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August 16, 2012, 1:45 AM

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Wall Street Journal:

Apple's New Front in Battle for TV — Apple Inc. is in talks with some of the biggest U.S. cable operators about letting consumers use an Apple device as a set-top box for live television and other content, according to people familiar with the matter. — The talks represent Apple's …

More: Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Reuters, Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, Electronista, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com and iClarified. Tweets: @jvascellaro. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Yes, Apple Is In Discussions With Cable Operators, And Everyone Has Known This For Months — August Journalism, anyone? Just because some outlets have a short memory, let's get this out of the way right up front: Yes, Apple is in discussions with cable operators, and has been for months.

More: Forbes, HotHardware.com News, Deadline.com and iMore.com

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple reportedly focusing efforts on a new set-top box device for live TV broadcasts and other content

More: digitaltrends.com, Business Insider, GigaOM, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, AppleInsider and CNET

Christopher Van Der Westhuizen / The Official …:

Google Maps now has schedules for more than one million public transit stops worldwide — Since 2005, we've collaborated with hundreds of transit authorities around the world to make a comprehensive resource for millions of riders to find out which bus, train, subway or tram can take them to their next destination.

More: CNET, Engadget, Droid Life, TechCrunch, Android News, Rumours …, Skift, The Verge, Computerworld, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, parislemon and WebProNews. Tweets: @mattcutts

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Surprise! What you can expect from Windows 8 RTM — Summary: Microsoft has officially made the final release of Windows 8 available to subscribers of its MSDN and TechNet services. You'll find a handful of small surprises, one very large change from Windows 7, and a momentous name change.

More: Engadget, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, GeekWire and The Verge

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8 now available to download for MSDN and TechNet subscribers

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, The Tech Block, Engadget and ZDNet. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith

Tom Warren / The Verge:

90-day trial version of Windows 8 now available to download

More: Engadget, Liliputing, CNET and Lifehacker

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Nokia and Microsoft holding Windows Phone 8 press event on September 5th — We've been waiting to find out when Nokia would unveil its first lineup of Windows Phone 8 devices, and it looks like we'll be getting all the details on September 5th at 9:30AM in New York City.

More: Examiner, parislemon, Current Editorials, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Business Insider, BGR, Reuters, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, PC World, The Tech Block and AllThingsD. Tweets: @mpanzarino

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Apple bashes Amazon and proposed ebook settlement — In a memo filed with the Southern District of New York this afternoon (PDF; embedded below), Apple argues that the Department of Justice's proposed settlement with three book publishers forces Apple to tear up existing contracts.

More: CNET, Electronista and Ars Technica

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

HP Is Just Fine With Microsoft's Surface Tablet, Thank You — If Microsoft's decision to enter the PC hardware market with its own Surface tablet has caused Hewlett-Packard any anxiety, the PC-maker isn't letting on. — While some PC manufacturers, like Acer, have bemoaned Microsoft's Surface initiative …

More: parislemon

Kevin McLaughlin / CRN:

HP Says Its Windows 8 Tablet Will Include ‘Unique’ Technology

More: The Verge, BGR, TechSpot, Engadget, windows8update.com and Gizmodo

Andrew Chen / @andrewchen:

Mobile app startups are failing like it's 1999 — Stop the madness — The long cycle times for developing mobile apps have led to startup failures that look more like 1999 - it's like we've forgotten all the agile and rapid iteration stuff that we learned over the last 10 years. Stop the madness!

Tweets: @cdixon

John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads — In recent months, at least four of the most interesting new startups — all either from or backed by people with deep roots in the current internet, including Twitter cofounders and many of the most prominent VCs in Silicon Valley …

More: The Awl and Anil Dash. Tweets: @hamburger, @jwherrman, @gaberivera and @tomewing. See also Mediagazer

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Give Peace a Chance, Judge Says, Asking Apple and Samsung CEOs to Meet One Last Time — The federal judge overseeing the Apple-Samsung patent trial on Wednesday asked the chief executives of both companies to meet one last time to see if some sort of settlement might be reached.

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Timothy Geigner / Techdirt:

Netflix Provides ‘Knock-offs’ After Contract With Disney Ends — We recently talked about the steady progression of cable cord-cutting occuring in this country. As that trend progresses, we're also seeing constant friction from the major movie studios about how they think they're offering enough …

More: Daily Dot

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

The Oatmeal's latest crusade: Save the Tesla Tower — Nikola Tesla means a lot to quite a few Internet nerds, perhaps to no one more than Matt Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, the best damn website on the web. Ergo, as Inman revealed exclusively to Forbes reporter Greg Voakes today …

More: The Oatmeal, reddit.com, Daily Dot and Forbes. Tweets: @eric_andersen

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

More: New York Times, CNET, AllThingsD, Engadget and TechCrunch

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious — [With apologies to Wallace Stevens, the finest poet to ever serve as vice president of the Hartford Livestock Insurance Company.] — I. — Medium is a new online publishing platform from Obvious Corp. It launched yesterday.

More: Stowe Boyd, Engadget, GigaOM, msnbc.com, Network World, App Advice, Laughing Squid and PetaPixel. See also Mediagazer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Hope For Flickr? Marissa Mayer Joins Photo-Sharing Site, Reportedly Doubles Team [Update: It Wasn't Her] — Update: I still haven't heard anything from Yahoo, but we've learned that the account was fake — apparently Mayer does have an account, but it's set to private.

More: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, TechCrunch, digitaltrends.com, Macgasm, PandoDaily and PetaPixel. Tweets: @scobleizer. See also Mediagazer

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google+ for Android, iOS adds ability to join Hangouts on Air, teens can now use Hangouts too — An update to the Google+ app for Android and iOS today brings a couple of nice upgrades to the Hangout experience for mobile devices. Users of the app can now join live Hangouts on Air from mobile devices, not just desktops.

More: IntoMobile, WebProNews, Droid Life and 9to5Google

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

Penny Arcade reaches $525,000 Kickstarter goal with six minutes to spare, no ads on homepage for one year — Last month gaming webcomic Penny Arcade launched a Kickstarter experiment, attempting to replace its advertising income with funding from fans — and it turned out to be a success.

More: VentureBeat, VentureBeat and Marco.org

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Facebook Is Trying To Go Around The SEC To Get Its Instagram Deal Done Sooner — Facebook is trying to speed along its acquisition of Instagram. — It's using a California law that lets it issue shares without requiring SEC approval, the Financial Times reports. — This isn't sneaky; it's smart.

More: CNET and TechSpot

Chris Welch / The Verge:

iTunes desktop app excluding third-party apps from ‘podcasts’ search — Apple's iTunes desktop client is currently excluding third-party applications when users search the App Store for “podcasts,” returning only the company's official Podcasts app as the sole result.

More: The Next Web. Tweets: @marcoarment

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