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Ron Amadeo / Android Police:
“Google Play Games” Leaks Out In All Its Glory Ahead Of Google I/O - Hello, Cloud Game Saves [APK Teardown]  —  Remember how we told you Google Games was coming, and how it's going to pack multiplayer functionality, leaderboards, achievements, and stuff like that?  That's happening.
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Everything We Expect Google To Announce At Its Biggest Event Of The Year Next Week  —  Google's biggest event of the year, the I/O developers conference, kicks off next week with a lengthy three-hour (!) keynote where the company is expected to go over a slew of new products and services that'll be rolling out in the weeks to come.
Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News:
Google shuts down SMS Search  —  Google SMS Search allowed users to search Google via text message.  This worked by sending an SMS to a Google phone number that contained the search query.  Google then responded to the query with information, again via SMS and free of charge to the user.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook Home Is Losing Steam In The Charts...Fast  —  Facebook Home, the app which CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted as the “next version of Facebook,” has not been an immediate hit.  Its Google Play rankings have been dropping steadily after the launch buzz wore off, according to new data from top app store analytics firms.
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
Bloomberg Execs Knew Journalists Were Tracking Clients In 2011  —  An anchor made on-air comments about tracking log in information more than a year ago.  A big deal internally — but handled quietly.  —  Executives at the financial information company Bloomberg have known about journalists using …
New York Times:
Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals
Julian Sanchez / Wired:
FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed  —  The FBI has some strange ideas about how to “update” federal surveillance laws: They're calling for legislation to penalize online services that provide users with too much security.  —  I'm not kidding.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open Web, not a defeat  —  The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that orchestrates the development of Web standards, has today published a Working Draft for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), a framework that will allow the delivery of DRM-protected media through …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Five Woot Execs Check Out, As Daily Deals Site Feels The Strain Under Owner Amazon  —  Woot, the daily deals site that Amazon bought in 2010 for $110 million, built a reputation for its “pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap” business model for shifting goods.  Now, the company is facing up to a shift …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ABC to Let App Users Live Stream Local Programming  —  This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.”  Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live stream all the programming from ABC's local stations there …
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Big changes coming to AppleCare this fall: warranty subscriptions, in-store iOS device repairs, more [u]  —  In a town hall session held on Thursday, Apple informed tech staff that major changes to the AppleCare and AppleCare+ service programs will be enacted starting this fall …

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