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Christina Allen / Official LinkedIn Blog:
Introducing LinkedIn University Pages  —  A few years ago, my daughter and I took a road trip to visit schools before she made her final decision about college.  I was hoping she'd stay in California, but it wasn't looking good.  She'd fallen in love with a university 2,500 miles away …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 5S will come in gold & likely sport fingerprint sensor, iPad iOS 7 running behind  —  As Apple's September 10th event iPhone event approaches, we've learned some additional details and have independently heard some of the already-floating around information regarding the upcoming announcements.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Goldfinger: The Next iPhone  —  “Gold?  All over?”  M asks James Bond upon hearing how Jill Masterson died in 1964′s Goldfinger.  While Bond goes on to explain that the gold coating on Ms. Masterson caused her to die of “skin suffocation”, the same fate will not befall the next iPhone.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nokia Bandit: a 6-inch giant Windows Phone coming soon  —  Nokia is planning a big-screen Windows Phone for release later this year.  Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is currently testing a 6-inch device with the latest version of Windows Phone.
Bloomberg:
Samsung, Sony Readying New Devices Ahead of Apple's Next IPhone  —  Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) and Sony Corp. (6758) are said to be unveiling new devices next month as two of Asia's biggest technology companies try to showcase their products before Apple Inc. (AAPL) releases new iPhones and iPads.
Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:
Samsung to ship Galaxy Note III from September, Galaxy Gear smartwatch from October  —  Both the Galaxy Note III and the Galaxy Gear smartwatch are all but confirmed to be ready for an official unveiling on September 4th, and today we've received the shipping dates for both devices in our mailbox …
Arpit Kumar / BrowserFame:
Upcoming ‘Supervised User’ Feature of Google Chrome  —  As we have seen earlier, Chrome is set to get less-privileged accounts soon.  These user accounts, now termed as “Supervised Accounts”, would have less privileges as compared to the standard users and can be used for granting limited and controlled access to other users.
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Most of U.S. Is Wired, but Millions Aren't Plugged In  —  The Obama administration has poured billions of dollars into expanding the reach of the Internet, and nearly 98 percent of American homes now have access to some form of high-speed broadband.  But tens of millions of people are still on the sidelines of the digital revolution.
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Gary Marcus / New Yorker:
Artificial Intelligence and What Computers Still Don't Understand  —  Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too.  Siri and Google's voice searches may be able to understand canned sentences like “What movies are showing near me at seven o'clock?,” but what about questions …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Zillow Acquires StreetEasy For $50M For More NYC Real Estate Listings, Also Plans Follow-On Offering Of 2.5M Shares For $228M  —  Two pieces of big news today for online real-estate juggernaut Zillow.  The company is announcing another acquisition, New York listings site StreetEasy, for $50 million in cash.
Wall Street Journal:
Beats By Dre Looks to Drop HTC  —  The maker of the popular Beats by Dr. Dre headphones is looking to buy out its Asian partner and bring in a new investor that can provide it with fresh funds for growth, people familiar with the matter said.  The moves come as the founders of Beats Electronics LLC …
Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:
You have no mail: Yahoo's email service is now closed in China  —  Yahoo's (NASDAQ:YHOO) email service in China is now shut, in line with an announcement of its closure that came in April.  After that four-month warning, yesterday was the final day for Yahoo China email users to login and migrate their email to an alternative service.
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Google: We are above UK privacy laws  —  Summary: After being accused of invading the privacy of iPhone users, Google claims that it cannot be held accountable under U.K. law.  —  Charlie Osborne  —  Google believes that U.K. privacy laws do not apply to the company …

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
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