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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.| Reuters: |
Judge rules Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books — (Reuters) - In a sweeping rejection of Apple Inc's strategy for selling electronic books on the Internet, a federal judge ruled that the company conspired with five major publishers to raise e-book prices.
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For Apple, a Tough Legal Road Grows Longer — Antitrust experts say Apple is facing a costly fallout from Wednesday's price-fixing verdict. — Apple said it would appeal Wednesday's ruling by a federal district judge who found the company liable for conspiring with book publishers to raise e-books prices.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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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 …
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Moto X and the Droids of the future: what we know so far — Motorola tries to reinvent itself under Google's care with a new set of phones due this summer — The hopes of a reinvigorated Motorola are riding on a single much-rumored phone called the Moto X. CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed … | 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 …
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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%.| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Interview: T-Mobile's John Legere on iPhone Sales, the Carrier's Bold Upgrade Program, and Continuing to Shake Things Up — T-Mobile's biggest news on Wednesday is the introduction of a new program that will let customers upgrade their phones as often as twice a year.
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Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests — SUNNYVALE — In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate … | 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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
New hints on what's coming next for Microsoft Surface, Skype, Windows Phone — Summary: Microsoft is calling its fiscal 2014 it's biggest year of innovation ever. Here's the slide that shows why. — Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner shared some new hints about what's coming during …
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| 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.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Samsung surpasses Apple in smartphone Web usage — A study from StatCounter determines that Samsung devices outpaced Apple iPhones and iPod Touches in worldwide browsing in June. — Samsung surpassed Apple for mobile browsing usage in StatCounter's June 2013 statistics, which include pocket-sized devices, not tablets.
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