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August 7, 2012, 4:45 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 iPhone display, shows possible next-generation device user-interface — Mockup of rumored next-generation iPhone design — With the next-generation iPhone's announcement and release approaching for next month, one of the most present rumors is a larger, nearly-four inch display.

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wired:

Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist's Devastating Hack — Amazon closed a privacy hole on Monday that previously allowed hackers access to Amazon accounts over the phone using just a name, email address and mailing address — three pieces of information easily found for many on the web.

More: Gizmodo, blog.chron.com and SlashGear. Tweets: @robpegoraro. Thanks:@strngwys

Matt Cutts:

Please turn on two-factor authentication — You should read Mat Honan's heartbreaking tale of a hack attack and the ensuing discussion on Techmeme. Much of the story is about Amazon or Apple's security practices, but I would still advise everyone to turn on Google's two-factor authentication …

More: ReadWriteWeb, Wired, CMSWire.com, Help Net Security, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Wirecutter, Lifehacker and Softpedia News. Tweets: @csoghoian

Mat Honan / Wired:

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking — Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. … In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

iPhone Caused “Crisis of Design” at Samsung (Memo) — At the end of Monday in week two of the Apple versus Samsung case, a damning internal Samsung email was admitted into evidence — an email containing charged language from JK Shin, Samsung's head of mobile communications.

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, ZDNet, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneArena, Gizmodo and Know Your Cell

Steven Musil / CNET:

Malfunction, not iPad, played greater role in Galaxy returns

More: PhoneArena

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Mac designer: Samsung phone fooled me

More: Network World, The Verge, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Reuters

AppleInsider:

Court documents allegedly show Samsung copied iPhone icons

More: CNET, The Verge, Android News, Rumours …, PhoneArena and Geek News Central

Chris Urmson / The Official Google Blog:

The self-driving car logs more miles on new wheels — Technology is at its best when it makes people's lives better, and that's precisely what we're going for with our self-driving car project. We're using advanced computer science to try and make driving safer and more enjoyable.

More: msnbc.com, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Verge, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch and WebProNews

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Only Windows Phone 8 will support in-app purchasing — Microsoft has revealed that its plans to support in-app purchasing on Windows Phone will be limited to its upcoming version 8 release. In MSDN documentation, the software maker advises developers that you can only add in-app products to Windows Phone 8 apps.

More: Inquirer, DailyTech, CNET, PC Magazine, Mobile Marketing Watch, Ubergizmo, fiercemobilecontent.com, Pocketnow, Mobile Entertainment, WebProNews, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Gizmodo, IntoMobile and Softpedia News

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft looks ready to rename the Windows Phone Marketplace to ‘Windows Phone Store’

More: MobileSyrup.com, Phone Scoop, WMPoweruser, Engadget and Pocketnow

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches new Windows Phone Dev Center: Cleaner, better reporting, PayPal support and more

More: The Verge, Windows Phone Developer Blog, IntoMobile, WMPoweruser, The Verge, InfoWorld, CNET, LiveSide.net, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, SlashGear and Pocketables

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The New Yorker Lands on the iPhone, With Help From Lena Dunham and Jon Hamm — Here's another way to crack the “big stack of old New Yorkers you don't have time to get to” problem: You can now read the magazine on your iPhone, via a new app. — If you've used the New Yorker's iPad app …

More: BuzzFeed, Inside Mobile Apps, VentureBeat, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Know Your Cell, NYConvergence.com, TUAW and Betabeat. See also Mediagazer

Todd Wasserman / Mashable!:

Apple's ‘Genius’ Ads Disappear From the Olympics — 1 of 3 — Have you noticed that Apple's much-debated “Genius” ads have disappeared from the Olympics? — Well, you're not imagining things. A rep for TBWA/Media/Arts Lab, Apple's ad agency, says the ads are not running anymore, but that was the plan all along.

More: Forbes, VentureBeat, GigaOM, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW and SlashGear

Louis Goddard / The Verge:

Craigslist reportedly removes listings from search engines, blocking 3Taps and PadMapper — Listings site Craigslist has reportedly asked all general search engines to stop indexing its postings, effectively obsolescing data provider 3Taps and sites and apps which use its API, including the popular PadMapper.

