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May 14, 2013, 9:30 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia's aluminum Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone yet, but that's not enough (hands-on) — Nokia just unveiled its Lumia 925 at an event in London, and I've managed to take an early look at the handset ahead of its release in June. Nokia has swapped out a unibody polycarbonate look and feel for metal.

More: Nokia, Engadget, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo, Engadget, Unwired View and SlashGear

Mat Smith / Engadget:

Nokia announces the Lumia 925: a thinner, lighter aluminum body coming June for 469 euros — Nokia's second announcement for May is arguably a more notable progression from the Lumia 920 than the US-only Lumia 928. This is the Lumia 925. It's another flagship, but this one's setting its sights on the rest of the world.

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

Nokia Lumia 928 for Verizon hands-on — The Lumia 928 isn't the first of Nokia's Windows Phone 8 handsets to hit Verizon — that distinction goes to the 822 — but for all intents and purposes, it's the first true flagship Lumia to bear Big Red's branding. From the jump, you'll note …

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Nokia's Latest, the Aluminum-Clad Lumia 925, Heads for T-Mobile USA and Vodafone

More: Engadget, Crave, CNET and Engadget

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

With Oggl From Hipstamatic, Vyclone And More, Nokia Focuses Camera Features (But Still No Instagram In Sight)

More: The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget, Behind The Scenes …, MobileSyrup.com, Pocketnow, My Nokia Blog and NFC World. Tweets: @stevekovach

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

No Nexus Q News at Google's I/O This Year — Nearly one year ago, at its I/O developer conference, Google unveiled its Android-powered Nexus Q media player product to much fanfare. Little more than a month after the big reveal, Google suspended the launch of the Q indefinitely.

More: InfoWorld, IntoMobile, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, AndroidOS.in, Ubergizmo, Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, Android Authority, MobileSyrup.com and AndroidHeadlines.com

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Based Sensors — If you're attending Google I/O this week, you will be a part of an experiment from the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. On its blog today, the team outlined …

More: Cloud Platform Blog, Betabeat, BGR, Engadget, Softpedia News, memeburn, Ubergizmo, GigaOM, The Verge and AndroidHeadlines.com

DealBook:

Hedge Fund Manager Loeb Targets Sony for a Breakup — Updated — An American hedge fund billionaire known for starting big fights has called for a breakup of the entertainment and electronic colossus Sony, according to people briefed on the matter, possibly setting off a battle …

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Kills Social Roulette, The App With A 1/6 Chance Of Deleting Your Facebook Account — If you want a digital detox, you're going to have to pull the trigger yourself. Social Roulette is an app that would delete one in six users' Facebook account data, but its founder confirms it's …

More: SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, CNET, Betabeat, SlashGear, AllFacebook, Laughing Squid, The Atlantic Wire and Daily Dot. Thanks:@joshconstine

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista - Color Kindle to Follow? — For the past four months I have been saying that Amazon was in the market to buy Samsung's screen tech company Liquavista, and today I do believe the rumors have come true. — New filings from the Netherlands Chamber …

More: The Register, CNET, Geek.com, Gotta Be Mobile, The Tech Report, ZDNet, GeekWire, Kindle Review, Sammy Hub, Expert Reviews, Forbes, Engadget, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Electronista, GigaOM and AllThingsD

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Cyber caper: behind the scenes of the $45 million global ATM heist — Hackers coordinated with cells on the ground to carry out a precise, sophisticated attack — Defendants Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje posing with approximately $40,000 with cash. Source: US Attorney, Eastern District of New York

More: Wired

Wall Street Journal:

ESPN, Twitter Expand Collaboration — ESPN and Twitter Inc. are announcing a major expansion of their collaboration to post sports-related videos on the short-messaging service, part of a growing wave of tie-ups as TV networks and Twitter hunt for new advertising revenue.

