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Kit Chellel / Bloomberg:

Apple Must Publish Notice Samsung Didn't Copy IPad In U.K. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was ordered by a judge to publish a notice on its U.K. website and in British newspapers alerting people to a ruling that Samsung Electronics Co. didn't copy designs for the iPad.

Yoni Heisler / Network World:

Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype — Well before the iPhone, and going back all the way to the early 2000s, Apple had been working on tablet prototypes that would eventually form the groundwork for the original iPad It's well established that Apple's iPhone was in the works …

More: Pocket-lint, I4U News, Pulse2 Technology …, TechSpot, iPhone, msnbc.com, SlashGear, Engadget, InvestorPlaceGadgets …, Los Angeles Times, DVICE, Neowin, Tecca, Know Your Cell, Ubergizmo, TUAW, App Advice and PC Magazine

BuzzFeed:

The Original iPad Was Gigantic — Revealed in court filings (which were first noticed by NetworkWorld) is a prototype/mock up ("035") for an Apple tablet created between 2002 and 2004 — years before the iPad came out. It still looks like an iPad, but crossed with an old iBook. And man oh man it is FAT.

More: PhoneArena, TUAW, Neowin, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo and Gizmodo UK

Wall Street Journal:

Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones — Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone …

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Fortune, Digits, Mashable! and PhoneArena

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Nokia's Q2 2012: $1 billion operating loss, $9.21 billion in net sales, 4 million Lumia phones sold — Beleaguered phone maker Nokia this morning published its financial results for the second quarter of 2012, reporting a $1 billion (826 million euros) operating loss on $9.21 billion in net sales (7.5 billion euros).

More: Engadget, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Verge, Gizmodo, Nokia, Bloomberg and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @benedictevans

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Samsung Asks To Limit Apple References To Jobs At Trial — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) asked a federal judge to restrict references by Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s lawyers to the company's late founder Steve Jobs at a jury trial scheduled for July 30 over mobile-device patents.

More: MacDailyNews

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Steve Jobs shouldn't influence upcoming Apple/Samsung trial: judge — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved Apple Inc's request to bar disparaging statements by Steve Jobs about Google's Android operating system from an upcoming patent trial against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

More: ZDNet, Electronista, Washington Post, The Verge, CNET and iClarified. Tweets: @dangillmor

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

EBay's John Donahoe Seeing a “Staggering Surge” in Mobile Shopping — EBay has revised its mobile revenue figures, once again. — In what is becoming a routine move, the company said today during its second-quarter earnings release that it is now expecting eBay and PayPal mobile to each transact $10 billion in volume this year.

More: Business Insider

Spencer Ackerman / Wired:

Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling — In the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has used a wide variety of tactics against terrorists. It's invaded countries where they operated (and ones where they didn't). It's tried to win the backing of foreign populations in which the terrorists hide.

More: TechEye

Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:

McDonald's Denies Employees Assaulted Human Cyborg Steve Mann — In response to a storm of controversy surrounding its treatment of Human Cyborg Steve Mann, McDonald's has issued a statement, claiming that it has investigated the incident and determined that it “did not involve a physical altercation …

More: TechEye, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo and msnbc.com

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Bing Maps piles on 215TB of new Bird's Eye imagery, proves it's a small world after all — Did you think Microsoft was done with Bing Maps updates after it threw a whopping 165TB of satellite imagery at virtual explorers? You've got another thing coming. The mapping crew in Redmond …

More: CNET, The Verge, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, Bing and Ubergizmo

Amanda Conway / YouTube Blog:

Face blurring: when footage requires anonymity — As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the world, YouTube is committed to creating even better tools to help them. According to the international human rights organization WITNESS …

Charles E. Schumer / Wall Street Journal:

Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit — Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest. — Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to raise prices in the digital books market.

More: Fortune, CNET, Ars Technica, TeleRead, Engadget, paidContent, Hillicon Valley, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice and 9to5Mac. See also Mediagazer

Brad Linder / Liliputing:

Raspbian Linux now available for Raspberry Pi: Up to 40 percent faster than Debian — Raspbian is a Linux-based operating system optimized for the Raspberry Pi, a low power, inexpensive mini-computer with a 700 MHz ARM11 processor. Up until recently, the folks behind the little computer …

More: Raspberry Pi, Geek.com, Inquirer, The H Open Source and Slashdot

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Now Including Unique Identifiers for In App Purchase Receipts to Combat Hack — Following last week's launch of a hack that allowed users to obtain In App Purchase content free of charge by routing their purchase requests through a server run by a Russian hacker, Apple began taking steps to thwart the method.

More: Softpedia News, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, App Advice and The Next Web

Reuters:

EU regulators investigating Microsoft's Windows 8 — (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft blocks computer makers from installing rival web browsers on its upcoming Windows 8 operating system following complaints from several companies.

More: ZDNet, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge and PC Magazine

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Fab Seals The Deal On $105 Million In New Funding — Design-oriented flash sales site Fab has raised $105 million in new funding, the company announced today. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and was subsequently confirmed by Fab CEO Jason Goldberg in a detailed blog post.

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, Digits, betashop, VatorNews, GigaOM, Betabeat, Business Insider, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Pulse2 Technology …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

New Mobile App Vyclone Aims to Remix Social Video From Every Angle — Instagram proved there is such a thing as a billion-dollar app. Now everyone wants a shot at being the next messiah. Naturally, Instagram's photographic medium laid the foundation for the current round of contenders: Video.

More: CNET, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Mashable! and ABCNEWS

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Evernote adds Activity Stream and Retina display support — Evernote for Mac has just been updated with a brand new notification center and improved graphics for Macbook Retina displays. — The new ‘Activity Stream’ works much the same way as the notification system used on Facebook or Spotify …

More: Macgasm, The Verge and Evernote Blogcast

Brad Calder / MSDN Blogs:

Windows Azure Storage - 4 Trillion Objects and Counting — Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second. — About a year ago we hit the 1 trillion object mark.

More: TechCrunch, Data Center Knowledge and TechNet Blogs

Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:

Viacom says there's ‘no deal in sight’ to get channels back on DirecTV — It's hard to distinguish who's behaving like the bigger drama queen when it comes to the recent carriage fee dispute between DirecTV and Viacom. For the moment, DirecTV seems to be inching ahead, according to a Viacom blog post published this afternoon.

More: Blog.Viacom, CNET, CNNMoney.com and Engadget

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

Researchers Say They Took Down World's Third-Largest Botnet — On Wednesday, computer security experts took down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet, a cluster of infected computers used by cybercriminals to send spam to millions of people. Grum, computer security experts say …

More: FireEye, SlashGear, PC Magazine, CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, Gizmodo UK, SecurityWeek and Ars Technica

Donna Tam / CNET:

Yahoo pushes Olympics coverage through all sites, apps — Yahoo plans to broadcast Olympics-related information across every screen it can, making it possible to follow the 2012 London games on the company's various apps in addition to its usual news outlets. — Follow @DonnaYTam

More: AllThingsD

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

64GB Samsung Galaxy S III not canceled, set for release later this year — We had all but forgotten about it, but the 64GB version of the Galaxy S III is alive and well. We heard a few reports yesterday that the high-capacity variant was canceled — the source of the news was a notice …

More: Engadget and Tech Trader Daily

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