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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note II official with 5.5-inch screen and Android Jelly Bean (video preview) — After dominating IFA 2011 with its Galaxy Note introduction, Samsung is hoping to repeat the feat today with the Galaxy Note II. Now thinner and lighter, the new Note device comes with a redesigned S Pen stylus …
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The Verge, Guardian, BetaNews, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, Android News, Rumours …, Engadget, ZDNet and Gizmodo
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Ativ S officially announced: 4.8-inch 720p display, Windows Phone 8 — It's official: Samsung is first out of the gate to announce a Windows Phone 8 device: The Ativ S. As we revealed just a short time ago, it has a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor …
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Samsung Mobile Press, Guardian, Ars Technica, InformationWeek, VR-Zone, GadgeTell, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, The Windows Blog, PC Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, AllThingsD, Gizmodo UK, Inquirer, wpcentral, Computerworld, WinBeta, TechCrunch, Engadget, LiveSide.net and Gizmodo. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Samsung announces EK-GC100 Galaxy Camera with Android Jelly Bean, massive 4.8-inch display, 21x zoom, WiFi and 4G connectivity (hands-on) — During a visit to Samsung's headquarters in Korea earlier this year, we had a chance to talk shop with company execs.| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
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Ars Technica, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com, BGR, Pocket-lint, Engadget and CNET
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
How Reddit Got Obama: “There Are Quite a Few Redditors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.” — Question No. 1: Yup, that's really Barack Obama, taking questions over at a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). — Question No. 2: It was really no big deal, says Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, via email:
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
President Obama hits Reddit on ‘Ask Me Anything’ — President Obama participated in a surprise open question-and-answer session this afternoon on the Web community Reddit, as the subject of one of the site's regular “Ask Me Anything” threads. Reddit's site experienced some outages immediately following …
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See also Mediagazer| Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: |
Reddit has its biggest day ever thanks to President Obama's AMA — President Barack Obama showed up on Reddit today for an unannounced Ask Me Anything session at around 4PM today. The post set a record for Reddit, with more than 200,000 concurrent visitors during the iAMA.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Mark your Microsoft calendars: Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 launch dates revealed — Summary: Expect September to be a month of Windows Phone 8 handset reveals, and late October to be the official launch of the coming devices. — We Microsoft watchers already knew October was going to be a crazy month …
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple will now give you up to $345 for your old iPhone 4S — If reports are true, Apple is days away from announcing its next-generation iPhone, the long-awaited follow-up to its fast-selling iPhone 4S. If you're already shuddering at the thought of paying out for the new device …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Sony unveils VAIO Duo 11 slide-out tablet, Tap 20 portable touchscreen all-in-one — Sony just threw itself fully into the touchscreen Windows 8 arena — it's introducing the VAIO Duo 11 slider tablet and the Tap 20 combination desktop and tablet design at its IFA 2012 press conference.
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Sony, LAPTOP Magazine, SAMSUNG TOMORROW Global, Sony, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Liliputing, Pocketables, SlashGear and CNET
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
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| Alana / Nielsen Wire: |
Apps Dominate Mobile Time Spent Accessing Travel in U.S. — As the summer travel season comes to a close, Nielsen looked at the usage of travel-related mobile apps and websites during June 2012. Findings showed that U.S. Android and iOS users spent 95 percent of their time accessing travel information …
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Skift, Mashable! and Marketing Land
| Bloomberg: |
Google Said To Hire Barclays To Sell Motorola's Home Business — Google Inc. (GOOG) wants to sell the unit within Motorola Mobility that provides set-top boxes and other equipment to cable providers and has hired Barclays Plc (BARC) to seek buyers, according to two people familiar with the situation.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Lift Launches Incredibly Simple Personal Motivation App — If you had to break down motivation to its simplest bits, what would they be? — According to the new iPhone app Lift, they are: Setting goals, recording activity, getting support and seeing progress. — That's all Lift users can do.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Pandora's Q2 2013: $101.3M In Revenue, 54.9M Active Users, And A Net Loss Of $5.4M — Internet music service Pandora just announced its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2013. The company posted total revenue of $101.3 million, which was up 51 percent year-over-year.| Robert Andrews / paidContent: |
Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video — Tablet content aggregators like Flipboard and Zite have found favor by re-imagining modern web text as linear pages of ye olde magazines. But can the same paradigm work for other online content? — Flipboard on Wednesday launched … | Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Exclusive: Amazon NY signs deal to sell its ebooks through other retailers — Amazon's New York-based book publishing imprint, which is headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, has signed a deal with Ingram to distribute its ebooks to other retailers, paidContent has learned.| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
Yelp Surges After Lockup Expires — While early investors in Yelp got their first chance to sell shares in the online reviews site on Wednesday, it appears they are holding on to their stakes for now. — When a so-called lockup period expires, a stock typically falls, as investors sell their shares.| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
Unreal Engine 3 Running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT — NVIDIA proudly announced today that Epic Games ported the UE3 powered Epic Citadel demo to Windows RT, and showed it running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT. The Citadel demo first made its big splash on iOS, later paving the way for the Infinity Blade franchise on Apple's mobile platform.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Toshiba unveils U925t Ultrabook with slide-out touchscreen, keeps the price a secret for now — If Computex was a coming out party for Windows 8 Ultrabooks, Toshiba was one of the wallflowers: though the company teased some concept devices, it only let journalists photograph them from certain angles, and with their screens turned off.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, ABCNEWS and LAPTOP Magazine
| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Vimeo integrates with Dropbox for easier video uploads and shares — Video sharing service Vimeo has finally integrated with cloud storage service Dropbox after many requests from the vocal Vimeo community, the company announced today. — With the integration, Vimeo users can now add …
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SiliconANGLE and Pocket-lint
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Intel Teases Tech for Using Laptop to Wirelessly Charge a Phone — Imagine being able to charge a nearly dead smartphone battery just by putting the phone next to a laptop. — Well, it turns out that feature is on the drawing board. Intel said on Wednesday that it is working …
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| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Google just made it easier for developers to monetize their maps — Even with competition from OpenStreetMap, Google's Maps service continues to be the clear favorite for developers when it comes to integrating mapping into their sites and apps. Now, after years of offering nothing …
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TechCrunch, CNET, Google Geo Developers Blog, WebProNews and SiliconANGLE
| David Fisher / New Zealand Herald: |
Dotcom secures $6m for lawyers, living costs — Kim Dotcom has secured the use of $6 million from seized funds to pay for his lawyers and cover living costs. — A decision from the High Court at Auckland has cleared the way for Dotcom to pay current and future legal bills of $3.6m …
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Wired, GamePolitics blogs, Softpedia News and TorrentFreak
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
AT&T Retail Stores Now Selling Square Card Readers — After announcing the Starbucks deal, and a new pricing structure for small businesses, mobile payments company Square is debuting a new retail partnership—AT&T. Square card readers will be available in more than 1,000 AT&T company owned retail stores, says the company.
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