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Live from Nokia and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event — Live from Nokia and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event This event is updating live... Connected Event Updates 6:22:29 AM PDT Welcome to Nokia and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event live from New York
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| Michael Stroh / Windows Phone Blog: |
How to watch today's Nokia event — Interested in checking out Nokia's Windows Phone event in New York City this morning? You can catch the live webcast here starting at 10 am Eastern time. See you there!
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| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
FBI Says AntiSec Hackers Lied About List of iPhone ID Numbers — The FBI has shot down today's claim by the AntiSec hacking group that it breached an agency-owned computer and stole a database said to contain some 12 million unique ID numbers for iPhones and iPads around the world.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Cancels Secondary Offering, Zuck And Board Members Won't Sell To Keep Shares Off The Market — With its share price ailing, Facebook doesn't want to flood the market with any more stock, so it has cancelled its secondary offering and will instead pay for taxes on its RSUs with cash … | Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuttered after virtual heist — Nearly a quarter million dollars worth of the peer-to-peer currency was stolen by accessing unencrypted backup wallet keys. — Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor is offline and has shut down operations while it investigates the theft …
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| Michael Grothaus / TUAW: |
With iOS 6, your address book may be invaded by @facebook.com email addresses — I'm generally a fan of Facebook. I only use it to keep in contact with people I actually know and hang out with in real life. And for my friends that live in other countries, it's the easiest way to share photos, videos, and other life events.
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| Perry Chen / Kickstarter Blog: |
Accountability on Kickstarter — Yesterday, NPR's “All Things Considered” asked, “When a Kickstarter campaign fails, does anyone get their money back?” The story questioned what would happen if a Kickstarter project failed to follow through on its promises.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Samsung files injunction against LG over display technology leaks — Samsung has reportedly taken the first step to bring legal charges against fellow display maker LG, after it filed an injunction request against its rival, accusing it of engineering leaks to grab details of its display technology.
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Leaks accurate, this is what the new iPhone will look like — iMore has learned that recent parts leaks and dummy phones are accurate representations of what the new iPhone (iPhone 5,1) will look like when Apple announces it on September 12, 2012. Almost identical in design to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S … | Christina Bonnington / Wired: |
Chinese Knockoff Maker Reportedly Copies, Patents iPhone 5 Design — The Goophone I5 takes the upcoming iPhone's purported new look to the Android platform. Image: Goophone — A Chinese iPhone lookalike manufacturer has reportedly patented the next iPhone's design before Apple has even released the handset.
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Everything Everywhere, Telefonica and Vodafone win EU approval for joint UK mobile commerce platform — Mobile operators, Everything Everywhere, Telefonica and Vodafone, have won approval from the European Commission to move ahead with a planned mobile commerce joint venture in the UK.
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| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
FCC to begin testing and reporting mobile broadband performance — Just like the FCC is looking to the public to help define modern broadband, it's similarly planning to arm citizens with more accurate information of mobile broadband speeds. The initiative is promoted as a natural extension …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The end of Android tablets: can Google match Amazon's success before Microsoft closes the window? — This Thursday, we expect that Amazon will be unveiling a least one new Kindle Fire alongside a new e-reader. If you believe Amazon's somewhat fuzzy math, the Kindle Fire is far and away … | Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily: |
Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out? — This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors. — One was an argument that it'll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went like this: Facebook, Groupon … | Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Judge orders Oracle to pay Google $1M for court expert fees — Summary: Google wins some and loses some while the federal judge in the case gives up on trying to track down any more paid commentators in the case. — Rachel King — The federal judge in Oracle v. Google has given …
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| Ryan Singel / Wired: |
Democrats' YouTube Convention Livestream Blocked on Copyright Grounds — While First Lady Michelle Obama's speech won rave reviews on Twitter Tuesday night, don't get inspired to try to watch the livestream of the convention on BarackObama.com or YouTube - it's been blocked by copyright claims.
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| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds — Nebula, a company that allows businesses to deploy large private cloud computing infrastructures has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital Partners …
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| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
Zaarly Launches Storefronts to Help Sellers Promote Their Custom Goods — Peer-to-peer local marketplace Zaarly, which lets people buy, sell, and request services from people in their neighborhood, today announced the launch of its Storefronts marketplace, which gives its sellers a devoted place …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat: |
Uber Is Close to Launching a Taxi App to Hail and Pay for Yellow Cabs in New York City — A source has informed Betabeat that Uber—the pricey, San Francisco-based request-a-ride app for black cars—plans on an imminent launch for a similar service for yellow cabs in New York City.
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| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
As ed tech heats up, Desire2Learn raises $80M in its first VC round — Since launching in 1999, Desire2Learn, a Canadian ed tech company that shares a hometown with Research in Motion, has bootstrapped its way to profitability. — But after more than a decade of going it alone …
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
Routehappy gets $1.5M to rank best flights, airports for travelers — There are almost 3 billion passengers that will take a seat on a commercial airplane flight this year, some seasoned veterans, but plenty of newbies. A new service aims to bring the two groups, and everyone in between …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
What “Xbox Games on Windows” actually means — Only a select few Windows 8 games will be branded as “Xbox Games on Windows” — As a branding exercise, the recently unveiled “Xbox Games on Windows” is more than a little confusing. The “Xbox” name has previously been exclusively reserved …
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