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May 7, 2013, 9:15 AM

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James Trew / Engadget:
Nokia Lumia 928 officially confirmed: PureView, OIS and Carl Zeiss camera goodies  —  So, print is the new digital.  At least when it comes to Verizon's imminent — and now surely fully acknowledged — Lumia 928.  The billboard spotted over the weekend enthused about the camera, but told us little else.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Microsoft Confirms Windows Blue Update Coming; Says Windows 8 Passes 100 Million Licenses Sold  —  After months of rumors, Microsoft on Monday confirmed it is readying an update to Windows 8 for later this year.  —  Codenamed Windows Blue, the update will enable Windows to run on a wider range of devices …
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Lin Yang / New York Times:
Foxconn Tries to Move Past the iPhone  —  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Terry Gou did almost everything that Apple could ask for.  He made all those iPhones — and he made them cheap.  When Apple was subsequently criticized for low wages and poor working conditions at his factories in China …
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
After nearly 10 years, Adobe abandons its Creative Suite entirely to focus on Creative Cloud  —  Adobe first launched Creative Suite 1 back in 2003, and now, ten years and six versions later, the company is taking a left turn: Adobe is abandoning its Creative Suite entirely to focus efforts on Creative Cloud.
The Physics arXiv Blog:
Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years  —  A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers  —  One of the dreams for security experts is the creation …
More: Gizmodo and TechEye
Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says China's Government, Military Used Cyberespionage  —  WASHINGTON—The Chinese government has targeted U.S. government computer systems for intrusion, the Pentagon said Monday in a more direct accusation of cyberespionage than the U.S. has made in the past.
Tim Devaney / Washington Times:
Senate OKs Internet sales taxes, bill goes to House  —  The Senate on Monday voted to allow states to collect Internet sales taxes, sending the bill to the House where it could face more resistance from anti-tax Republicans.  —  The Marketplace Fairness Act, sponsored by Sens. Richard Durbin …
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Google services survive if they make money, aren't social  —  Among many findings, breaking out socially-integrated Google products shows their life expectancy is characteristically lower.  —  Google seems to be an enthusiastic beginner and ender of things.
Bill Bishop / DealBook:
China's Changing Internet Landscape  —  China was on vacation much of last week for the May 1 Worker's Day holiday, but executives at two of China's most important online companies were busy completing a deal that could reshape the country's Internet.  —  Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google Drive desktop app now lets you share files from PC and Mac  —  Sharing is getting a bit easier on Google Drive today.  Google has just announced that users on a PC or Mac can now share files simply by right clicking and choosing “share” from a Google Drive submenu.
Michael Fitzpatrick / Fortune:
How the iPhone conquered Japan  —  Despite its more-or-less mundane technology, Apple's device won over women.  —  FORTUNE — The Japanese were using their cellphones to watch TV, navigate with GPS, download music, make movies, pay bills, and check their emails years before American consumers were doing the same.
David Kravets / Wired:
Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright-Trolling Attorneys  —  Los Angeles federal judge Otis D. Wright II said the Prenda Law attorneys' “moral turpitude” is “unbecoming of an officer of the court.”  (.pdf) The judge said the attorneys “fraudulently signed” documents about who owned …
Joe Palazzolo / Wall Street Journal:
Software: The Attorney Who Is Always on the Job  —  In the legal arena's contest of man versus machine, the U.S. Justice Department has given a big boost to the machines.  —  Department officials reviewing the proposed merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and Mexico's Grupo Modelo SAB recently approved …
More: The VergeTweets: @wsj
Zach Epstein / BGR:
A new solution for Galaxy S4 storage shortage: AT&T launches 32GB model on May 10th  —  The latest flagship phone from Samsung is off to a hot start, but some customers felt slighted when they found out that about half of the Galaxy S4's internal storage is eaten up by the OS and system files.
Tim Peterson / Adweek:
EBay Plans to Share Its Users' Data With Brands Faces perception issues  —  EBay will soon start letting brands build out audience segments using its wealth of shopping data so they can target ads to consumers on non-eBay sites, following a similar move by Amazon.
Keith Andrew / PocketGamer.biz:
Apple extends 2.25 banhammer to apps with sharing, recommendation and App Store search tools  —  Product:  —  App Store  —  Manufacturer:  —  Apple  —  Apple has begun clamping down on third-party tools that allow users to recommend apps to their friends, with releases equipped with an app search facility also now prohibited.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Fitbit Flex review  —  Whipping you into shape one step at a time  —  For a little over a month, I've been getting off my subway one stop early and walking the rest of the way home.  I've been playing soccer twice a week, and trying to drink eight glasses of water every day.
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Google's Eric Schmidt On Data Privacy: The Internet Needs A Delete Button  —  YOUR PERSONAL DATA IS BEING OVER-SHARED WITH COMPANIES AND ADVERTISERS.  SO HOW MUCH CONTROL SHOULD YOU HAVE OVER YOUR PRIVATE INFO?  —  With so much data being collected about us online, can our offline identities ever be divorced from our web personas?
More: ZDNet
Don Reisinger / CNET:
Apple, Samsung again take all of handset industry profits  —  The companies combined to capture 100 percent of the industry's profits, but that's actually slightly lower than what they had been in previous quarters.  —  Apple and Samsung can't be stopped in the handset market, according to new data from analysts at Cannacord Genuity.

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