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June 12, 2012, 1:05 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, 9to5Mac and Computerworld
| 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: |
Big Tech: Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple's Big Bet on Mobile — Just as the farm truck has faded, so will the PC in Apple's world. Photo: Puuikibeach — Almost exactly 2 years ago, Steve Jobs outlined his view of personal computing. We used to be an agrarian nation …
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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, Pogue's Posts, CNET and Hillicon Valley
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
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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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InfoWorld, Tech Trader Daily, LAPTOP Magazine, Digits, Ars Technica, ABCNEWS, Gizmodo, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Reuters, GigaOM, Business Insider, VentureBeat, DSLreports, 9to5Google, ZDNet, Examiner, CNET, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, USA Today, Policy Blog, BGR, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, Verizon Wireless News Center, App Advice, Liliputing, Mashable, Techland, Gotta Be Mobile, iClarified, iPhone, SlashGear, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and iDownloadBlog.com
| 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.| 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. Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Amazon releases Cloud Player app for iPhone and iPod — Amazon has just released its Cloud Player app for iOS devices, allowing iPhone and iPod users to play music stored in their Amazon Cloud Drive. The new Cloud Player app looks just like Amazon's Kindle app, and is available now in the App Store.| 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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| 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?| 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 … | 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
| 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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VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, hypebot, The Next Web and GigaOM
| 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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GeekWire, TorrentFreak, Mashable, The Oatmeal, Boing Boing, Slashdot, Social Media, Gawker, Daily Dot and TechCrunch
| Sara Mauskopf / Twitter Blog: |
Tailored Trends bring you closer — Trends help you discover the emerging topics people are talking about on Twitter. You can see these topics as a worldwide list, or select one of more than 150 locations. In order to show emerging topics that matter more to you, today we're improving …
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| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
UK regulator reopens investigation into Google Street View — It looks as though Google Street View is about to get into more hot water with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). — The Register has noted that Steve Eckersley, the ICO's head of enforcement has written a letter …
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The Register, Inquirer, GigaOM, PC Pro, V3.co.uk and TechWeekEurope UK
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Hipmunk Plans to Take Off Internationally With $15 Million in New Capital — Hipmunk, the offbeat travel site that has made “taking the agony out of travel planning” its tagline, tells All Things D that it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding.
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| 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
| 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
| 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, BetaKit, GigaOM, The Next Web and AllThingsD
| Matt Kelly / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook Integration for WordPress — Starting today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. — The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open source partners …
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TechCrunch and WordPress.com VIP
| 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, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, The Verge, VentureBeat, Seattle Times, Pulse2 Technology …, Bing and AllThingsD
| 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, Telegraph, SlashGear and The Register
| 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” … | 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).| 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 … | 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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