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Google ready to cut 20 percent of Motorola Mobility's staff - CNET
Job cuts reported by The New York Times come after the Web giant revealed it paid a significant premium for the company's patent portfolio. by Steven Musil Motorola Mobility reportedly began notifying employees today that it planned to cut 20 percent …

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Purported photos of new iPhone motherboard surface on Web - CNET
Although the images posted to a WeiPhone user forum don't show the processor, a smaller SIM card slot appears — perhaps the new nano-SIM? by Steven Musil Photos of what is purportedly the motherboard/logicboard for the next-generation iPhone have …

Barnes & Noble Cuts Prices for Its Nook Devices - New York Times
Barnes & Noble cut prices on three models of its Nook e-reader and tablet devices on Sunday, ahead of the peak of back-to-school shopping and amid speculation that its rival, Amazon.com, was preparing to introduce a new version of its Kindle Fire …

Hack of tech journalist reveals flaws in cloud security - USA TODAY
SEATTLE - The security community is on alert for hackers who might try to emulate the simple trickery used to breach a prominent technology journalist's Amazon, Apple, Google and Twitter accounts. That hacking caper has rekindled concerns about whether …

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Dalton Caldwell's App.net Meets Funding Goal To Launch Paid Twitter Alternative - Forbes
The seismic shifts on the social web are getting intense. Facebook went public, entered monetization panic and saw its stock crater. Meanwhile, Twitter announced that it will begin tightening up on its APIs. If users are confused, developers are …

Take that, Facebook: New social utility App.net blasts through $500K funding goal - VentureBeat
The new social utility that serial entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell started in response to being, in his words, screwed by Facebook, is live. App.net, which Caldwell ran a Kickstarter-ish campaign to fund, blew through its $500000 goal and currently sits …

Google takes small step against online piracy - ZDNet
Summary: Google is changing its search-engine algorithms to push down the search rankings of websites that receive large numbers of copyright-infringement notices. By Spandas Lui | August 13, 2012 — 01:19 GMT (18:19 PDT) Google will start demoting the …

Frustrated judge orders Apple, Samsung counsel to meet today - CNET

Microsoft to Open 'Pop-up` Stores to Boost Surface Retail Sales - eWeek
Microsoft is posting job openings to staff a dozen temporary retail stores during the holiday season, primarily to sell its Microsoft-made Surface tablet and Windows 8 operating system. Microsoft is stepping up its retail strategy to sell the Surface …

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App.net hits $500K funding goal nearly two days early - CNET (blog)
Alternative social network achieves crowd-funding goal after a last-minute push for pledges from new sponsors. by Steven Musil App.net's goal of creating an alternative social network took a big step forward with the announcement that it had achieved …

Audi announces AMOLED rear-view display for R8 e-tron - SlashGear
Audi has announced that its upcoming R8 e-tron will be featuring a digital AMOLED rear-view "mirror" when it arrives later this year. This isn't the first time Audi has implemented such a display in one of its cars, as we saw this same technology in …

Don't Be Tempted By NOOK Price Cuts - Forbes
Barnes and Noble have wisely slashed prices on their NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet models. The NOOK Color drops from $169 to $149, and the 8GB NOOK Android Tablet sheds $20 and settles at an alluring $179. But should these reductions tempt consumers into …

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NBC thinks actor who played Mark Zuckerberg is Mark Zuckerberg - Houston Chronicle (blog)

How Will Google Handle YouTube Copyright Violations in Search Results? - PC Magazine

Barnes & Noble cuts prices on Nook tablets - CNET
The $20 to $50 price reductions position the bookseller's e-readers to better compete with Google's $199 Nexus 7. by Steven Musil Barnes & Noble announced a price cut this morning for its line of Nook tablets in an apparent attempt to better compete …

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Google Will Fight Piracy Through Search Results, But Will Leave YouTube Unscathed - Forbes
Google is smart. We all know that. Here's a great bit of search engine cleverness of Kafka-esque proportions. How can you be seen by the entertainment industry as fighting piracy of copyrighted material and yet not have a negative impact on one of the …

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Google makes finding pirated material harder with algorithm tweak - GlobalPost

iPhone 5 Battery Smaller Than Expected? - InformationWeek
Images said to show the Apple iPhone 5's battery prompt concerns about the upcoming smartphone's staying power. Apple iPhone 5 Vs. Samsung Galaxy S III: What We Know With Apple prepared to introduce its next-generation iPhone as early as next month, …

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Google penalizes sites hosting pirated content - Daily Herald
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood and other content owners, whose relationship with Google is fitful at best, gave the Silicon Valley search company rare praise Friday for its move to penalize websites that have been flagged by copyright holders for potentially …

Lenovo reportedly prepping Intel and ARM versions of IdeaPad Yoga transforming ... - Engadget
By Daniel Cooper posted Aug 12th 2012 12:42AM We've known for a while that NVIDIA is working with Lenovo (and ASUS) on a Windows RT Tablet, but ABC News believes that we might already have seen the mystery device in action. Its sources have let slip …