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"Apple demands ipad3.com domain: Second time in two months it's filed claim with U.N. agency to get hands on a URL" Computerworld 6:59 AM
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"Saturday Apple links: six stories we liked this week/Android apps on OS X and 5 other stories we didn't get to at Infinite Loop." Ars Technica 6/30
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"Job ad indicates Apple using Oracle, IBM servers in North Carolina data center: Apple is looking for Unix engineer to support Oracle and IBM servers at its data center in Malden, North Carolina" Computerworld 6/30
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"Apple's Siri wrong 38 percent of the time in test: In a test by analysts Piper Jaffray on a busy Minneapolis street, Apple's Siri managed to perform searches correctly 62 percent of the time. Oddly, Google's voice assistant was right 86 percent." CNET News 6/30
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"Minneapolis street test: Google gets a B+, Apple's Siri gets a D/1,600 questions: 800 in a quiet room, 800 in a noisy street"
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"Apple's Siri Gets Below-Average Grade From Piper Jaffray" Bloomberg 6/29
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"Siri Shows Increasing Promise, But Accuracy Falls Short of Google Text Searches" MacRumors 6/29
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"Report: Tablets now drive more ecommerce traffic than smartphones" GigaOM 6/29
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"On the Big Screen: Surface Beats Retina" AllThingsD 6/29
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"21% of iOS users say they wouldn't leave Apple at any price" AppleInsider 6/29
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"Happy Birthday, iPhone! What's It Feel Like Being 5?" Wired 6/29
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"Apple's iPhone Marks 5 Years as Iconic Smartphone" ABCNews 6/29
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"The Apple iPhone, Five Years Later (Infographic)" AllThingsD 6/29
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"iPhone: The 5-Year-Old That Changed the World [Infographic] Mashable 6/29
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"Will Apple say 'uncle' in Madrid? Nearly 28,000 people have signed a petition asking Apple Inc. to return a much-loved but unofficial Madrid landmark, a massive Tio Pepe sherry advertisement, to its perch atop a historic hotel in the bustling central square Puerta del Sol upon completion of the edifice's renovation." MarketWatch 6/29
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"Virgin Mobile to carry iPhone from today, Sir Richard does his best Fonz impression" Engadget 6/29
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"Virgin Mobile starts selling Apple's iPhone 4, iPhone 4S" CNET News 6/29
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"The Phoenix Rises: Modbook Pro – Worlds Most Powerful and Largest-Screen Tablet Computer" MacPrices 6/29
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"Modbook, the Mac Tablet of Yore, Marches Back Into Action" MacNewsWorld 6/29
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"The Mac Modbook is back, watch out iPad: A pro version of the Modbook, a modified MacBook-Wacom tablet combo will hit the shops this autumn" Macworld UK 6/29
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"FTC investigating Google, Motorola over FRAND patent abuse" AppleInsider 6/30
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"Microsoft Bringing Fingerprint Detection to 'Surface' Tablets" Patent Bolt 6/29
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"Facebook Insider Tells All In 'The Boy Kings'" Daily Ticker 6/29
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"Gateway refreshes budget-priced SX, DX desktops for back-to-school shopping" ZDNet 6/29
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"How One Hacker Quit the Programming Life for Bluer Skies" Wired Magazine 6/29
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"Red Hat details next Linux and storage platforms for cloud, big data era" ZDNet 6/29
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"Nintendo hires digital content expert" TG Daily 6/29
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"Scientists develop spray-on battery" Reuters 6/29
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"French bid 'adieu' to Minitel, the France-Wide Web" Reuters 6/29
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"So what will you do with your extra second tomorrow night? Rare leap second to be added to atomic clocks on Saturday night" The Independent 6/29
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"Adobe says no Flash Player for Android 4.1, plans to withdraw app on Aug. 15" IDG News Service 6/29
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"AOL Reorganizes Into Membership, Brand And Ad Units [Incl Armstrong's Memo] TechCrunch 6/29
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"AOL reorganizes, creates three new groups" CNET News 6/29
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"AOL Promotes CFO Minson To COO To Reorganize Company" Bloomberg 6/29
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"RIM Explores Microsoft Alliance, Other Radical Moves" InformationWeek 6/29
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"RIM Apparently Not Interested In Switching To Windows Phone" Forbes 6/29
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"No shortage of requests from Android devs at Google team's 'fireside chat" Network World 6/29
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"GameStop pre-selling Nexus 7, offers discounts with trade-ins" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 6/29
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"Google makes small changes to Google+ but shows social skills elsewhere: The company rolled out incremental improvements to its social network platform while adding social elements to its other offerings" IDG News Service 6/29
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"Google+ minus Linus Torvalds: New Google+ Events feature sends the father of Linux packing" InfoWorld 6/29
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"Google Is Rolling Out Changes To Crack Down On Google+ Event Spam" TechCrunch 6/29
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"Google scrambles to fix Events after celebs yelp" GigaOM 6/29
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"Adobe Flash Is Dead -- on mobile!" BetaNews 6/29
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"Most Americans doubt safety of cloud storage" MacNews 6/29
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"Google's new Nexus 7 tablet apparently infringes Nokia's patents and faces other IP risks" Foss Patents 6/29
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"Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Pyrotechnic edition! " TUAW 7:37 PM
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"Insanely Simple by Ken Segall – review: The secret of Steve Jobs's success – revealed by the man who put the 'i' into Apple's products" The Guardian 6/30
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"eXtensions Podcast #2012 3: The Bangkok-based eXtensions podcast based on the week's Cassandra columns and whatever else I throw in." eXtensions 6/30
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"Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, the 'iTunes Guy,' Ross Rubin of the NPD Group, and Avram Piltch of Laptop magazine this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 6/29
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"TUAW and MacTech interview: VMware" TUAW 6/29
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"In-Depth: Graphisoft talks to Architosh about ArchiCAD 16" Architosh 6/29
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"Interview: Artist Growth for iOS helps manage your musical career" TUAW 6/29
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