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Photos: Black and white next-gen metal iPhone backs, mini-dock, taller screen, moved earphone jack present — Earlier today, we posted the first image of the back plate for the next-generation iPhone, and now we have received several more images that are very high-resolution.
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Salesforce Set to Snap Up Facebook Friend Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million — Enterprise, meet social: Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.
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| Hugo Miller / Bloomberg: |
RIM Writedown Risked With $1 Billion Inventory: Corporate Canada — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM)'s stockpiles of BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets have swollen by two-thirds in the past year because of slumping sales, raising the chances of the company's third writedown since December.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
RIM Expects Operating Loss as Bankers Help Company Explore Options — Research In Motion, the troubled Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry line of smartphones, just announced that it expects an operating loss in the quarter ending June 2. — The company also said it has hired J.P. Morgan …
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google launches Chromebook, Chromebox & gets it right — We often joke Google is like the old Microsoft — getting things wrong, bumbling its way into new markets, and getting things right on the third try. This seems to be quite true of Google's efforts to develop a cloud PC.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
New Samsung Chromebook & Chromebox review: Chrome OS grows up — 2012 is the year of Chrome OS — or so we're told. When we spoke with Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Chrome, he told us that this is the culmination of “a long, slow march” for Google's cloud-based operating system.
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Amazon Instant Video Now Available on Xbox 360, with Access to ‘Your Video Library’ and Prime Instant Video — Customers can now watch the latest movies and TV episodes on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and use Kinect for Xbox 360 to find and play videos with the wave of a hand or sound of their voice
| Yusuf Mehdi / TechNet Blogs: |
Xbox Beyond the Box — Next week, the Xbox team heads to Los Angeles for E3. Having recently joined the team, I have the benefit of fresh perspective, and one of the things that has struck me is the amount of opportunities we have ahead. — Before joining Xbox, I had the fortune … | Roberto Baldwin / Wired: |
Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass — Google's co-founder manipulates the Google Glass touch pad. Image Capture: Current TV — Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass — but this time he let someone else wear Google's augmented reality headset.
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| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Big Spenders Push Ad Line, But Facebook Holds Ground — Can Newly Public Company Withstand Demands for Ads That Interrupt User Experience? — GM wanted to brand Facebook. And Facebook wasn't selling. — In a now-notorious meeting between General Motors Global CMO Joel Ewanick … | Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: |
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Has Lost About $35 Billion In Value Since IPO As Shares Dip Below $29 — Pain, pain, and more pain for Facebook's stock. Facebook sunk into the $20s for the first time today, declining about 9 percent as options trading started. The decline also came a day after a third wave … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources — The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources. — Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days.| Dan Webb / Twitter Engineering: |
Improving performance on twitter.com — To connect you to information in real time, it's important for Twitter to be fast. That's why we've been reviewing our entire technology stack to optimize for speed. — When we shipped #NewTwitter in September 2010, we built it around …
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
HTC says One X and Evo 4G LTE have cleared US customs, are in compliance with ITC rulings — HTC says that it has completed the review process with US customs, and that “HTC devices have been released, as they are in compliance with the ITC's ruling.” The company's One X and Evo 4G LTE phones …
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| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Technicolor Dissects IPhones In Hunt For Patent Payoff — When Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone hits store shelves, Technicolor SA (TCH)'s engineers will rush to get the handset — not to make calls or play games, but to rip it apart. — Technicolor, an unprofitable French company that invented … | Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms — Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. — EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues …
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| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
MongoDB database creator 10gen grabs a whopping $42M from NEA, Sequoia, others — 10gen, the startup that created the popular MongoDB open-source data application, has raised a new $42 million round of funding to improve its data-harnessing technology and build out its team.| Evan Ackerman / Automaton: |
Japanese MH-2 Shoulder Robot Wants To Be Your Friend, Literally — Nobody likes being alone, and Japanese researchers from Yamagata University are developing a robot to make sure you'll never have to be alone again: the MH-2 wearable miniature humanoid lives on your shoulder and can be remotely inhabited …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Facebook faces extended US review of Instagram deal — (Reuters) - Facebook has received notice that U.S. antitrust regulators will give its proposed purchase of the popular photo-sharing app maker Instagram a lengthy investigation, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Release Preview leaks out ahead of official debut — A Chinese edition of Microsoft's Windows 8 Release Preview, due in the first week of June, has leaked ahead of its official debut. ISO files for an 8400 build of Windows 8 have been circulating on Chinese forums and bit torrent websites …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Sprint Plans to Shut Nextel Network as Early as June 2013 — Sprint said Tuesday that it would shut down its Nextel network as soon as June of next year, as the company aims to free up space for its next-generation LTE network. — The carrier has been working on plans to sunset …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Xamarin abandons its Silverlight for Linux technology — Summary: Moonlight, the open-source implementation of Silverlight for Linux and Unix, is no more. — Given the continued downplaying by Microsoft of Silverlight, it shouldn't be too surprising that the Moonlight implementation of Silverlight for Linux/Unix is no more.
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
As Zynga's stock lockup ends, Game Closure steals a mobile game expert — Zynga's lockup on the ability for employees to sell stock in the aftermath of its initial public offering expires today. That may explain why a smaller company, Game Closure, has been able to recruit a prominent mobile gaming expert from Zynga.
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