchers Say Pinterest Doesn't Generate A Lot Of Sales — Zappos Labs, the research arm of the Zappos online apparel site, has been experimenting with Pinterest—and the results are not encouraging. — Will Young, director of Zappos Labs, told Bloomberg that Pinterest users …
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GeekWire, GigaOM, Total Pinterest, Social Commerce Today and AllTwitter
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
TomTom confirms new Android navigation app, available in October — It's been a long time coming, but finally Dutch satellite navigation specialist TomTom has announced that it will release a dedicated Android app, launching with on-board maps, intelligent routing and HD Traffic services in October.| Associated Press: |
New York Times leading group defense in patent suit over mobile texts containing Web links — The New York Times Co. is girding for a legal battle that many larger organizations have avoided. — The Times is leading the defense of a diverse group of companies that use technology they assumed was free …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How I cracked my neighbor's WiFi password without breaking a sweat — The four-way handshake, in which a wireless device (STA) validates itself to a WiFi access point and vice versa. — Last week's feature explaining why passwords are under assault like never before touched a nerve with many Ars readers, and with good reason.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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