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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Amazon's Kindle Fire won't be a threat to the iPad until it remembers the rest of the world — Amazon is doing a fantastic job of positioning itself as a serious contender in the tablet category after just a year in the biz. It has one of the most charismatic and focused CEOs in Jeff Bezos …
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Kindle Review, 9to5Google and TechPinions
| John P. Falcone / CNET: |
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's new iPods: Various new iPod touches, new iPod nano, tweaked iPod shuffle — Earlier this week, we reported that the iPhone 5 (codenamed N42) will share the stage with a string of new iPod announcements on September 12th. At that time, we believed Apple would introduce … | Élyse Betters / 9to5Mac: |
New images of Apple's Campus 2 building show amazing detail [Gallery] — A reliable source provided us with the official Apple Campus 2 blueprints yesterday, and these are just a few of the confidential images, which illustrate the mammoth building currently in development.
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AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Gizmodo
| Wall Street Journal: |
New iPhone to Support LTE Around the World — Apple Inc.'s next iPhone will work on the fastest wireless networks around the world—including in the U.S., Europe and Asia—though it is unlikely to be available on every carrier, people familiar with the matter said.
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VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Phones Review, Fortune, T3 News, 9to5Mac, Pulse2 Technology …, Neowin, SlashGear, iMore.com, iMore, App Advice, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web, BGR, MacRumors, TechCrunch, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, AppleInsider and The Verge
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Turning The Drama Down On Y Combinator V. Google Ventures — I have a few thoughts on this Y Combinator/Google Ventures mess. — Background: — The original post is at Business Insider and includes a leaked email from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham. The email:
| Don Clark / Digits: |
Backers Tout Firefox OS as Open Mobile Option — For all the excitement around mobile apps, they seem a step backward in one respect: they tie users to a particular operating system and devices that support it. The Web, by contrast, evolved so that content is experienced much the same way on any hardware.
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Softpedia News, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, Pulse2 Technology …, Softpedia News and PhoneArena
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Sleuths Trace New Zero-Day Attacks to Hackers Who Hit Google — It's been more than two years since Google broke corporate protocol by revealing that it had been the victim of a persistent and sophisticated hack, traced to intruders in China that the company all but said were working for the government.
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Talking Points Memo, Softpedia News, PC World, CNET, Dennis Fisher, The Verge, eWeek, The Next Web, Reuters, Help Net Security, Gizmodo and Symantec
| Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive — During the past few years the world's largest entertainment companies have regularly complained that Google isn't doing enough to reduce accessibility of infringing content via its search service.
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Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Techdirt and Lucas Gonze's blog
| Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: |
White House circulating draft of executive order on cybersecurity — The White House is circulating a draft of an executive order aimed at protecting the country from cyber attacks, The Hill has learned. — The draft proposal, which has been sent to relevant federal agencies for feedback …
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping, judge says — Cheap and widely used interception gear means open WiFi traffic is public. — A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that intercepting traffic on unencrypted WiFi networks is not wiretapping. The decision runs counter …
| Reuters: |
F.C.C. Moving Forward on a UHF Spectrum Auction — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Communications Commission will meet at the end of the month to discuss rules for an auction where broadcasters will sell spectrum to wireless carriers, the agency's chairman said on Friday.
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Washington Post, Hillicon Valley, dailywireless.org and GigaOM
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