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May 8, 2013, 12:40 PM
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Chris Chavez / Android Phone Fans:
Google Glass Explorer Edition now receiving XE5 software update, brings loads of new features and enhancements  —  We see it happen all the time.  A not quite commercially available Android product receives an over-the-air update before it's even released.  Guess you could add Glass …
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
T-Mobile Says Has Sold 500,000 iPhones, Q1 Revenue Dipped 7 Percent  —  T-Mobile released full first quarter financials late Tuesday evening, reporting a 7 percent dip in revenue from a year earlier.  —  Adjusted earnings, excluding interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of $1.2 billion …
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats  —  An FBI investigation manual updated last year, obtained by the ACLU, says it's possible to warrantlessly obtain Americans' e-mail “without running afoul of” the Fourth Amendment.  —  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
More: ZDNet and SlashGear
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Nokia video compares Lumia 928 camera against GS III and iPhone 5  —  The first footage from the PureView camera aboard Nokia's Lumia 928 is up on the phone's official landing page, showing how it compares against the iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III at shooting video on a New York rollercoaster.
Randall Smith / DealBook:
Kleiner Perkins Shifts Strategy After a Rough Decade  —  During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivering astonishing returns to investors.
More: AllThingsD and Forbes
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
New Google Maps Interface  —  Google is about to launch a new interface for Google Maps.  The update will remove the sidebar and will display everything on top of the full-screen map.  One of the new features lets you restrict local search results to places recommended by top reviews or your Google+ circles.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Dots, Betaworks' New Super Addictive iOS Game, Nabs 1 Million Downloads In One Week  —  Dots, a game launched just last week out of betaworks, has reached over 1 million downloads in just one week of availability.  —  According to a blog post, the app hit number 1 in eight countries …
AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Mayer Has Met With Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium Video Unit  —  According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently met with top execs at Hulu, the premium video service whose media company owners have been considering selling it for some months.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Struggles to Find Way Out of Microsoft Web-Search Deal  —  Yahoo Inc. has been quietly trying to find a way out of its struggling Web-search partnership with Microsoft Corp., a person familiar the situation said, but has so far failed in that effort.  —  The Silicon Valley Internet …
Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters:
Fusion-io founders quit to start new venture, shares slump  —  (Reuters) - Memory drive maker Fusion-io Inc said founders David Flynn, the chief executive, and Rick White, chief marketing officer, have resigned to set up another venture, sending the company's shares down more than 25 percent in early trading.
Daniela Hernandez / Wired:
The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI  —  There's a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.  —  The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears could also handle sight for your eyes.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
AOL's Earnings Are Light, but Revenue and Ad Sales Are on Track  —  This looks like a pretty good performance from AOL: Tim Armstrong's Internet company came in a couple pennies light on earnings in its Q1, but hit its revenue marks.  —  As important: Its underlying numbers look pretty good.
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Hewlett-Packard faces $1bn lawsuit from shareholders over Autonomy deal  —  HP accused of ignoring evidence on ‘vastly overvalued’ acquisition while Autonomy founder denies financial impropriety  —  Hewlett-Packard tried to pull out of its $11bn (£7bn) takeover of British software firm Autonomy …
More: ZDNet and TechEye
Steve Ladurantaye / Globe and Mail:
Rogers determined to butt heads with Netflix  —  Canadian television providers are planning to cut their own cords, with several of the country's largest media companies developing subscription-based services to compete with online rivals such as Netflix Inc.
Dan Farber / CNET:
Marissa Mayer's moonshot: Yahoo on every device  —  With more than 700 million users Yahoo has a good start, but getting the next billion users will be a challenge.  —  NEW YORK—Marissa Mayer has clear vision of what a moonshot — an epic accomplishment — would be for Yahoo.
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Sharp to reportedly start ‘iPhone 5S’ LCD production in June  —  A report from the Far East on Tuesday says struggling LCD manufacturer and Apple supplier Sharp is ready to ramp up display manufacture for the next-generation iPhone, with mass production slated to start next month.

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