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Apple has licensed design patents to Microsoft: executive — (Reuters) - Apple Inc licensed its prized design patents to Microsoft Corp but with an “anti-cloning agreement” to prevent copying of its iPhone and iPad, an Apple executive said on Monday. — The testimony from Apple patent … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Judge Refuses to Toss Most of Apple's Suit Against Samsung — With Apple having finished its primary case, the court took time on Monday to hear Samsung's arguments that the Cupertino-based company failed to meet its legal burden and that the case should be dropped.
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
iPhone 5 pre-orders planned for September 12, second release wave for first week of October — A couple of weeks ago iMore reported that Apple would be holding their iPhone 5 event on September 12, 2012. We've since learned that iPhone 5 pre-orders are currently planned to begin that same day …
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| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
AT&T planning for iPhone launch in late September, clearing schedules through October — According to a trusted AT&T (T) source, the carrier is currently planning to launch Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone during the third or fourth week of September, with an all-hands-on-deck policy … | Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Google to Buy Frommer's Travel Brand — Google Inc. is acquiring the Frommer's travel brand from publicly traded publishing house John Wiley & Sons Inc. for an undisclosed price in order to bolster its offerings of local reviews around the world. — The deal is expected to close shortly.
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How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community — Have you heard the phrase “That's true because I saw it on TV” at some point? It was often the truth in the old days when people only had the TV or newspaper to relate to. What you saw or read was the truth, although it obviously wasn't always so.
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| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs … Windows 8 and Windows RT each reached the RTM milestone, and we are hard at work in collaboration with ecosystem partners, including PC manufacturers, Silicon partners, and other component suppliers, to complete high quality Windows RT and Windows 8 PCs that we think you'll love.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
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| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
Think App.net is just a Twitter clone? Then you're missing the point — Much of the coverage of App.net — the ambitious project from entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell that just raised $500,000 through a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding campaign — has focused on the idea that Caldwell is building a “paid version of Twitter.”
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Retail Stores Seeing Significant Layoffs of Recent Hires? — Over the past couple of weeks, we've been receiving reports that Apple has been laying off a number of recently-hired staff members at its retail stores. Most of the reports have been coming from Apple retail employees …
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| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
RIM Says BlackBerry 10 Will Soon Be Ready For Licensing — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said it will soon be ready to license the company's new BlackBerry 10 operating system to other manufacturers, even as it races to release its own devices with the software by early next year.| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Groupon stock dives 20 percent after poor earnings report — Groupon's stock took a sharp turn today, falling 20 percent in after hours trading. The daily deals company missed Wall Street estimates in its second quarter earnings. — The stock hit a low of $5.95 a share … | Eric Savitz / Forbes: |
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| Anil Dash / Wired: |
With the Surface Tablet, Fist-Swinging Microsoft Jumps Back Into the Ring — Illustration: Sébastien Thibault — Microsoft's June unveiling of the remarkable Surface tablet came almost exactly a year after a much more important milestone. In May 2011, the nine years of legal sanctions … | Klint Finley / TechCrunch: |
Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet — It's long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
48 percent in Apple survey picked Android over the iPhone to stay with their carrier (update) — We're seeing some new internal documents during today's Apple v. Samsung testimony, and this time it's a survey Apple put together on why consumers considering an iPhone went with Android instead.| Matthew Dierker / Facebook Newsroom: |
New Life Event for Timeline, “Expecting a Baby” — Now, you can choose to add ‘Expecting a Baby’ as a Life Event on timeline. — Life Events are easy and expressive ways to mark significant moments in your life such as getting married, buying a house or traveling to new places.
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