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September 2, 2013, 10:50 AM

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
More details on Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch: those images are of a prototype  —  Venturebeat caused a holiday weekend stir with what appeared to be pictures of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which will be formally unveiled this Wednesday.  However, the model of the watch reported …
Christina Farr / VentureBeat:
New York Times:
Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.'s  —  For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans' phone calls …
Taylor Berman / Gawker:
AT&T Partnered With DEA to Provide Access to 26 Years of Phone Records  —  Since at least 2007, DEA agents and local police detectives have had regular access to a gigantic database that contains detailed records of every American phone call that's passed through an AT&T switch in the past 26 years.
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Sarah Silbert / Engadget:
Acer announces 6-inch Liquid S2, ‘first 4K-recording smartphone’  —  Compared to many other companies, Acer's taken a rather cautious approach to super-sized phones.  Its first attempt was the 5.7-inch Liquid S1, a rather straightforward Android handset unveiled back in June at Computex.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Windows 8 rockets to 7.41% market share as Windows XP falls below 35% mark  —  Just before the results of back-to-school sales and way before the holiday season, Windows 8 appears to have made a significant jump in market share.  At the same time, Windows 7′s hold remains strong …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Japan's Rakuten Acquires Viki Video Site for $200 Million  —  Japan's Internet e-commerce giant Rakuten is set to purchase Viki, a premium video site that has been described as “Hulu for the rest of the world.”  —  The deal was set to be announced next week …
Bloomberg:
Lenovo Chief Yang Shares Bonus With Workers For Second Year  —  Lenovo Chief Shares Bonus With Workers  —  Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), the world's biggest maker of personal computers, said Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing will share his bonus with employees for a second straight year after achieving record shipments and sales.
More: Engadget, The Verge and ParityNewsTweets: @whatthebit
Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer:
PlayStation 4 does voice recognition with new PlayStation Camera  —  PlayStation On?  —  Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 does voice recognition through the new PlayStation Camera.  —  However, the extent of its voice recognition features remain under wraps.
Chen Dujuan / Global Times:
Yahoo China begins shutdown  —  Yahoo China, operated by China's e-commerce company Alibaba Group, stopped providing news and community services Sunday, indicating the shutdown of the once strong Internet presence in the country.  —  The team that ran Yahoo China will be responsible …

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