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July 8, 2012, 4:25 AM

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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

That was quick. Facebook shuts down Face.com APIs, kills Klik app, enrages developers — Fresh from its acquisition by Facebook last month, Face.com is closing down its facial recognition APIs over the next 30 days. While such a move isn't that surprising, third-party developers …

More: PC Magazine, The Verge, ProgrammableWeb and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @asadotzler

Joe Pollicino / Engadget:

PSA: Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ up for sale again at Google Play store, ships in ‘2-3 weeks’ — And just like that it's back. Following a yesterday's temporary stay of the ban on Google's HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus by Judge Koh, the soon-to-be Jelly Bean-loaded device is again up for sale at the Play store — and a bit early than expected.

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Galaxy Nexus ban temporarily suspended while appeals court issues decision

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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Windows 8 boots 55.26% faster than Windows 7, and that's important for tablet devices — At its BUILD event last September, Microsoft presented an operating system that it claimed would boot faster than its predecessors, and consume less memory. Back then, only Windows 8′s developer preview was made available.

More: Neowin and PC Magazine

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon — After his sentence was made final earlier this year, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde was due to go prison early May. — However, due to various delays, he has yet to be committed to confinement. — This week in a final attempt …

More: Falkvinge on Infopolicy

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Ex-Nokia staff to build MeeGo-based smartphones — A group of ex-Nokia staff and MeeGo enthusiasts has formed Jolla (Finnish for “dinghy"), a mobile startup with the aim of bringing new MeeGo devices to the market. According to its LinkedIn page, Jolla consists of “directors and core professionals …

More: Engadget, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, UnleashthePhones, Pulse2 Technology … and Slashdot. Tweets: @jollamobile

Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:

Apple Removes Green EPEAT Electronics Certification From Products — Apple has pulled its products off the U.S. government-backed registration of environmentally friendly electronics. — Apple asked EPEAT, the electronics standards setting group, to pull its 39 certified desktop computers …

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:

It Never Gets Better — Why you should never buy a mediocre piece of technology expecting that it'll be more amazing tomorrow than it is today. — Source: dahlstroms — There's an update waiting for you. For your apps, for your computer and phone and tablet and the box attached to your TV.

More: Webomatica

Amy O'Leary / New York Times:

Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind — Quora is a Web site that crowdsources answers to just about any question imaginable, including “What is the meaning of life?” and “Is it possible to stick someone to the wall with Velcro?” But anyone searching for a phone number for the company is out of luck.

More: Andrew Lark

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

7.85-Inch iPad to Ramp Up Production in September at Foxconn Brazil — Bits of information about the rumored 7.85 “iPad Mini” continue to leak out. Japanese blog Macotakara now claims that the smaller iPad will be produced in Brazil and will ramp up production starting in September.

More: AppleInsider, msnbc.com, PadGadget, TechnoBuffalo, everythingiCafe, Business Insider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and PC World

Zach Epstein / BGR:

RapidShare unveils Dropbox competitor: RapidDrive — RapidShare this week unveiled a new cloud sync and storage solution called RapidDrive. The service competes directly with offerings such as Dropbox and SugarSync, integrating directly with a computer's file system interface …

More: Neowin and TorrentFreak

The Globe and Mail:

Canada's vanishing tech sector — If Research in Motion Ltd. is no longer Canada's most valuable publicly-traded high tech company, what is? The answer may surprise you. You won't find it in the S&P/TSX information technology index. Except for its stock market listing in Toronto …

Ryan Tate / Wired:

Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World — As money floods into their market, and the stakes get ever higher, app makers are getting paranoid. Paranoid that competitors are buying traffic spikes, using porn to attract users, and spamming everyone and their mom on the way to the top of the leaderboards.

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