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June 19, 2012, 3:25 PM

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Why Microsoft's Surface Tablet Should Shame the PC Industry — On June 18, Microsoft (MSFT) beckoned 200 or so members of the media to an industrial, grimy part of Hollywood for what it described as a can't miss affair. The dutiful reporters met at the appointed hour—3:30 p.m. …

More: PC World and ZDNet. Tweets: @valleyhack and @maryjofoley

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete — Microsoft has guts. It's what you get when you're the underdog; either that or you curl into a RIM and die. Microsoft is the underdog because no matter how many hundreds of millions of people use its software, the cool and the future belong to Apple.

Tweets: @jbruin, @khsieh, @tmobryan and @_donalds

MG Siegler:

No Price, No Date, No Apps, No Problem. No Wait — Problem. — I'm just now catching up on the news about the new Microsoft Surface. Reactions seem mixed, tilting slightly positive or at least hopeful. People seem to want to believe Microsoft can pull this off and that's understandable …

More: Techie Buzz, Internet2Go, InformationWeek, DSLreports and Internet Evolution

Tweets: @zpower and @theromit

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft Surface tablets: Reading the fine print — Summary: Here are a few more hidden tidbits about Microsoft's new Surface tablets, launched in Los Angeles on June 18. — Yesterday Microsoft announced it would be making two Windows tablets of its own — one Windows8-based and another Windows RT-based.

More: Business Insider, GeekWire, Bits, istartedsomething, InfoWorld and Mobile Marketing Watch

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Watch this: Microsoft's Surface event video now live — Microsoft announced one of its more significant hardware products today, a Surface tablet running on Windows 8 or Windows RT. Although the company did not release pricing or availability information, consumers will be able to pick between …

More: SiliconBeat, Examiner, VentureBeat, Engadget, WebProNews, The Verge, PR Newswire, Business Insider, Techie Buzz, The Next Web, GadgeTell, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Everything Microsoft and Engadget

Vidya P L Nathan / Reuters:

Microsoft's tablet no threat to iPad: analysts — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's new tablet computers are no threat to Apple Inc's iPad, given the lack of enthusiasm among developers to create applications that run on the new Windows operating system, analysts said.

More: The Next Web, TechFlash, TechnoBuffalo and CNBC

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Where Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Fits in PC Ecosystem

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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site — YouTube is without doubt the biggest free resource of videos and music available online today. It can be enjoyed on the site itself, embedded in any webpage, or accessed via YouTube's Application Programming Interface.

More: PC Magazine, Ars Technica, PC World, Inquirer, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Pulse2 Technology …, CNET, paidContent, SocialTimes, Softpedia News, The Next Web, SlashGear and WebProNews

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Spotify Finally Launches Web Radio, For Real. And That's a Problem For Pandora — A lot of people confuse Spotify's streaming music service with Pandora's streaming music service. — Now they're going to be a lot more confused. In a way that's good for Spotify and a problem for Pandora.

Angela Moscaritolo / PC Magazine:

Spotify Adding Free Mobile Radio for iPhone, iPad

More: Ars Technica, MobileBurn.com and iPhone

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Google partners with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams to the app — Speaking at Le Web '12 in London, Google's Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz announced that it has partnered with Flipboard, adding Google+ streams in the app. The streams will launch soon.

Robert Kim / Google Mobile Blog:

Google Offers app now available on iPhone — Today we're announcing the new Google Offers app for iPhone. Now, iPhone users can discover, buy and redeem Google Offers, as well as deals from our partners, on-the-go. Some of the features of the new Google Offers app for iPhone include:

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Engadget, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, App Advice and WebProNews

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Ex-Googlers Launch MightyText, An iMessage For Android Users — During their lengthy careers at Google in both senior technical and product management roles, Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani were able to geek out on products like AdSense, AdWords, and the now-defunct Google Health.

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, Android and Me, Gotta Be Mobile and GadgeTell

Jun Yang / Bloomberg:

LG To Sideline Tablet Development To Focus On Smaller Devices — LG Electronics Inc. (066570), the world's No. 4 mobile-phone maker, will sideline tablet computer development to focus more on smaller devices rather than compete head-on with Apple Inc.'s iPad.

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Kodak sues Apple, claiming interference in patent sales — (Reuters) - Photography pioneer Eastman Kodak Co sued Apple Inc to stop it from interfering with plans to sell a large patent portfolio, a significant part of its bankruptcy restructuring. — In a lawsuit filed on Monday …

More: Bloomberg, CNET, Engadget, AllThingsD and MacDailyNews

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

AT&T and Sirius work to make spectrum available — AT&T is looking to put some of its unused spectrum to work in a move that could reshuffle the wireless spectrum deck. — On Friday, the carrier filed a joint proposal to the Federal Communications Commission with satellite radio provider Sirius.

