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September 7, 2012, 7:55 AM

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Amazon.com:
Amazon Takes on the High-End—Introducing the New Kindle Fire HD Family  —  $199 now gets you the world's most-advanced 7" tablet, with a stunning custom HD display, the fastest Wi-Fi, exclusive Dolby audio, powerful processor and graphics engine, and 16 GB of storage—all backed …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly)  —  Amazon rolled out a new family of Kindle devices today at a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif., including a high-end tablet for only $499.  —  Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com  —  So, how does Amazon do it?
More: AllThingsD
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Amazon confirms Kindle Fire HD models use Android 4.0 under the hood  —  We already had a hunch Amazon's tablets would move to Android 4.0 behind the scenes, and that's just what's happened.  An Amazon spokesperson has confirmed to Engadget that at least the Kindle Fire HD's 7-inch …
Scott Lowe / The Verge:
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Seeks to Create Pandora Rival  —  Apple Inc. is in talks to license music for a custom-radio service similar to the popular one operated by Pandora Media Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a bid by the hardware maker to expand its dominance in online music.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Wants to Build Its Own Pandora.  Why?  —  Apple is talking to the music labels about a streaming music service along the lines of Pandora, says the Wall Street Journal.  Industry sources I've talked to say that's correct.  —  And unlike Apple's long-running but unsuccessful negotiations …
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything  —  An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.  —  Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view.
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Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Apple cuts memory chip order to Samsung for new iPhone: source  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc has reduced its orders for memory chips for its new iPhone from key supplier and competitor Samsung Electronics Co, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Where oh where is Windows Phone 8?  —  The Nokia Lumia 920 is amazingly yellow.  —  Microsoft  —  Two companies have now announced their Windows Phone 8 hardware.  Samsung was first out of the blocks, showing off its ATIV S at IFA last month.  With much fanfare, Nokia revealed its first pair …
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Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
FBI vs. Google: The Legal Fight to Unlock Phones  —  A legal battle is brewing between technology companies and the U.S. government over whether law-enforcement agents have the right to obtain passwords to crack into smartphones of suspects.  —  Google Inc. earlier this year refused to unlock …
Reuters:
New Nokia flagship smartphone to go on sale in November: operators  —  (Reuters) - Nokia will start selling the Lumia 920, its new flagship smartphone using Microsoft's Windows software, in November in European countries, sources at telecom operators told Reuters on Friday.
More: Engadget
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and Web advocate  —  Tina Wells of Buzz Marketing Group, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit and Breadpig (center), and Nick Friedman of College Hunks Hauling Junk speak at a Young Entrepreneur Council summit on Nov. 28, 2011.  Photo courtesy of YEC.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Apple Lifts Ban on BitTorrent Apps, Or So It Seems  —  Over the past years dozens of apps have been rejected from the App Store because they mention the word BitTorrent.  —  Apple defended this policy and told developers that their apps were not allowed “because this category of applications …

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