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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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AllThingsD, New York Times and TechCrunch
Tweets: @peterrojas, @levie, @johnpaczkowski and @corxo
| 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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ReadWriteWeb, Techdirt, SlashGear, PC World, Forbes, ZDNet, New York Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Wired, VentureBeat, CNET, Nieman Journalism Lab, Domain Name News, CircleID, Engadget, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica, TechWeekEurope UK, Media Decoder, Betabeat, Washington Post, BGR, Search Engine Watch, MOTHERBOARD, the Econsultancy blog, memeburn, Xconomy, BuzzFeed, ABCNEWS, I4U News, Evolver.fm, WebProNews, Marketing Land, GeekWire, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, LJ INFOdocket, AdExchanger.com, USA Today, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Fast Company, MacDailyNews, Examiner, Hillicon Valley, The Next Web, TPM IdeaLab and TechFlash. Thanks:@stuartdredge. See also Mediagazer
| Michael Sippey / Twitter Blog: |
Experience more with expanded Tweets — Starting today, you can discover more interactive experiences inside any Tweet on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com. When you expand Tweets containing links to partner websites, you can now see content previews, view images, play videos and more.
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro with Retina display review — Apple's new flagship is powerful, thin, and has an industry-leading high-res screen — does it live up to great expectations? Though Apple quietly discontinued the 17-inch MacBook Pro this week, hardly a tear was shed.| 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.| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
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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.| Betabeat: |
Kleiner Perkins ‘Vigorously Denies’ Ellen Pao's Gender Discrimination Claims — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has filed a response to partner Ellen Pao's allegations of gender discrimination and boy howdy, they did not hold back. We've obtained a copy, and here's the meat and potatoes:
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| Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company: |
Building The Next Internet, 250 Times Faster — Developers in 25 cities are getting a playdate with GENI, an ultra-fast broadband sandbox, with the goal of building apps that push beyond the limits of today's Net. — The series of tubes that make up the Internet are getting bigger.
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| Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley: |
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
How Facebook keeps 100 petabytes of Hadoop data online — It's no secret that Facebook stores a lot of data — 100 petabytes, in fact — in Hadoop, but how it keeps that data available whenever it needs it isn't necessarily common knowledge. Today at the Hadoop Summit, however … | Andrew Conway / Cloudmark Blog: |
The Social Network That Cried “Wolf!” — If you're reading this blog, then you're probably aware that last week 6.5 million Linkedin passwords were compromised. On Friday the Cloudmark Research team saw a huge increase in user spam reports relating to resetting Linkedin passwords.
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| Peter Cohen / The Loop: |
Why Game Center for Mountain Lion is a big deal — Why Game Center for Mountain Lion is a big deal — Game Center is coming to Mountain Lion when it debuts next month (you can get a bit more info on Apple's “What's New” Web page). This is a really big deal for gamers …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
With A Beautiful New Redesign, Unroll.me Comes Out Of Beta To Roll Up All Your Junk Email Subscriptions — Unroll.me launched in private beta a few months ago to help end email fatigue — specifically that which is linked to all the email subscriptions that users sign up for and forget about.
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| 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.| Kevin Morris / Daily Dot: |
Reddit bans “The Atlantic,” “Businessweek,” others in major anti-spam move — Reddit just dropped the banhammer. — As of today, more than a half-dozen prominent websites have been banned from the massively popular link-sharing site, including digital publishing heavyweights The Atlantic and PhysOrg.| 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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| Kimber Streams / The Verge: |
Disney launches streaming apps for the iPhone and iPad, Comcast gets them first — Disney is launching three apps for the iPhone and iPad that give users to access programming previously only available on cable: Watch Disney Channel, Watch Disney XD, and Watch Disney Junior.
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| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Judge says bank can't use Facebook to reach defendant — try local paper instead — In the latest example of courts' unease with social media, a federal judge has refused a request by Chase Bank to serve legal papers on an identity thief via Facebook. — In an order issued Friday in Manhattan …
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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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| 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 …
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Gizmodo, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, The Loop and Stowe Boyd. Thanks:@philiped
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Exchange: A New Way For Advertisers To Target Specific Users With Real-Time Bid Ads — Facebook is testing and will soon launch Facebook Exchange, a real-time bidding ad system where visitors to third-party websites are marked with a cookie, and can then be shown real-time bid ads related …
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The New Persuaders, CNET, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Inside Facebook, Mashable! and Bloomberg. Tweets: @erickschonfeld. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
REVEALED! Here's Who Owns How Much Of Square — Jack Dorsey's payments startup, Square, has just hired a CFO and it's in the hunt for a reported $250 million round of fresh financing that would value it at anywhere between $2.5 billion and $4 billion, according to who you talk to.
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Market Wire, The Next Web, VatorNews, GigaOM, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, Fortune, VentureBeat and AllThingsD
| 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 …
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PC World, 9to5Mac, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, TechCrunch, GigaOM, TUAW, The Verge and WMPoweruser
| 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 …
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Aviary launches photo editing application on iOS, turns Android plugin into an app — Last we heard, Aviary was being chosen to replace the deceased Picnik as the main photo editor on Flickr, and now the startup is getting ready to launch its first iOS app and give its previous Android offering a major boost.
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PandoDaily, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, GeekWire and Lifehacker
| Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg: |
LightSquared Reaches Agreement With Lenders On Cash Use — LightSquared Inc. reached a final agreement to use lenders' cash collateral after saying it might have to liquidate without the deal. — The accord gives the maker of wireless broadband technology enough money …
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DSLreports, Washington Post and dailywireless.org
| Joel Mathis / Macworld: |
Developers: Retina-optimized Mac apps will take time — While Apple is already updating its own apps for Retina display, officials with third-party developers Adobe and Autodesk on Tuesday said they'll need time to ship Retina-optimized apps to the public. Their Photoshop and AutoCAD applications …
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| Krystal Peak / VatorNews: |
Irish software company Openet gets $21M injection — Japanese NS Solutions leads the fourth round of funding for Openet's 28-country service — The Dublin-born transaction management software Openet has today announced that it completed a Series D round of funding totaling $21 million.
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