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| ICANN New gTLDs: |
Reveal Day 13 June 2012 - New gTLD Applied-For Strings — ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet's addressing system. What is a gTLD? It is an Internet domain name extension such as the familiar .com, .net, or .org.
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| 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).
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Icann criticised over ‘commercial landgrab’ — Amazon and Google dominate applications for new top-level domains, including .app, .shop, .book, .love, .amazon and .google — More than 1,000 new internet “top level domains” - such as .app, .kids, .love, .pizza and also .amazon and .google …
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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.| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Retina MacBook Pro is the least repairable laptop ever, says iFixit — Apple's new MacBook Pro with Retina Display is ridiculously fast and thin — but you can forget about ever taking it apart. — The repair gurus at iFixit unveiled their teardown of the Retina MacBook Pro this morning …
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| 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 … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Analysis: Apple's big enemy in smartphone wars: delay — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has spent nearly three years fighting its rivals in a global smartphone patent war. Now, setbacks in two key U.S. court cases are laying bare why a drawn-out battle could be bad news for the iPhone maker.| 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 FORTUNE — Trying to scope out Apple's (AAPL) product plans in advance is serious business for a small army of tech journalists … | 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.
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Google Operating System, Waxy.org, ZDNet, Grist, MacNN, Dwight Silverman's TechBlog, IntoMobile and TUAW. Tweets: @mg. Thanks:@eldon
| 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 …
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| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
HTC Resists Push Toward Low-End Phones — TAIPEI—Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. will stick to its strategy of selling medium- to high-priced phones, even though it has been struggling to compete in that price range where Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are increasingly dominant.
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TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, Reuters, MobileBurn.com, IntoMobile and FierceWireless
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Skype For Windows Now Features “Conversation Ads” — Skype just announced that it will now begin to show some of its users ads during 1:1 audio calls. These so-called “conversation ads” will only appear for users who don't have Skype credit or a subscription and, for the time being …
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CNET, Ars Technica, ZDNet, PC Magazine, The Verge, The Big Blog and NBC Bay Area
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
DreamWorks Incubates a Mobile Video Editing App Called PTCH — A team spun off from the studio behind “Shrek” and “Madagascar” wants to make the next Instagram. — DreamWorks Animation is incubating a new social photo and video app called PTCH, which is being independently built … | 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.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
My Xbox Live update for iPhone brings direct remote control, Android users join the party too — As much as we liked the My Xbox Live app on iOS, it left out any practical control of a real, live Xbox 360 — and left Android users in the cold. The 1.5 update to the app puts those issues largely … | Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Amazon getting cloud-music rights, may match iCloud (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 …
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The Verge, Engadget, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and Pulse2 Technology …
| Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
Dell Seeks $2 Billion In Cost Cuts Over Next Three Years — Dell Inc. (DELL), the world's third-largest maker of personal computers, will focus on data-center gear as well as computing software and services while seeking to cut costs by more than $2 billion over the next three years.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple fails to fend off mobile tracking lawsuit — (Reuters) - Apple Inc must defend against a lawsuit accusing it of letting advertisers secretly track the activity of millions of mobile device users, a federal judge ruled, but Google Inc and several other defendants were dismissed from the case.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl — We've covered plenty of stories concerning Apple's ridiculously arbitrary nature as the gatekeeper for iOS apps, approving or pulling them with little reason. And, of course, we've discussed a variety of ridiculous patent lawsuits …
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Uncommon Sense, The Register and App Advice
| Daniel Rubino / wpcentral: |
Supposed leaked screenshots of Windows Phone 8 Apollo appear, show off Skype and Lenses — With less than week before Microsoft is expected to show off Windows Phone 8 in San Francisco, some leaked (and terrible looking) screenshots have appeared on the site Nokia Innovation.| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
State Department speaks out on Amazon Kindle deal — On Monday, I reported that the U.S. State Department was signing a $16.5 million agreement with Amazon to provide Kindles, content and service for overseas English language programs. Yesterday I was able to get on the phone … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Another Big Exit For NY Startups: SinglePlatform Gets Acquired For $100 Million By Constant Contact — SinglePlatform has been acquired for $100 million by small business marketing tools company, Constant Contact. — Constant Contact has over 500,000 paying small business customers and 1,060 employees.
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TechCrunch, The Tech Trade, VatorNews, Betabeat, AllThingsD, The Next Web and WebProNews. Thanks:@mattbruck
| 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 …
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Guardian and Wall Street Journal
| Erin Bury / BetaKit: |
Cvent Acquires Seed Labs for $4.2M to Bolster Consumer and Mobile Event Apps — Today cloud-based event management company Cvent announced that it has acquired Seed Labs, a startup that specializes in mobile apps for consumer and social events including concerts, festivals and sporting events, for $4.2 million.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and PandoDaily
| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Samsung aiming for complete mobile domination with rumored Facebook competitor — Samsung's made no secret of its ambitions to commandeer all aspects of mobile tech — from devices themselves to processors and software like ChatON and the recently announced Siri competitor S Voice.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Amazon inks MGM deal to bring classic movies and TV shows to Prime Instant Video — Amazon has today announced a licensing agreement with MGM which will see hundreds of classic movies and TV shows added to its Prime Instant Video catalog throughout 2012. — Amazon Instant Video …
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| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Acer unveils $450 Iconia Tab A700: 1920 x 1200 display and Tegra 3 under the hood — With new laptop announcements coming practically every other day as of late, a tablet unveiling is a nice change of pace. We have Acer to thank for that, as it's lifting the curtain on the 10-inch Iconia Tab A700.
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
DepositFiles Settles Multi Million Dollar Piracy Lawsuit — As one of the largest files-sharing sites on the Internet, DepositFiles is visited by millions of users per day. — After the Megaupload shutdown the cyberlocker appeared to be one of the top alternatives.| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Square now processes $6b in payments annually, employs over 300 people; hires CFO — Jack Dorsey's mobile payments venture, Square, has hired Sarah Friar away from Salesforce.com, where she served as SVP of Finance & Strategy. — Friar will become Square's first chief financial officer …
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