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May 30, 2013, 5:10 PM

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Antoine Leblond / The Windows Blog:
Continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1  —  Before we launched Windows 7, we envisioned what the next version of Windows would need to deliver.  We made a bet that the PC landscape and industry would undergo a significant transformation driven by an increase in mobility.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple sells 100 million iPod touch units  —  In addition to launching a new model of its iPod touch on Thursday, Apple told me this morning that it has sold more than 100 million units of the iPod touch since its introduction.  —  The iPod touch was launched in 2007 and took the design of the iPhone, minus the calling ability.
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Apple announces new $229 16GB iPod touch: 4-inch Retina display, no rear-facing camera  —  Apple has started listing a new 16GB iPod touch model in its online store.  When the 5th generation iPod touch went on sale last year, it was only available in 32GB and 64GB models …
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Samsung Introduces the GALAXY S4 mini: A Powerful, Compact Smartphone  —  Samsung Electronics announced Samsung GALAXY S4 mini, a powerful yet compact version of Samsung's bestselling smartphone, GALAXY S4.  The GALAXY S4 mini delivers the superior performance, intuitive ease-of-use …
James Trew / Engadget:
Chris Welch / The Verge:
HTC One with stock Android announced, launching June 26th for $599  —  It was rumored, and now it's here: on stage at D, Sundar Pichai just revealed a new version of the HTC One that runs an untouched, stock version of the Android operating system.  It wil be available from the Google Play store, launching June 26th for $599.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google adds nutrition info for over 1,000 foods to search results  —  Google is incorporating nutrition data into search; beginning today, results will include “extensive” details on calories, carbohydrates, proteins, sugars, and other relevant food info.  “Figuring out how to make smart choices …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Fan TV revealed: is this the set-top box we've been waiting for?  —  Built in secret, Fanhattan is finally showing off its Yves Behar-designed device to the world.  —  In June 2011, a Silicon Valley startup released a well received iOS app named Fanhattan to serve as a central place for finding streaming video.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
SuccessFactors Founder And SAP Exec Lars Dalgaard Joins Andreessen Horowitz As General Partner  —  Andreessen Horowitz is boosting its investing team today with the addition of SuccessFactors Founder and SAP exec Lars Dalgaard as general partner.  —  Dalgaard founded human capital management …
More: AllThingsD, ZDNet, Digits, ben's blog and FortuneThanks:@drew
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr Brings More Ads To Users' Dashboards, Rearranges Buttons & Teens Freak Out  —  A month after Tumblr introduced sponsored posts into its native mobile applications, the company is today bringing those same brand advertisements to its web dashboard.  Launch partners for these new …
Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:
Cord Cutters Lop Off Internet Service More Than TV  —  For all the fuss over Americans dropping their cable subscriptions in favor of Internet video, another type of cord cutting appears to be more common.  —  Hundreds of thousands of Americans canceled their home Internet service last year …
More: GigaOM
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Apple drops education pricing on entry level MacBook Pro to $999 ($200 off retail)  —  Apple is making quite a few quiet announcements today.  Earlier it introduced a new stripped down $229 fifth-gen iPod touch to replace the fourth-gen touch and also announced 100M iPod touches sold to date.
More: MacRumors
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
BlueStacks prices its OUYA-rivaling GamePop console at $129, expands games line-up  —  When BlueStacks earlier this month unveiled its Android-powered gaming console that is set to compete against OUYA and others, it didn't yet reveal how much its ‘GamePop’ would cost, stopping short of saying it would be “approximately $100″.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Telly Releases Android Tablet App As It Approaches 70K Likes Per Week On Google's Mobile OS  —  Video discovery service Telly is launching its social video app on Android tablets today, a key step for the company as Google's mobile OS becomes more important to its overall strategy and audience.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Google invests in big South African solar project  —  Google is taking its strategy of investing millions of dollars into clean power projects in the U.S. and focusing it on Africa for the first time.  On Thursday, the search engine giant announced that it's invested $12 million into a large …
Dustin Sklavos / AnandTech:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700M Series Launched (Early 780M Benches Inside)  —  At the beginning of April, Jarred walked us through the refresh of the bottom two-thirds of NVIDIA's 700M series of GeForce GPUs, all under the GeForce GT heading.  We still didn't have any idea what their solutions at the top end would be, though.
More: Engadget and The Verge
Michael Gorman / Engadget:
Atheer Labs unveils 3D augmented reality mobile platform and a natural human UI (hands-on)  —  With the advent of Google Glass and the continued development of platforms like the Epson Moverio and Vuzix Smart Glasses, head-mounted wearables are getting a lot of attention these days.
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Postmates Officially Launches Its On-Demand Delivery Service In New York City  —  Ok, so we kind of knew it was coming, but it's worth a post anyway: Postmates is launching its on-demand delivery service in New York City today, allowing certain users in the Big Apple to begin ordering food …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Google will keep making Nexus hardware, says Sundar Pichai  —  At I/O, Google rolled out the first of its “Google Edition” smartphones with a Galaxy S4 running stock Android instead of Samsung's TouchWiz skin.  Today, Sundar Pichai announced a Google Edition HTC One, once again with stock Android.
Alex Williams / TechCrunch:
Server Sales Are Down As Cloud Apps Abound At The Expense Of IBM, Enterprise Giants  —  Gartner Research reports worldwide server sales are down 5 percent for the first quarter of the year, with IBM, HP and other members of the top five taking the biggest hit.  Server shipments declined 0.7 percent.
Dan Rowinski / ReadWrite:
Waze Integrates Facebook Event Navigation, Shows Zuck What He Is Missing  —  Your friends are having a party.  You're not quite sure where it is, but all the details are in a Facebook Event invite.  To get there, you'll have to log into Facebook, find the invite and the address, load it into Google Maps and follow the directions.
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Despite opposition, Google will make critical security exploits public after seven days  —  Google's security researchers are well known for uncovering vulnerabilities in other people's products.  Standard operating procedure is to give the affected company sixty days before publishing the problem …

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