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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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msnbc.com, MacStories, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, Engadget, ExtremeTech, Webmonkey, Destructoid 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 … | Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
| 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 …
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Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, DailyFinance.com, The Seattle Times, Digits, AllThingsD, The Next Web, GigaOM, ZDNet, Macworld, Lifehacker, I4U News, dailywireless.org, Policy Blog, InfoWorld, Examiner, BGR, Pulse2 Technology …, Telecompetitor, The Verge, Engadget, Liliputing, VentureBeat, Mashable, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica, DSLreports, iPhone, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and Gizmodo
| 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 … | 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.
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BGR, The Next Web, WebProNews, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone, LiveSide.net and PhoneArena
| Charlie Sorrel / Cult of Mac: |
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TechCrunch and iDownloadBlog.com
| 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 … | 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 … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Spokesperson Confirms New Mac Pro and iMac Designs Likely Coming in 2013 — 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.”
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| 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.
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Forbes, Shiny Objects, Google Plus and 9to5Mac
| 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.
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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 …
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Reuters, Pulse2 Technology … and Tech Trader Daily
| 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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WebProNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macgasm, The Verge, MacRumors, App Advice, The Next Web 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 … | 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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msnbc.com, Sulake, TechCrunch, GamesIndustry International, Digital Media Wire, Telegraph, Channel 4, GigaOM, Daily Dot, The Next Web and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @paullafo
| 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.| 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.| 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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Techdirt, InfoWorld, The Oatmeal, TorrentFreak, WebProNews, GeekWire, Mashable, Slashdot, Plagiarism Today, Social Media, Gawker, Boing Boing, Daily Dot and TechCrunch
| 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 AllThingsD that it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. — The financing will enable …
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hipmunk blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology … and Tnooz
| 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.
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VatorNews, WebProNews, Business Insider and TechCrunch
| 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.
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Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, Inside Search, 9to5Google and WebProNews
| 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?
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Engadget, PetaPixel, The Verge, NBC Bay Area, Pulse2 Technology …, Macgasm, WebProNews, TUAW and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@thatdrew
| 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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ZDNet, 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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Venture Capital Dispatch, BetaKit, Fast Company, GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Next Web, VatorNews and AllThingsD
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft offers glimpse of Office 2013 on Windows RT tablet — Summary: Office 2013 RT seems to be the final branding for the Office 15 apps that will run on Windows RT tablets, based on a demo during a Microsoft TechEd presentation. — The June 12 Microsoft TechEd keynote was billed as being all about Windows 8 for business.
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Neowin, The Verge and The Next Web
| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
Former MySpacers move into social commerce with Uncovet — Between Pinterest and Fab and Fancy and Svpply and Wanelo and Lyst and many other similar startups, the social-meets-design-meets-commerce space is nothing if not crowded. But a couple of former MySpacers believe they can push through …
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PandoDaily, TechCrunch and Tech Cocktail
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia confirms PureView is coming to future Lumia Windows Phones — Nokia's PureView technology, first revealed in the company's Symbian 808 PureView handset, will arrive on future Lumia Windows Phones. The company previously hinted that other platforms would benefit from its 41-megapixel camera sensor …
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BGR, Windows Phone Sauce, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Know Your Mobile, Inquirer and Gizmodo
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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