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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 7 Disables Screenshot Interruptions, Allows Users to Secretly Take Snapchat Screenshots — While we detailed a number of new features of iOS 7 beta 2 earlier today, a MacRumors reader sent us a tip on a small change that has gone unnoticed since the first beta was released on June 10.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 2 to Developers with iPad and iPad Mini Support — Two weeks after Apple released the first beta version of iOS 7 following its unveiling at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has just released a second beta for testing.
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| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
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| Malathi Nayak / Reuters: |
Microsoft to bring Xbox and PC games to Apple, Android phones: report — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will offer its console and computer games for Apple Inc's iPhone and other smartphone platforms this fiscal year, through a tie-up with Japanese smartphone game maker Klab Inc, the Nikkei said on Monday.| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Microsoft licenses ‘Age of Empires’ for iOS and Android, but downplays further releases — Microsoft is bringing its games to iOS and Android, beginning with Age of Empires sometime in 2013, reports Japan's Nikkei business daily. The ports are coming courtesy of mobile developer KLab … | Jenna Wortham / NYT Bits: |
Instagram Video and the Death of Fantasy — Over the weekend, I went to a sunset picnic on a rooftop in Brooklyn. The evening couldn't have been more picturesque — a group of stylish women chatting and lounging on blankets, framed against a lavender and glittering cityscape.| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
BlackBerry launches service to manage Android, Apple devices — (Reuters) - BlackBerry launched a service on Tuesday allowing government agencies and corporate clients to secure and manage devices powered by Google Inc's Android platform and Apple Inc's iOS operating system.
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Pink Floyd: Pandora's Internet radio royalty ripoff — Internet radio companies are trying to trick artists into supporting their own pay cut. — Great music can inspire deep emotions, and businesses have long sought to harness this power in order to make money.
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Sony Xperia Z Ultra official with 6.4-inch 1080p screen and 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 chip, global launch in Q3 2013 — Sony's unveiled its latest addition to its Xperia Z series, a new smartphone that blurs the line between smartphone and tablet once more — the appropriately-named Xperia Z Ultra.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
New Google Groups now available to all with revamped management features, moderation tools, and mobile site — Google today announced it is retiring the previous release of Google Groups and launching a revamped version in its place, available immediately for all users.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Wonkblog: |
One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court — Forget patenting an invention. These days, companies patent conceptual categories for future inventions. — During the first dot-com boom, Amazon famously patented the concept of buying things online with one click.| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Snapchat Closes $60 Million Round Led by IVP, Now at 200 Million Daily Snaps — Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging service that has grown extremely popular over the past year, has closed its $60 million dollar Series B round of venture funding, the company announced on Monday morning.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple investigating new MacBook Air WiFi issues, some customers receiving replacements — Over the past few days, a notable amount of users have complained about WiFi issues plaguing the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air models released during the week of WWDC.
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AnandTech, Digital Trends, iMore, Engadget, CNET, MacRumors and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Sony's ‘Music Unlimited’ iOS app adds offline playback & high-quality 320kbps AAC streams — A nice update is landing any minute now for Sony's Music Unlimited iOS app, which is continuing to improve thanks to some nice improvements coming with PS4 and PlayStation Plus.| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Samsung denies ‘groundless’ rumor that it is shutting down its PC business — UPDATE: Samsung has denied a report that says it is shutting down its PC business and provided the following statement: The rumor that Samsung is withdrawing from the PC desktop business is groundless.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
A Look at Intel HD 5000 GPU Performance Compared to HD 4000 — When I got my hands on a Haswell based Ultrabook, Acer's recently announced S7, I was somewhat disappointed to learn that Acer had chosen to integrate Intel's HD 4400 (Haswell GT2) instead of the full blown HD 5000 (Haswell GT3) option.| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
Gigabit Seattle pricing revealed — less than Comcast, more than Google — The first broadband provider piggybacking on Seattle's government network announced today that it will charge $80 per month for the ultrafast service it will begin offering in pockets of the city this fall.
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CNET, Gigabit Seattle, GigaOM, The Seattle Times and Engadget
| Terrence O'Brien / Engadget: |
Google Cloud Playground lets you dip your toes in the Cloud Platform waters — Google's Cloud Platform holds a certain amount of appeal for developers looking to quickly build robust web apps. Of course, getting started is a bit involved. You'll first need to download and install several tools and an SDK on your local machine.
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Cloud Platform Blog, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Just in time for Google Reader's demise, beloved RSS reader NetNewsWire launches open beta — In just a couple of weeks, Google will shut the door on Reader forever. But now a local reader alternative is coming back with a vengeance and, eventually, with syncing between Mac, iPhone and iPad.Sponsor Posts
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