Reporter: Tim Frederick
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'Apple Witness Claims Buyers Routinely Mistook Galaxy Tabs for Apple iPads
The ongoing patent trial wars taking place in U.S federal court between Samsung and Apple took a rather bizarre twist Monday, when a paid Apple witness cited a report by Best Buy as evidence against Samsung. The report claimed that the number one reason customers return Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is because they thought they were purchasing Apple's iPad 2.
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Mobile
'Samsung Extends Smartphone Lead Over Apple During Record Quarter: Best Yet to Come?
Samsung now controls 1/3 of the smartphone market after a record quarter that saw them ship 50.2 million smartphones according to a report released Thursday by research group IDC.
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OS / Software
'Mountain Lion Redemption Code Errors Abound: Some Users Still Waiting for Theirs to Arrive
Mac owners who purchased their system between June 11 and July 25 are entitled to a free upgrade to the Mountain Lion operating system if their Mac did not already have it installed, through the OS X Mountain Lion Up-to-Date Program.
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Internet / Social Media
'Zynga Shares Tumble Following Weak Results: Is Social Gaming Losing Steam?
Zynga's shares fell below $3 on Thursday following the reporting of quarterly results that came in well below analysts' expectations; 10% below to be exact. The $302 million in revenue was also off 8% from the previous quarter.
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OS / Software
'Nokia Ditching New Mobile Software Platform Meltemi: Sources
The cost cutting axe has fallen on the neck of Nokia's planned mobile software platform Meltemi, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.
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What's Hot
'World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Coming September 25: Collector's Edition Details Inside
Blizzard announced in a press release on Wednesday that the fourth expansion to their MMORPG World of Warcraft (maybe you've heard of it?) will see release on September 25 of this year.
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Internet / Social Media
'YouTube Now Asking for Users' Full Names; the 153 People Who Dislike This News are Probably Flamers
YouTube is notorious for having comments sections that are usually as entertaining as many of the videos themselves; that is if you're entertained by spam, flame wars, and endless comments questioning the personal taste of anyone who dislikes a video (and who isn't?).
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'EA's Madden Lawsuit Settled: NCAA Exclusivity Lost, Gamers Entitled to Small Claims
EA has settled a $27 million lawsuit first brought against them in 2008, alleging that their exclusive deal with the NFL to create NFL-licensed football games amounted to a monopoly. That deal effectively ended the playing career of their biggest (and really only) rival, Sega's NFL 2K series.
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What's App
'5% of Free Apps Use Ads That Can Take Over Your Phone and Pilfer Your Contact Info: Study
It appears the saying "there's no such thing as a free lunch", which warns us that things which appear to be free usually come with strings attached, can now be applied to free apps as well; in 5% of those apps at least, and the number is rising according to a recent study by Lookout, a mobile security firm.
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Internet / Social Media
'Spam Folders Rejoice! Botnet Grum Responsible for Meaty Chunk of the World's Spam Brought Down
If your spam folder seems noticeably bereft of ads touting the latest and greatest penile growth techniques, or warnings from Blizzard that your World of Warcraft or Diablo 3 accounts are under investigation and they need your account info to verify your identity, well, you're not imagining things.
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Mobile
'Smartphones to Get Gesture Recognition: Accidental Karate Chops from Phone Wielding Pedestrians Set to Explode
If you can't get enough of flailing your arms at your T.V. screen to control the action in your favorite Kinect or PlayStation Move game, you should be pretty excited to know that you'll soon be able to do the same on the smaller screen of your smartphone.
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'The Dark Knight Rises Negative Reviews Spurring Virulent Backlash, Threats Against Reviewers
No one ever said comic book fans weren't a passionate bunch (and if they did, they'd be wrong, whoever they are), but that passion may be bordering on the side of disturbingly overzealous, insecure, and even downright criminal in some of those fans.
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What's App
'iOS Title Armed Heroes Online Has Stolen Assets From Torchlight, Claims Runic: Apple Asked to Remove it from App Store
Runic Games, maker of the PC RPG Torchlight and its upcoming MMO sequel Torchlight 2 (currently in closed beta) have spied some of their work from the original Torchlight in a new iOS game; problem being, that game was not developed by them, and has nothing to do with their company.
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