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July 11, 2013, 1:10 PM

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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. — Today, we are announcing a far-reaching realignment …

Microsoft:

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 …

More: Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Digits, GeekWire, Forbes and The Enterprise System …

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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 …

More: AllThingsD, The Atlantic Wire, LAPTOP Magazine and Gizmodo

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 …

More: Agence France Presse, GeekWire, WebProNews and Softpedia News

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.

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 …

More: The Verge, Guardian and The Windows Blog

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Path, Vine, Flipboard and Hipstamatic are all coming to Windows Phone 8, but still no sign of Instagram

More: The Verge, Path, The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, My Nokia Blog and MobileSyrup.com

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

What should we expect from the Lumia 1020's 41-megapixel camera?

More: AnandTech and Gotta Be Mobile

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.

More: DEF CON® Hacking Conference, Reuters, Krebs on Security, Overhack, ZDNet, Inquirer, SlashGear, Examiner and SiliconBeat

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.

More: IFTTT, MacStories, GigaOM, iMore, Mashable, The Verge, PetaPixel, MacRumors, iPhone, TUAW, SlashGear, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Guardian, Engadget, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker and iDownloadBlog.com

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.

More: CNET, Guardian, Telegraph, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Softpedia News and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge and TechCrunch

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.

More: Computerworld, ReadWrite, MacDailyNews, BGR, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac

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.

More: LG Display Newsroom, Inquirer, Gizmodo, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Unwired View, IntoMobile, techeblog.com, Gearburn and SlashGear

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.

More: The Register, GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Inquirer and Reuters

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.

More: AppleInsider, Forbes, Kindle Review, MacDailyNews, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk and paidContent. See also Mediagazer

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 …

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.

More: ZDNet

Adam Tanner / Forbes:

Data Brokers Are Now Selling Your Car's Location For $10 Online — The Berkeley Marina, a stretch of park and an enclosed yacht harbor, juts into the San Francisco Bay. Visitors regularly drive there to admire the dramatic view that includes Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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