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DigiTimes:
iPhone 5 to have smaller than 4-inch panel, say sources — Despite rumors about iPhone 5 featuring a 4.2-inch panel circulating within the IT market for a while, following a leak from Apple's website in Switzerland in early August, sources from upstream panel suppliers have recently revealed …
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Being Right — One of Steve Jobs' most devastating talents is in knowing when he is right. By he I mean he and his team of talented designers, engineers, supply chain wranglers, and technologists. Standing pat when the alternative is worse is a difficult move to make, but one Apple under Jobs has made a trademark.
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Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Who will be Silicon Valley's next Steve Jobs? — Who will be the next Steve Jobs? — It's a loaded question, to be sure, that inevitably elicits the same answer: No one. Part cultural icon, part tech visionary, and part innovative business leader, Steve Jobs would seem impossible to duplicate.
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Peter Pachal / PC Magazine:
How Will Tim Cook Lead Apple?
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Fortune, MacRumors, InformationWeek and PC Magazine
Al Lewis / Wall Street Journal:
H-P's One-Year Plan — Let's say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. Here's how you do it: — Fire well-performing CEO Mark Hurd over expense-report irregularities and a juicy sexual-harassment claim that you admit has no merit. Fire four board members, as publicly as possible.
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The Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Daring Fireball, Los Angeles Times and CNET News
Mark Hearn / Sprintfeed:
Sprint Advising Employees to Remain Mum on iPhone — If you ask the Wall Street Journal, the iPhone is coming to Sprint in October. This sounds great, but if you were to ask a Sprint employee, you just might get a different answer, or no answer at all. We've received an internal memo …
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Mike Cassidy / Mercury News:
World's biggest startup launches in Silicon Valley — Among the startups tucked between restaurants, squeezed into office buildings and squatting in storefronts near Mountain View's main drag is one that might stop you cold: @WalmartLabs. — Yes, Wal-Mart — the behemoth of Bentonville …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Hurt by The Hurt Locker: why IP addresses aren't enough to find file-swappers — IP addresses have real uses when it comes to identifying Internet activity, but they work best when paired with targeted investigation rather than as “spray-and-pray” shotgun-style federal litigation.
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Amar Toor / Engadget:
Samsung's ChatON messaging service brings free texting to Android, iOS and BlackBerry (video) — It looks like Samsung is about to dip its toes in the mobile messaging market, with a new service called ChatON. Slated to debut at this week's IFA, the app brings texting …
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The Atlantic Online:
Square, the iPhone Credit Card Machine, Goes Mainstream — I first saw Square's product when Gizmodo's Mat Honan whipped one out at a dinner in San Francisco to help us split a check. Here's how it worked: he ran my credit card through a tiny plastic doohickey (technical term) that attached to his phone.
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Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:
First look at the new Sony Reader PRS-T1!!! … The Dutch web retailer and ebookstore bol.com accidentally leaked the product page for the next Sony Reader, and that means the FCC filing for the new Sony Reader that I found last month has just turned very real.
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Boing Boing, Gadget Lab, Engadget, Daring Fireball, Techie Buzz, PalmAddicts and Electronista
Zack Whittaker / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook, Twitter libel claims double; Celebrities still prefer super-injunctions — Summary: Libel cases resulting from content posted on social networking sites have doubled in the past year, research suggests. — Statistics compiled by legal firm Sweet and Maxwell suggest that libel cases …
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: In Times of Unrest, Social Networks Can Be a Distraction — THE mass media, including interactive social-networking tools, make you passive, can sap your initiative, leave you content to watch the spectacle of life from your couch or smartphone. — Apparently even during a revolution.
