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Google to sell second-gen Nexus 7 tablet from July: sources — (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet powered by Qualcomm Inc's Snapdragon processor around July, two sources told Reuters, as the software giant pushes deeper into the cut-price mobile hardware market.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Evleaks / 9to5Google: |
Facebook Home offers a fresh take on Android UI (Photos) — It should come as little surprise to industry observers that Facebook plans to unveil both a rich, skinned version of its Android app at a press event tomorrow, along with the first hardware to run that experience out of the box.
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| Brad Molen / Engadget: |
HTC First pictured ahead of Thursday's Facebook event (update: now with more colors) — The mysterious Facebook event is quickly approaching, and as luck would have it, @evleaks is hooking us up with an image of the device that we'll be introduced to on Thursday, known as the HTC first.
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| Brendan Eich / The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine — Mozilla's mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we're supporting this mission by experimenting with what's next when it comes to the core technology powering the Web browser.
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New mobile updates for Android, iPhone and mobile web — We just released a new version of Twitter for Android. Its new design reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold for quick actions, and more.| Jason Costa / Twitter Developers: |
Mobile app deep-linking and new Cards — Twitter Cards are being used by more than 10,000 developers, mobile apps and websites to richly represent content on Twitter, including article summaries, user-posted photos, videos, songs, and more. Today, through those Cards … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Felix Salmon / Medium: |
The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency — A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the world blew past $1 billion for the first time ever. That's an impressive achievement, for a purely virtual currency backed by no central bank or other authority.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple no longer blocking Microsoft's SkyDrive iOS update, version 3.0 released — Microsoft and Apple have been locked in a battle over Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud-storage app for iOS. The two companies were originally sparring over a 30 percent cut of revenue from SkyDrive storage purchases … | Simon Khalaf / The Flurry Blog: |
Flurry Five-Year Report: It's an App World. The Web Just Lives in It — Five years ago, the iPhone ushered in the era of mobile computing. Today, more than a billion consumers are “glued” to these devices and their applications, impacting nearly every aspect of their lives.
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Mobile phone celebrates 40th anniversary — The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today, on 3 April 1973. — Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival colleague at another telecoms company and announced he was speaking from “a ‘real’ cellular telephone”.
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Rdio launches Vdio social movie and TV service with an iPad app coming later today and $25 credit for Rdio subscribers — After being rumored for over a year, the movie and TV rental and purchase service Vdio soft-launched last night for premium Rdio subscribers in the US and UK.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The Latest Apple Scuttlebutt — Smart thread on Branch. Two nuggets from yours truly: — What I've heard: iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it. (Let me know if you've heard this song before.) — Regarding Jony Ive and iOS …
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AppleInsider, BGR, Los Angeles Times, Branch, BGR, BGR India, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Neowin, TUAW, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot and Macgasm
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Lodsys Targets Disney's 'Where's My Water?' and Others in New Round of Lawsuits Over In-App Purchasing — For nearly two years, we've been following the saga of patent troll Lodsys, which has been demanding licenses from and filing lawsuits against developers over in-app purchasing and related functionalities in their apps.
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AppleInsider, Macworld, The Next Web and Daring Fireball
| David Greelish / TIME: |
An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay — Born in 1940, computer scientist Alan Curtis Kay is one of a handful of visionaries most responsible for the concepts which have propelled personal computing forward over the past thirty years — and surely the most quotable one.| Max Slater-Robins / Neowin: |
Meet Gabriel Weinberg, the man taking on Google and Bing — In 1998, two college friends decided to build a method of analysing every website on the Internet to find the most relevant information when a user put in a small amount of text. Their names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and they had just founded Google.| Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM: |
‘Linux of online learning’ gets stronger: edX and Stanford team up to build open source platform — In its mission to become the “Linux of online learning,” edX just got a powerful new partner. On Wednesday, the Harvard and MIT-backed non-profit is set to announce that it's teaming …
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Washington Post and BostInno
| Paul Lilly / Maximum PC: |
Seagate Now Shipping World's First 4TB Hard Drive with 1TB Platters — You could store over a million songs on Seagate's 4TB hard drive. — A representative for Seagate dropped us a note today to let us know the company is now shipping what it claims is the industry's first and only 4TB hard drive …
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
Forget in-memory — SiSense raises $10M for in-chip analytics — While the rest of the world is agog about big data and in-memory analytics, SiSense is taking a different tack. It's rethinking business intelligence with higher-speed analysis on smaller (relatively speaking) …
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| Lance Whitney / CNET: |
Safari jumps to 61 percent of mobile browser share — Apple's mobile browser saw a 6 percent leap in Web traffic last month, according to stats out today from Web tracker Net Applications. — Safari has won back some of the recent ground it lost to rival mobile browsers.
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AllThingsD, Fortune, Marketing Land, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Mac
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
Amazon launches AutoRip for vinyl, pairs MP3s with your records — Earlier this year, Amazon launched a service called AutoRip for CDs, which gives customers free digital copies of every CD they purchased from Amazon going back to 1998 and going forward for new CD purchases.
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
With expanding revenue and aggressive losses, SaaS firm Marketo files for a $75 million IPO — Today Marketo, a company that vends marketing automation tools to those engaged in advertising campaigns, today filed its S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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