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August 19, 2013, 6:40 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Supplier to Ship Two Apple iPhones in September — Apple Inc. has asked assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to begin shipping both a new high-end and low-end iPhone in early September, people familiar with the matter said. The shipping plans suggest that two new iPhone models …

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.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

What's inside Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch? Here are some key details — It was about a week ago when Bloomberg reported that Samsung was getting ready to launch its smart watch called Galaxy Gear. Since then we have been calling around and our sources have come back with enough details …

More: Digits, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Android Community, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Marketing Land, ZDNet, InfoWorld and Telegraph. Tweets: @lessien. Thanks:@crh

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.

More: Mercury News, GSM Insider, SlashGear, Deadline.com, iDownloadBlog.com and Tech Trader Daily

Tweets: @ryanlawler and @davidgohome

Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:

Samsung to ship Galaxy Note III from September, Galaxy Gear smartwatch from October

More: BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, AndroidGuys, Unwired View, The Droid Guy, ValueWalk, GigaOM, PhoneArena, Android Beat, MobileSyrup.com, Phones Review and Business Insider

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch is real, and it's not a phone

More: pocketnow.com, Ubergizmo, Sammy Hub, 9to5Google and TechCrunch. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky

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 …

Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits:

LinkedIn Drops Minimum Age to 14 in U.S. With ‘University Pages’

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, TechCrunch, GigaOM, AllThingsD, VatorNews and I4U News. Tweets: @levie

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.

More: PC Magazine, eWeek, Gotta Be Mobile, WinBeta, ZDNet, SlashGear, pocketnow.com, Windows Phone Central, GigaOM, Ubergizmo, WMPoweruser, LiveSide.net, TechSpot and PhoneArena. Thanks:@_trendspotter

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

GoDaddy Acquires Merchant “Finder” Startup Locu for $70 Million — GoDaddy, the Scottsdale, Ariz., domain seller and small business online platform, said it had acquired San Francisco startup Locu. — While the company did not disclose the terms of the deal, sources close to the situation …

More: TechCrunch, Screenwerk, VentureBeat, TheDomains.com and Mashable

Tweets: @sacca and @marcua

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

CIRP survey: Where Apple and Samsung get their customers — For Apple, 42% from previous iPhone owners. For Samsung, mostly 'droids and dumb phones. — FORTUNE — Twenty percent of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone customers over the past year were switching from an Android phone …

More: The Register, CNET, MacRumors, TUAW, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Mobile Marketing Watch, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google and App Advice

Tweets: @matsbs and @gsterling

Thanks:@philiped

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.

More: The Switch, Kotaku, Geek News Central, VentureBeat, Pew Internet, DSLreports and Betabeat

Tweets: @sarahw and @wyattnyt

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Twitter Hires Jennifer Prince from Google: Entertainment Ad Sales — Jennifer Prince to head social media company's ad sales efforts in movie, TV biz — Looking to win more Hollywood followers, Twitter has hired Jennifer Prince, formerly Google's head of media and entertainment ad sales …

More: bizjournals, The Atlantic Wire and Mashable. Tweets: @jenmprince

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Key Nike FuelBand developer and fitness expert Jay Blahnik confirms new job at Apple, likely working on iWatch — Jay Blahnik, a globally recognized fitness expert and instrumental consultant in the development of several Nike fitness products, has confirmed his new role at Apple.

More: AllThingsD, bizjournals, Fast Company, Wall St. Cheat Sheet, Gotta Be Mobile and TUAW. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski. Thanks:@lockedwatches

Danny Yadron / Digits:

White House Taps McAfee CTO for Cybersecurity Post — The Obama administration officially tapped a senior executive at the computer-security giant McAfee to be the Department of Homeland Security's top cybersecurity official. — Phyllis Schneck, a vice president and chief technology officer …

More: Department of Homeland …, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Federal Computer Week, The Verge and Hillicon Valley

Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:

Here's what you find when you scan the entire Internet in an hour — Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process. For example, in 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a scan to gather data on the use of encryption online.

More: The Register and Help Net Security

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.

More: The Verge, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, TechSpot, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and PC World. Thanks:@arpitnext

Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:

District Court Holds That Intentionally Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “Access Without Authorization” Under the CFAA — During the debate over the Aaron Swartz case, one of the legal issues was whether Swartz had committed an unauthorized access under the CFAA when he changed his IP address …

More: Ars Technica, DSLreports, GigaOM, Electronista and The Verge. Tweets: @ywxwy

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 …

More: Tested. Tweets: @realavivahr

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.

More: Zillow, GigaOM, DealBook, AllThingsD, The Verge, Forbes, VatorNews, bizjournals, GeekWire, Xconomy and Pulse 2.0

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Germany recognizes Bitcoin as a “private money,” subject to capital gains tax — In response to a query by a member of parliament, the German Finance Ministry has declared (Google Translate) that it accepts bitcoins as a “unit of account.” The Ministry added that bitcoins are a sort of …

More: TechCrunch, Guardian, Telegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, The Verge, CNBC and RT

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