Panda dung, robot undergrads, and the world's wackiest tech awards

By Michael Fitzpatrick, contributor FORTUNE -- If you ever wondered if artificial breasts can survive scalding hot springs, whether panda dung will dissolve garbage, and if a robot could enter university, then Japan would be the to satisfy your curiosity....

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Occupy Wall Street activists join the Apple iPhone 5 queue

Peaceful protest? Photo: Jessica Mellow FORTUNE -- Looks like the launch of the iPhone 5 is about to get political. Veteran line-sitter Jessica Mellow, who's been camping out in front of the big glass cube of Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Avenue store...

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Apple's iOS 6: The reviews

FORTUNE -- The sixth major update of Apple's (AAPL) mobile operating system is old news to the developers and tech writers who've been playing with it all summer. But the formal reviews of iOS 6 only began to appear on Wednesday, when the software became...

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HP and IBM: Two paths, one future

By Kevin Kelleher, contributor FORTUNE -- On the face of it, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have a lot in common. Both are storied brands with rich legacies that shaped high-tech. Both are working with companies large and small to help manage their technology....

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Salesforce's major transformation

FORTUNE -- Salesforce has long been known for its cloud-based customer relationship management software for salespeople. That's why, after all, its ticker symbol is CRM.  But during a lengthy keynote speech at the company's annual Dreamforce conference...

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New Internet lobbying group takes on Big Media

FORTUNE -- The media industry has been lobbying Washington since before the Silent Film Era. The tech and Internet industries, which are increasingly pitted against Hollywood and the music business (mainly over piracy) have been slower to establish themselves...

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How good is Amazon's new Kindle Fire really?

FORTUNE -- When the first Kindle Fire arrived last year, some critics and users were quick to judge. The hardware could have been faster and better designed, the software less spastic. And where were the volume buttons? Fast-forward a year or so and...

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Apple's iOS 6 due for release at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific

FORTUNE -- iOS 6, the newest version of Apple (AAPL) iPhone/iPad software platform, is scheduled to arrive today, Wednesday Sept. 19. The timetable below was posted on Twitter. Check it to see when software update will be released near you. Click...

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The verdict on Apple's new map app: Compared with Google Maps, it sucks

Apple's and Google's map apps. Source: Mashable FORTUNE -- "Here's the thing," Daring Fireball's John Gruber wrote in May when 9to5Mac first reported that Apple (AAPL) was about to replace Google's (GOOG) iOS Map app with...

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Today in Tech: Microsoft hires TV exec to boost original content

The iPhone 5 reviewed; Yahoo giving shareholders $3.65 billion. iPhone 5 review: Finally, the iPhone we've always wanted [CNET] Well, guess what? Now it has 4G LTE and...well, maybe not a giant screen, but a larger screen. That's not all, though:...

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Apple's iPhone 5: The reviews

The Joy of Tech FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL), as usual, chose carefully whom to seed with pre-release review copies of the new iPhone: The biggest newspapers and magazines, the friendliest bloggers and, with pointed exceptions, the most influential...

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The greening of the football stadium

By Brian Dumaine, senior editor-at-large A ring of solar-powered LEDs atop MetLife Stadium flashes New York Giants blue. FORTUNE -- A new kind of NFL rivalry is forming, not on the gridiron but in the boardroom. Many NFL owners have suddenly...

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Andy Zaky: Apple will cross $1,000 within 15 months

Zaky called that bottom in mid May FORTUNE -- The last time Bullish Cross' Andy Zaky issued a public recommendation -- as opposed to the advice he administers daily to his paying clients -- was May 18. That day Apple (AAPL) touched $522.18,...

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Analysts scramble to keep their targets ahead of Apple's price

FORTUNE -- On Sunday BMO Capital's Keith Bachman, citing "earlier availability" of the iPhone 5, raised the price he expects Apple's (AAPL) shares to reach in the next 12 months from $680 to $750. He was already three days too late. The stock, which...

