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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Exclusive: Nokia Lumia 920 to include wireless charging, 32GB storage, and 8-megapixel camera  —  Nokia will introduce its latest Lumia 920 handset at a special event with Microsoft on Wednesday September 5th, we have learned.  Images of the Lumia 920 leaked last week and we have been able to confirm them with multiple sources.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 820 to include wireless charging, exchangeable covers, and microSD slot  —  Nokia will introduce its latest Lumia 820 handset at a special event with Microsoft on Wednesday September 5th, we have learned.  Images of the Lumia 820 leaked last week and we have been able to confirm them with multiple sources.
Annalee Newitz / io9:
How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards  —  Last night, robots shut down the live broadcast of one of science fiction's most prestigious award ceremonies.  No, you're not reading a science fiction story.  In the middle of the annual Hugo Awards event, which thousands …
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Ustream Apologizes For Shutting Down The Hugo Awards Livestream, Says It Will ‘Recalibrate’  —  Maybe you haven't heard of the Hugo Awards, but to science fiction geeks, especially print science fiction geeks, they're a big deal.  They're given out at the World Science Fiction Convention …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC allows mobile iPlayer downloads  —  Development means viewers will be able to watch on-demand programmes on iPads and iPhones while abroad  —  Viewers will now be able to watch the latest series of Doctor Who and other BBC favourites while travelling and on holiday abroad …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
This is Microsoft's new Windows 8 companion app for Windows Phones  —  Microsoft has been retiring a number of its Zune desktop app features recently, in preparation for the upcoming switch to Xbox Music.  While the company is readying its new music subscription service …
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Firefox OS Marketplace leaks in current form, shows shopping Gecko-style  —  Mozilla has been seeding Firefox OS to eager developers for some time.  However, we've largely been denied a peek at how the developer's own take on a mobile app store will play out on an actual device.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Android Smartphone Sales, Led By Big Screens, Are Growing Everywhere Except In The U.S.  —  We've seen a lot of images of an (alleged) iPhone coming soon with a bigger screen, and some numbers out from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP-owned market analysts, underscore how a bigger iPhone may not be coming a moment too soon.
T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Valve says it's jumping into the computer hardware business  —  In a job listing for the “industrial designer” position on Valve's website, the company has finally made its hardware ambitions explicit: Valve says “we're frustrated by the lack of innovation of in the computer hardware space, so we're jumping in.”
Paul Roberts / Naked Security:
Attacks on Java security hole hidden in bogus Microsoft Services Agreement email  —  Online scammers are using a recent email from Microsoft as bait in a widespread spam campaign that exploits vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java software to install malicious programs on vulnerable systems.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
David Ebersman, the Man Behind Facebook's I.P.O. Debacle  —  It is David Ebersman's fault.  There is just no way around it.  —  Mr. Ebersman is Facebook's well-liked, boyish-looking 41-year-old chief financial officer.  He's not as well known as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive …
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Michael Kan / Computerworld:
China's Baidu looks to the cloud to tap mobile Internet as rivals rise  —  Chinese search giant Baidu on Monday said it would invest more than US$1.6 billion to build a new cloud computing center, as the company declared the mobile Internet as a major focus of its next phase of growth.
Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:
Samsung audit finds several inadequacies but no underage workers at Chinese HEG factory  —  Early last month, the HEG Electronics facility in Huizhou, China, which manufactures products for Samsung, Motorola, and others, was accused by China Labor Watch of using child labor.

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