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June 28, 2012, 8:50 PM

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Laura June / The Verge:

Google announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, available today — On stage at Google I/O, Brian Rakowski, Vice President of the Chrome division at Google has just announced Chrome for iPhone and iPad. It's something iOS users have been asking for for a very long time, and plenty of people will be happy.

More: BetaNews, Business Insider, AllThingsD, PC World, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Mashable!, ZDNet, 9to5Google, MacRumors, LAPTOP Magazine, AnandTech, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, ABCNEWS and Social Markets

Tweets: @waxpancake, @stevecheney, @stroughtonsmith, @parislemon and @parislemon

BuzzFeed:

The Problem With Chrome For iOS — Don't get me wrong, I would love Chrome on my iPhone and iPad. But Chrome for iOS isn't really Chrome — it's a much slower version of Mobile Safari. — Facebook revealed yesterday that it is finally making a real, fully native iOS app.

More: ZDNet, The Verge, Business Insider, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Wired, fiercemobilecontent.com, Los Angeles Times and Complex.com

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Some Impressions and Benchmarks from Chrome on iOS — Earlier today, Google announced Chrome for iOS (iPhone and iPad), and thanks to Richard Gaywood finding a direct link to the App Store, I got the chance to play around with it in-between a busy schedule of sessions and meetings at I/O 2012.

More: Ars Technica, Google Operating System and Google Chrome Blog

Scott Knaster / Google Developers Blog:

Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits — Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to open up our infrastructure to outside developers …

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Google launches alleged Amazon Web Services killer, but lacks maturity, options — Summary: Google has thrown down a Amazon Web Services challenge, but has a way to go to match its rival on breadth and depth. — Google launched Compute Engine Infrastructure as a Service in a bid …

More: Google Enterprise Blog, CNET and WebProNews

Zach Epstein / BGR:

RIM posts huge Q1 miss: First net loss in 8 years, BlackBerry 10 launch delayed, 5,000 jobs cut — Analysts anticipated another miss ahead of Research In Motion's first-quarter earnings report on Thursday as sales continue to stall ahead of the struggling smartphone vendor's …

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web, IntoMobile, MarketWatch, Pulse2 Technology …, DailyTech and eWeek

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

RIM's Q1 2013 Results: $518 Million Loss On $2.8 Billion In Revenue, BlackBerry 10 Launch Pushed To 2013 — RIM has just released their Q1 2013 financials, and they're about as bleak as the company expected. The Canadian company reported a loss of $518 million (which breaks down to $0.99/share diluted) on revenues of $2.8 billion.

More: ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, Wired, The Verge, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, Business Insider and TechnoBuffalo

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

RIM Earnings: Oh, the Humanity!

More: CNET, Digits, The Register, BetaNews, ABCNEWS, Guardian, InfoWorld, PC World, Fortune, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, The Loop and Gizmodo

Tweets: @spencerante, @zpower, @johnpaczkowski, @ldignan, @parislemon, @nichcarlson and @edbott

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Nexus 7 review: the best $200 tablet you can buy — In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The “race to the bottom,” the company said …

Zach Epstein / BGR:

Amazon prepping two new Kindle Fire tablets with improved build, metal casing

More: PC World, msnbc.com, AndroidGuys, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Mobile Magazine, Mashable! and GeekWire

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts

More: Computerworld, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch, VoIP Watch, SocialTimes and ZDNet

Brian Klug / AnandTech:

Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review

More: ExtremeTech, PC World, The Next Web, Engadget, Washington Post, Business Insider and PhoneArena. Thanks:@nerdtalker

Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat:

Threat level Google I/O: Which companies have the most to fear

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hands On With Google Drive On iOS — As promised at this morning's Google I/O conference, Google has launched a version of its Google Drive application on iOS today, which offers native support for the service formerly known as Google Docs on both iPhone and iPad.

More: The Verge, MacStories, Redmond Pie and iPhone

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Google announces offline editing for Docs, available later today — We're live at day two of I/O and the theme of this keynote is all about “Going Google.” With this focus on Mountain View's various cloud-based apps, Clay Bavar, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, announced that Docs will now work offline for editing.

