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Nokia's Fight For AT&T Shelf Space Shows Hurdle For Lumia — When Angelo Amato, a former Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) customer, went to get a new smartphone at an AT&T Inc. (T) store in Manhattan last week, he never got a chance to even see the Finnish company's models.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia rumored to announce Windows Phone 8 handsets ‘as early as’ next month — Microsoft is expected to finalize its Windows Phone 8 software in September and recent reports suggest that Nokia may announce its first next-generation devices at the same time.
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Best Buy Founder Offers $26 A Share To Buy Retailer — Best Buy Co. founder Richard Schulze, who stepped down as chairman this year, offered to take the electronics retailer private at $24 to $26 a share, according to a copy of a letter he sent to the board today.
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Nuance's ‘Nina’ to add Siri-like features to customer service apps on iOS and Android — After Nuance's aggressive push to get its voice recognition technology in front of consumers via first-party apps, the company is taking a small turn and offering it to third party apps.
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| Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga's Rocky Shift to Mobile — To turn around its flagging business, Zynga Inc. is betting big on mobile games and creating a network that connects mobile-game players. — But how to carry out that shift remains up for debate. — At Zynga's San Francisco headquarters last month …
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Demonoid Busted As A Gift To The United States Government — Last week thousands of Demonoid users feared the worst when their beloved site disappeared from the Internet. Many thought that the site had been busted, but were eventually relieved to hear that it was ‘only’ a massive DDoS attack.| Bloomberg: |
Apple Needs Sharp With Foxconn Stake As New IPhone Nears — Taiwan billionaire Terry Gou built a manufacturing empire that assembles iPhones and iPads. His Foxconn Technology Group may be key to ensuring Sharp (6753) Corp.'s survival and a stable supply of components for Apple Inc. (AAPL)
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| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 coming worldwide this month, UI shown off on YouTube — We've got a good few updates rolling in on the Galaxy Note 10.1 front today. For starters, Samsung has announced that the S-Pen equipped slate will available globally from August in WiFi and 3G varieties … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Strategy Guru Jim Heckman Leaves — Here's another Yahoo executive departure in the wake of Marissa Mayer's arrival: Jim Heckman, the company's SVP of strategy, is out. — This one was very much expected, as Heckman was closely tied to former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn.| David Morgenstern / ZDNet: |
Mountain Lion's Save As still a disaster — Summary: Changes in the behavior of Save As in OS X Lion and now Mountain Lion make problems for longtime users of Macs. — David Morgenstern — Many sites reported the “happy” news that OS X Mountain Lion restores the Save As command, which was removed in OS X Lion.
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Mother of ‘Happy Mac’ graphic to testify in Apple v. Samsung — Susan Kare, the graphic designer who created some of the interface designs and best known graphics for the original Mac OS is scheduled to appear in the patent case. — Apple lawyers are reaching back into the company's history for help against Samsung.
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Huawei: The company that spooked the world — The success of China's telecoms-equipment behemoth makes spies and politicians elsewhere nervous — BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's Succès De Scandale: Olympics Suspension Fiasco Drove Signups — There's no such thing as bad publicity. A source tells TechCrunch that mainstream news mentions of the temporary suspension of an NBC Olympics coverage tweeter / hater gave Twitter's signup rate a boost.
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