More: Los Angeles Times, CNET, The Verge, GigaOM, The Next Web, Lost Remote and Engadget

Tweets: @mediaredef and @pkafka

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Assaf Gilad / Ynetnews:

Facebook, Waze at odds over liquidation — Social network giant insists on relocating some of Israeli navigation company's employees to its San Francisco headquarters, while Waze executives are adamant about leaving development center in Israel — The chasm between Facebook and Waze …

More: AllFacebook, BGR and TechCrunch

Tweets: @talirafaeli and @jguynn

Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land:

Online Sales Tax: Why E-Commerce Companies Are On Both Sides Of The Debate — If passed by the House, the Marketplace Fairness Act, which aims to level the playing field between online retailers and brick-and-mortar businesses, could go into effect as soon as this fall.

More: ClickZ and Computerworld

Sinead Carew / Reuters:

Verizon Wireless to pay parents surprise $7 billion dividend — (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile service provider, said on Monday it would pay its parents Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc a dividend of $7 billion in June, surprising some analysts who had not expected a big payout.

More: PhoneArena, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! News

Shaunacy Ferro / Popular Science:

How Facebook Used Science To Design More Emotional Emoticons — With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional. — Surprise Matt Jones / Facebook — In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression …

More: SlashGear

Reiji Murai / Reuters:

Sharp to seek Samsung edge for survival as Apple sales lose steam — (Reuters) - Japanese display maker Sharp Corp, a supplier to Apple Inc, will aim to boost sales to the iPhone maker's chief rival Samsung Electronics Co under a three-year rehabilitation roadmap to secure its survival.

More: The Verge

Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

Amazon Cloud Player Launches PC App — As part of its mission to bring its music service “everywhere,” Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehicles.

More: CNET, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Electronista and Engadget

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter Acquires Big Data Visualization Startup Lucky Sort, Service To Shutter In Months Ahead — Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based startup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter.

More: The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, GigaOM, SlashGear, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mashable, GeekWire, Computerworld, AllTwitter, Engadget, Silicon Florist, VentureBeat, ZDNet, CNET, Softpedia News, socalTECH.com and The Next Web

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Web Browsers Are Reinvented — File-sharing, Apps and Voice Commands Change How Internet Is Used — Mobile phones, wearable devices and self-driving cars are generating buzz as the future of technology. But the old Web browser is being reinvented too, in a trend with implications …

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Facebook Home flagship phone, HTC First, may be discontinued — Facebook's HTC First, the smartphone herald of Facebook Home, will be discontinued by carrier partner AT&T, according a report from BGR Monday. The phones, released just over a month ago, will be returned as unsold inventory to HTC …

More: Wired, DSLreports, CNET, Tech Shout!, Guardian, GigaOM, Android Beat, Bloomberg, Macgasm, Mercury News, The Droid Guy, stratÄ"chery, Examiner and memeburn

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Routing Around Apple's Restrictions, AppCertain & Others Bring Enterprise-Level Control To Consumers In The Interest Of Child Safety — In the interest of protecting children, a new iOS application called AppCertain has debuted a monitoring application aimed at parents.

Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:

EU Closer to China Telecom Probe — BRUSSELS—The European Union's trade chief will ask for backing this week from senior members of the bloc's executive arm to start investigations into alleged unfair trade practices by Chinese network-equipment suppliers Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. …

More: ZDNet and China Real Time Report

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Raspberry Pi camera module comes to the UK May 14th, lands early for some (updated) — Remember that Raspberry Pi camera module we wrote about a few months ago? It looks like UK-based electronics retailer CPC / Farnell will start taking orders for the shooter on May 14th.

More: Raspberry Pi, ZDNet, bit-tech.net and Electronista

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

RelayRides Acquires Wheelz To Boost Inventory And Improve Hardware For Its Peer-To-Peer Car Rentals — There's consolidation afoot in the peer-to-peer car rental space. San Francisco-based RelayRides, which launched about five years ago and is now available nationwide, has gobbled up fledgling competitor Wheelz.

More: AllThingsD, PandoDaily and Wired. Thanks:@ripemp

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