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Telegraph.co.uk
Apple 'losing its grip on the tablet market'
Telegraph.co.uk
Apple appears to be losing its stranglehold on the tablet market, with new figures showing that shipments of iPads and iPad Minis have declined 14 per cent in the last year, and the company's market share has dropped to 43 per cent. Apple's decline in ...
Small Android tablets gain as Apple 'buzz' fadesCNET
Strategy Analytics finds millions of Android tablets, rewrites iPad historyApple Insider
Apple tablet market share down from last yearGant Daily
eWeek -ZDNet (blog) -Register
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Android Community
Speck Supports New Motorola Lineup with CandyShell Cases
MarketWatch
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug 01, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Speck, a leader in the market for protective cases for the latest and greatest devices, announced today that it has joined the M4DE(TM), Made For Motorola, program. As part of the program, Speck ...
Verizon's New Motorola Droids Packed With Power in Slim, Tough FrameseWeek
Verizon HTC One release could come in exclusive colourPhones Review
Motorola X8: 5 Things To Know About The Processor Powering Droid Ultra ...International Business Times
Brighthand -Android Community -Wireless and Mobile News
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Microsoft Windows 8 rebound must begin with Steve Ballmer firing
Stabley Times
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is shaking off the failure of Windows 8 by announcing a sweeping corporate reorganization of the company which scraps its longtime business model of pitting each of its internal units against each other for competitive purposes, ...

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Philly.com
LinkedIn, Up 12%, Masters Art Of A Very Bullish Earnings Call
Forbes
LinkedIn didn't just delight investors today with a bullish earnings report that sent its stock up 12% by the end of after-hours trading. Company CEO Jeff Weiner and his sidekick, chief financial officer Steve Sordello, also mastered the art of making LinkedIn's ...
On the Call: LinkedIn CEO Jeff WeinerBusinessweek
LinkedIn Earnings Streak ContinuesWall Street Journal
LinkedIn soars after hours on earnings upsideUSA TODAY
NBCNews.com -Reuters -VentureBeat
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GameZone
Xbox team creates community deputies to fight trolls
PCWorld
Angry, mocking murmurs rattled off the walls of the player lobby. The caped avenger barely paused. Then the epithets began: stinging, hateful words that juxtaposed one toon's manhood with his mother. That did it. The hero spun, hurling his all-powerful mallet ...
Microsoft deputizes gamers for Enforcement United beta, awards XP for policing ...Engadget
Report awful Xbox Live players to earn loot with Microsoft's new community ...VentureBeat
Xbox Enforcement United adds user moderation to Xbox LiveComputerandvideogames.com
Complex.com -Joystiq
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Amazon rolls out Pinterest-like 'Amazon Collections' feature
CNET
The e-commerce giant quietly launched a new feature that lets users add items to shopping wish lists and follow others with similar tastes and interests. Dara Kerr. by Dara Kerr. August 1, 2013 3:26 PM PDT. Follow @darakerr. Amazon Collections.
Amazon Launches Pinterest-Like 'Collections' FeaturePC Magazine
Amazon Experiments With Its Own Take On Pinterest Called “Amazon Collections”TechCrunch
Amazon Collections: like Pinterest, only for stuff Amazon sellsEngadget
Wall Street Journal (blog) -Business Insider -The Verge
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Telegraph.co.uk
Icahn files lawsuit to force Friday vote on Dell buyout
PCWorld
Carl Icahn filed a lawsuit against Dell and its board of directors on Thursday as he continued to take steps to prevent the company's founder and investment company Silver Lake from taking the company private. The lawsuit, filed in the Court of Chancery of ...
Icahn Sues Dell to Stop Changes to Voting RuleseWeek
Icahn in Suit Accuses Dell Board of Trying to Force Buyout (2)Businessweek
Carl Icahn Sues to Stop Dell From Delaying VoteWall Street Journal
New York Times (blog) -Reuters -USA TODAY
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Pocket-lint.com
Moto X accessories pictures and hands-on
Pocket-lint.com
The Moto X is customisable in terms of colour options, but Motorola has also unveiled a range of accessories with their own set of colours that can either match or mismatch your Moto X. First up is a wireless SOL Republic Bluetooth speaker called the Deck.

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BBC News
Apple update to tackle charger hack attack
BBC News
Apple plans to issue a software update to help its products avoid falling victim to booby-trapped chargers. The update has been prepared in response to research that created malicious chargers that could upload code onto devices plugged into them.

