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May 8, 2013, 10:30 AM

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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 …

More: VentureBeat, The Register, ZDNet, Engadget, VR-Zone, Mashable, CNET, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Android Beat, The Next Web and The Verge

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 …

More: ZDNet, GigaOM, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Business Insider, The Verge, TechCrunch, BGR, CNET, TUAW, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, GeekWire, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Electronista and App Advice

Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal:

T-Mobile's CEO Looks for Pennies to Pinch

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.

More: Digital Trends, BGR, CNET, Engadget, PC World, The Nokia Blog, VR-Zone, TechCrunch, SlashGear, WMPoweruser and Crave

Ritsuko Ando / Reuters:

Nokia investors tell CEO their patience running thin

More: AllThingsD, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, The Droid Guy, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, The Register, Pocketnow, Light Reading, BGR, ZDNet and SlashGear

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.

More: Business Insider, Engadget, CNET, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Search Engine Roundtable, Network World, VR-Zone, T3 News, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Electronista, Understanding Google …, 9to5Google and Screenwerk

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …

More: CNET, DSLreports, The Verge, Hillicon Valley, Salon and Web Host Industry Review. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: InfoWorld, Business Insider, Inquirer, Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Computerworld, Marketing Land, ZDNet, Neowin, Reuters, CNET and Forbes. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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.

More: GigaOM, DealBook, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, VatorNews, VR-Zone, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Mercury News and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Jay Greene / CNET:

Unlike Adobe, Microsoft won't abandon packaged software — Microsoft's Office will continue to sell as both packaged software and subscription service. The company also updated its Office Web Apps to work with Android. — A day after Adobe killed its Creative Suite software …

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, ZDNet, gHacks Technology News, Android Beat, VR-Zone, WinBeta, Neowin and The Next Web

Alexis Santos / Engadget:

Microsoft Office Web Apps to receive real-time collaboration, Android support

More: The Microsoft Office Blog, LiveSide.net, Inquirer, Network World and VR-Zone

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 …

More: betaworks, Business Insider, NYT Bits, PandoDaily and Digits. Tweets: @arrington

CNN:

Syrian government responds to reports of widespread Internet outage — Syrian civil war in photos — (CNN) — The Syrian government said it's working to repair a widespread Internet outage in the country — something opposition activists suspected could be an ominous sign.

More: Al Jazeera English, AllThingsD, Inquirer, Network World, Softpedia News, BuzzFeed, T3 News and PC Pro

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Internet traffic from Syria vanishes in the midst of ongoing conflict

More: Umbrella Security Labs, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BBC, PC Magazine, BBC, NYT Bits, Gizmodo, Data Center Knowledge, CNET, Yahoo! News, TechPresident, Geekosystem, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Ars Technica

Tweets: @renesys, @google and @google

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google adds notification center to Chromium for Mac in preparation for porting Google Now to OS X — Over the last few months, the Chrome OS notification center was ported to Chromium and then to Chrome Canary, but the feature was limited to just Windows. Now it looks like the first attempts …

More: Franç, Engadget, Softpedia News, MacNN, iClarified, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and 9to5Google

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.

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.

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.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog

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.

More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and Business Insider

Ashby Jones / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung-Apple Patent Fight: Is It Worth It? — For Many Smartphone Makers, Years of Expensive Litigation Yield Little Reward — Smartphone makers who went on the offensive in the industry's patent wars are learning a tough lesson: The courts aren't buying it.

More: Fortune, iPhone Hacks, Yahoo! News, TUAW and AppleInsider

Tweets: @jessicalessin and @jpiscitello

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.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, paidContent and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

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

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Reminds iOS Developers That They Can Easily Integrate Chrome With Their Apps — Google just reminded developers that they can use Chrome as the default browser for their apps and easily switch back and forth between app and browser. With x-callback, Google says …

More: Chromium Blog, Business Insider, iMore, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, The Next Web, MacNN, CNET, Engadget, Cult of Mac, GigaOM, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified and App Advice

Wall Street Journal:

Samsung's Enviable Challenge: What to Do With Its Growing Cash Pile — Having grabbed a big chunk of the profitable smartphone business from Apple Inc. and others, Samsung Electronics Co. now faces a new, enviable Apple-like challenge: a mammoth pile of unspent, accumulated cash.

More: AppleInsider

Sarah E. Needleman / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Coinbase Nabs $5M in Biggest Funding for Bitcoin Startup — Eleven-month-old startup Coinbase announced Tuesday the largest funding round to date for a Bitcoin startup, a $5 million investment led by Union Square Ventures. … In an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal …

More: Betabeat, A VC, Union Square Ventures, CoinDesk and Wall Street Journal

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

SAP Takes It All to the Cloud — SAP, the German software giant, is making one of the largest pushes into cloud computing yet seen from a large incumbent company. It may even be destroying its own business, in order to build for a new one. — SAP is famous for developing enterprise resource planning, or ERP, software.

More: Wall Street Journal, ZDNet and PC World

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