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E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage — Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs.| Jacob Gershman / Law Blog: |
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Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing ‘Moto X’ Phone — All Four Major US Wireless Carriers Expected to Sell Device This Fall — As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging …
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Moto X and the Droids of the future: what we know so far — Motorola tries to reinvent itself under Google's care with a new set of phones due this summer — The hopes of a reinvigorated Motorola are riding on a single much-rumored phone called the Moto X. CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed … | Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline — Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period …
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's U.S. PC shipments decline more than overall market if you don't count iPads but do count Windows tablets — Gartner is today out with a report detailing its estimates for Q2 2013 global and U.S. PC shipments. Globally, the industry average for shipments is down 10.9%.| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
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Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests — SUNNYVALE — In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Interview: T-Mobile's John Legere on iPhone Sales, the Carrier's Bold Upgrade Program, and Continuing to Shake Things Up — T-Mobile's biggest news on Wednesday is the introduction of a new program that will let customers upgrade their phones as often as twice a year.
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How Apple changed the world again: the App Store turns five — Apple's mobile software marketplace kickstarted the post-PC era — so why was Steve Jobs so against it? — Five years ago today, the App Store opened for business. On its first day, the store offered 500 applications …
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New hints on what's coming next for Microsoft Surface, Skype, Windows Phone — Summary: Microsoft is calling its fiscal 2014 it's biggest year of innovation ever. Here's the slide that shows why. — Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner shared some new hints about what's coming during …
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IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and Contacts channels — The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its automated actions.
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For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference — Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.
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YouTube updates PlayStation 3 app with ‘send to TV’ video beaming feature — In its first update since 2012, the YouTube app for PlayStation 3 is getting its ‘send to TV’ feature, which allows you to play videos from mobile devices on your TV. The app update will be rolling out over the next …
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Samsung surpasses Apple in smartphone Web usage — A study from StatCounter determines that Samsung devices outpaced Apple iPhones and iPod Touches in worldwide browsing in June. — Samsung surpassed Apple for mobile browsing usage in StatCounter's June 2013 statistics, which include pocket-sized devices, not tablets.
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