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July 11, 2013, 1:35 PM

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Microsoft:
One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency  —  Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding changes in the senior leadership team at the company.  — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching realignment …
Microsoft:
Transforming Our Company  —  As the times change, so must our company.  —  In the 37 years that Microsoft has been helping to improve people's lives by helping them to realize their own potential with technology, we have seen exactly the kind of transformation we had hoped for when we set …
Ryan Tate / Wired:
The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft  —  It remains to be seen whether the Microsoft reorganization announced by CEO Steve Ballmer this morning can rejuvenate the once-mighty software company.  But one thing is crystal clear: The reshuffling marks another huge win …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft 3.0: A meaner, leaner devices and services machine?  —  Summary: Microsoft officials announced its latest expected cross-company reorg designed to better deliver on its new devices and services charter.  Here's who ended up where.  —  On July 11, Microsoft officials announced details …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T  —  After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday.  The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Nokia Releases New Imaging SDK, With Yelp, Path, Oggl And Foursquare As Early Partners (But Still No Instagram)  —  The much-leaked “focus” of today's Nokia news was its new 1020 Lumia handset with a 41-meagpixel camera, but behind the scenes the company has spent just as much time focusing …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
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.
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
UpTo social networking app morphs into a modern calendar with a social twist  —  The default mobile calendar may seem like one of the most mundane apps on your phone, but there are dozens of startups aiming to help people better manage their work meetings, personal appointments and social calendars.
Dara Kerr / CNET:
LG unveils world's thinnest Full HD LCD smartphone panel  —  Measuring 5.2 inches long and only 2.2 mm thick, new display panels being developed by LG could prompt the move toward slimmer and lighter mobile devices.  —  LG Display is working on what it says is the world's slimmest smartphone panel.
Jo Best / ZDNet:
European ISPs hit with antitrust raids  —  Summary: The European Commission's antitrust watchdogs have raided the offices of a number of European “internet connectivity providers”.  —  Jo Best  —  The European Commission has carried out a series of raids on ISPs over possible antitrust breaches.
Richard Chirgwin / The Register:
HP admits to backdoors in storage products  —  Usernames and passwords in the wild, factory resets possible  —  Hewlett-Packard has agreed that there is an undocumented administrative account in its StoreVirtual products, and is promising a patch by 17 July.
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