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June 12, 2012, 12:20 PM
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis — I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible. Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving users enough reasons to want this thing.
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Engadget, ExtremeTech, Computerworld and 9to5Mac
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
MacBook Pro with Retina display ships in ‘2-3 weeks’ — (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) — Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display stole the show at yesterday's Worldwide Developers Conference. But the contention by Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Andy Hertzfeld blasts Apple over Mac Pro neglect — Hertzfeld argues that “the only thing that's still high-end about [the Mac Pro] is the bloated price.” — Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team and current Google employee, has taken a swipe at his former employer over the Mac Pro.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple's Big Bet on Mobile — Almost exactly 2 years ago, Steve Jobs outlined his view of personal computing. We used to be an agrarian nation, he explained, and as a result our vehicles were largely trucks. As the country became more urban and suburban …
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Apple, Techland, Pulse2 Technology …, ZDNet, Google Plus, Apple, AppleTell and Digital Inspiration …
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Apple Steps Up Rivalry With Google — Apple Inc. unveiled a series of software features for its mobile phones and computers Monday that place erstwhile partner Google Inc. squarely in its path. — Speaking at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco …
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New York Times, The Atlantic Wire, CNET, Hillicon Valley, Pogue's Posts and WebProNews
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Verizon Overhauls Its Rate Plans, Focusing on Shared Data — In a major shakeup to how it handles its billing, Verizon Wireless plans to start charging customers almost exclusively based on how much data they are using, rather than on the amount of phone calls or text messages sent.
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LAPTOP Magazine, Tech Trader Daily, Digits, Ars Technica, ABCNEWS, Gizmodo, GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Verizon Wireless News Center, DSLreports, Reuters, CNET, Business Insider, Engadget, USA Today, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, BGR, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, App Advice, iPhone, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, Liliputing, Techland, iClarified, SlashGear, PhoneArena and IntoMobile
| Tom Simonite / Technology Review: |
The Antivirus Era Is Over — Conventional security software is powerless against sophisticated attacks like Flame, but alternative approaches are only just getting started. — Continue » — Tom Simonite … Views| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Exclusive: Sprint Touch Wallet slides show carrier is serious about NFC wallet app — Last week we heard that Sprint was developing their own NFC-based mobile wallet application, and today an insider has passed along to us a couple presentation slides to let us know that it's real.| Apple: |
iOS 6 — It will take your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in entirely new directions — iOS 6 gives you more features to make the things you do every day even better. It's coming this fall, and it's free and easy to upgrade wirelessly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch — the moment it's available.
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Engadget, LiveSide.net, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Washington Post, RyanSpoon.com, PhoneArena, The Huffington Post, Apple, Zatz Not Funny!, MediaNama, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacStories, memeburn, SocialTimes, eWeek, Examiner, iClarified, Pocketables, ZDNet, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Network Garden, GeekSugar, IntoMobile, FT Alphaville, Digital Inspiration …, Mobile Magazine, SlashGear, Hillicon Valley, Forbes and App Advice. See also Mediagazer
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Camera app gets a new name: Camera •. Yes, “•” — When Facebook launched its Camera app, many of us noticed that when it was displayed on your home screen, it simply said “Camera.” How could Apple let them get away with that, as its the same name as their own built-in app?| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet — Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet — The saga of FunnyJunk vs. The Oatmeal takes an unexpected turn. — There's an excellent chance Mr. Carreon's mother does not look like this.
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TorrentFreak, Mashable, Social Media, Slashdot, The Oatmeal, Gawker, Boing Boing, Daily Dot, TechCrunch and Betabeat
| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Google's Tim Bray drafts new HTTP status code for censorship — XML co-inventor and Android Developer Advocate Tim Bray is submitting a draft for a new HTTP Status Code to be used when resources aren't available because of legal restrictions. The code, 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons …
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Betabeat, The H Open Source and tbray.org
| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Go to school, get a Lumia 900: all incoming Seton Hall University freshmen to receive a Windows Phone — Granted, this'll be just one more way for upperclassmen to quickly identify the newbies, but all incoming freshmen to New Jersey's Seton Hall University will be given a Nokia Lumia 900 upon orientation …
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LAPTOP Magazine, PC Magazine, GeekWire, PC World, Betabeat, Nokia Conversations, The Verge, GadgeTell and Gizmodo
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Money Management App Lemon Launches Digital Wallet, Closes $8 Million Series A — Lemon.com, the company behind the handy cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker mobile app, has now expanded its platform to include digital wallet functionality. And it has just landed an $8 million Series A, too.