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Fear and loathing in Japan

By Michael Fitzpatrick, contributor FORTUNE -- A much diminished electronics sector in Japan is buckling further still. How much more retrenchment and pain is needed to succor its once triumphant tech industry is the question now as Sharp Corp, one...

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Judge denies motion to lift Apple's ban on Samsung tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Apple iPad FORTUNE --When a Silicon Valley jury ordered Samsung to pay $1 billion in damages for infringing half a dozen Apple (AAPL) patents, it left one large piece of unfinished business: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1....

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Today in Tech: Google+ hits 100 million monthly users

HP tries to go "sleek"; Jack Dorsey's Square worth $3.25 billion.  Square finally closes $200 million round at a $3.25 billion valuation [ALLTHINGSD] In an interview several weeks ago, Square COO Keith Rabois said that the company plans to...

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Apple closes at a record $699.78, 22¢ shy of $700

FORTUNE -- It seems the drumbeat of positive news for Apple (AAPL) -- the Samsung verdict, the iPhone 5, the 2 million pre-orders, the rumors of new products in the wings -- was finally too much for the Apple bears. On Monday, the company's share price...

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The baffling claim against Facebook

FORTUNE -- Eolas Technologies and the University of California filed a lawsuit this week against Facebook (FB), Wal-Mart (WMT), and Disney (DIS), apparently based in part on a patent that a court had previously ruled Eolas could no longer use to claim...

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How Apple made the iPhone 5 the 'Rolex of smartphones'

FORTUNE -- It was Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster who compared the iPhone 5 to a Rolex -- and all other smartphones to Timexes. But it was Apple (AAPL) design chief Jony Ive who showed the press how the company achieves what he likes...

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Today in Tech: Facebook's Winklevoss twins invest in another social network

How failure is a feature for Google; why you can expect smartphones to get even better. iPhone 5: 1 million pre-orders in first 24 hours [WIRED] Whether you find the iPhone 5 boring or exciting, it's certainly struck a chord with consumers. The...

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TV's next generation may come from China

By Peter Suciu FORTUNE -- At last month's IFA 2012 electronics show in Berlin, one of the biggest head-turning products was from China-based TCL Multimedia. The company introduced the Ice Screen, a 26-inch Android-based smart display that reportedly...

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Payment startup Square valued at $3.25 billion

Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey FORTUNE -- After a fundraising process that lasted several months, Square, the fast growing mobile payments startup, said on Monday that it has raised more than $200 million in a new round of financing....

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Korea Times: Samsung to leapfrog Apple in February

Korea Times headline. FORTUNE -- Three weeks after Samsung lost a billion-dollar U.S. patent infringement case, and three days after Apple (AAPL) began taking orders for its latest iPhone, the South Korean manufacturer was talking to the local...

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iPhone 5 sets a sales record

iPhone 5 FORTUNE -- AT&T (T) reported early Monday that the iPhone 5 is the fastest-selling iPhone the U.S. carrier has ever offered. According to Reuters, AT&T took a record number of pre-orders both on Friday, the first...

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Dave Morin: The mobile answer man

Path founder Dave Morin and mega-diagram FORTUNE -- Dave Morin is methodically thumbing the chain links on his silver bracelet as he parses the difficulties of designing products for mobile devices. The conversation careens from one big idea...

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iPhone 5: Customers in the Big Apple camp out 8 days early

Five days to go: Hazem, Sage, Jessica, Keenen, Jackie, Brian and Joseph FORTUNE -- In the popular imagination -- and in Samsung TV ads -- the people willing to wait in line for days to buy the newest Apple (AAPL) gewgaw are hopeless fanboys and...

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Viral video: Apple's Steve Jobs is resurrected as a rap star

FORTUNE -- This catchy YouTube 'toon, produced by Emmy-nominated animator Aaron Simpson, was posted two days before Apple (AAPL) unveiled the iPhone 5. By Saturday morning it had generated more than 950,000 hits. Warning: Contains some mild profanity....

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