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Cricket first pre-paid US carrier to offer iPhone; on $55/month unlimited plan, starting June 22 — Cricket Communications, a Leap Wireless company, is the latest carrier to offer new Apple iPhone models (the iPhone 4 and 4S to be more specific) in the United States.
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| Claire Atkinson / New York Post: |
Google, Facebook vie for stake in Vevo — It's a battle of the tech brands. — Both Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are exploring an investment in Vevo as part of a broader partnership with the music-video service, The Post has learned.
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Inside Nokia's Struggle Against Apple's iPhone — Nokia Corp.'s new top-of-the-line smartphone sells for $200 less than Apple Inc.'s cheapest iPhone 4S. But under the hood, Nokia actually pays more for the phone's components, according to an analysis—underscoring the challenges …
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| Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica: |
25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web — Sometime around 1988, my landlady and I cut a deal. She would purchase a Macintosh computer, I would buy an external hard drive, and we would leave the system in the living room to share. She used the device most …
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| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview — Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger (and many more) …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
All Things D is Haunted by the Man Who Isn't Here — This year, as with the last ten, several hundred top digerati have flocked to Southern California for the All Things D tech conference. As in previous years, the roster of speakers, interviewed by conference runners Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher … | AllThingsD: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains — Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its window for new generic top-level domain name applications. ICANN will publish a list of all the applied-for strings in two weeks … | Jason Del Rey / AdAge: |
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Ari Emanuel Wants You to Shut Up and Pay Up — The D10 conference kicked off yesterday with a gospel choir and a marching band. Tonight, we got a pro wrestling match. — In one corner: Ari Emanuel, playing the role of “Hollywood guy who thinks Hollywood is in pretty great shape.”
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| Christine Lagorio / Inc.com: |
How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet — Reddit, created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, was one of the first start-ups out of the Y Combinator program to be acquired, making Ohanian a 23-year-old multimillionaire. Here's how he did it.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model — Google Product Search is getting a new name, Google Shopping, and a new business model where only merchants that pay will be listed. It's the first time Google will decommission a search product that previously listed companies for free.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a trio of hackers brought Google's reCAPTCHA to its knees — Hackers exploit weaknesses in Google's bot-detection system with 99% accuracy. — The background noise added to the audio version of Google's reCAPTCHA didn't include high frequencies, making it easy for histograms …
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| Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook: |
Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access — Facebook now offers pages fives different levels of page admin privileges so that businesses can assign roles to different people without giving up full control of their pages. — Previously, all admins had equal access to create posts …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
So Why Is LinkedIn An IPO Standout? — Earlier this morning at D10 KPCB analyst Mary Meeker showed a pretty definitive slide about the current state of the public markets with regards to tech companies. “The private market is in a bubble,” Meeker said, “We have a $1 billion fund …
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| Caleb Garling / Wired: |
Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google — Despite countless setbacks, Oracle continues to argue that Google ripped off its intellectual property Image: MartinBowling/Flickr — In the waning Java war between Oracle and Google, Oracle has lost another fight.
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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Sprint's HTC Evo 4G LTE launching June 2 — After a patent-based delay, the HTC Evo 4G LTE is ready for its spotlight. — (Credit: CNET) — After a delay, Sprint and HTC have a launch date locked down for the HTC Evo 4G LTE, Sprint's new flagship device: June 2.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel formally launches Ivy Bridge laptop chips, slightly revises ultrabook requirements — Intel's third-generation Core processors launched over a month ago, but only the most powerful ones: today, Chipzilla's dual-core and ultra-low voltage (ULV) chips are official, meaning we'll soon start …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Google Translate now allows website owners and visitors to edit translations — Google Translate is an incredibly useful tool, particularly for any of us that live outside of our home country but lack full-on fluency, however in spite of its value, it can also be extremely frustrating.| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Gigabyte makes 975g X11 official, claims 'world's lightest' 11.6-inch notebook (update: hands-on video) — Well hello there again, Gigabyte X11. Hot on the heels of yesterday's leak, Gigabyte's just made its 11.6-inch X11 laptop (or is that an Ultrabook?) official.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Netflix iOS app update adds new video player, controls, Facebook sharing toggle and more — Recognising that its users are watching more and more of its content from a mobile device, Netflix has today pushed live an update to its iOS app, improving its video player and adding more controls and enhancements.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Reeling ACTA treaty rejected by three European Parliament committees — ACTA faces a final vote by the full European Parliament in July. — Momentum against Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continued to build on Thursday as three different committees of the European Parliament voted not to recommend adoption of the treaty.
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| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
RIAA Accuses Google Of Not Doing Enough To Fight Piracy, But May Be Guilty Of Not Doing Enough Itself — The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has once again come out swinging at Google, saying the company isn't doing enough to fight copyright infringement online.
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| Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Diffbot Raises $2M to Power Its Learning, Web Browsing Robot — The first startup out of Stanford's StartX student accelerator program, website form and content recognition engine Diffbot, is today announcing a $2 million round of funding from a select group of investors including Sky Dayton …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Vimeo Adds Customizable Music Options And A New, Cloud-Based Enhancer Tool — Online video site Vimeo has always sought to differentiate itself as a platform for high-quality video content. Now the IAC-owned video platform is now adding features to help creators enhance their videos and make even them more attractive to viewers.
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