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June 6, 2012, 10:55 PM

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Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked - change yours now — Already in the spotlight over concerns that its iOS app collects full meeting notes and details from a device's calendar and sends them back to the company in plain text, LinkedIn user accounts …

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Confirms Hack And Leak Of “Some” User Passwords — Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation. — Though most of the morning was spent claiming …

More: msnbc.com, ZDNet, Chris Shiflett, AllThingsD, Naked Security, Computerworld, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, Linkedin Blog, Engadget and Macworld

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

That Was Fast: Criminals Exploit LinkedIn Breach For Phishing Attacks

More: VentureBeat and ESET ThreatBlog

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Like LinkedIn, eHarmony is hacked; 1.5 million passwords stolen

More: The Verge, The Next Web, PC World, Ars Technica and PC Magazine

Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Google Earth to get radically better 3D images, new UI on iOS and Android — Google has announced its plans to improve 3D maps. It's using “automated technology to extract 3D from aerial images.” The effect is stunning, every building is competely modeled from street to roof.

More: Wall Street Journal, eWeek, The Register, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, PC World, BetaNews, ABCNEWS, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, Bits, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, Inquirer and Webomatica. Tweets: @dannysullivan

MG Siegler:

What Google Maps Actually Just Unveiled: Anxiety Over Apple Maps — You want to know how I know that Google is very concerned about the forthcoming launch of Apple's own mapping product for iOS? I simply followed the Google Maps press conference today. — The mere fact that Google decided …

More: Search Engine Land, Screenwerk, MacRumors and TechSpot

Brad Molen / Engadget:

Google Street View cars have driven 5 million unique miles, collected 20 petabytes of images

More: CNET, The Verge, The Next Web and PetaPixel

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Google launching Offline Maps for Android mobile users

More: The Official Google Blog, IntoMobile and All Points Blog

Tweets: @mxfh, @parislemon and @dcseifert

Bloomberg:

HTC Said To Be Shut Out Of Next Version Of Windows — HTC Corp. (2498) is being shut out of the introduction of Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s next Windows software, people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting off another source of revenue after HTC reduced its second-quarter sales forecast by 13 percent.

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, Engadget, Seattle Times, parislemon, Pocketnow and Daring Fireball

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

HTC stuck with inventory, weak Q2 revenue

More: BGR, Phones Review, The Verge and Reuters

IDC:

Android Expected to Reach Its Peak This Year as Mobile Phone Shipments Slow, According IDC — The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow slightly more than 4.0% year over year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate since 2009, due to a sharp decline in the feature phone market and sluggish global economic conditions.

Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:

Windows Phone To Top iOS Market Share By 2016, IDC Says

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

New Mac spec sheet leaks out, WWDC launch pricing and naming included — . — The image above represents the full pricing matrix for new devices expected to unveil in a few days at the Worldwide Developers Conference. You will notice the Mac Pros, Retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and iMacs that we discussed before at length.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone, The Verge, Redmond Pie, WebProNews, BGR, Los Angeles Times, The Register, Wired, iLounge, Webomatica, Apple Bitch and Gizmodo

Lucian Constantin / PC Advisor:

LinkedIn stops collecting calendar meeting notes through its mobile apps — LinkedIn updated its Android and iOS apps to no longer send calendar meeting notes back to its servers when calendar integration is enabled — LinkedIn has confirmed researcher claims that the calendar integration feature …

More: BBC, CNET, SC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, the Econsultancy blog, PC & Tech Authority, Skycure Security and Softpedia News

Joff Redfern / Linkedin Blog:

More about our mobile calendar feature

More: CNET, Guardian, The Verge, Los Angeles Times, Bits, The Mac Security Blog, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, The Register and App Advice. Tweets: @gartenberg

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

How Much Would The Average Person Pay For A Standalone HBO GO Subscription? About $12 A Month — Two years ago, HBO introduced HBO GO, giving fans a way to access all of their favorite programming online, on tablets and mobile devices, and increasingly on connected TV platforms.

More: GitHub, digitaltrends.com, Gawker, LAPTOP Magazine, BuzzFeed, CircleID, Deadline.com, Lost Remote, WebProNews and Business Insider

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

HBO Says No, for Now, to Fans Who Want a Web-Only Option

More: Wired, Doc Searls Weblog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, CNET and Daily Dot. Tweets: @hbo. See also Mediagazer

John Flowers / McSweeney's:

Prospectus for Silicon Valley's Next Hot Tech IPO, Where Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong — Form S-1 — Registration Statement — Under — The Securities Act of 1933 — Ponzify, Inc. — LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS — Forget Facebook. Forget Groupon. Forget everything you know about Silicon Valley.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Airfoil Speakers Touch back in App Store minus new feature, Apple apologizes for poor handling — After being pulled from the App Store late last month, without warning, AirFoil Speakers Touch is back in, but minus one feature. The app's developers, Rogue Amoeba, had to remove …

More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Under The Microscope, everythingiCafe, MacStories, Under The Microscope, iLounge and iDownloadBlog.com

Chris Dannen / Fast Company:

How Airbnb Earned Me $20,000 And A Restraining Order From My Landlord — For a heady year, cash and friendly faces flowed into my apartment, paying my rent while I scraped together money to build a startup I had dreamed about for months. My apartment photographed well and tourists love Brooklyn …

More: Betabeat

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple wants to keep Samsung's Galaxy S3 out of U.S. — Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone. — (Credit: Brian Bennett/CNET) — Excited shoppers weren't the only ones buying Samsung's latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, when it went on sale in the U.K. last month.

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, FOSS Patents, PC Magazine, BGR, Ars Technica and MobileBurn.com

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop — This is the ClamBook, a super-sleek, airier-that-Air thingamajig that has a 16:9 widescreen, a keyboard, and a battery. It will turn your iPhone or Android cell into a beautiful, ultra-thin laptop.

More: The Verge and Liliputing

Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:

Germany increases USB flash drive tax by over 2000 percent — Blank media tax was first introduced when the audio cassette became popular. It was arguedthat such media would have a negative impact on sales of commercial recordings, and so a secondary tax alongside sales tax was required …

More: Techdirt and Betabeat

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

A Big Venture Round for Crowdfunding: Indiegogo Raises $15M — Kickstarter may be the best-known brand in crowdfunding, but Indiegogo now has the biggest war chest. In a new round announced today, Indiegogo now has the backing of Insight Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Indiegogo Blog, Venture Capital Dispatch, broadstuff and VatorNews

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Oracle Introduces Corporate Cloud To Challenge Salesforce — Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world's largest database maker, has introduced a cloud-computing service to let corporate customers access data over the Internet, stepping up competition with Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) and Workday Inc.

More: CNET, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters, BetaNews and MarketWatch. Tweets: @larryellison

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Google patents location-based mobile alerts that know where you're going to — To date, the term smartphone's mostly been a misnomer for larger screen, albeit still dumb, handsets imbued with rich web browsing experiences. With the exception of the Galaxy S III's SmartStay feature and the Droid RAZR …

More: Android News, Rumours …, AndroidGuys and Android Phone Fans

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Angry Birds Space hits 100 million downloads in just 76 days — Further demonstrating the size of its pig-smashing franchise, Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Space has topped more than 100 million downloads, reaching the milestone in just 76 days. — The company shared the figure via …

More: CNET, Examiner and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @angrybirds

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Investment Values Web Retailer Fanatics at $1.5 Billion — Kynetic LLC is set to announce an investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Venture Partners that will value its sports apparel site Fanatics.com at $1.5 billion. — The two investment firms will invest a combined $150 million …

More: Wall Street Journal and Reuters

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