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June 23, 2012, 1:00 AM

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Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Apple v. Motorola: Judge Posner dismisses entire patent case, no injunctions to be issued — In US federal court this evening, Judge Richard Posner just ruled that the case of Apple versus Motorola will be dismissed in its entirety. The case, in which Apple alleged Motorola was in violation …

More: CNET, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, BetaNews, GigaOM, Engadget, Ars Technica, JD Supra and AllThingsD

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

First hints of a Facebook ad network: Sponsored Stories appear on Zynga.com — Zynga's off-Facebook games platform Zynga.com now displays Facebook ads and Sponsored Stories, as part of what could be the beginnings of a Facebook ad network across the web. — According to the Facebook Help Center …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Marketing Land, WebProNews, Neowin, internetretailer.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET, ClickZ, Beyond Search, Softpedia News and Guardian

Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb:

Facebook's Zynga Alliance Demonstrates Its Threat to Google — Facebook knows who you are. Google knows what you're looking for. Which piece of information is more valuable? The future of online advertising - and the ad-driven, free sites we use every day - hinges on the answer.

More: CNET

Thor Mitchell / Google Geo Developers Blog:

Lower pricing and simplified limits with the Google Maps API — Since launching the Google Maps API seven years ago, we've been awed by the many ways developers have used the service to build great mapping apps. As you may know, last year we introduced limits on the number of free maps …

More: CNET, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, digitaltrends.com, Search Engine Land, Bits, Nieman Journalism Lab, ProgrammableWeb, Computerworld, Spatially Adjusted, Beyond Search, parislemon, TechCrunch and All Points Blog

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Apartment Search Engine PadMapper Gets A Cease-And-Desist From Craigslist, Removes Listings — It's been years since I've had to look for an apartment, but in that time multiple friends have sung the praises of PadMapper (TechCrunch alumnus Greg Kumparak is a fan too).

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, garry's posterous and PadBlogger

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

RIAA's New War: Shutting Down The Equivalent Of Internet VCRs — The entertainment industry just won't quit trying to kill perfectly legal technologies with substantial non-infringing uses. Back during the big legal fight over Grokster, the RIAA insisted that it had absolutely no interest …

More: CNET and TechEye

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

SSD prices plummeted by 48 percent over the past year — While traditional hard drive pricing remains inflated after last year's Thai floods, the cost of SSDs continues to drop. The Tech Report took a look at the average cost of a number of popular solid state drives over the past year …

More: Pocketables, Guardian, The Tech Report, Macgasm, DailyTech, Engadget, Gizmodo UK, The Tech Report, Ars Technica and Slashdot

Paul Sandle / Reuters:

Acer slates Microsoft's hardware push — (Reuters) - Acer, the world's fourth largest PC maker, has dismissed Microsoft's chances of becoming a rival to Apple by building its own devices and urged its software partner to focus on its new operating system instead.

More: Shiny Objects, CNET, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, Daring Fireball and Engadget

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Facebook's Instagram bid to be probed by OFT — Office of Fair Trading concerned social network might prevent picture uploads to other sites from the app — The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Facebook's $1bn bid for Instagram, because it is concerned the giant social network …

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web and CNET

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

New York Times Said To Seek Tech-Savvy CEO For Comeback — New York Times Co. (NYT), seeking a chief executive officer who can reverse a six-year sales slump, is looking for a tech-savvy executive to help wring more revenue from the Internet, according to people familiar with the matter.

More: New York Magazine, Mixed Media, New York Times and Poynter

Ricardo Bilton / VentureBeat:

Sony sinks $997M into camera sensor production as revenue slides — With a $5.7 billion loss in 2011, Sony is coming off its worst year ever. Blame the Thailand floods or its collapsing TV business, but either way the result is the same: Sony needs more income. — It may have a plan to make that happen.

