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June 13, 2012, 9:20 AM

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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 …

Peter Ha / TechCrunch:

Confirmed: Waze And Others Contributing To Apple's iOS 6 Maps' Crowd Sourced Traffic Data — Shortly after yesterday's Apple WWDC keynote there was plenty of chatter amongst the pundits, journalists and developers about which apps Apple had screwed over with iOS 6.

More: The Next Web and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @mg. Thanks:@eldon

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet:

Apple just entered — and quite possibly killed — another market

More: AllThingsD

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: Fast Company, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, GigaOM, CNET, AllTwitter, PC World, Pulse2 Technology …, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Daily Dot, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, Marketing Land, Softpedia News and Betabeat. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Twitter, Facebook, and Airtime Are Waging War Against The Internet's Stupidity

More: Mashable!

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: Macworld, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, VR-Zone, AppleInsider, Engadget, Marco.org, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, MacDailyNews, Ars Technica, parislemon, Lockergnome, Softpedia News, iClarified, The Loop, Forbes, Pulse2 Technology … and Photography Bay

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

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

More: Softpedia News, CNET, Apple Fan Site, MacStories, Apple Bitch and CNET

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others scramble for new top-level domains like .app, .xbox, and .book — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed the names of the 1,930 applications for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDS).

More: ICANN New gTLDs, CNET, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Inquirer, MobileSyrup.com and Guardian

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history

More: Business Insider and Domain Name Wire

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: The Verge, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, TechSpot, The Next Web, Daring Fireball and Softpedia News

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The high-school blogger who's been cracking Apple's secrets — In the walk-up to this week's big keynote, nobody had more scoops than Mark Gurman — Gurman at WWDC. Photo: PED — FORTUNE — Trying to scope out Apple's (AAPL) product plans in advance is serious business for a small army …

More: Bloomberg Tech Blog. Thanks:@philiped

iFixit:

MacBook Pro with Retina Display Teardown — This is it: The Chosen One of MacBook Pros. While other MBPs were gifted only the standard annual updates, this particular model was bestowed with a Retina display, a thinner profile, two Thunderbolt ports, a full sized HDMI port, and less annoying cooling fans.

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and Boing Boing

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:

Why Zynga is Shedding Users — Social gaming company Zynga had an outstanding 2011, leading to a well-hyped IPO in December. But Zynga's biggest risk was always an over-reliance on Facebook, with most of its revenue and users coming from the social network.

More: Media Money …, Reuters, The New Persuaders, MarketBeat and GamesIndustry International

Trevor Sheridan / AppleNApps:

iOS 6 Hands-On: iTunes Match Now Streams Music — One of the new additions to iCloud and iTunes was iTunes Match, which is a service that lets you store your iTunes library in iCloud. It costs $24.99/year, and the system works by matching any of your music with the iTunes Store, and any unmatched songs are uploaded.

More: iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac and TechCrunch

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Probes Cable for Limits on Net Video — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is conducting a wide-ranging antitrust investigation into whether cable companies are acting improperly to quash nascent competition from online video, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: GigaOM, Deadline.com, The Verge, Engadget and CNET. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Samsung Wants To Automate Your Phone With NFC-Equipped TecTiles — Samsung has a handful of NFC-equipped phones, like the Galaxy S II and III, and the Galaxy Nexus, but little has been done to put the technology to use. Sure, there's Google Wallet and other mobile payment platforms …

More: Inquirer, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, BGR, AllThingsD, Mashable!, ABCNEWS, LAPTOP Magazine, GigaOM, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, The Verge and BGR

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

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Amazon's cloud music service will soon be licensed (scoop) — Amazon executives are close to striking license deals with music studios to cover the company's cloud music service, numerous music industry sources told CNET. — Amazon already has reached agreements with Universal Music Group …

More: BGR and iDownloadBlog.com

Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com:

Developer gets iOS apps running on BlackBerry, for real (we asked for more evidence and got it) — This past Saturday a thread popped up in the CrackBerry Forums by new member businesscat2000, titled iOS Apps running on PlayBook! The thread linked to this video on youtube …

More: MobileSyrup.com and Pocketnow

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Bans Minors — A popular social networking app that 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: Betabeat, Social Markets, CNET, Business Insider, Computerworld, The Skout Blog, Gizmodo, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, Los Angeles Times, AllThingsD, msnbc.com and Daily Dot

Melanie Pinola / Lifehacker:

Google Blockly Is a Visual, Drag-and-Drop Tool for Building Apps and Learning to Code — Curious about programming and want to build your own app, but feel a bit intimidated? Google Blockly is a visual programming language that can help you get started quickly.The webapp lets …

More: Off On A Tangent and The Verge

Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:

Tin Pan Valley: The Coming Shakeout for App Makers — Like the Early Music Industry, Today's Apps Are ‘Made’ By Marketing, Sales — They were 20-somethings emboldened by new technology. If they were shrewd, they just might get rich. — These inventors and wheedlers, dreamers and hucksters …

More: Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @pkafka

Leo Kelion / BBC:

Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust — Linus Torvalds developed Linux in 1991 while at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He became a US citizen in 2010. — Linux creator Linus Torvalds will find out later if he has won the Millennium Technology Prize …

More: GigaOM

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: IntoMobile, DigitalDeconstruction.com, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, Examiner, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Engadget

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Maps in iOS 6 will require A5 processor for 3D “flyover,” navigation

More: Gizmodo, Payments Views …, CNET, PhoneArena, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Phones Review, Jon Burg's Future Visions, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, MobileBurn.com, Macworld and BGR

Jacob Aron / New Scientist:

Kinect to watch your emotions and serve up ads — Online adverts are already tailored to your search and browsing history, but now Microsoft has plans to add emotions to the mix. In a recently revealed patent application the company suggests that using its Kinect sensor to analyse your face …

More: Engadget, PC Magazine and BGR

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

FBI halted one child porn inquiry because Tor got in the way — Feds closed “assessment” of child porn found on Silk Road, a Tor hidden service. — Enlarge / The FBI appears to have been stymied by Tor on at least one occasion. — Kalavinka — A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) …

More: 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: Fortune, WMPoweruser, Neowin, Business Insider and Betabeat

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