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VatorNews, Fast Company, VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Next Web, BetaKit, AllThingsD and FierceMobileContent
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Twitter Has Moved Into Its New Office, And It's Gorgeous — It's a beautiful day in San Francisco: sunny but not too hot, a nice breeze but not too windy. — So a lot of Twitter employees had lunch out on the rooftop garden of their office. — Their brand-new office, that is …
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Twitter Blog, Softpedia News and AllTwitter
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify App Soundrop Tunes Into First Investment: $3M From Spotify Lead Backer Northzone — Spotify's move last year to open its platform to other apps has created more stickiness for its streamed music services. Now, one of the startups based around that idea has found some traction of its own …
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The Next Web and GigaOM
| Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
Apple Pulls Messages For Mac Beta Ahead Of Mountain Lion Launch Next Month — If you haven't already installed the Messages application on your Mac, you will now have to wait until OS X Mountain Lion is released next month to get your hands on it. The Messages for Mac beta …
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MacRumors, The Verge, Macgasm, The Next Web and App Advice
| Sara Yin / PC Magazine: |
LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts — LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application. — The file contained an unusually detailed trove … | Darrell Etherington / BetaKit: |
Qwiki Partners With Bing, Nabbing Prime-Time Search Real Estate — Qwiki, the interactive online story-creation tool, is announcing a new partnership with Bing today. Now, Qwiki's will be prominently displayed directly in search results for select Wikipedia entries, giving searchers …
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TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, The Verge, VentureBeat and Bing
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
New Ebook Player? UK Supermarket Giant Sainsbury's Buys HMV's 64% Stake In Anobii For £1 — A sudden, but perhaps unsurprising, bit of e-book M&A today in the UK: the music and entertainment company HMV is selling its 64 percent stake in e-book retailer Anobii to the supermarket chain Sainsbury's …
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Inquirer, J Sainsbury plc, paidContent, BBC, Guardian, The Register, Telegraph and SlashGear
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Says the Facebook Ads It Didn't Sell Work Great — Here's Facebook's retort to people who say Facebook ads don't work: A study that says people who see brand messages on the site spend more money on those brands, right away. — The catch: The study focuses on “earned media” … | Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM: |
Samwers kill their Fab clone after just six months — Just months after the Samwer brothers courted controversy by cloning design sales site Fab.com, they are about to close their copycat site, Bamarang, down. — German media has reported that the site, which was launched … | Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel: |
Habbo exposed as paedophile haven — Balderton Capital will return its 13 per cent stake in social gaming company Sulake at zero value after learning that one of the company's products, Habbo, is to be engulfed in a child sex scandal by Channel 4. — Finnish social gaming company Sulake …
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Telegraph, TechCrunch, GigaOM, The Next Web, Channel 4, Sulake and GamesIndustry International. Tweets: @paullafo
| Bloomberg: |
PayPal to Offer E-Commerce on TV Sets With Comcast, TiVo — EBay Inc. (EBAY) (EBAY)'s PayPal payment service will join with cable company Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) (CMCSA) and set-top box maker TiVo Inc. (TIVO) (TIVO) to let television viewers donate money and buy goods from their TV sets using a remote control.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Two years after acquisition, CityDeal co-founders leave Groupon — A little over two years after Germany's CityDeal was acquired by social buying site Groupon in a push into Europe, its co-founders Daniel P. Glasner and Philipp Magin are leaving the company, reports Deutsche Startups (in German).| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Spotify Android update hits Google Play today, brings Last.fm scrobbling with it — Remember that Android Spotify app we saw way back in April? After a couple of months, it seems that the music streaming service finally has a version for those who appreciate the more stable things in life.
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9to5Google, BGR, The Next Web, Inquirer, CNET, The Verge, Pocketnow, VentureBeat and Android Phone Fans
| Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: |
Broadcast moves beyond the TV set as 17% of consumers get network content on multiple screens — People who watch a network's video online also spend 25 percent more time watching that network on their television sets, according to a new comScore study. From the report:
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