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Apple Stocks Up on Components for September iPhone Launch — Apple hasn't yet officially announced the fall event at which it is expected to debut the next iteration of the iPhone, but it's definitely planning one. — IMore was first to report that the company has scheduled a special event … | Rene Ritchie / iMore.com: |
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo — As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. — Mayer also just sent a note to the company about the departure …
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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired: |
Samsung Product Chief: 'It's Unreasonable That We're Fighting Over Rectangles' — Kevin Packingham, Samsung's Chief Product Officer, at Wired's San Francisco office. — Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired — The Apple v. Samsung trial that begins in a San Jose federal courtroom on Monday …
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| John Koblin / Deadspin: |
NBC's No. 1 Tweeting Critic Has Been Suspended From Twitter — Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended—supposedly because NBC had it cut off after he complained:
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Tweets: @producermatthew, @timwindsor, @hblodget and @dannysullivan
See also Mediagazer| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
NBC Olympics Executive's Email Wasn't “Widely Available” In Google — The interwebs are all a flutter over how a critic of NBC's Olympic coverage had his Twitter account suspended after tweeting the email address of the executive in charge of that coverage. It was private, said Twitter.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung readying 11.8-inch tablet with ‘retina’ display, say court documents — Court documents made public in the epic Apple v. Samsung trial that kicked off in California today reveal that Samsung is working on a tablet codenamed “P10” that would include LTE connectivity and an 11.8-inch display at 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) resolution.
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| Howard Lindzon: |
The Twitter Hijacking of Stocktwits $ ...The Cashtag — It's interesting that Twitter has hijacked our creation of $TICKER ie. $AAPL. It only took four years to ‘fill’ this hole, though a few months back they told me in a detailed email it was not a hole they wanted to fill.
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Twitter rolls out clickable stock symbols, or “Cashtags”, so you can keep up with your investments — Twitter is now rolling out the ability for you to click on stock symbols with a $ sign in front of them. Once you click them, you'll be able to see all of the conversation about a particular company, much like you would a hashtag.
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Tweets: @twitter, @ericjackson and @howardlindzon
Thanks:@jfalconer| Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk: |
Jonathan Ive: Apple's goal isn't to make money — Apple's goal is not to make money, but to make good products, said Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, speaking at the British Embassy's Creative Summit. — “We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money.
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| Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook's new tactic in the tech wars — Google and Facebook are using a controversial legal doctrine to channel money to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and other groups that share their hostility to online copyright enforcement.
Tweets: @valleyhack, @robertblevine_, @warren_allen, @helienne, @zarawesome and @jsto
| David Pogue / Pogue's Posts: |
One of Apple's Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse — I think the MagSafe connector is one of Apple's best ideas ever. It's on the end of every Mac laptop's power cord. It attaches to the laptop with a powerful magnet—but if anybody trips on it, it detaches and falls harmlessly to the floor.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg Reveals He Is Open To A Radical Change In Facebook Strategy — It's not often that a public company CEO suggests that he might be open to an entirely new product strategy, but that's exactly what Mark Zuckerberg did on Facebook's earnings call last week. — Allow us to explain.
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v1 preview — Digg v1 will launch this week after a six-week sprint to rebuild the site from scratch. Here's a first glimpse. We want the new Digg to deliver the best of what the Internet is talking about right now. It must be alive and responsive to its participants.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Lockers Available For Delivery In Silicon Valley, Too — It looks like Amazon.com is expanding its Lockers program, which allows customers to have their deliveries sent to, yes, nearby lockers. — The idea was first reported last fall. It may seem like an inconvenient alternative …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Microsoft's new tablet-oriented keyboard and mouse — The happy tablet peripheral family. — Microsoft officially announced today two new peripherals meant to accompany Windows 8 tablets: the Wedge Touch Mouse and the Wedge Mobile Keyboard.
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| DealBook: |
Alibaba Is Said to Be Close to Raising $8 Billion — Some American Internet companies may be unpopular with investors these days, but a Chinese one is finding plenty of takers. — The Alibaba Group, a Chinese e-commerce giant, is close to completing a more than $8 billion round of financing … | Ken Segall / Observatory: |
New Mac ads: landing with a serious thud — Repeat after me: “The sky is not falling. The sky is not falling.” — I know it's hard to say after viewing the new batch of Mac ads that debuted on the Olympics. I'm still in a bit of shock myself. — Sure, Apple has had a low point …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 8: My ‘disaster’ is not their ‘catastrophe’ — Summary: I've argued that Windows 8 was going to be a disaster. Amend that one: Without a hardware home run, it could be. — Follow @maryjofoley — I was a guest on the “On the Verge” show last week, where the Verge crew and I talked a lot (predictably) about Windows 8.
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
| Center for Democracy & Technology: |
Why Fibbing About Your Age Is Relevant to the Cybersecurity Bill — [Editors Note: This is one in a of series of blog posts from CDT on the Cybersecurity Act, S. 3414, a bill co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Collins that is slated to be considered on the Senate floor soon.]
Tweets: @dangillmor
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook revamps photos with new mosaic view and simpler UI — Facebook just rolled out a new look to its user Photos page that includes a mosaic view of all of a user's photos, as well as three new tabs that adorn the top of the page: photos of you, photos you've shared, and albums you've created.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Republic Wireless reopens its unlimited $19 per month beta, starts offering Motorola Defy XT — Republic Wireless is finally ready for more customers on its low price cellphone service, announcing today that it's reopening signups for its beta and offering customers a new phone.
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