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June 12, 2012, 8:45 AM

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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.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Three Takeaways From Today's WWDC Keynote  —  1.  —  On the software side, Apple has — dare I say finally — become a company that can walk and chew gum at the same time.  Remember back in 2007 when Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) was delayed six months because, Apple flat-out admitted …
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Watch this: Apple's WWDC 2012 keynote video now live  —  If following our liveblog today wasn't enough for you, Apple has posted its video of its entire WWDC 2012 keynote presentation.  The whole two-hour event is available to stream, though only if you're using Safari — we tried in Chrome and Firefox and had no luck.
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
More: CNET
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.
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
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
Thanks:@tsimonite
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 charing customers almost exclusively based on how much data they are using, rather than on the amount of phone calls or text messages sent.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
IBM, Activision Blizzard latest heavyweights to oppose Xbox import ban requested by Google  —  Interesting statements on public interest considerations keep showing up on the ITC document system.  The two latest submissions were made by IBM and Activision Blizzard, both of which oppose …
More: PC World
Lois Beckett / ProPublica:
How Microsoft and Yahoo Are Selling Politicians Access to You  —  Microsoft and Yahoo are selling political campaigns the ability to target voters online with tailored ads using names, Zip codes and other registration information that users provide when they sign up for free email and other services.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Seagate's Backup Plus hard drives sync and share files to Facebook, Flickr  —  Backing up your files is more important than ever, so it's no surprise Seagate told us the company's external hard drive business is booming.  Online storage and social networking are booming too, though …

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