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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Blue leaks online, includes smaller Live Tiles, new side-by-side Snap Views, and IE 11 — An early build of Windows Blue, the next version of Windows, has leaked online on the same day that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer celebrates his 57th birthday. Build 9364, a partner version …
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| Brooke Crothers / CNET: |
| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: F.A.A. May Loosen Curbs on Fliers' Use of Electronics — If you're sitting on a plane at the gate and reading this column on an electronic gadget, you're about to hear eight dreaded words: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.”
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Another Reason Google Reader Died: Increased Concern About Privacy and Compliance — Google has warned that it will shut down its Google Reader news aggregator July 1. Many people (myself very much included) are mourning a beloved and useful product, but the company cited declining usage.| MG Siegler / TechCrunch: |
What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back? — If judged by my Twitter stream last week, the shutdown of Google Reader is the biggest story ever in the history of news. Of course, the reality is that Google is likely shutting down the product for a good reason: relatively few people used it, with less using it over time.| Jason Shellen / TechCrunch: |
| Jessica E. Lessin / Digits: |
Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM — Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up. — Apple paid around $20 million for the Silicon Valley-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter who said the deal closed recently.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
T-Mobile's new contract-free pricing plans are live — As expected, T-Mobile has pulled the wraps off a new plan structure that eliminates two-year contracts altogether, part of its upcoming “Uncarrier” initiative to streamline pricing. A base price of $50 per month buys you 500MB of high-speed data …
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| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Michael Dell Could Lose CEO Job in Rival Buyout Bid — Michael Dell kicked off the process to take Dell Inc. private. Now as other potential bidders crowd into the picture, Mr. Dell may end up losing control of his company. — Blackstone Group LP and activist investor Carl Icahn expressed interest …
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| Alan Feuer / New York Times: |
Mayor Bloomberg's Geek Squad — It was a case for a digital Sherlock Holmes. Last fall, the city's Department of Environmental Protection wanted, finally, to crack down on restaurants that were illegally dumping cooking oil into sewers in their neighborhoods — congealed yellow grease is responsible … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
So long, break-even — iTunes store will be 10 years old next month. From its inception Apple has stated that it aims to run the store “at break-even”. The business has grown so rapidly however that its profit-free nature has come under severe pressure.
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| Jesse McKinley / New York Times: |
Winklevoss Brothers Move On From Facebook — As you sit across from Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, it is easy to lose track of whom exactly you're talking to. Tall, blue-eyed and each built as broad-shouldered as a fridge, the twins are identical right down to their entrees: a pair of lobster rolls, with potato chips.
Tweets: @mathewi
| Chris Matyszczyk / CNET: |
Don't Glass and drive — lawmakers seek to ban Google Glass on the road — West Virginia lawmakers are already pouncing on the existence of Google Glass and introducing a bill that would prohibit drivers from making a spectacle of themselves. — Dabbling in politics can bring troubling consequences.
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TechCrunch, West Virginia Legislature, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Geekosystem, Forbes, PhoneArena and HotHardware.com News. Tweets: @javed_del
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use — A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it. — The case has important implications …
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