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Wired
Facebook Brings Home's Lockscreen Replacement To Their Main Android App ...
TechCrunch
Four months after the launch of Facebook Home, which aimed to turn every Android phone into the long-rumored Facebook Phone, the company is starting to bring certain Home features into their primary app with an update today. In other words, bits and ...
Facebook updates Android app with Cover Feed, no Home requiredCNET
Facebook for Android gets a crazy-cool Home featureVentureBeat
Facebook Home's Most Popular Feature Comes to the Android AppMashable
Wired -Seeking Alpha -Android Community
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Deck by Sol Republic and Motorola
CNET
Due to at the end of August, the Deck by Sol Republic and Motorola retails for $199.99. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET). It took a while for me to figure out what the new Deck Bluetooth speaker from Sol Republic and Motorola reminded me of. Then it hit me: my old ...
Sol Republic's New Bluetooth Speaker Is a Portable Party MachineGizmodo

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AppAdvice
Apple buys another chipmaker
CNET
The iPhone maker has picked up Passif Semiconductor, a small California company that makes low-power communications chips. Josh Lowensohn. by Josh Lowensohn. August 1, 2013 11:40 AM PDT. Follow @Josh. (Credit: James Martin/CNET). Apple has ...
Apple acquires power-efficient chipmaker Passif SemiconductorApple Insider
Apple Acquires Low-Energy Chipmaker Passif, Could Boost Passive ...TechCrunch
Apple wants low-energy chips, snaps up Passif SemiconductorGigaOM
TheStreet.com -Engadget -Computerworld (blog)
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Christian Science Monitor
Is the FBI snooping on our Google searches?
Christian Science Monitor
A potential bombshell has been dropped into the roiling debate about privacy and government snooping that's been unleashed by the leaks of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden: A New York area writer published a piece today ...
New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers onlineThe Guardian
Google 'Pressure Cookers,' Get a Visit from the CopsThe Atlantic Wire
Investigators Search LI Home After Family Googles Pressure Cookers, BackpacksGothamist
Mediaite -Washington Post -Huffington Post
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10 Gbps USB specification finalized as USB 3.1
TechSpot
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced today that the next generation of the USB specification is ready, and they've named it USB 3.1. The update brings double the bandwidth of standard USB 3.0, pulling it up to 10 Gbps from 5 Gbps, and bringing it ...

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ABC News
Starbucks, Google Partner to Offer Faster Wi-Fi in Coffee Shops
ABC News
People who have claimed Starbucks as their home away from home may soon find that their phones and tablets are accessing the Internet faster following a Wi-Fi upgrade from Google and Level 3 Communications. Linda Mills, a spokesperson for Starbucks, ...
Google Will Be Making Your Starbucks WiFi FasterUproxx
Google to Provide Wi-Fi internet to StarbucksSatellite Today
Level 3 Prospects Decent Despite 'Anemic' Growth ExpectationsChannel Partners
Patch.com -93.1 WIBC Indianapolis -PerezHilton.com
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New York Daily News
Pinterest Now Sends Alerts When Items You Pin Go on Sale
Mashable
Pinterest is getting more serious about shopping: The social network announced Thursday that it will now send users notifications when products they've pinned go on sale. Pinterest will send sale alerts through aggregated emails, so as to prevent users from ...
Pinterest to notify users when pinned items go on saleTechSpot
Now You Can Bargain Hunt On PinterestReadWrite
Pinterest Rolling Out Price-Drop NotificationsPC Magazine
ABC News -InternetRetailer.com -Mind Of The Geek
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NDTV
USB 3.1 specification announced, would offer speeds of up to 10Gbps
NDTV
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced that it has completed work on USB 3.1 Specification. The next generation iteration of the connectivity standard will feature enhancements to enable SuperSpeed USB to offer transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps.
Finalized USB 3.1 spec doubles the speed of USB 3.0 to 10GbpsPCWorld
Next-gen USB standard will boast data transfers to 10GB/secondThe Independent
USB 3.1 confirmed as new 10Gbps specificationSlashGear
PC Pro -Gizmodo
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Nexus 7 is the best Android tablet money can buy (and it's only $230)
Fortune (blog)
Google's new Nexus 7 tablet isn't just the best small Android tablet you can buy. It's the best Android tablet, period. The popular mini tablet, which Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) first released last year, got a significant revamp last week that hits all the right ...

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Gizbot
Nexus 7 is the best Android tablet money can buy (and it's only $230)
Fortune (blog)
Google's new Nexus 7 tablet isn't just the best small Android tablet you can buy. It's the best Android tablet, period. The popular mini tablet, which Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) first released last year, got a significant revamp last week that hits all the right ...
Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean ROM LeakedUbergizmo
Samsung Galaxy S2 won't get official Android 4.2 Jelly Bean updateITProPortal
AT&T Galaxy S3 4.1.2 Jelly Bean update finally releasedPhones Review

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USFinancePost
Nokia Set to Unveil Lumia Accessory that Finds Lost Keys
USFinancePost
Nokia Set to Unveil Lumia Accessory that Finds Lost Keys According to well-placed sources, Nokia Corp is developing a new accessory that would help users avoid losing keys, wallets, and other items. 'Treasure Tag' would use Bluetooth 4.0 and Near Field ...
Redesign for Bing Search rolling out to some Windows Ph...WinSource
Nokia schedules event for September 26-27, could announce Windows tablet ...NDTV
Nokia Takes a Leap With Advanced Camera SmartphoneMidsize Insider

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