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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
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
| 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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Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Techdirt and Lucas Gonze's blog
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Exclusive photos: We put Nokia's controversial Lumia 920 PureView camera to the test — After faking a video and images to promote the PureView camera, Nokia goes into full-on damage control mode. — This week, Nokia grandly unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 flagship, the Lumia 920.
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PandoDaily, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser and My Nokia Blog. Tweets: @benedictevans
| 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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CNET, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com and Gizmodo
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Spotify Will Launch A Browser-Based Version — If you're wondering why the Spotify desktop software has hardly been updated in a year, it's because the company is preparing to launch a completely overhauled browser-based version of its streaming music service, multiple sources confirm.
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The Verge, PC World and Cult of Mac
| 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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Pulse2 Technology …, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, Softpedia News and Softpedia News
| 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, Fortune, Phones Review, T3 News, Ars Technica, Pulse2 Technology …, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Neowin, Softpedia News, iMore.com, iMore, Los Angeles Times, SlashGear, Business Insider, Engadget, BGR, The Next Web, MacRumors, TechCrunch, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, AppleInsider and The Verge
Tweets: @counternotions and @jvascellaro
| Lisa Jucca / Reuters: |
EU says Microsoft pledged to meet antitrust requests on browsers — (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft is ready to introduce measures that would address the European Union's antitrust concerns about users' ability to chose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on Saturday.
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CNET
| 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.| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules — THIS is no Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. — Every way I look, the scene shifts, the battle unfolds. I have a crazy contraption strapped to my head: a boxy set of goggles that looks like a 22nd-century version of a View-Master. It immerses me in a virtual world.| 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 …
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