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August 15, 2012, 12:25 PM

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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

iPad mini will look like a large iPod touch with smaller side bezels [Gallery] — Nexus 7 vs. iPad Mini mockup made from Sizeall comparisons — Over the past few weeks we've gotten a number of tips from sources we have reason to believe have knowledge of Apple's plans on the upcoming iPad Mini.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Thinking This iPad Mini Thing Even Througher — Last month I tried to think this smaller iPad thing all the way through. Didn't quite make it all the way through, though, so let's dig deeper. — We've got the display. 7.85 inches diagonally, 1024 × 768 pixels at 163 PPI …

More: ZDNet, The Verge, everythingiCafe, parislemon, Computerworld, Fortune, BuzzFeed, WebProNews, Forbes and iMore. Tweets: @gruber. Thanks:@vkpedia

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Hits Stores August 16: $499 For 16GB, $549 For 32GB — As expected for quite a while, Samsung has just announced pricing and availability for the Galaxy Note 10.1. As you may have guessed, it's a 10-inch WiFi tablet that includes the somewhat-pointless …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 review — Is a stylus all we ever really needed? It's no secret that I've been excited to review the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 for weeks now. I spend all day editing and critiquing documents, and I've been imagining a parallel world created by the Note's stylus …

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, ZDNet, GigaOM, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @flyosity

David Pogue / New York Times:

Samsung's Tablet Raises an Inconsistent Challenge

Robin Sidel / Wall Street Journal:

Payments Network Takes On Google — Retailers Including Wal-Mart, Target and 7-Eleven to Unveil Mobile System Employing Smartphones — More than a dozen big merchants are expected to announce Wednesday their plans to jointly develop a mobile-payments network that would battle similar services …

More: Los Angeles Times, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Tech Daily Dose, Mobile Entertainment and PhoneArena. Tweets: @mdudas

Computerworld:

Walmart, Target others team to offer mobile payments network

More: The Verge

Evan Williams / medium.com:

Welcome to Medium — We're rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch. This is a preview. Compared to 1999, the Internet has a come a long way. It has gone from theoretically to actually central to how many of us live and work (even outside the Internet industry).

Steven Musil / CNET:

Twitter co-founders preview Medium, a new publishing tool

More: Business Insider and TechCrunch

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

RIM's First Test: A Preview With Carriers — NEW YORK—Research In Motion Ltd. will start delivering nearly complete versions of its new smartphones to carriers next week—the start of a crucial effort to convince consumers and carriers alike that the BlackBerry can compete with the iPhone and Android devices.

More: The Verge, Light Reading, FierceWireless, The Tech Block, IntoMobile, Mobile Entertainment, Engadget, AllThingsD, Ubergizmo, PhoneArena, BerryReview and MobileSyrup.com

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

Germans Reopen Facebook Privacy Inquiry — BERLIN — Data protection officials in Germany reopened an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition technology Wednesday, saying the social networking giant was illegally compiling a vast photo database of users without their consent.

More: PC World, Ars Technica and Pulse2 Technology …

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Federal court rules cops can warantlessly track suspects via cellphone — A pair of mobile phones betrayed the location of drug trafficker Melvin Skinner. — beketchai — In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled (PDF) that law enforcement …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Wired and digitaltrends.com. Tweets: @qthrul

Derek Kessler / webOS Nation:

webOS GBU to become quasi-independent cloud and UX company: meet GRAM — If you've been wondering where HP's webOS Global Business Unit was going under the leadership of HP Chief of Staff Martin Risau, you're not alone. For a while now we've been wondering what the next steps …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Liliputing, TechSpot, PalmAddict, ZDNet and The Verge

Somini Sengupta / NYT Bits:

Hulu Faces Privacy Test in Court — Can a privacy law passed in the era of videotape rentals be applied in the era of Internet streaming? — Hulu, the online video content provider, is about to face the test. A lawsuit filed in a federal court in California says Hulu violated …

More: CNET, Pulse2 Technology …, fierceonlinevideo.com, Hillicon Valley, Deadline.com/hollywood and Hollywood Reporter

Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:

Inside Facebook's Push to Woo Big Advertisers — After joining Facebook as vice president of marketing last year, Carolyn Everson made it her mission to win over skeptical ad executives who complained that spending on the giant social network wasn't paying off.

More: Fortune and Digiday

Ian King / Bloomberg:

Toshiba Cancels Windows RT Devices on Delay in Getting Parts — Toshiba Corp. (6502) canceled previously announced plans to sell computer and tablet devices based on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows RT operating system because of a delay in getting components.

More: CNET, windows8update.com, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, ZDNet and Gotta Be Mobile

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Microsoft Surface RT to cost $199.99? Doubts ensue

More: Washington Post, Seattle Times, ZDNet, windows8update.com, Ars Technica, Computerworld, The Tech Report and parislemon

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Netflix Watch Instantly streaming coming to Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland this year — Netflix mentioned it had identified an attractive European market to launch it's streaming video service in during Q4 2012 and now we know where that is: Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. — Developing...

More: VentureBeat, Reuters, Netflix Nordics Blog, Pocketables, paidContent, The Next Web, HotHardware.com News, SlashGear, WatchingTV Online, TechCrunch, The Verge, Bloomberg and ZDNet. See also Mediagazer

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Critical Skills Education SaaS EverFi Raises $10M From Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Ev Williams And Others — Washington D.C.-based education technology company EverFi has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Jeff Bezos, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Rethink Education …

More: Washington Post, Pulse2 Technology …, Virtual-Strategy Magazine and GeekWire

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Microsoft unveils modern UI & new Android app for SkyDrive; Outlook.com now at 10M users — Microsoft has unveiled a new version of its SkyDrive cloud storage service and a new SkyDrive Android app, the company announced today. It also revealed the new Outlook.com email service …

Chris Jones / The Windows Blog:

A new modern SkyDrive.com, updated apps, and Outlook.com at 10 million users

More: LiveSide.net, Inquirer, Macgasm, Techie Buzz, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, The Official Microsoft Blog, PhoneArena, eWeek, Geek.com and PC Magazine

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Android Tablet Clears the FCC — Do you recall all those rumors about Amazon is working on a larger Kindle Fire, and how that tablet is expected to be released this fall? I think it cleared the FCC yesterday. — Now here's something guaranteed to wake you up this morning.

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, SlashGear and Liliputing

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

JiWire builds a location graph to make mobile ads relevant — As Internet expert Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins has helpfully pointed out, mobile still has huge monetization potential that is still largely untapped. Location-based advertising may prove to be one of the key ways …

More: MediaPost, TechCrunch and Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Oracle releases Java SE 7 update 6, bringing first-class support to OS X — Update fully integrates JavaFX libraries and adds support for Linux on ARM. — Oracle announced on Tuesday that it will begin offering direct downloads and auto-updates to Java on OS X beginning with the release of Java Standard Edition 7 Update 6.

More: Computerworld, Naked Security, The H Open Source, Oracle, Apple Bitch and eWeek

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Goes Big On Mobile: Rolls Out First-Ever Native iPad App, Makes Its Android Debut — In a big push to go mobile, Pinterest today rolled out an all-new update to its iOS app, Version 2.0. This includes an all-new version of Pinterest customized for the iPad.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, AllThingsD, Oh, How Pinteresting!, everythingiCafe, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mashable! and NYT Bits

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

The Kevin Rose reboot: Our first look at Google's newest VC — “I want to find the next Facebook when it's just Mark Zuckerberg.” — That statement from Kevin Rose pretty much sums up his life's ambition these days. The Diggnation poster boy of yore is gone, and a young VC ravenous for the Next Big Thing has taken his place.

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