More: Computerworld, PandoDaily, Docs Blog, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Google Drive Now Has 10 Million Users: Available On iOS and Chrome OS

More: The Verge, The Verge, The Next Web, TechCrunch Japan and WebProNews

Bloomberg:

Microsoft Said To Plan Xbox Music Rivaling Apple, Spotify — Attendees at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012. Microsoft Corp. expanded the sports and entertainment content offered through the Xbox, and is planning to add iTunes and Spotify for music.

More: PC Magazine, Engadget, TechSpot, Neowin, SlashGear, Pocketnow, Macgasm and WMPoweruser. See also Mediagazer

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft details its Windows 8 upgrade plans — Summary: Microsoft is getting closer to the Windows 8 finish line, and is finalizing details like its upgrade paths from older Windows releases to the coming version. — Microsoft has shared with select partners some specifics …

More: The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget, Pocketables, Wired, The Next Web and Neowin

Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Apple Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield retiring, Dan Riccio taking position — Apple just announced in a press release this evening that its Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Bob Mansfield will be retiring. Check out the full press release after the break:

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, MacRumors, AllThingsD, The Tech Trade, CNET, TechnoBuffalo and Apple

Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:

Supreme Court Disappoints Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga and Yahoo — Supreme Court disappointed Obamacare haters and tech firms today — The big Supreme Court news today is that Obamacare got five thumbs up from the Court, meaning the president probably did this at some point this morning.

Royal Pingdom:

Pinterest has overtaken Tumblr in the United States — The Web has been abuzz about Pinterest for a while now. There is, shall we say, a great interest in Pinterest. So much interest, it turns out, that Pinterest in all likelihood is now getting more traffic than Tumblr in the United States.

More: The Next Web, PC Magazine and Compete Pulse. Tweets: @eldon

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

National Weather Service to send severe weather warnings directly to smartphones — Starting today, the National Weather Service (NWS) will send severe weather warnings to smartphone users in the path of dangerous conditions. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system will notify people of approaching tornadoes …

More: CNET, 9to5Google, TUAW, Mashable!, GadgeTell, GigaOM and DailyTech

Barry Collins / PC Pro:

Why Microsoft killed the Windows Start button — Microsoft claims it took the controversial decision to remove the Start button from the traditional Windows desktop because people had stopped using it. — The lack of a Start button on the Windows 8 desktop has been one of the most divisive elements of the new user interface.

More: CNET, DailyTech and VentureBeat

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Springpad wants to organize your Facebook Timeline — Note-taking service Springpad wants access to your Facebook profile. Why? It wants to scrape all of those random “likes” of movies, music, restaurants and TV shows scattered throughout your Timeline and organize them into notebooks …

More: VentureBeat and SiliconANGLE

Andrew Webster / The Verge:

Verizon's ‘Share Everything’ plans are now available — As promised, Verizon's new “Share Everything” plans have launched today. The new packages let you share voice, text messages, and data across multiple devices, including smartphones and tablets. The plans will cost you between $50 and $100 …

More: DSLreports, 9to5Mac and Gotta Be Mobile

Chris Pendleton / Bing:

Bing Venue Maps Goes International Adding Thousands of Shopping Malls — Whether you live in Poland or Spain, Russia or Belgium, or pretty much anywhere in-between, you will now be able to explore your local shopping mall through Bing maps - helping you locate the stores you are looking for …

More: The Verge, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Inquirer, LiveSide.net, All Points Blog and Neowin

Laura June / The Verge:

The Modbook Pro returns, morphing a MacBook Pro into a pen-based tablet — You may recall a little product called the Modbook, an after-market mod for Apple's MacBooks. The mod kits — which have previously cost upwards of $5,000 — turns a MacBook Pro into a tablet computer by ripping off …

More: TUAW, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Liliputing and CNET

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Google TV will get subscription billing, support for movie and TV purchases in Google Play — While it didn't merit a spot in either keynote, the Google TV platform is also getting an updated version of the Google Play store. Along with a new UI that looks a lot like the one on other Android devices …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, eWeek, The Official Google TV Blog, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Android News, Rumours …, Los Angeles Times and YouTube Blog. See also Mediagazer

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Instagram moves closer to the Web, overhauls page design to allow likes and comments from the browser — To our surprise, Instagram has quietly updated its Web presence to allow for comments and likes (example). More than anything else, this move, which the company calls “the new Photo Page …

More: CNET, GigaOM, The Verge and Mashable!. Tweets: @miekd. Thanks:@hornokplease

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