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Charlie White / Mashable!:
HP Tablet: How to Find a Deeply Discounted HP TouchPad — The discontinued HP TouchPad continues its liquidation at fire sale prices, and the frantic search for the defunct tablet at that elusive $99.99 price is one of the trending topics on Twitter today. — Use this link to search Twitter …
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@brynaathp, ZDNet, @joshuatopolsky, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Liliputing, @percival, Shiny Objects, mocoNews, Daring Fireball, @mrgan, Engadget, PC World, @betanews and PC World, Thanks:benparr
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Best Buy does a 180 degree change, will sell HP TouchPad in U.S. stores at fire sale prices — Perhaps Best Buy's U.S. managers saw all those HP TouchPads being sold around them and decided to join in the fun, too. After saying that its U.S. stores would not partake in the fire sale of the webOS tablet …
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Engadget, @brynaathp, PC Magazine, CNET News, PreCentral.net, Android and Me and TekGoblin
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
What does the glut of cheap HP TouchPads mean for Apple and Android tablet sales? — If you're trying to get a $99 TouchPad but can't find it anywhere, blame Best Buy. Based on calls placed to a half-dozen of the stores today, Best Buy has refused to sell its huge stock of HP tablets, choosing to return them to HP instead.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog and Electronista
Dan Ramirez / webOSroundup:
BREAKING: HP Crediting Fire-Sale Difference to Current TouchPad Owners — Folks, we're all a bit upset right now, and who can blame you? But it's looking to us like HP is trying to make things right for customers that took the plunge on the HP TouchPad previously. Here's what we know:
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Testing LTE in iOS 5 and Hiring More LTE Engineers — Early last week, Boy Genius Report claimed that Apple has been testing a 4G LTE-enabled iPhone with carriers, and pointed to an “internal iOS test build” of one of Apple's major mobile partners. In that build was a property list file (.plist) for LTE.
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everythingiCafe and Electronista
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple is field-testing LTE iOS 5 devices, could the next-gen iPad run on LTE? — Besides the iPhone 5 release date, the hottest iPhone-related news topic as of late has been LTE. A recent report claimed that Apple's carrier partners were already exploring LTE iPhones …
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Softpedia News, Thanks:aaron_nussbaum
Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Google Plus must stop this Identity Theatre — Bruce Schneier in Beyond Fear coined a phrase: … The Common Names debâcle at Google Plus is a variant of this, where the supposed protections are manifestly not working. Google's stated policy on this is that you should use your ‘common name’ …
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Jamie Zawinski / jwz:
Nym Wars — Yes, yes, let's just get this one out of the way now.
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Boing Boing and LAUNCH
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google+ Rolls Out Verified Profiles, Still Struggles With Real-Name Policy
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eWeek, Search Engine Land, Wen-Ai Yu, CNET News, PC Magazine, Techie Buzz, PC World, Sean Percival's Blog, Computerworld, Gizmodo, WebProNews and Robert Scoble
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Is “Jupiter” the Future of Windows...PC, Phone &Tablet? — Is Silverlight really dead, or is it the future of Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone? This is a question weighing on the minds of legions of Microsoft developers right now - developers who were once promised that Silverlight …
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Microsoft disables ‘supercookies’ used on MSN.com visitors — New tracking technology a ‘colossal privacy gaffe,’ researcher says — Computerworld - Microsoft said it has disabled an online tracking technology that, according to a Stanford University researcher, allowed the company …
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ITProPortal, GigaOM, Digits, Adotas and Hillicon Valley
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: “A sort of PC”: how Windows 8 will invade tablets (and why it might work) — For the first time in fifteen or more years, Redmond faces a genuine challenge to its Windows desktop monopoly. The threat isn't coming from Linux or from Mac OS X or from any other operating system.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft slams post-PC idea, claims “PC isn't even middle aged yet”
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AppleInsider, WinBeta, Electronista, Daily Patricia and The Business Insider
Edward Moyer / CNET News:
SF subway sets public debate on cell shutdown — A demonstrator at the August 15 protest. — BART, the San Francisco-area transit system targeted by hackers after it cut wireless service in its subway prior to a protest, posted a letter to customers today explaining its position …
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BART News, San Francisco Chronicle and Pastebin
Zach Epstein / BGR:
No, HP, you're off the mark — Oh nooo. That was the first thought that crossed my mind as I began to read Jon Zilber's post on HP's company blog. Quoting Mark Twain? Oh no he didn't. In a nutshell, Zilber's intent was to correct the world's press, which collectively played Taps while standing over webOS's grave this past week.
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The Official HP Palm Blog
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Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Kerris: work on webOS and app ecosystem will continue
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HP webOS Developer Blog, PhoneArena, Data Central, Bloomberg, AllThingsD and Ars Technica
