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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. — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching realignment …
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Transforming Our Company — As the times change, so must our company. — In the 37 years that Microsoft has been helping to improve people's lives by helping them to realize their own potential with technology, we have seen exactly the kind of transformation we had hoped for when we set …
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| Ryan Tate / Wired: |
The Rise of Julie Larson-Green, the Heir Apparent at Microsoft — It remains to be seen whether the Microsoft reorganization announced by CEO Steve Ballmer this morning can rejuvenate the once-mighty software company. But one thing is crystal clear: The reshuffling marks another huge win …
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| 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 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia Lumia 1020: a 41-megapixel Windows Phone available on July 26th for $299.99 at AT&T — After weeks of leaks, Nokia is making its Lumia 1020 handset official on Thursday. The Finnish smartphone maker has just unveiled its latest flagship Windows Phone on stage at an event in New York.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Nokia Releases New Imaging SDK, With Yelp, Path, Oggl And Foursquare As Early Partners (But Still No Instagram) — The much-leaked “focus” of today's Nokia news was its new 1020 Lumia handset with a 41-meagpixel camera, but behind the scenes the company has spent just as much time focusing …
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| 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.| 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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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Deutsche Telekom to launch Firefox OS devices in Poland on July 12; Germany, Hungary, and Greece this fall — Mozilla today announced that Poland will be the second country to get Firefox OS devices, starting as soon as tomorrow. Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile Poland will begin offering …
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| Erica Ogg / GigaOM: |
UpTo social networking app morphs into a modern calendar with a social twist — The default mobile calendar may seem like one of the most mundane apps on your phone, but there are dozens of startups aiming to help people better manage their work meetings, personal appointments and social calendars.
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| 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.
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| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Meet Lumi, the no-effort content discovery engine from the founders of Last.fm — What do you do when you've built a product up from nothing to the point of being acquired for hundreds of millions of dollars by a massive American corporation? You take some time off.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
LG unveils world's thinnest Full HD LCD smartphone panel — Measuring 5.2 inches long and only 2.2 mm thick, new display panels being developed by LG could prompt the move toward slimmer and lighter mobile devices. — LG Display is working on what it says is the world's slimmest smartphone panel.| Jo Best / ZDNet: |
European ISPs hit with antitrust raids — Summary: The European Commission's antitrust watchdogs have raided the offices of a number of European “internet connectivity providers”. — Jo Best — The European Commission has carried out a series of raids on ISPs over possible antitrust breaches.
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| 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.| Richard Chirgwin / The Register: |
HP admits to backdoors in storage products — Usernames and passwords in the wild, factory resets possible — Hewlett-Packard has agreed that there is an undocumented administrative account in its StoreVirtual products, and is promising a patch by 17 July.
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