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May 22, 2013, 11:05 PM

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Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
The Xbox One: Hardware Analysis & Comparison to PlayStation 4  —  It's that time of decade again.  Time for a new Xbox.  It took four years for Microsoft to go from the original Xbox to the Xbox 360.  The transition from Xbox 360 to the newly announced Xbox One will take right around 8 years …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and ‘always-online’ requirement unclear  —  Microsoft's Xbox One unveil was concentrated on the hardware, entertainment, and gaming, but a controversial aspect to the new console — a rumored always-online requirement — has been left floating amid a sea of confusion.
Andrew Yoon / Shacknews.com:
Xbox One won't allow indies to self-publish games  —  Independent developers cannot self-publish their own games on Xbox Live Arcade.  Instead, they must get a publishing deal—either with Microsoft Game Studios or with a third-party partner.  Games published on Xbox Live Indie Games …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Impressive “Conversational Search” Goes Live On Chrome  —  The “conversational search” that Google demonstrated at last week's Google I/O conference is now available to users of its Chrome browser, and it's a significant leap in how we use search engines.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft recruits Siri to bad-mouth the iPad in new Windows 8 tablet ad  —  Whatever era you call it, post-PC or simply PC plus, the Mac vs. PC war has ignited once again today.  In a fresh Windows 8 ad, Microsoft is directly attacking Apple's iPad on price, an approach it took during the early Vista days with low-priced laptops.
Connie Guglielmo / Forbes:
Longtime Tech Industry Analyst Michael Gartenberg Joins Apple  —  Michael Gartenberg, a longtime industry analyst known for covering digital media technologies and companies including Microsoft and Apple , has left his post as an analyst at Gartner Inc. to take a job with Apple.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple identifies certain patents allegedly infringed by Samsung Galaxy S4 and Google Now app  —  Last week Apple informed the court that it intended to amend its infringement contentions in the second California patent litigation with Samsung to target the Galaxy S4 (instead of some other product …
Aloysius Low / CNET:
HTC Asia CEO Lennard Hoornik leaves company  —  Earlier today, it was reported on the Verge that HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera had left the company alongside other high-level employees.  Product strategy manager Eric Lin even had a strongly worded warning for remaining employees …
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a hard-nosed negotiation  —  The US government's price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York.  Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger  —  After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud  —  Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency.
More: VentureBeat and ZDNet
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
The third screen: Will all Windows 8 apps run on Microsoft's Xbox One?  —  Summary: MS CRM on your Xbox One?  Will any and all Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps be allowed to run on the just-announced Xbox One?  —  Is it really so crazy to think that users will be able to run Microsoft CRM …
More: Neowin
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans  —  Streaming services, such as Pandora and Spotify, aren't as profitable for music publishers.  They want to change that.  —  For years, when it came to driving negotiations with internet music services over licensing …
Mitali Pattnaik / Twitter Advertising:
Capture user interest with the Lead Generation Card  —  Marketers regularly talk to us about their goals, and for many it boils down to one major theme: generating leads, and ultimately driving purchases.  —  With those goals in mind, today there's a new addition to our suite of Twitter Cards …
Rachel King / ZDNet:
HP's Whitman reiterates ‘multi-year journey’ amid Q2 revenue miss  —  Summary: Wall Street was expecting earnings of 81 cents a share on revenue of $28.08 billion for the second quarter.  —  Leading up to Hewlett-Packard's second quarter earnings report after the bell on Wednesday, analysts were expecting a mixed bag.

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