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June 22, 2012, 11:55 AM

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft's Surface Tablet Said To Be Wi-Fi Only In First Models — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Surface tablet computer, unveiled this week to compete with Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad, will initially go on sale without a connection to mobile-phone networks, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com:

How Microsoft kept Surface tablet a secret — Exclusive Underground bunkers, airlock doors - and not telling anyone the screen resolution or price — Shhhhh, don't tell anyone — How did Microsoft keep Surface a secret for so long? There were rumours about a Microsoft Windows RT tablet …

More: Business Insider, Windows 8 Beta, PhoneArena, TechnoBuffalo and Engadget

Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View:

Microsoft Surface prices to be above $599, rumor claims — Two very important details were left out of Microsoft's big Surface announcement yesterday: the pricing and the exact release dates for the tablets. And while the latter can be guessed somewhat using the info that the Redmond giant put out …

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life

More: Business Insider and LiveSide.net

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter's Bad Day: Site-Wide Outages Recall the “Fail Whale” Era — After nearly a year without any significant periods of downtime, using Twitter was almost nothing like the early days of being on the service. — So when Twitter went down on Thursday morning for a period of more than an hour …

More: Betabeat, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Computerworld, DailyTech, Macgasm, InfoWorld, USA Today, CNET, Computerworld, ITProPortal, Guardian, Reuters, Telegraph and BBC. Thanks:@baznet

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Google allegedly testing new, sidebar-free search interface — A video from Tecno-Net apparently shows a new version of Google's search interface. The UI in the short clip is much more vertically-oriented, with sections like images and news placed at the top rather than the side.

More: Google Operating System, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, WebProNews, Search Engine Watch, 9to5Google and Search Engine Land. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit your comments — There's nothing worse than making a typo when you've just left the “perfect” comment on someone's Facebook status update. Turns out, Facebook feels the same way. — The company told TNW that it has just started rolling out the ability to edit your own comments.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, AllFacebook, VatorNews, Daily Dot, Mashable!, WebProNews, Technabob, memeburn, TECHGEEK.com.au, digitaltrends.com, Marketing Pilgrim, Ubergizmo, USA Today, Lifehacker, The Verge, VentureBeat, Gizmodo UK, TechCrunch and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@jonasdelosreyes

Tomio Geron / Social Markets:

Kosmix Founders Leave @WalmartLabs — Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, the cofounders of Kosmix, which was acquired in April 2011 by Walmart and became the Silicon Valley tech shop for Walmart, are leaving the company. — Harinarayan and Rajaraman headed the @WalmartLabs operation …

More: Bloomberg and AllThingsD

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Larry Page Is Speechless, Literally — And Won't Be Onstage at I/O Next Week — Google CEO Larry Page has lost his voice, said Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today. — Page, who is already well known for his reluctance to speak publicly, skipped today's annual stockholder meeting.

More: Inquirer, Telegraph, Bits, Business Insider, Mashable!, Associated Press, bizjournals, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times and Business Insider

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Google stock split wins approval; CEO loses voice

More: ValueWalk, Reuters, WebProNews and CNET

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Tweetbot for Mac confirmed as first image surfaces on Twitter — We've suspected that the popular iOS Twitter client Tweetbot was coming to the Mac, and now it's been confirmed. Tapbots' Mark Jardine posted an image on Twitter today, touting the Retina display of a new MacBook Pro …

More: ReadWriteWeb, GadgeTell, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, App Advice, Macgasm, The Mactivist, 9to5Mac and Softpedia News

Derek Mead / MOTHERBOARD:

How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts — Is Reddit the most powerful website on the Internet? Yeah, that's a pretty bold question to even be asking, especially considering it's only ranked 121 on Alexa. But in terms of power, not traffic, Reddit is certainly up there.

More: Daily Dot and Betabeat

Thomas Houston / The Verge:

Flipboard officially debuts on Android, adds Google+ and YouTube, and comes standard on the Galaxy S III in the US — Social news reading app Flipboard is today officially launching its Android app after its short beta period, new integration with YouTube as well as Google+ …

Miyoung Kim / Reuters:

Analysis: Smart logic: Samsung chips away at Intel lead — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, already a world leader in TVs and smartphones, is taking the fight to Intel Corp for the No.1 slot in semiconductors, betting on strong growth in so-called logic chips that are the brains inside today's fast-selling smart mobile devices.

More: Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple expands App Store to 32 new territories in Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific — As promised by Apple CEO Tim Cook at WWDC, Apple has expanded the App Store's reach to 155 total territories, by adding 32 new territories today. An email to registered iOS and Mac developers went out this evening detailing the change.

More: CNET, PC Magazine, Mobile Marketing Watch, The Verge, Engadget, BGR, App Advice, SlashGear, MacRumors, WebProNews and AppleInsider. Thanks:@markgurman

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

AMD launches Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, demands rematch with NVIDIA — If you've been missing out on the graphics card wars of late, then here's a quick rundown. AMD launched its high-end $549 Radeon HD 7970 at the end of last year, and it reigned comfortably for a few months until NVIDIA came out with the masterful GeForce GTX 680.

More: Inquirer, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware Guide, TechSpot, AnandTech, PC Magazine and The Verge

Kellex / Droid Life:

Galaxy Nexus Listing in Play Store Outs Jelly Bean as Android 4.1, Arriving “Soon” — And I'd say this about settles it. Jelly Bean will be Android 4.1, according to the Google Play listing for the Galaxy Nexus. We had all sort of assumed that 4.1 would be next, but now the question remains …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Coordinate: A New Service For Managing Mobile Workforces — Location-based apps and services like Foursquare have made significant inroads among consumers in the last few years, but most of the recent developments around location-based apps have bypassed the business market.

More: Search Engine Land, Computerworld, Google LatLong, WebProNews, Wired, Bits, 9to5Google, SlashGear, CNET, News on ZDNet Australia and The Register. Thanks:@fredericl

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Microsoft: First Branded Tablets; Next, Their Own Smartphone? — Microsoft's move into the tablet hardware business may be just the first step in a radical repositioning of the company's approach to the device market. — As you know by now, Microsoft on Monday held a launch event in Hollywood …

More: Reuters, TechFlash, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Gizmodo UK and Computerworld

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Amazon.com's domain power play: We want to control them all — If Amazon.com gets its way — and that's still a big “if” — it will soon control 76 new domain extensions on the Internet. Most observers had expected the company to apply for .amazon and .kindle, but it seems that was just for starters …

Reuters:

Insight: Look, no hands! Augmented reality gets a grip — (Reuters) - One day in March 2000, just days before the dot-com bubble began its journey back to earth, German engineer Thomas Alt first glimpsed the future of technology. — “Do you know augmented reality?” his boss at Volkswagen asked.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Launch Center Pro is the quickest way to launch in-app actions with your iPhone — App Cubby has launched a followup to their app Launch Center, Launch Center Pro, and the application offers the quickest way to launch actions with your iPhone or iPod touch.

More: Macworld, Cult of Mac, Redmond Pie, TUAW, Lifehacker, App Advice, MacStories, The Verge, Computerworld and MacRumors

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple starts $500 off Macs, $250 off iPads employee discount program — In late January, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that a new major Mac and iPad discount program for employees would kickoff at some point in late June of this year. Keeping that promise, Apple, today …

More: The Verge, iPhone, TechSpot, WebProNews, HotHardware.com News, MacRumors, CNET and Macgasm

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