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June 4, 2012, 12:25 AM

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The TV Business May Be Starting To Collapse  —  In the first decade of the commercial Internet—the 1990s and early 2000s—there were frequent murmurings that newspapers were screwed.  —  The digital audience didn't read newspapers, people pointed out.  They visited web sites.
Tweets: @mohamed and @uhsome
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Acer unveils 11.6-inch Iconia W700, 10.1-inch W510 Windows 8 tablets  —  And the flood of Windows tablets begins!  With only four months or so to go before Microsoft finalizes the OS, we had a feeling Computex 2012 would bring lots of Win8 devices, and it looks like we won't be disappointed.
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Exclusive: Instapaper for Android launches (hands-on)  —  While there are several places where Instapaper for Android falls short, there are a few places where Android really lets Marco Arment's concept spread its wings.  While Arment has done his best on iOS to incorporate sharing articles …
Tweets: @greyham
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
Samsung Galaxy S III to hit five US carriers in June, staring at $199 on contract  —  Samsung has just announced that AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular will all get the Galaxy S III in June, though “Exact pricing and retail availability will be announced by each of the five carriers …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Explores Access for Younger Kids  —  Facebook Inc. is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the social-networking site under parental supervision, a step that could help the company tap a new pool of users for revenue but also inflame privacy concerns.
More: Digits and DigitsTweets: @pkedrosky, @howardlindzon and @dkberman
Samuel Iglesias / Tea for iPhone:
“Tea.  Earl Grey.  Hot.”  What Would a Siri API Look Like?  —  It has been widely rumored that Siri will be supporting 3rd party apps.  Right now most heavy users of Siri have become accustomed to the multitude of apologies and I-don't-knows that accompany out-there queries.  Examples:
Tweets: @juliobarros and @dalmaer
David Pierce / The Verge:
Any.do task manager launches for iOS and Chrome, now syncs across platforms (hands-on)  —  Any.do is one of the most popular and acclaimed to-do list apps for Android, and today the company behind it is bringing the same app and experience to the iPhone and the Chrome browser.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
How Do Top Android Developers QA Test Their Apps?  —  A couple weeks ago I ran this post showing how one Hong Kong developer, Animoca, tests its Android games.  The company, which has had more than 70 million downloads, tests every one of their apps on about 400 different devices.
More: Guardian, Phones Review and NeowinThanks:@eldon

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Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop  —  Smartphones have transformed our daily lives.  A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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