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The Web's longest nightmare ends: Eolas patents are dead on appeal — The Eolas patents were uniquely threatening to the Web, and drew Tim Berners-Lee's personal attention. — Christian Payne / flickr — The inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had never testified in court before last year.
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| Jeremiah Rice / Android Police: |
Exclusive: Moto X Camera's New Minimalist User Interface And Swipe Gestures — Are you sick of hearing about the Moto X yet? Too bad: it's just over a week until Motorola's official debut, and the Good Ship Google is as leaky as ever. The latest tidbits of information from an anonymous tipster …
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Apple: One billion iTunes podcast subscriptions and counting — Apple on Monday announced that the iTunes Store eclipsed 1 billion podcast subscriptions. That's a whole lot of talking. A special promotion appeared in the iTunes Podcasts directory to commemorate the big number.| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Nokia Lumia 625 official: Entry-level LTE Windows Phone with a 4.7-inch display (video) — The rumors were (unsurprisingly) true. Nokia's revealed its biggest phone to date, with a screen measuring in at 4.7 inches. It's the Lumia 625 and the series has certainly grown a fair bit since the Lumia 620 launched earlier this year.
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| Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software: |
Victory Lap for Ask Patents — There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent from being approved. Got fifteen minutes? You can do it too.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Netflix's Q2 Misses Due To Lower-Than-Expected Subscriber Adds, Earns 49 Cents Per Share On $1.07B In Revenue — Netflix just released its second-quarter earnings report, missing analyst expectations with lower-than-expected subscriber numbers. For the second quarter … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst's predictions for 2013: New iPhones to be in short supply, Haswell iMacs/MacBook Pros arriving, no new iPad mini — Analyst Ming-Chi-Kuo, who has a fairly strong track record in predicting future Apple products (timing not withstanding), has issued a new report with claims for some of Apple's new products for the rest of 2013.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Cloud Print To Windows, Makes Printer Sharing Easier — Google today launched a number of updates to Cloud Print that finally bring it to Windows and make it easier to share printers with others. — Even Google knows that there are still some occasions when you just need to print something …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company — According to sources, Yahoo's media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the company in recent months.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Updates Cloud Storage With Faster Uploads, Auto-Delete And Regional Buckets — Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon's Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS's S3, Google's Cloud Storage …
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| Wendy Davis / MediaPost: |
Google Settles Vanity-Searcher's Class-Action Lawsuit For $8.5 Million — Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it leaked the names of search users via referrer headers, according to court papers filed on Friday in San Jose, Calif.
| Rob Williams / HotHardware: |
MIT Researchers Develop Computer-Generated TCP for Network Connections That are Twice as Fast — Thanks to the efforts of some MIT researchers, our use of the Transmission Control Protocol could soon experience a nice upgrade. Since its introduction decades ago, TCP has become an integral part …
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| Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint: |
Bitcasa Infinite Drive launched in UK and Europe, unlimited cloud storage for £7 a month — Bitcasa has brought its Infinite Drive cloud storage to the UK and Europe, offering completely unlimited amounts of online storage space for £7 a month (8 euros).
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Samsung Updates Exynos 5 Octa (5420), Switches Back to ARM GPU — In the first part of our series on ARM, we mentioned that with every major microprocess design ARM tries to choose 3 licensees to get early access to technology. It's very clear that Samsung was among the early three to get ahold of Cortex A15 IP.| Jeffrey Burt / eWeek: |
ARM, Oracle to Optimize Java for 64-Bit ARM-Based Servers — ARM officials are continuing to lay the groundwork for the company's plans for a greater role in the data center, reaching a multi-year agreement with software giant Oracle to expand the capabilities of Java Platform Standard Edition on ARM's chip architecture.
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ZDNet, Inquirer, GigaOM, ARM, The Register and PC Advisor
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Alibaba targets China's living room with new platform to power smart TVs and set-top boxes — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has today announced that it has developed a smart TV operating system and is working with a number of partners, including Cisco and Chinese manufacturers …
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TechCrunch, Alizila, PC World, ZDNet, Digits and Tech in Asia
| Elizabeth Armstrong Moore / CNET: |
Surplus computing power on your Android? Donate it to science — Users of Android 2.3 or higher can become citizen scientists by downloading software and choosing the projects they want to power, such as fighting AIDS and finding new stars. — Mom said to reach for the stars, right? Now you can.
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung unlikely to pull away from Google at October developer event — The Galaxy maker can't get rid of Google Play — yet — Samsung has announced its “first ever, large scale, multi-day developer event” for late October, a sign that the global electronics giant is aiming to move …
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