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| Ashlee Vance / Business Week: |
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. … | 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 …
| 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.
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The Next Web, TechFlash, TechnoBuffalo and CNBC
| 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.
| 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 … | 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.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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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.| 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.
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| Angela Moscaritolo / PC Magazine: |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, DailyTech, Pulse2 Technology …, PhoneArena, SlashGear, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, HotHardware.com News, fiercewireless.com, IntoMobile, Pocketnow, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, Neowin, I4U News, MobileSyrup.com, Phones Review, Android News, Rumours … and Android Phone Fans
| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
AT&T and Sirius work to make spectrum available — The two companies file a proposal to the FCC that offers a solution to interference issues, so AT&T can use spectrum adjacent to Sirius satellite radio. — Follow @maggie_reardon — AT&T is looking to put some of its unused spectrum … | 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.| 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:
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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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).| 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.| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Royalties From Digital Radio Start to Add Up — After more than a decade, the royalties for Internet radio and other digital music streams are finally starting to add up. — On Monday, SoundExchange, a nonprofit group that processes payments for online streams, will announce … | Howard Amos / Guardian: |
From Russia with likes: Kremlin to launch Facebook-style social network — With the internet genie fully out of the bottle in Russia, Chinese-style attempts at top-down control are doomed. So officials have come up with a plan — The Kremlin is planning to create its own Facebook-style social network …
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| 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 …
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| 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) …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M — Startup Bright has already built a popular job board. CEO Steve Goodman says that over the past 18 months, Bright.com has attracted 8.6 million job seekers who have posted 2.8 million resumes.
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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