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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Launching Its Own Photosharing Service — Twitter has been completely emphatic about where developers should stake a claim, with Twitter Platform Lead Ryan Sarver warning the ecosystem to stay away from building “client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience.”
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Guardian, Geek.com, Digital Trends, @dannysullivan, CNET News, Examiner, VentureBeat, The Blog Herald, TechnoBuffalo, 1001 Noisy Cameras, @kevinmarks, Electronista and ReadWriteWeb
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Confirmed: Twitter Plans to Announce Photo-Sharing Service This Week — Twitter will announce a photo-sharing service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is set to speak at D9 on Wednesday.
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Softpedia News, @ia, SAI, Shelly Palmer Digital Living and Gizmodo
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Intel reveals skinny Ivy Bridge ‘Ultrabooks,’ Moore's Law-defying Atoms — Intel took the opportunity at Computex to update the tech-loving world on its processor plans, and it looks like those whispers we heard about low power and an accelerated Atom roadmap were spot on.
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Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Ivy Bridge chips pushed to 2012, Macs will have to wait
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SlashGear, Gadgetsteria and RazorianFly
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Nielsen: Android's lead over iOS may have stopped growing — Google's OS is still more popular than Apple's, but no more than it was in March Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have reached something like a three-way stalemate in the battle for dominance of the U.S. smartphone market …
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App Advice and 9to5 Google
Electronista:
Google preps iPhone search website revamp with app drawer — Google is reportedly preparing a large tweak to its iPhone-optimized search page that would put it much closer in line with the quality of the native mobile app. A discovery on Saturday has shown a version with tabs on top that …
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PhoneArena, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadgetell and Softpedia News
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation — According to several sources Airbnb is in the process of closing a whopper of a funding round: $100 million or more at a $1 billion-plus valuation. The round is being lead by Andreessen Horowitz, and includes participation from DST, say our sources.
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VatorNews, HipMojo.com, gigaom.com, VentureBeat, SAI and Startups Open Sourced
Dan Webb:
It's About The Hashbangs — Before I get started here's the disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this rant are my own personal opinions on web development and do not represent the views of my employer, its engineering organisation or any other employees. — A few months back there was a flurry …
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Adactio, @n8agrin, @danwrong, @aral, FunctionSource and @carnage4life
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon: Online Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War — Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens …
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Guardian, @qthrul and The Next Web
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
From Danger to Android: The saga of the T-Mobile Sidekick — An early promotional brochure for the Hiptop, the original name used by Danger for what became the T-Mobile Sidekick — One of the iconic devices of the mobile revolution, the T-Mobile Sidekick, will reach a milestone next Tuesday …
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Technologizer and msnbc.com, Thanks:johnhcook
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hits Best Buy's site, decorative Androids fall off in the process — Remember the Android tablet we said might be the first real competitor to the iPad 2 earlier this month? Well, it just made its debut on the Best Buy site, and while the big “Coming Soon” …
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I4U News, SlashGear, LaptopMemo, Examiner and Crave
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Appsfire Scores $3.6M As App Discovery Demands Grow — With Apple's App Store hitting the half billion app mark and Android Market poised to overtake it later this year, it's a busy time to be in the app discovery business. Appsfire, a France-based startup, is reaping the benefits …
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TechCrunch
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
TouchPad to launch June 12? — Thanks to an enterprising tipster, we've managed to get our hands on HP's “QuickSpecs” technical specifications sheet for the TouchPad webOS tablet. The four-page document is something that HP puts together for their business customers and resellers (see examples here and here).
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Neowin.net, Gadgetell, I4U News, Everything webOS, SlashGear, Electronista, WebOS Arena and TechnoBuffalo
Isabel Reynolds / Reuters:
Sony: PlayStation recovery delayed in parts of Asia — (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Tuesday it was not certain when it could fully restore PlayStation Network videogame services in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, five weeks after a massive network security breach forced the company to shut them down.
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PlayStation Blog, Agence France Presse, VentureBeat, SlashGear, andriasang.com and VG247
Liam Tung / iTnews:
HP recalls another 162,000 laptop batteries — More fire-hazard hardware. — Hewlett Packard has recalled a further 162,000 lithium-ion batteries after discovering a product model series that was missed in last year's worldwide recall. — The batteries, shipped with laptops …
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Reuters, DigiTimes and ITProPortal
Klint Finley / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Microsoft's Future in Data-as-a-Service? — The “realist” view on Microsoft's future is that Windows and Microsoft Office licenses will continue to be the company's bread and butter, and that enterprise-focused cloud initiatives like Azure and Office 365 will supplement this growth.
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple launches worldwide MacBook Bottom Case Replacement Program — Per Apple's support document, they will now fix the issue with the rubber bottom on the white unibody MacBook coming off due to issues with glue. This applies to any MacBook purchased between October 2009 and April 2011.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Electronista, RazorianFly and TUAW
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Close To Acquiring AdGrok — We're hearing from multiple sources that Twitter is in talks to acquire Y Combinator-backed key word bidding platform AdGrok, in a deal that is less than $10 million. It's still unclear where exactly they are in the closing process or whether this is a tech acquisition or an acqui-hire.
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VentureBeat
Om Malik / GigaOm:
Why Instagram Can Become The Mobile Social Hub — Trey Ratcliff, creator of 100 Cameras and I — Of all the apps on my iPhone, the ones that get most attention for me involve photos — from the built-in Camera app to Camera+ to photo filter apps such as Noir, ColorBlast and Hipstamatic.
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App Advice and MacNN
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Next 6 Months Worth Of Features Are In Facebook's Code Right Now (But We Can't See) — A few days ago, Facebook held a tech talk at their headquarters. The topic of the talk was pushing changes — bug fixes, new features, product improvements, etc. Every day, Facebook engineers push hundreds of these; some big, some little.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
NFC Digital Payments - what's in it for consumers? — Changing consumer behavior is very difficult. Making things more efficient, easier, faster, or more convenient isn't enough if it requires a change in normal consumer behavior. Many tech startups fail because they don't consider …
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Boris Mann's Blog, Thanks:dondodge
