Live from Google I/O 2012, day one  —  “We partnered with a great company, Asus, to help us build that device.  The Nexus 7.”  “We wanted you to be delighted when you access this content.”  “We wanted to design a Google experience that is optimized around all this content on Google Play.”

With Sights Dead Set on the Living Room, Google Debuts A Streaming Media Device  —  The battle for your living room rages on.  Touting consoles, boxes and premium content delivery services, companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon continue to jockey for digital supremacy.

Google announces Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, with Project Butter visuals and new Search  —  Google has today announced the latest version of Android, 4.1.  It is code named Jelly Bean and implements new technology from Google's Project Butter to enhance performance and visuals, along with a new Search experience.

Facebook Plans to Speed Up its iPhone App  —  Facebook's iPhone app is slow.  Often painfully slow.  —  On the iTunes app store, out of 38,000 reviews, more than 21,000 customers have given the app a measly single star.  Users repeatedly describing the app as: slow, crashes, stinks, fail and “is always loading.”

T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm Suddenly Resigns  —  Philipp Humm, the CEO of T-Mobile USA, has suddenly resigned, according to the company.  —  Jim Alling, T-Mobile's COO, will take over his duties while a search is under way.  —  In a statement, the company said that Humm is going to pursue …

Android Reaches 400 Million Device Activations, Adds 1 Million Per Day  —  Here are some big numbers for Google's Android platform out of the company's developer conference today in San Francisco: Android has seen 400 million device activations and is adding 1 million per day.

With New “Inbox” Feature, Asana Is Looking More Like That Email Slayer We're All Longing For  —  Email.  Everybody hates it but no tech company has figured out how to replace its old post-office metaphor with something more intuitive for the modern world.  But Asana, the high-profile task …

How Apple won a ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1  —  A zig-zag path to victory in a landmark patent infringement case  —  FORTUNE — On Tuesday, a U.S. district court granted Apple's (AAPL) request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 — the tablet computer that most closely resembles Apple's iPad.

Nexus 7 Shows Its Face Ahead Of Today's Announcement  —  We've been hearing about the mysterious “Google tablet” for months now and, more recently, have seen quite a bit of supporting evidence that it will be called the Nexus 7.  We've even seen the back and sides of the device.

Strategy Analytics: Apple Has Shipped 250M iPhones, Made $150B In Revenues In The Past 5 Years  —  We know that Apple has been making a killing from the iPhone, with the device reigning as the single-most popular smartphone in a number of markets — despite Android-based handsets collectively having a bigger lead.

What Developers Thought About WWDC  —  A look at what Apple really did last week.  —  Image by AFP / Getty Images  —  It's been a couple weeks since the close of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (depending on who you ask, also known as the World Wide Denny's Conference or World Wide Drinking Competition).

Airbnb Redesigns And Introduces Wish Lists To Make Curating And Discovering New Destinations A Breeze  —  As the premier spot online for listing and booking short-term housing accommodations, Airbnb has already seen huge growth since being founded in 2008.  It announced just last week …

Waze to Drive Its Social GPS Software Into Cars This Year  —  Waze's free app for iPhones and Android devices has 19 million users.  —  Waze, which makes one of the most popular GPS applications for smartphones, is planning to break into a platform it hopes will provide greater fuel for its business: the car.

Introducing the Photos app for Windows 8 … We take a lot of photos that end up in a lot of different places.  Some are on our PCs, others end up on a photo sharing service like Flickr or Facebook, and even more are on our phones—sometimes indefinitely.  How and where we store and share photos …

Sirius XM Radio, Howard Stern coming to Google TV  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc is getting help from shock jock Howard Stern to revive its Internet TV software, which has languished since its debut 19 months ago.  —  Satellite radio provider Sirius XM will make all of its programming available on Google TV …

European court upholds Microsoft antitrust fine, cuts it down ever so slightly to $1.1 billion  —  In the latest chapter of its long fight against a EU antitrust probe, software giant Microsoft has seen its request to void an earlier imposed fine of 899 million euros declined by Europe's second-highest court.

What Happened to Silicon Values?  —  Compare Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page to the founders of Hewlett Packard and Intel, and you'll find a paradigm shift as to how the tech industry treats its customers.  —  The Facebook IPO brought with it a flood of questions about how Silicon Valley has changed over the decades.

App Retention Increasing; iPhone Crushes Android  —  In great news for the mobile app market, app retention rates are improving as app publishers shift from an early focus on “downloads” to more mature customer acquisition and retention models.  The overall app industry improved retention rates 19% over the last year.

Ad Age Survey: Marketers Love Facebook, But Many Have No Idea If Their Ads Work  —  One in Three Aren't Convinced Facebook is Useful in Driving Purchase Intent  —  When it comes to Facebook, the nation's marketers have reached an overwhelming consensus: you simply have to be there.

Battery Ventures Jump-Starts Avalara With $20 Million in Capital  —  Retailers often have a hard time figuring out how much customers need to pay in sales tax.  —  Not only does it depend on what state or country the customer lives in, but now consumers are also increasingly shopping on the phone …

Startup Blue Jeans Networks Nabs $25 Million And Launches A Cool New Service  —  Blue Jeans Networks is absolutely kicking butt in the enterprise video-conferencing scene.  —  Today it announced a third round of financing for $25 million from its previous VC investors, NEA, Accel and Norwest Venture Partners.

An App Keeps Spies Away from Your iPhone  —  A cryptography pioneer offers a simple way to fight electronic surveillance.  —  Anytime you use your phone to make a call or send an e-mail or text message, there's a chance it will be intercepted by someone who has access—legal or otherwise—to your providers' servers.

Apple Wins Patents for Inductive Charging & iOS Scrolling, Rotating & Resizing on Displays  —  The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 27 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today.  In our first patent report of the day we cover a pair of Apple patents …