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June 12, 2012, 8:05 PM

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Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Verizon Intros Share Everything Plans: Unlimited Talk/Text And Shared Data For Up To 10 Devices — Verizon Wireless today announced the addition of Share Everything plans. They're essentially family plans, allowing you, mom, dad, and big or little brother or sister to share from a pool …

Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:

The Death of Unlimited Data: What It Means, and How You Can Keep Your Unlimited Data Plan

More: Computerworld

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple's Ping to End With a Thud in Next Release of iTunes — Apple has finally acknowledged what the market has been telling it since it first debuted Ping, its social network for music, in September of 2010. The service is a failure. — And rather than continue to maintain Ping …

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, MacStories, Apple Fan Site and iPhone in Canada Blog

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.

More: BetaNews, msnbc.com, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, MacRumors, ExtremeTech, Webmonkey, Engadget, Destructoid and Computerworld

Don Reisinger / CNET:

MacBook Pro with Retina Display ships in ‘2-3 weeks’

More: MacRumors, Forbes, 9to5Mac, BGR, Macgasm, TUAW and The Verge

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review

More: Macworld and Computerworld. Thanks:@mspoonauer

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 …

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM, CNET, Computerworld, PC Magazine, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, AllTwitter, Mashable!, Business Insider, The Verge, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Complex.com, Daily Dot and Gizmodo. Tweets: @joshconstine

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Maps in iOS 6 will require A5 processor for 3D “flyover,” navigation — iPhone 3GS in particular will get a reduced feature set in iOS 6. — iOS 6 promises to bring lots of new features to iPhone and iPad users—more than 200, according to Apple's count.

More: Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, BGR, Macworld, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile and PhoneArena

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Will your iOS device get all of the new iOS 6 features? Here's the official word — As iOS 6 officially unveiled yesterday, we noted a few of the features—such as Siri and FaceTime—would only be available on certain iOS devices. Ars Technica noticed the 3D flyover feature of Apple's …

More: WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile and TechCrunch

Charlie Sorrel / Cult of Mac:

New iOS 6 Privacy Settings Limit Access To Photos, Contact, Calendars And More

More: TechCrunch

Matt Kelly / Facebook Developer Blog:

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 …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, PC World, WordPress.com VIP, Tip Desk, Inside Facebook, WebProNews and Softpedia News

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Spokesperson Confirms New Mac Pro Designs Likely Coming in 2013 [Update: Not iMac] — Yesterday, David Pogue of The New York Times vaguely stated in reference to Apple's desktop Mac lines that an unnamed Apple executive had informed him that “new models and new designs are under way, probably for release in 2013.”

More: 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Marco.org, MacDailyNews, Forbes, Forbes and internetnews.com

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Admits ‘New’ Mac Pro Isn't All That New

More: MacStories, Pogue's Posts, Apple Bitch, Macgasm and Softpedia News

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Andy Hertzfeld blasts Apple over Mac Pro neglect

More: Forbes, 9to5Mac, Shiny Objects and Google Plus

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces Crisis — A popular social networking app has been used by adults to prey on minors in three rape cases is the latest cautionary tale of the potential risks of using technology to connect with people you don't know.

More: Social Markets, CNET, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat and Business Insider

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 …

More: Slate, CNET, Guardian, Techland, Telegraph, iPhone, Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, Forbes, MediaNama and Royal Pingdom

Horace Dediu / asymco:

The iOS App market sales run rate is $4 billion per year

More: Inside Mobile Apps and Wall Street Journal

Theo Valich / VR-Zone:

Microsoft charges Tablet OEMs a whopping $85 for Windows RT … During our meetings with multiple vendors on the Computex Taipei, we were talking about pricing options for taking the Windows RT route instead of (free) Android from Google. While it was rumored that Microsoft decided to change …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, Daring Fireball, TechSpot, Softpedia News and The Tech Report

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 …

More: TechCrunch, Sulake, GamesIndustry International, msnbc.com, Telegraph, Channel 4, GigaOM, Daily Dot, The Next Web, GamePolitics blogs and Digital Media Wire. Tweets: @paullafo

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Amidst child sex scandal, Habbo “mutes” its entire site while it investigates its users' behavior

Tweets: @habbo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows Phone 8: Nokia Maps will reportedly replace Bing Maps with 3D navigation — We're just just over a week away from Microsoft's promised “sneak peek” at the future of Windows Phone and details about the next mobile operating system appear to be leaking out.

More: wpcentral, BGR, CNET, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Gizmodo, FierceMobileContent, Neowin and LiveSide.net

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia confirms PureView is coming to future Lumia Windows Phones

More: Windows Phone Sauce, TechCrunch, Know Your Mobile and Inquirer

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history — Frank Schilling is betting big on new domain extensions. — (Credit: Frank Schilling) — Frank Schilling made his fortune in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, buying up thousands of domain names others didn't want.

More: Domain Name Wire and Business Insider

Steven Russolillo / MarketBeat:

Zynga Shares Plunge Below $5; Circuit Breaker Triggered — Zynga shares are getting pummeled today as broad worries about the company's user base have triggered yet another selloff. — Zynga dropped as much as 13%, tripped a short-sale circuit breaker and fell below $5 …

More: The New Persuaders, the Econsultancy blog, GamesIndustry International, WebProNews, Reuters and Pulse2 Technology …

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Yext lands $27M to perfect local business listings — New York City-based Yext, a company that offers a simple way to control your business data across more than 50 local search publishers, announced today that it has landed an additional $27 million in a fifth round of funding.

More: WebProNews, VatorNews and Business Insider

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Updates “Hot Searches” With Images & Stories — Google has announced an update to Hot Searches, formerly known as Google Hot Trends. The update gives the page a more magazine look with images from news papers, news stories, related searches, and more. But it appears to remove the ability to search for hot trends by date.

More: Search Engine Watch, Inside Search, 9to5Google and Softpedia News

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 …

More: WebProNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macgasm, MacRumors, The Verge, App Advice and MacNN

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 …

More: ZDNet and Dwight Silverman's TechBlog. Thanks:@tsimonite

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.

More: IntoMobile, MobileBurn.com, PC Magazine, Pocketables, Know Your Cell, Android Authority, NFC World, Macgasm, Android News, Rumours …, Gizmodo, DroidMatters.com and The Verge

Bill Rigby / Reuters:

Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists — (Reuters) - The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer. — Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world.

More: WMPoweruser, Neowin, Betabeat and Business Insider

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.

More: The Oatmeal, Techdirt, InfoWorld, TorrentFreak, Slashdot, Plagiarism Today, Social Media, WebProNews, Gawker, Mashable and GeekWire

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