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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Verizon Vacation Blackout Reveals The New iPhone Will Launch On Friday, September 21 — A trusted Verizon employee has just confirmed to TechCrunch that the carrier is having an all-staff vacation blackout from the dates of Friday, September 21 to September 30. You know what that means, right?| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Apple's closing shot hits at Samsung ‘copycat’ docs — Apple once again hammers away at Samsung for internal documents in its closing argument against the company. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple highlighted its broad collection of Samsung internal documents, and not its millions of dollars spent … | Martyn Williams / PC World: |
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Verizon Is Said To Offer Nokia Windows 8 Phone This Year — Verizon Wireless plans to sell a new Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj phone with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows 8 software this year, marking the first time it has released a Windows device since May 2011, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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Engadget, CNET, The Verge, SlashGear, The Nokia Blog, Pocketnow, PhoneArena and WMPoweruser
| Rob Wong / Hulu Blog: |
Launching a New Hulu: A Fresh Look for the Shows You Love — In 1992, the great comedian Phil Hartman threw on his Arkansas sweatshirt and walked into a McDonald's. He was on the set of “Saturday Night Live” and doing his best Bill Clinton impression, continuing the show's grand tradition of Presidential lampoons.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator's S12 Demo Day — 75 startups pitched their hearts out today at Y Combinator's 15th Demo Day. We saw surefire small businesses to risky big bets but after collecting opinions from their YCS12 classmates and top VCs, these are TechCrunch's top 10 picks.
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Nikon's Coolpix S800c: an Android-powered point-and-shoot camera for $350 — It's here: the first Android-powered camera, and it's one that you'd actually consider buying. Nikon's $349.95 Coolpix S800c is nearly as slim as a smartphone from the middle of last decade, boasting inbuilt GPS …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
T-Mobile adding unlimited data plans with no throttling on September 5th — Among US national carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint have long been the champions of unlimited data even as Verizon and AT&T have clamped down in recent years — but for T-Mobile customers, there's always been a catch …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
An LTE iPhone could be the most disruptive thing in the UK mobile market since the original — Today's been rather a momentous day in the UK mobile arena, following local regulator Ofcom's approval of Everything Everywhere's plans to use existing spectrum to roll out LTE service early.
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| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
Google lashes out at German copyright ‘threat’ — Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories. — Well, actually that's slightly inaccurate: the draft law would make search engines pay … | Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloud: Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon's Glacier? — On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a new online storage service known as Glacier. It's called Glacier because it deals in “cold storage” — i.e., the long-term storage of things like medical records or financial documents that you may need to archive for regulatory services.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs — Even with all the swirl around the worrisome stock declines at Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, along with happier expected new product launches from Apple and Amazon, don't think things aren't cooking over in the land where Marissa Mayer reigns.
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GigaOM, Business Insider, Forbes, Know Your Cell, The Atlantic Wire, Pocketnow and PhoneArena
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Chrome OS gets updated with smaller apps list and option to save directly to Google Drive — Chromebook and Chromebox users (and anyone else using Chrome OS) have an update waiting for them that offers several usability improvements. Before you go check for the update, however …
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Inquirer, Google Chrome Blog, Softpedia News, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Next Web, 9to5Google and GigaOM
| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech — Nathan Myhrvold and other executives at the controversial company say critics simply don't understand what they're doing. CNET went behind the scenes to understand what 40,000 patents and an unapologetic plan to make money from them really means.
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GeekWire, GigaOM, Engadget and The Seattle Times
| Mark Milian / Bloomberg: |
After Getting Funded, Some Kickstarter Projects Stall — Kickstarter began in 2009 as a way for entrepreneurs to raise money to get projects off the ground. Though the company's fundraising platform has been a success, many projects have not. — More than a million backers have given $274 million … | Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Amazon's Kindle hits stores in India as digital bookstore launches with over 1 million titles — With a population of 1.2 billion, India is a huge market with bags of potential for tech firms and, with that in mind, Amazon is expanding its global reach and stepping up its presence in the country …
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| Reuters: |
Exclusive: Barry Diller's IAC offers $300 million for About.com — (Reuters) - Barry Diller's IAC/Interactivecorp submitted an offer in excess of $300 million to buy the About.com information website from the New York Times Co, according to people with knowledge of the situation.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Google Plans To Kill Its Popular Postini Spam Filtering Service — Google will soon be turning off its popular spam filtering and e-mail archiving product, Postini. It will shift Postini users to Google Apps, which also includes Postini's features. — At last count, Google …
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| Jonathan S. Geller / BGR: |
Current BlackBerry Enterprise Servers incompatible with BlackBerry 10 devices; RIM to cease development — Research In Motion (RIMM) has had an incredibly difficult time getting QNX-based devices to work with the company's existing systems. The reason the BlackBerry PlayBook shipped without email …
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| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Discovery Bay Games Raises $15M Series B From Trilogy Equity, Logitech, Others For iOS “Appcessories” — iOS accessory maker Discovery Bay Games announced today that they've closed a $15 million Series B round with Logitech and Trilogy Equity Partners leading the charge.
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GeekWire, The Seattle Times, TUAW, VentureBeat and Bloomberg
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Octane: A New JavaScript Benchmark Based On Popular Apps And Libraries — Google's Chrome team just launched Octane, a new JavaScript benchmark suite that aims to measure real-world performance. Unlike most other benchmarks, which tend to use artificial tests developed …
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The H Open Source, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge and The Register
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
City of Oakland, FCC identify source of police radio interference: AT&T — Since its installation in July 2011, the City of Oakland has had massive problems with its radio system. — Timothy Wells — On Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that local officials …
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San Francisco Chronicle and CNET
| Lucian Constantin / Computerworld: |
Crisis malware infects VMware virtual machines, researchers say — The Windows version of Crisis also infects Windows Mobile devices and USB drives — The Windows version of Crisis, a piece of malware discovered in July, is capable of infecting VMware virtual machine images …
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ZDNet, Softpedia News, The H Security, CNET and Ars Technica
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
PopCap Confirms Layoffs as the Billion-Dollar Payoff From EA Becomes Less Likely — EA-owned PopCap, responsible for creating such games as Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies, is laying off 50 employees from its Seattle studios and is re-evaluating the need for an office in Dublin.| Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM: |
Google, Boingo bring their free Wi-Fi experiment to mall rats — Google and Boingo are building on their free Wi-Fi project in New York City, launching the advertising-paid access model in eight malls across the country. Though the project is still in its infancy, it represents a growing trend …
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CNET, Engadget, digitaltrends.com and Ars Technica
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Pro to be priced at $199 following $69.99 promotional pricing — Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro software will be priced at $199 after a promotional price of $69.99 expires on January 31st 2013, according to one source familiar with Microsoft's plans. The software maker will also offer …
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