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Tom Warren / The Verge:
This is Nokia's Lumia 1020, a 41-megapixel Windows Phone camera  —  Nokia is holding a press event in New York on Thursday to “reinvent zoom,” but here's the star of the show: the Lumia 1020.  The Verge understands that Nokia will unveil its Lumia 1020 Windows Phone complete with a 41-megapixel camera and PureView branding.
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 1020 confirmed on AT&T YouTube channel (video)  —  We imagine the poor soul that flipped the switch a bit too early on Nokia's latest flagship will be in the unemployment queue come 9AM.  AT&T just posted the Lumia 1020 on its YouTube channel, complete with a very basic walkthrough of the interface and hardware design.
Microsoft:
One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency  —  Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding changes in the senior leadership team at the company.  —  From: Steveb  —  To: All Employees
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft 3.0: A meaner, leaner devices and services machine?  —  Summary: Microsoft officials announced its latest expected cross-company reorg designed to better deliver on its new devices and services charter.  Here's who ended up where.  —  On July 11, Microsoft officials announced details …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing ‘Moto X’ Phone  —  All Four Major US Wireless Carriers Expected to Sell Device This Fall  —  As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon an Advantage  —  Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets.  In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer.  The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's quarter of lowered expectations: Fiscal Q3 2013  —  Wall Street is looking for Apple to report zero revenue growth.  —  FORTUNE — On April 24, the day after Apple (AAPL) reported its earnings for fiscal Q2, Cowan and Company's Matthew Hoffman published a revised forecast for the following quarter.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's U.S. PC shipments decline more than overall market if you don't count iPads but do count Windows tablets  —  Gartner is today out with a report detailing its estimates for Q2 2013 global and U.S. PC shipments.  Globally, the industry average for shipments is down 10.9%.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
PC Shipments Drop 11% in Q2, Say Gartner, IDC; Longest-Ever Period of Decline  —  Gartner this afternoon reports that worldwide personal computer shipments totaled 76 million in Q2, according to its preliminary estimate, an 11% drop from 85.32 million in the year-earlier period …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
IFTTT comes to iPhone with a crisp app featuring native Photos, Reminders and Contacts channels  —  The digital glue service IFTTT is finally launching an iPhone app and it brings with it a set of new channels specific to Apple's platform and a lovely mobile platform for both building and using its automated actions.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference  —  Since its founding in 1992, Defcon has been a venue where anarchists, geeks, and employees of three-letter federal agencies became unlikely comrades under a live-and-let-live credo that placed the love of computer tinkering above almost everything else.
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Is T-Mobile's new Jump plan a good deal?  —  It depends  —  T-Mobile just unveiled its latest “uncarrier” moves at a press event in New York City, and the new Jump plan was undoubtedly its biggest announcement.  For $10 a month, customers can upgrade their phone twice every calendar year …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Interview: T-Mobile's John Legere on iPhone Sales, the Carrier's Bold Upgrade Program, and Continuing to Shake Things Up
Casey Newton / The Verge:
How Apple changed the world again: the App Store turns five  —  Apple's mobile software marketplace kickstarted the post-PC era — so why was Steve Jobs so against it?  —  Five years ago today, the App Store opened for business.  On its first day, the store offered 500 applications …

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