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| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone — Today, I am excited to announce that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we've completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners.
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| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Releasing Windows 8 - August 1, 2012 — Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 8 project. The Windows 8 team is proud to share with you that a short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners. This means our next milestone will be the availability …
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| John Callaham / Neowin: |
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
Amazon Instant Video app for iPad hits the App Store with offline viewing and Prime streaming — Click to view slideshow. — Just 24 hours after Hulu started popping up on Apple TV, We now see Amazon's Instant Video Store in the App Store for iPad. It looks like a full app capable …
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| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards — On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed. — Upon its reception, most of the public attention focused on a single passage … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
A Further Blow to Online Lurking: Quora Will Now Publicly Show Who Has Read a Post — Quora today is introducing a feature that shows which of its users have read each Quora post, and how they found it. It's another move by a social Web service to share passive activities …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Craigslist Now Wants Your Postings Under ‘Exclusive’ Terms: Padmapper Fallout Continues — Another development in the ongoing Craigslist data scraping story: Craigslist has added in a new proviso for those posting ads, telling them that Craigslist now becomes the “exclusive licensee” of the content in that ad.
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Q2 Beats The Street With Top-Line Growth, Narrowing Losses: $32.7M Revenue, $2M Net Loss — Yelp today reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2012, its second ever financial report as a publicly-traded company. Overall, the reviews site showed continued top-line revenue growth …
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
After Conquering Yahoo, Dan Loeb Wrote A Victory Letter To His Investors - We Have A Copy — Way back in the first quarter, hedge fund manager Dan Loeb bought a huge stake in Yahoo, and then launched a proxy war on its board. — Eventually, Loeb targeted Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Psst. Facebook Turned On Its App Center Worldwide Overnight [Updated] — Facebook took one more step further in its global ambitions today: the social network has now made its App Center, the storefront for Facebook desktop and mobile applications, available in every country where Facebook is.
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| Aditya Agarwal / The Dropbox Blog: |
Security update & new features — A couple weeks ago, we started getting emails from some users about spam they were receiving at email addresses used only for Dropbox. We've been working hard to get to the bottom of this, and want to give you an update. — Our investigation found …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 aimed at iPad business users, includes pen input and dock — Lenovo has previously shown off a prototype Windows 8 tablet back at Computex Taipei in June, which recently passed through the FCC. A leaked Lenovo document on the tablet, sent to us by a tipster …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Expands Build-to-Order Configuration Options on Retina MacBook Pro [Updated] — Apple today quietly expanded the available configuration options for the Retina MacBook Pro, now offering a full slate of individual upgrade options on the base model that starts at $2199.| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Google Wallet goes cloud-based, adds remote disable, accepts Visa, American Express and Discover — Since the rollout of its Wallet product, Google has been partnered with MasterCard and the credit card company's PayPass product. But today, Google tells us that the platform is opening up …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Apple's CPU architect Jim Keller departs to head up chipmaker AMD's processor group — Chipmaker AMD this morning announced that it has hired Jim Keller as corporate VP and chief architect of the company's microprocessor cores. — Before, Keller was a director in the platform architecture group at Apple …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
HP Wins Key Ruling in Itanium Lawsuit With Oracle — The judge hearing the lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle has ruled that the software giant is bound by its commitment to continue making software that is compatible with Intel's Itanium server chip.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Nearly 40 iPhone and iPad prototypes revealed in Samsung trial — Today at the Apple vs. Samsung trial, Apple designer Christopher Stringer took to the stand as Apple's first witness. In the course of his testimony about Apple's design process, he showed dozens of rejected iPhone and iPad designs … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Tightens Up App Policy, Gets Stricter On Naming/Icon, Payments, Privacy, Ads And Spam Rules [Developer Letter] — Looks like Google Play is growing up, combing its hair and trying to move away from its Wild West image: Android's app store team has sent out a letter to its tens … | Brad Chacos / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Surging iPad Helps Apple Snag No. 1 PC Spot from HP — Apple's share of the smartphone market may have slipped last quarter, but where the iPhone slacked, the iPad picked up, propelling the company past HP an into the pole position as the number one PC manufacturer in the world.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T refutes report that employees were instructed to sell Android and Windows devices over iPhone — Update: AT&T seemed none-too-pleased with the allegations and gave us the following statement: … We heard reports in the past that retail employees at other carriers were instructed …
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| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
New “Twitter Political Index” Ranks Opinion Of Presidential Candidates Based On Tweets — Who's ahead in popular opinion in the US presidential race? Plenty of third-parties have tried to measure this in the past using tweets. Now Twitter is doing the interpretation directly through its just-launched Twitter Political Index.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Take That, Yahoo Fantasy Football: NFL Adds Google+ Hangouts To Its Fantasy Football Site — Google announced today a pretty major deal with the NFL which will help it to virally grow adoption of Google+ Hangouts - the live chat feature on its social networking efforts known as Google+.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ComScore: US Smartphone Penetration 47% In Q2; Android Remains Most Popular, But Apple's Growing Faster — ComScore today released its latest quarterly figures on the state of the mobile market in the U.S. based on active users, and while the exact numbers are different …
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| Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: |
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