More: digitaltrends.com, GigaOM, Business Insider, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, Betabeat, Ars Technica and Daily Dot

Tweets: @3taps and @3taps

Tom Simonite / Technology Review:

Android's Rise Helps Google Grow its Traffic Surveillance System — The movements of Android users let Google track live traffic—a service being extended to new countries and U.S. cities today. — Google will announce today that its mobile maps will provide live traffic data on 130 new U.S. cities …

More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Google LatLong and WebProNews

Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:

Study Shows Price The Top Consideration For Kindle Fire, Android Tablet Owners — Measurement firm comScore is launching a new tracking and metrics program for tablets. To publicize the new service comScore released some initial data, “based on a 3-month rolling sample of 6,000 US tablet owners.”

More: comScore, Inc., CNET, Inside Mobile Apps, PC Magazine and CNET

Brendon Lynch / TechNet Blogs:

Do Not Track in the Windows 8 Setup Experience — With Windows 8's recent release to manufacturing, we know many people are interested in how customers will discover Do Not Track (DNT) in Internet Explorer 10. DNT will be enabled in the “Express Settings” portion of the Windows 8 set-up experience.

More: Computerworld, BetaNews and Techie Buzz

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Office 2013 RT for Windows RT tablets will ship as Preview, lack macros and other features — Microsoft is planning to remove certain features from its Office 2013 RT edition, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The software maker is planning to ship a Preview version …

More: Wired, parislemon, Engadget, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, PC Magazine, iDownloadBlog.com, Financial Times, Neowin and VentureBeat

Jason Feifer / Fast Company:

Who's That Woman in the Twitter Bot Profile? — They're sometimes called “bimbots”—the army of Twitter bots with pretty profile pictures. Who are the women pictured in those photos? This is the story of the quest to find out. — After weeks of trying, I'd nearly found the real person behind a Twitter bot.

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Judge Orders Google, Oracle To Confess If They Paid Off Bloggers To Write About Their Lawsuit — The judge overseeing the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit has just ruled that both parties have to disclose if they paid off any journalists or bloggers to write or comment on the case, according to court documents filed today.

More: Ars Technica, paidContent, Computerworld, Bloomberg and The Verge

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn to Developers: We'll Give You the Clarity the Other Platforms Won't — In light of frustration with platform policy changes on other social media services like Twitter, LinkedIn today pushed out updated terms of service, a revamped developer-resources Web site and a more explicit approved-developer program.

More: CNET, The Next Web and LinkedIn Blog

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Facebook says ‘Likes’ are free speech in sheriff case — Facebook is supporting the court appeal of a deputy sheriff who lost his job after he ‘Liked’ the Facebook campaign page of his boss's rival. The case is helping to define the extent of free speech rights in the age of social media.

More: Forbes, CNET and The Verge

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Unveils First Non-Social Mobile Ad Unit, Allowing Developers To Buy Clicks To App Stores — Until now, every Facebook mobile ad had to be triggered by you or a friend's activity, but today Facebook begins beta testing a new ad unit letting any developer buy mobile news feed ads …

More: Facebook Developer Blog and The Next Web. Thanks:@joshconstine

John Cook / GeekWire:

Cloud telephony startup Infratel lands $3M, adds ‘click-to-call’ to Facebook pages — Infratel, a Seattle startup that provides cloud-based telephony services to small businesses, has raised $3 million in startup financing. Investors in the round include Prostor Capital and Runa Capital.

More: BetaKit, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Seattle Times and bizjournals

Herman Lai / M.I.C. Gadget:

This Time, Apple's FaceTime Got Sued! — A Tawinese man recently filed a lawsuit against Apple for allegedly infringing his technology patent that he claimed is used on Apple's FaceTime. The Intermediate People's Court in Zhenjiang has confirmed that they had accepted the case on July 31 …

More: Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET and TodaysiPhone.com

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Demonoid Operators Face Criminal Investigation in Mexico — Confirmation came out of Ukraine yesterday that not only had Demonoid suffered a DDoS and hacker attack, it had also been raided by the authorities. — In the middle of last week government investigators arrived at ColoCall, Demonoid's webhost, to shut Demonoid down.

More: BBC, Inquirer and GamePolitics blogs

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Exclusive: Microsoft's Windows 8 packaging revealed — Microsoft announced the finalization of its Windows 8 operating system last week with some gloriously crazy Start Screen improvements. The final copy may have leaked online already, but if you're waiting to secure an official boxed copy …

More: Los Angeles Times, GeekWire, PC Advisor, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, Macgasm, LiveSide.net, fiercecio.com, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable!, Softpedia News and TechSpot

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