∞ AT&T dangles LTE as T-Mobile acquisition benefit

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Associated Press (via Google): AT&T’s LTE plans have figured in the company’s bid to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. AT&T says it originally planned to build out LTE to cover 80 percent of the U.S. population, but if regulators … Continued

∞ MG Siegler on the TechCrunch brouhaha

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MG: That’s why Paul’s post is dangerous. He’s shining the spotlight on something, but he’s missing the mark. There is exactly one person to blame for all of this — and her name is not Erick.

∞ iPad gamers number 8 million +

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IndustryGamers: Market research firm Interpret has issued a new report “iPad Gamers: A Look at the Users of Gaming’s Shiny New Toy,” which Interpret says “demonstrates that Apple’s popular tablet computer is both drawing the attention of traditional console gamers and developing … Continued

∞ Pixelmator

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I would like to thank Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. … Continued

∞ Seven states pile on AT&T/T-Mobile merger block

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Washington Post: The attorney generals of California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington joined the suit filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. They argued that the deal would violate antitrust laws by reducing … Continued

∞ BlackBerry Messenger outage hits Canada, Latin America

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Electronista: BlackBerry owners on Friday were dealt more unfortunate news Friday after many reported losing access to Internet services. Both BlackBerry Messenger and e-mail faced outages, primarily in Canada and Latin American countries. RIM was “investigating” as of Friday afternoon but didn’t have a … Continued

∞ Obama signs patent overhaul bill into law

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PC World: U.S. President Barack Obama has signed the America Invents Act, the first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in about 50 years. The America Invents Act, passed 89-9 by the U.S. Senate last week, would allow new challenges to … Continued

∞ Valve's Portal game free until Sep. 20

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Valve has released its seminal action puzzle game Portal for Mac and PC for free until September 20, 2011. The game is available for download through Valve’s Steam download service. Portal was the first game from Valve to be published … Continued

∞ PlayBook price cuts coming

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BGR: During RIM’s second-quarter earnings call, Co-CEO Jim Balsillie noted that the company plans to offer price cuts on the not-so-popular BlackBerry PlayBook in the form of rebates, and an incentive program for enterprise sales. He also said there’s a … Continued

∞ Symbol usage in Illustrator CS5

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Smashing Magazine: Illustrator makes it easy to use symbols multiple times within a document as well. With the Symbols tools, you can add and alter several symbols at once. And in CS5, you can now change the settings for a … Continued

∞ The Apple TV circa 1996

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@RandallB This is Apple’s original AppleTV, from circa 1996. Rob Gould, who works on the AOL HD project with my company, Castfire, sent me these awesome pics from his time back at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon) when they had access … Continued

∞ The decline of BlackBerry ASP

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Note: This is a guest post by Matt Richman. You can learn more about Matt on his Web site. RIM just reported earnings (PDF) for its second fiscal quarter of 2012. Seventy-three percent of its $4.2 billion in revenue came … Continued

∞ Hate Windows 8 already? Grow up, loser

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Mat Honan, for Gizmodo: If you’re not intrigued by Windows 8 and Metro, if you can’t recognize that it’s a big leap forward, if you’re not excited about what it means for you, personally then you don’t really care about … Continued

∞ RIM only ships 200,000 PlayBooks in Q2

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The numbers are in and they don’t look good for RIM. The company reported shipping approximately 10.6 million BlackBerry smartphones and approximately 200,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. Keep in mind, those numbers are shipped, not sold. By using the shipped number, … Continued

∞ King of Dragon Pass makes iOS debut

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A Sharp has announced the release of King of Dragon Pass, a unique indie strategy game for the iPhone. It costs $9.99 and is available for download from the App Store. King of Dragon Pass is set in a mythical … Continued

∞ MacBook Pro, Mac mini, Thunderbolt fixes abound

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In the last 24 hours Apple has posted two separate EFI firmware updates for Thunderbolt-equipped Macs and a software update that provides support for the new Apple Thunderbolt Display. All are available for download from Apple’s Support Downloads Web page. … Continued

∞ Boeing 'Dreamliner' gets Android touchscreens

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Australian Business Traveller: According to Mark Larson, technical manager at Boeing’s Dreamliner Gallery, all 787s now in production will be fitted with Android-based servers and touchscreens. The Android systems will be used for in-flight entertainment systems throughout first class and … Continued

∞ Batman: Arkham Asylum headed to Mac this October

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Feral Interactive on Thursday announced plans to publish a Mac version of Batman: Arkham Asylum on Thursday, October 13, 2011. The game will cost $39.99 and will be available on retail shelves and for online download. Batman: Arkham Asylum takes … Continued

∞ Netflix cuts subscriber guidance by 1 million

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Peter Kafka: Netflix, which instituted a price hike earlier this fall, says the higher costs are turning off more customers than it expected. The video rental company has cut its third quarter U.S. subscriber projections from 25 million subscribers to … Continued