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| Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung VP: two new smartphones coming within six months, one with a “large screen”, the other with “new materials” — Samsung to Launch New Smartphones as Profit Falls — One Model Will Have a Large Screen While the Other Will Be Built Using New Materials
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Business Insider, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, SamMobile, SlashGear and The Verge
| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Samsung mobile profit down by a third in 2Q 2014 — Summary: A decline in profitability of Samsung's IT and mobile communications division has pulled overall profit for the Korean conglomerate lower. — Chris Duckett — Samsung has announced an overall 15 percent fall in operating profit …
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Samsung Tomorrow, The Verge, 9to5Google, Re/code, Digital Trends, ABC News, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Inquirer, BBC, Fortune, PC World, Engadget, ITProPortal, Telegraph and Electronista. Tweets: @asymco
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Adds 1.5 Million More Customers, Swings to Profit on Spectrum Sale — T-Mobile said Thursday that it added a further 1.5 million customers to its network in the second quarter, adding more than a million customers for the fifth straight quarter. — The company posted a net profit …
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VentureBeat, BGR, CNET, ZDNet and Engadget
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Internet.Org's App With Free Access To Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Local Info Launches In Zambia — 85% of the 5 billion people without Internet simply can't afford data plans. So Facebook's accessibility initiative Internet.org today launches its Android and web app for the developing world …
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Tweets: @joshconstine and @thomasbcn
Thanks:@joshconstine| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Heads rolling at Beats as Apple eliminating redundant positions, Ian Rogers & Trent Reznor to stay on — As Apple's acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music nears completion this financial quarter, the Cupertino and Santa Monica, California-based companies have begun work …
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Bloomberg, CNET, Fortune, Digital Trends, ZDNet, iPhone, Fortune, iMore, Boing Boing, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, hypebot, VentureBeat, InvestorPlace, socalTECH.com, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice and Business Insider. Tweets: @9to5mac. See also Mediagazer
| Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
64-Bit Chrome for Windows, Now in Beta — 2 months after the Dev/Canary channels, the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows is now available in the beta channel. It's still limited to Windows 7 and Windows 8+ and you obviously need a 64-bit operating system.| Reuters: |
European regulators training sights on Google's mobile software — (Reuters) - European regulators are preparing what could be a stern challenge to Google Inc's (GOOGL.O) (GOOG.O) mobile software business in the coming months after a nearly four-year investigation into the company's Web …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Will Add Ratings to Search-Results Ads So They Look More Like Amazon — Google is prodding merchants to provide more information to make its search results more effective-and more like Amazon. The question is whether merchants will play ball. — In a blog post Tuesday …
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Search Engine Land, Softpedia News and Mashable
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Exclusive Interview: Best Buy CEO Says Tablet Sales Are “Crashing,” Hope for PCs — Re/code has landed in Minneapolis to talk to the folks at Best Buy — the last standing nationwide big-box, bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics retailer, with over 1,000 main stores and hundreds of smaller mobile device stores.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Lytro Illum review: an expensive, flawed, buggy glimpse of the future of photography — Lytro Illum review: this is the camera of the future — It's almost time to forget everything you ever knew about photography — Ten minutes into using the Lytro Illum, I'm throwing out everything I've ever learned about photography.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Shazam Brings Always-On Music and TV Recognition to Mac With Free Menu Bar App — Music recognition service Shazam, which was one of the early App Store hits and has continued to see good success on mobile platforms, is now bringing its services to the desktop in the form of the first music, TV show, and ad recognition app for Mac.
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| Sophie Knight / Reuters: |
Sony warns smartphone weakness will brake profit progress after first-quarter surge — (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp warned it doesn't now expect to make money on smartphones this year, citing weak demand, as the consumer electronics maker said restructuring will still help it turn a profit on its TVs after 10 years of losses.
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PC World, Associated Press, IGN, Variety, Gamasutra, Bloomberg, BBC, Eurogamer.net, VideoGamer.com and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @tomiahonen
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
NomadPlus Transforms an Apple Charger Into a Portable Battery — Nomad, the company behind the pocket-sized NomadKey iPhone cable, today debuted the NomadPlus, a product that transforms an Apple charger into a portable battery pack. — While there are hundreds of different portable battery options …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, GadgeTell and Ubergizmo
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
1Password debuts extension for third party apps on iOS 8 — The popular password and security management app 1Password has already previewed its iOS 8 extension and Touch ID support for unlocking and accessing its content outside of its iOS app, and today AgileBits has announced …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
DisplayMate: Surface Pro 3 has one of the best, most accurate displays available on any mobile platform and OS — Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 wins plaudits for display, says researcher — Microsoft's newest 12-inch tablet has one of the best displays of any tablet out there, according to DisplayMate Technologies.
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DisplayMate, PC World, Maximum PC, Ubergizmo, WinBeta, Windows Phone Central and Gizmodo
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Medical marijuana delivery service Eaze launches in SF, hoping to be the “Uber of pot” — Medical marijuana users link to delivery services with Eaze — Deliveries will be free for patients, with driver fees and Eaze paid by dispensaries in exchange for gaining new business.
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bizjournals, NDTV Gadgets, SFWeekly, Chinatopix, Betabeat, Business Wire and San Francisco magazine. Tweets: @csaid
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google releases the source code for its I/O 2014 app as a template for developers — Google today published the source code for its I/O 2014 app in hopes of teaching developers some of its best practices for Android apps. — While you may have used the I/O 2014 app to plan your schedule at the conference …
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Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google and Android Central
| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Xiaomi now world's fifth largest smartphone maker; Android captures record 85% market share — China's Xiaomi Becomes World's 5th Largest Smartphone Maker — Global smartphone sales are still growing, but the market's star performer in the last three months wasn't Apple or even Samsung.
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PR Newswire, BetaNews, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, CNET, The Next Web, BGR, Wireless Smartphone Strategies, PR Newswire, Android Police and TechCrunch. Thanks:@parmy
| Agam Shah / PC World: |
AMD announces dev kit with 64-bit ARM-based server chips for $2,999; paves way for x86 coexistence — AMD's new 64-bit ARM board points way to x86 coexistence — Advanced Micro Devices is moving closer to a motherboard design that will accept both x86 and ARM chips with the shipment of its first 64-bit ARM board.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Samsung's Milk Music Update Adds $3.99 Premium Subscription Option — Samsung pitched Milk Music this spring as a totally free music service exclusive to its devices, but slipped in at the end that it might not be free forever. You can still stream tunes for free without ads …
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The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget and Android Central
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Popcorn Time Adds Apple TV Support, iOS App Coming Soon — The Popcorn Time phenomenon is one of the biggest piracy stories of the year thus far. — The software became an instant hit by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy-to-use Netflix-style interface.| Sam Gustin / Motherboard: |
FCC Chairman: Verizon Uses a ‘Disturbing’ Loophole to Throttle Unlimited Data — Federal Communication Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is “deeply troubled” about Verizon Wireless's recently-announced plan to begin slowing down data speeds for some customers, he wrote in a strongly-worded letter to the company's CEO on Wednesday.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan and @howardlindzon
Thanks:@samgustin| Elliot Njus / Oregonian: |
Portland legalizes Airbnb-style short-term rentals — Portland will start issuing permits for its first legal short-term rental operations in private homes as soon as September. — The Portland City Council on Wednesday gave its OK for Portlanders to rent out one or two bedrooms in their home … | Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Senate report claims unauthorized wireless cramming charges cost consumers hundreds of millions — U.S. cellphone users frequent victims of ‘cramming’: Senate study — (Reuters) - U.S. mobile phone users have likely paid hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges “crammed” …
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