More: ExtremeTech, GigaOM and fiercewireless.com

iFixit:

MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Teardown — In case you missed it, we tore apart the new MacBook Pro with Retina display last week. Inside, we found a whole mess of pretty, yet difficult to access components. In fact, the MacBook Pro with Retina display earned our lowest repairability score ever, with 1 out of 10 points.

More: iFixit, VentureBeat, TUAW, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

They Work! Facebook Mobile Ads Are Clicked 13X More, Earn 11X More Money Than Its Desktop Ads — How will Facebook monetize mobile? Its organic-seeming Sponsored Stories ad format may be the answer. Mobile Sponsored Stories are getting over 13 times the click-through rates and earn 11.2 times …

More: AdAge, Mashable! and WebProNews. Thanks:@simonmansell

Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab:

Schumer: Google, Apple Moves To 3D Maps A Dimension Too Far! — Noted consumer technology alarmist Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), is turning his intense scrutiny back on Google and Apple, this time over the two companies' competing plans to provide the most accurate 3D aerial maps of major metropolitan areas.

More: Betabeat, The Register, Hillicon Valley, TechCrunch, CBS News, ITProPortal and Cult of Mac

BBC:

China's ‘Twitter’ introduces fees — Sina Weibo may not be afraid of domestic competition said one analyst — Sina Weibo, China's biggest Twitter-like microblogging platform, has introduced a membership charge for premium features. — For a monthly fee of 10 yuan ($1.57, £1) …

More: Tech in Asia

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

B&N earnings: Nook Simple Touch drags revenues down, though digital content sales are up — Barnes & Noble reported Q4 revenues of $1.4 billion for the period ended April 28, on losses of $1.08 per share. Following Microsoft's $300 million investment during the quarter …

More: DailyFinance.com, Mike Cane's xBlog, Mashable!, MarketWatch, Associated Press, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Apple, Google Push Deeper Into Mobile Software; Towering Over Nokia, Research In Motion — Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have brought mobile giants Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. to their knees and captured more than 80% of the world's smartphone market. Now they are going after the rest.

More: Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, DVICE, 9to5Google, Pulse2 Technology …, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, Android News, Rumours … and The Next Web

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Shapeways, Having Printed 1 Million Objects, Secures More Financing — People sure do like printing things in 3-D. — Shapeways, a company that enables people to print 3-D objects, announced on Tuesday that it had completed a $6.2 million series B round of financing from Lux Capital, a New York venture capital firm.

More: TechCrunch, Shapeways Blog and Forbes

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

People have spent 10 million nights in strangers' beds, thanks to Airbnb — Four years after inventing a crafty marketplace for spaces — couches, castles et al. — San Francisco-based startup Airbnb has helped travelers book more than 10 million nights (likely to the chagrin of landlords everywhere).

More: The Next Web, Fast Company, VatorNews, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Business Insider and New Florence. New Renaissance

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google: 12 To 14 Million Searches Per Day Returned Hacked Sites — Google's security blog announced today several updates on how they have been addressing malware and hacked sites on the internet. — Google said that between 12 and 14 million search queries per day return warnings …

More: Google Online Security Blog, The Official Google Blog, The Firewall, CNET and Softpedia News

Wall Street Journal:

Prominent Investors Miss Web IPO Payoff — For venture capitalists and other prominent investors in young companies, an initial public offering is supposed to be the big payoff for years of patience. It's not working out that way for some backers of newly public Internet companies.

More: CNBC

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Facebook reveals guide for dealing with spam, explicit content reports — Summary: Facebook users shouldn't be too casual about what they report as spam or worse because evidently those claims are taken very seriously and go through a stream of channels to be addressed.

More: Facebook, The Next Web, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Mashable! and CNET

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Vungle Creates $1M Fund To Lure Top Mobile Developers To Its New App Promotion Platform — Vungle is all about taking a unique and aggressive approach to promotion. That's because the startup is on a mission to give mobile developers a better way to promote their apps …

More: VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Next Web and Inside Mobile Apps

Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com:

Dolphin releases Engine Beta browser, claims to be the fastest browser on Android — There is no shortage of third-party browsers available for the Android platform, and Android 4.0 users even have the option to use the excellent Google Chrome Beta for Android, if they wish.

More: Dolphin Browser, Android Phone Fans, Pocketnow and WebProNews

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