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Samsung Said to Introduce Wristwatch-Like Smartphone Next Month — Samsung will introduce a wristwatch-like device named the Galaxy Gear next month that can make phone calls, surf the Web and handle e-mails, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Snowden downloaded NSA secrets while working for Dell, sources say — (Reuters) - Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began downloading documents describing the U.S. government's electronic spying programs while he was working for Dell Inc in April 2012, almost a year earlier …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, Daily Dot, Ars Technica, ZDNet and Hillicon Valley. Tweets: @charlie_simpson
| Barton Gellman / Washington Post: |
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| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple's Screening Process — Research unmasks a weakness of Apple's App Store: new apps apparently are run for only a few seconds before approval. — WHY IT MATTERS — More than 600 million devices with Apple's iOS have been sold.
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AppleInsider, The Next Web, CNET, MacRumors, iMore, The Mac Observer, The Mac Security Blog and BGR. Tweets: @packetknife
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Build-a-Phone Workshop: my first encounter with Moto Maker and a customized Moto X — Turns out 18 is a lot of choices. — As one of the first people allowed into Motorola's Moto Maker program, I had a chance to design the phone I always wanted, to order a phone made by Motorola but designed by me.
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The Verge, 9to5Google, Macgasm, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, TechHive, CNET, Yahoo! News, Engadget, SlashGear, ReadWrite, Gizmodo and GigaOM. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Matt McGee / Marketing Land: |
EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook's News Feed Algorithm Now Has Close To 100K Weight Factors — The next time you tell a client how Facebook selects and ranks the content that shows up in the News Feed, you'll need to do it without using the word EdgeRank. — EdgeRank, Facebook's original News Feed ranking system, is dead.
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| Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN officially kills Google's plan for dotless Search top level domain name — Board resolution quashes dotless domains again, at least for now. — ICANN's New gTLD Program Committee has passed a resolution confirming a prohibition on so-called dotless domain names …
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ICANN, CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Web Host Industry Review, TheDomains.com, DomainIncite and CircleID
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Names Maynard Webb Permanent Board Chairman — “Maynard Webb's leadership and guidance have been an invaluable part of our board since he joined it in 2012,” a Yahoo spokesperson said in a statement. “We are honored that Maynard will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.”| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Carl Icahn Denied in Bid to Upend Dell Buyout Vote — Carl Icahn, the activist investor, can't seem to get a break from the Delaware Chancery Court. — A judge in that court turned away Icahn's petition asking it to intervene and stop a buyout vote scheduled for Sept. 12.
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Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Associated Press, DealBook, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Reuters, ValueWalk, GigaOM and MoneyBeat
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia to launch Windows RT tablet in September, alleged pictures leak — Nokia is planning to launch its first Windows RT tablet in September. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company will unveil its tablet at a special launch event in New York next month.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
AOL Starts Patch Cuts, and Up to 500 People May Lose Their Jobs — AOL has begun making mass layoffs at its Patch unit. — By the time the cuts are over, AOL could end up reducing the local news network's 1,000-worker labor force by half, according to people familiar with the plans.
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Tweets: @edmundlee and @kurtfliegelpro
See also Mediagazer| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple iPhone Antitrust Complaint Dismissed by U.S. Judge — Apple (AAPL) Inc. won dismissal on procedural grounds of a lawsuit claiming the company maintains a monopoly over iPhone applications. — U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, ruled today that the plaintiffs …
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Macworld, AppleInsider, AllThingsD, Macgasm, InvestorPlace, Digits, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, 9to5Mac, iLounge, MacNN and MacRumors
| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
BlackBerry CEO to Make $55.6 Million If He Sells Company — BlackBerry Ltd. (BB) Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins stands to make $55.6 million if he sells the company and is ousted. — That's the amount he's entitled to receive if BlackBerry has a change of control and Heins is pushed …
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Business Insider, BGR, MobileSyrup.com, CrackBerry.com, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD and ValueWalk. Thanks:@sarahfrier
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google reveals Fiber plans coming to Provo this year, including free 5 Mbps Internet after $30 construction fee — Google today confirmed it plans to sign up its first Google Fiber customers in Provo before the end of the year. Between now and October, the company is working to upgrade …
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Google Fiber Blog, Digital Trends, eWeek, Light Reading, ZDNet, Macgasm, CNET, WebProNews and 9to5Google
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