More: Sony Global, CNET, 1001 Noisy Cameras, TechSpot, The Verge, PC World, Reuters and Engadget

Deborah Netburn / Los Angeles Times:

Online donations to bullied bus monitor Karen Klein top $540,000 — People of the Internet donated more than $500,000 in just 48 hours to send a bullied bus monitor on a vacation. — People of the Internet, you did it: In less than 48 hours you managed to raise more than half a million dollars …

More: New York Times, TheCelebrityCafe.com, The Huffington Post, torontolife.com, Gawker, Mobile, Daily Dot, New York Magazine and BuzzFeed

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — Comcast Wins Protest Against “Shake Down” of BitTorrent Pirates — A big win for Comcast and its subscribers in a federal court in Illinois.

More: The Verge and Softpedia News

Wall Street Journal:

What's Ailing Google Chief? — Google Inc. GOOG +1.11% says Chief Executive Larry Page has “lost his voice,” but it won't say much more about the matter. Some corporate governance experts think the Internet company should speak up. The billionaire co-founder missed Google's annual meeting Thursday …

More: Reuters, Los Angeles Times and 9to5Google

Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com:

Hands on: Microsoft Surface tablet review — An in-depth look at the new player in the tablet race — 1.Overview and design — Update: We've spent some time updating our experience with the Microsoft Surface tablet's interface - including detailing that elusive portrait mode.

More: Marketing Land, Techie Buzz, MobileSyrup.com, Techland, Bloomberg, Business Insider, PhoneArena, Computerworld, TechRadar.com and Unwired View. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Nintendo announces $199 3DS XL with 4.88-inch top screen, available August 19th — Folks holding their breath for a “3DS Lite” might want to exhale — Nintendo has decided to go a different route. Company head honcho Satoru Iwata revealed the 3DS LL these evening on Nintendo Direct …

More: TechnoBuffalo, LaptopMemo, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Telegraph, PC Magazine, TechFlash, Electronista, Fast Company, Guardian, SlashGear, HotHardware.com News, Reuters, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

HTC reportedly halting all phone sales in Brazil — Reports indicate that HTC is canceling the planned launch of its One series in Brazil and ending all phone sales in the country. As it's exiting the Brazilian market, a number of HTC's employees will lose their jobs …

More: AndroidPIT Blog, Android News, Rumours …, CNET, BGR, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, GadgeTell, WebProNews, PhoneArena, Engadget and The Next Web

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge — Apple's iPad costs precious little for you to charge it each year, according to a new study. — The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) conducted a study recently to see how much the iPad costs in electricity if users fully charge it every other day.

More: my.epri.com, GigaOM, The Register, TUAW, App Advice, Macgasm and Datamation.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Revenues Could Pass $3.6 Billion in 2012: Citi's Mark Mahaney — Is Google making money off of YouTube? You betcha, Google execs told shareholders today, without offering the slightest bit of detail. Par for the course. — So in lieu of real numbers from Google …

More: TechnoBuffalo and Pulse2 Technology …. Tweets: @qthrul. See also Mediagazer

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:

Domain Wheeling and Dealing — Applicants for New Web Extensions Head to Icann Meeting to Gauge Competition — Entrepreneurs and big companies are battling one another for the rights to manage hot new Web address endings, including .app, .home and .book.

More: The Domains

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Coolest class ever: Valve brings Portal 2 to schools — One time in high school, I was able to convince a stern teacher it was “essential” that I play Grand Theft Auto III for a presentation. It was easily one of my favorite experiences at school simply because I was able to mix gaming and education.

More: PC Magazine, Tom's Guide, TechnoBuffalo, DVICE, TeleRead and Forbes

Ryan Block / gdgt:

Crunching the numbers on Retina: what to expect in iMacs, MacBook Airs, and Thunderbolt monitors with Retina displays — Ready to geek out on pixel densities? Great, me too. — So when Apple announced its first computer with a Retina display, the revamped 15.4 MacBook Pro …

More: MacStories, BuzzFeed and Gizmodo. Thanks:@gdgt

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