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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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| 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.| Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows: |
| 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 …
| 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.
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| 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 …
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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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| 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.| 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.
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| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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.| 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.
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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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