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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
OS X Yosemite planned for late Oct. as Apple preps 4K desktop & 12-inch Retina MacBook — While iOS 8 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is set for a September launch, Apple is planning to bring its next-generation Mac software, OS X Yosemite, into the wild a month later, in October, according to several sources.
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Tweets: @siracusa and @markgurman
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta — The first public OS X beta in over a decade brings quite a few changes with it. — It's not difficult to get your hands on pre-release Apple software. For a mere $198 a year ($99 each for OS X and iOS) … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple ‘tentatively’ plans mid-September iPhone event as iOS 8 nears completion — Apple is gearing up for its first major hardware and software launches of 2014. The Cupertino-based company is “tentatively” planning a keynote address in mid-September to announce the iPhone 6 and provide final details … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What ‘one Windows’ really means: one group developing all Windows variants on a common core, unified store and developer platform — What ‘one Windows’ really means (and doesn't) — Summary: Is Microsoft building a single version of Windows that will run on phones, tablets, PCs and gaming consoles?
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Preview of Foursquare 8.0, the redesigned exploration app that launches in a few weeks — The next age of Foursquare begins today — Foursquare needed a fresh start, so it created a brand new identity — In mid-May, Foursquare decided to split itself in two.
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| Dmitri Sarle / ArcticStartup: |
Google Acquires Helsinki Based drawElements for 8 Figures — Yet another exit for the Nordics. The normally slow summer is turning into a shopping spree by the big players as the Helsinki based drawElements is acquired by Google. The exact amount behind the transaction is not disclosed …
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VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, New York Times, 9to5Google, Mashable, Inquirer and Tech.eu. Thanks:@dsarle
| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
Amazon Fire phone review: a unique device, but you're better off waiting for the sequel — After producing a long line of e-book readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won't be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Chernin and AT&T Set to Buy Control of Fullscreen YouTube Network — Fullscreen, the YouTube network that has been talking to prospective buyers for months, is ready to make a deal. Sources familiar with the company say it is finalizing a deal to sell a majority stake to Otter Media … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube Music's Head Quits, a Setback to Paid Service — The head of YouTube's effort to launch a music subscription service is leaving, marking yet another hurdle for the long-delayed project. — Chris LaRosa, YouTube's product manager in charge of music, will be leaving Google this Friday to join a startup.
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The Register, CNET, 9to5Google, Tubefilter, Android Police, hypebot and SocialTimes. See also Mediagazer
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
New Boy of Benchmark: Rockmelt's Eric Vishria Talks About Becoming Fifth Partner at VC Powerhouse — The Boys of Benchmark — as I like to call the well-known venture capital firm, since they are four dudes — have added a fifth member, with Rockmelt co-founder Eric Vishria joining as a general partner.| Noelle Chun / The Official Motorola Blog: |
Now You Can Unlock Your Moto X with a Digital Tattoo — A phone should be as unique as you are—not only in the design of your device, but how you use it. Last year at the All Things D “D11” conference, Regina Dugan talked about new digital tattoo technology that would make it easier to unlock your phone.
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired: |
Creator of autocorrect Dean Hachamovitch, and others at Microsoft, discuss its history and evolution — The Fasinatng ... Frustrating ... Fascinating History of Autocorrect — Invoke the word — autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical …
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| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
How Code2040 fellowship programs connect blacks and hispanics with Silicon Valley tech firms — In tech, some minorities are too minor. This group wants to change that. — Before Randi Williams spent last summer in San Francisco, the 19-year-old computer-engineering student from Maryland …
Tweets: @lourmoore, @jguynn and @hunterwalk
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Sense sleep tracker uses two devices to analyze your room conditions and sleep patterns — Sense is a glowing sphere that watches over you while you sleep — This sleek sleep tracker analyzes your bedroom, and your sleep patterns — At age 19, Londoner James Proud decided to skip out on college and move to the States.
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Tweets: @hamburger, @adamclarkestes, @sama, @hello and @om
Thanks:@aurlibokovza| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Airware Preps Launch Of Its Commercial Drone Operating System With $25M From Kleiner — Building a drone's hardware and software from scratch is tough and expensive, but open source drone kits are inflexible. So to power businesses looking to customize drones for commercial uses from agriculture …
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Gigaom, The Verge, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal and Re/code. Thanks:@mayarahkonen
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Former Google Maps architect launches PlaceUs, an iPhone app for smart location sharing — Alohar Mobile, the location startup led by ex-Google Maps architect Sam Liang, today launched a new iPhone app called PlaceUs that tries to add contextual intelligence to location sharing.
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Gigaom, TechCrunch, San Francisco Chronicle and VentureBeat
| Jennifer Peltz / Associated Press: |
Thieves bought StubHub tickets using credentials obtained in other breaches to compromise more than 1000 customer accounts — AP Source: Thieves Got Into 1K StubHub Accounts — A law enforcement official and online marketplace StubHub say cyber thieves got into more than 1,000 customers' accounts …
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Gets Down To Business, Adds More Sharing Features And Search For Enterprises — Dropbox, now at 300 million users globally, says that there are 4 million businesses today using its cloud-based platform to store, distribute and share documents. But of those, only around 80,000 …
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Dropbox for Business, The Next Web, Data Center Knowledge, Gigaom, VentureBeat, bizjournals, Guardian, ZDNet and Engadget. Thanks:@sarahintampa
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apple documents previously undocumented services that can leak user data — Four days after a forensics expert warned that undocumented functions in iOS could leak personal user data, Apple has documented three services it says serve diagnostic purposes. — “iOS offers the following …
| Fahmida Y. Rashid / Security Watch: |
Nigerian Scammers Adopting More Sophisticated Attacks — Those Nigerian princes have new tricks up their sleeves. — Remember those 419 scams? These were the often-poorly-written email messages purporting to be from a wealthy individual willing to pay lavishly for help transferring his or her wealth out of the country.| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Docker acquires Orchard Laboratories to beef up its tool collection — The cloud darling's purchase of the London-based two-man development shop is the company's first acquisition since changing its name from DotCloud to Docker. — Docker, the container management startup that's taken …
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Docker Blog, ZDNet, InfoWorld, InfoQ and VentureBeat
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