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May 31, 2012, 9:05 PM

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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) …

David Pierce / The Verge:

Windows 8 Release Preview: new apps, improvements, and Flash support (hands-on) — Two months after unleashing Windows 8 upon the world, Microsoft's back with the latest step toward the release of the company's next operating system: the Windows 8 Release Preview.

More: VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and Engadget

Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8 Release Preview: The Ultimate Delta Guide

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not covered by copyright law, related claims against Google dismissed — Things weren't looking good for Oracle after the jury found that Google hadn't infringed upon the company's patents in the second phase of the trial, but the issue of infringement of the structure …

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, eWeek, Techdirt, AllThingsD, The Register, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Computerworld, Mercury News, Guardian, Business Insider, GigaOM, Ars Technica, ZDNet, CNNMoney.com, Wired, NBC Bay Area, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, Boing Boing and Android Police

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Caleb Garling / Wired:

Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google

More: ZDNet, Ars Technica and GigaOM

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Google Spends Millions for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube — Google Applies for .Google, .Lol, .Youtube, .Docs and Many Others — Last month, Google told Ad Age that it was poised to go on a web-domain buying spree. Today, the company announced in a blog post …

More: Ars Technica, Business Insider, Hillicon Valley and CNNMoney.com. Thanks:@delrey

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains

More: The Official Google Blog, CNET, Technology Review, The Verge, Mashable!, SlashGear, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Domain Name Wire, PC Magazine and 9to5Google

Vygantas / Web Browser:

Facebook Drops Google Chrome Recommendation, Replaces It With Opera — More fuel to the rumor's fire. — It looks like Facebook management decided not to bother with the Google Chrome anymore as their latest “unsupported web browsers” page has since then removed the search giant's web browser.

More: CNET, 9to5Google, gHacks Technology News, BGR and WebProNews

Wall Street Journal:

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 …

More: IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, SlashGear and PhoneArena

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

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.

Karl Bode / DSLreports:

Cricket to Start Offering Prepaid iPhone - $55 for ‘Unlimited’ Talk, Text and Data (With Throttling)

More: ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web

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 …

More: Gizmodo

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.

More: The Next Web, CNET, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, Fox Business, Music Week, Hollywood Reporter, 9to5Google, Black Web 2.0 and Fortune

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Kleiner Perkins Adds Megan Quinn, Former Products Director At Square, As Newest Investment Partner — Megan Quinn, the web exec who most recently served as the Director of Products at credit card processing tech firm Square, has joined Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investment partner.

More: PE Hub Blog, Betabeat, Betabeat, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Fortune and CNET

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns — FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns a House committee that Google, iTunes, Facebook, and Netflix could face new international taxes. — (Credit: U.S. House of Representatives) — Democratic and Republican government officials warned …

More: digitaltrends.com, The Register, Google Public Policy Blog, Reuters, Ars Technica, Geekosystem and Reuters

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Spotted in the wild: Google+ Events feature on its way, with tie-in to Google Calendar — Google is putting a lot of effort into making its Google+ social network thing more robust to turn it into a viable competitor to market leader Facebook. One major feature Google+ was missing so far …

More: Marketing Land, Neowin and Engadget

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.

More: CNET, Los Angeles Times, Inside AdWords, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Journal, internetretailer.com, CPC Strategy, ExtremeTech, The Verge, GigaOM and WebProNews

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 …

More: TUAW, The Verge, Boing Boing and The Loop

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Looks Like Pinterest, Takes On Evernote: Clipboard Launches Its Web Clipping Service To All — At first glance, you might mistake Clipboard, the impressively-backed web clipping service, for yet another Pinterest clone. But any similarities are only skin deep.

More: BetaKit, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Virtual-Strategy Magazine and GeekWire. Thanks:@sarahintampa

John Letzing / Wall Street Journal:

Google Points Antitrust Finger at Microsoft, Nokia — Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe arguing that Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology.

More: Engadget, GigaOM, Los Angeles Times, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, Reuters and Dow Jones Newswire

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

A Great Firewall? Google Now Warns Chinese Users When Search Terms Could Cause “Connection Issues” — Those who don't live or haven't recently traveled to China may not have experienced this first hand, but Google Search has been known to be “inconsistent and unreliable” in mainland China — to use Google's words.

More: Inside Search, CNET, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

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 …

More: Computerworld, Engadget, Macgasm, TUAW, Redmond Pie and AllThingsD. Tweets: @allthingsd

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 …

More: CNET, Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, Neowin, The Next Web, WebProNews, AllFacebook, Marketing Land and The Verge

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight teardown reveals e-reader's light distribution secrets — The folks at iFixit recently tore apart the Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight and, as they are wont to do, have offered up a detailed run-down analyzing the device's innards.

More: Engadget and GigaOM

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Kickstarter Responds To Hidden “Failed Project” Claims — Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, dropped us a line about the systems in place to “hide” failed projects. He told us that Kickstarter does indeed hide many projects from search robots, but it's for a good cause.

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.

More: TUAW, App Advice, The Official Netflix Blog, CNET, Macgasm, PC Magazine, WebProNews and Softpedia News

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