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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 … | 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, SlashGear, Forbes, Bloomberg, Techdirt, CNET, Mashable!, PC World, Nieman Journalism Lab, Domain Name News, TechCrunch, Wired, Engadget, New York Times, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, TechWeekEurope UK, Ars Technica, Media Decoder, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Internet and e-mail policy …, BGR, Search Engine Watch, the Econsultancy blog, memeburn, Xconomy, BuzzFeed, ABCNEWS, Evolver.fm, Marketing Land, GeekWire, WebProNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, I4U News, LJ INFOdocket, Gizmodo, Betabeat, MOTHERBOARD, USA Today, AdExchanger.com, TPM IdeaLab, MacDailyNews, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Fast Company, TechFlash, App Advice, CircleID and Examiner. 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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digitaltrends.com, CNET, BuzzFeed, Computerworld, Engadget, PC Magazine, The Verge, VentureBeat, LYTRO BLOG, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Android Phone Fans, The Verge, Betabeat, Lost Remote, GigaOM, The Technology Chronicles, Social Markets, Marketing Land, API Voice, Daily Dot, The Next Web, ABCNEWS, Fast Company, AllThingsD and Daring Fireball. See also Mediagazer
| 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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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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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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Bloomberg Tech Blog, LinkedIn Press Center, PC World, Betabeat and SC Magazine
| 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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Bits, Rob Hof's Blog, CNET, The New Persuaders, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Inside Facebook, Mashable!, Bloomberg and AdExchanger.com. Tweets: @erickschonfeld. Thanks:@joshconstine
| 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.| 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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Gotta Be Mobile, BetaNews, Tech Cocktail, Betabeat and Lifehacker
| 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 …
| 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.| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Apple's Siri Buttons On Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar Steering Wheels? Automakers Think Different — Siri is coming to Mercedes, GM, BMW, Jaguar, and others, but the connectivity the auto brands describe is a far cry from an iCar. — We know Steve Jobs dreamt of designing an iCar …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Linus Torvalds Splits Tech's ‘Nobel’ With Stem Cell Pioneer — Linus Torvalds. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired — Question: What do Linux and stem cell research have in common? Answer: They're both considered “life-enhancing technical innovations” by the Technology Acadamy Finland …
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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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AllThingsD and 9to5Mac
| 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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PC Magazine, AppleInsider, The Verge, Pocketnow and MobileBurn.com
| 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, VatorNews, GigaOM, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, The Next Web, 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, The Verge, GigaOM, TUAW, The Verge and WMPoweruser
| 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
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple hands off transit directions to third-party apps in iOS 6 Maps — Rather than include transit and walking directions natively in the new Maps application in iOS 6, Apple will instead highlight third-party options available on the iOS App Store. — The ability of third-party developers …
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Grist, Waxy.org, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and Gizmodo
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Chrome update for MacBook Pro's Retina display coming soon, developer version available now — One of the (few) disadvantages to the new MacBook Pro's stunning Retina display is that apps need to be updated to take advantage of it, otherwise they can look fuzzy, out of focus, and generally bad.
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Google Chrome Blog, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and LAPTOP Magazine
| 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
| 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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