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July 27, 2013, 1:55 AM
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Curt Woodward / Xconomy:
Apple's Boston-Area Team: Working on Speech in Nuance's Backyard  —  It's been one of the Boston-area tech industry's more intriguing questions for months: Just what is Apple doing here?  —  Today, we've got an answer.  —  Apple has assembled a small team of notable names in speech technology …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Ballmer admits Microsoft built too many Surface RTs, disappointed with Windows sales  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted that the company built too many Surface tablets, and it's not selling as many Windows devices as it wants.  During an internal town hall event earlier this week …
Todd R. Weiss / CITEworld:
Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads  —  Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will receive 31,000 free iPads this school year under a new $30 million program launched by the district.  The goal is to improve education and get them ready for the workforce …
Kashmir Hill / Forbes:
When ‘Smart Homes’ Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger's House Via The Internet  —  “I can see all of the devices in your home and I think I can control them,” I said to Thomas Hatley, a complete stranger in Oregon who I had rudely awoken with an early phone call on a Thursday morning.
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart selling the new Nexus 7 four days early  —  Having already launched its pre-orders ahead of the official Nexus 7 announcement, Best Buy is keeping up the habit of preempting Google by making the new Android slate available early.
Ryan Knutson / Digits:
Samsung Dethrones Apple in Smartphone Profits  —  Apple has fallen off the profit throne.  —  Last quarter, Samsung Electronics made more money selling handsets than Apple for the first time, according to a report by Strategy Analytics.  —  Samsung's operating profit for handsets …
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Spy agencies reportedly have a long-standing ban on Lenovo PCs due to back-door vulnerabilities  —  Spy agencies in the UK, Australia and the US have internally banned using Lenovo PCs because of remote access vulnerabilities that were discovered during testing, a new report from the Australian Financial Review alleges.
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Apple's Developer Center returns after 8-day outage due to security breach  —  After being down for more than a week due to an embarrassing security breach, Apple has brought its Developer Center back up.  —  Apple took the site down last Thursday, eventually notifying developers that it was overhauling its systems after an intrusion.
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo Plans Splashy New San Francisco Digs (And Dreams of Neon Billboard's Return)  —  According to multiple sources close to the situation, Yahoo is close to signing a lease for a splashy new San Francisco outpost to keep up with the fast growth of other Web companies that have opened high-profile offices here.
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Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:
Google+ Local iOS App to be retired August 7  —  Now that the updated Google Maps iOS application has Google+ Local features baked in, the company has made the decision to axe the Google+ Local application.  The announcement was made through an email: … Thanks, Michael!  —  B
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Timehop, The Place To Reminisce Online, Raises $3M Led By Spark Capital  —  While present-focused social networks like Facebook and Instagram make plenty of room for the narcissists in us, there's not really a dedicated and focused place to reflect on the past.
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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Jim Sciutto / CNN:
An interview with Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iranian court for her work documenting life under the regime

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