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| Min-Jeong Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung VP: two new smartphones coming within six months, one with a “large screen”, the other with “new materials” — Samsung to Launch New Smartphones as Profit Falls — One Model Will Have a Large Screen While the Other Will Be Built Using New Materials
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VentureBeat, SamMobile, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, SlashGear and The Verge
| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Samsung mobile profit down by a third in 2Q 2014 — Summary: A decline in profitability of Samsung's IT and mobile communications division has pulled overall profit for the Korean conglomerate lower. — Chris Duckett — Samsung has announced an overall 15 percent fall in operating profit …
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Samsung Tomorrow, The Verge, Re/code, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, BBC, Inquirer, PC World, Engadget, ITProPortal, ABC News, Telegraph and Electronista. Tweets: @asymco
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
USB security fundamentally broken, malware in firmware can take over Macs/PCs, no easy fix — Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken — Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards. Although we know they often carry malware infections …
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Security Research Labs, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, MacRumors, 9to5Google, ExtremeTech, Electronista, Reuters and Gizmodo. Thanks:@wiredmike
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Shazam Brings Always-On Music and TV Recognition to Mac With Free Menu Bar App — Music recognition service Shazam, which was one of the early App Store hits and has continued to see good success on mobile platforms, is now bringing its services to the desktop in the form of the first music, TV show, and ad recognition app for Mac.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Adds 1.5 Million More Customers, Swings to Profit on Spectrum Sale — T-Mobile said Thursday that it added a further 1.5 million customers to its network in the second quarter, making this the fifth straight quarter of million-plus customer gains. — The company posted a net profit …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Runtastic's $120 Orbit Fitness Tracker Prizes Function And Features Over Fashion — Runtastic is doing the reverse of what many startups are doing these days: it's going from being a software platform provider to becoming a hardware maker with the Runtastic Orbit fitness tracker.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Internet.Org's App With Free Access To Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Local Info Launches In Zambia — 85% of the 5 billion people without Internet simply can't afford data plans. So Facebook's accessibility initiative Internet.org today launches its Android and web app for the developing world …
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Thanks:@joshconstine| Reuters: |
European regulators training sights on Google's mobile software — (Reuters) - European regulators are preparing what could be a stern challenge to Google Inc's (GOOGL.O) (GOOG.O) mobile software business in the coming months after a nearly four-year investigation into the company's Web …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Will Add Ratings to Search-Results Ads So They Look More Like Amazon — Google is prodding merchants to provide more information to make its search results more effective-and more like Amazon. The question is whether merchants will play ball. — In a blog post Tuesday …
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Xiaomi now world's fifth largest smartphone maker; Android captures record 85% market share in Q2 — China's Xiaomi Becomes World's 5th Largest Smartphone Maker — Global smartphone sales are still growing, but the market's star performer in the last three months wasn't Apple or even Samsung.
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| Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
64-Bit Chrome for Windows, Now in Beta — 2 months after the Dev/Canary channels, the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows is now available in the beta channel. It's still limited to Windows 7 and Windows 8+ and you obviously need a 64-bit operating system.| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
PlayStation Now game streaming service hits open beta today on PS4 in the US and Canada — Sony is launching a public beta for its PlayStation Now video game streaming initiative in the US and Canada today (July 31). — For now, the service will be available exclusively on the PlayStation 4 … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Lytro Illum review: an expensive, flawed, buggy glimpse of the future of photography — Lytro Illum review: this is the camera of the future — It's almost time to forget everything you ever knew about photography — Ten minutes into using the Lytro Illum, I'm throwing out everything I've ever learned about photography.
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France's Iliad Makes Bid for T-Mobile US — Bid Counters Earlier Offer From Sprint Corp. — French upstart telecommunications company Iliad SA has made an offer for T-Mobile US Inc., in a bold bid to counter an offer for the country's fourth-largest wireless carrier by Sprint Corp. , said people familiar with the matter.
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Heads rolling at Beats as Apple eliminating redundant positions, Ian Rogers & Trent Reznor to stay on — As Apple's acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music nears completion this financial quarter, the Cupertino and Santa Monica, California-based companies have begun work …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
IBM snaps up Italian cloud security vendor CrossIdeas — Summary: IBM is adding more troops for its assault on the enterprise security market - this time with an Italian vendor giving it tools to handle segregation of duties. — Liam Tung — IBM has acquired CrossIdeas …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Medical marijuana delivery service Eaze launches in SF, hoping to be the “Uber of pot” — Medical marijuana users link to delivery services with Eaze — Deliveries will be free for patients, with driver fees and Eaze paid by dispensaries in exchange for gaining new business.
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bizjournals, NDTV Gadgets, SFWeekly, Chinatopix, Betabeat, Business Wire and San Francisco magazine. Tweets: @csaid
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Exclusive Interview: Best Buy CEO Says Tablet Sales Are “Crashing,” Hope for PCs — Re/code has landed in Minneapolis to talk to the folks at Best Buy — the last standing nationwide big-box, bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics retailer, with over 1,000 main stores and hundreds of smaller mobile device stores.
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Softpedia News, ITProPortal, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, PC World, Electronista and TechSpot
| Sophie Knight / Reuters: |
Sony warns smartphone weakness will brake profit progress after first-quarter surge — (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp warned it doesn't now expect to make money on smartphones this year, citing weak demand, as the consumer electronics maker said restructuring will still help it turn a profit on its TVs after 10 years of losses.
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Associated Press, PC World, Eurogamer.net, IGN, Reuters, Gamasutra, Variety, Bloomberg, BBC, VideoGamer.com and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @tomiahonen
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Google releases the source code for its I/O 2014 app as a template for developers — Google today published the source code for its I/O 2014 app in hopes of teaching developers some of its best practices for Android apps. — While you may have used the I/O 2014 app to plan your schedule at the conference …
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Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google and Android Central
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Samsung's Milk Music Update Adds $3.99 Premium Subscription Option — Samsung pitched Milk Music this spring as a totally free music service exclusive to its devices, but slipped in at the end that it might not be free forever. You can still stream tunes for free without ads …
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TechHive, The Verge, The Next Web, RAIN News, Engadget and Android Central
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
NomadPlus Transforms an Apple Charger Into a Portable Battery — Nomad, the company behind the pocket-sized NomadKey iPhone cable, today debuted the NomadPlus, a product that transforms an Apple charger into a portable battery pack. — While there are hundreds of different portable battery options …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, GadgeTell and Ubergizmo
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