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May 30, 2013, 11:35 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:
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.
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 …
Devon Glenn / SocialTimes:
Wall Street Journal Plans To Launch a Social Network  —  News Corporation, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, is poised to launch a new social network.  —  Described in The Times of London as a “platform for ‘like-minded people’ to meet online and share ideas,” …
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.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement  —  Since the crypto-currency Bitcoin hit the limelight, many libertarians and privacy advocates have heralded it as anonymous, digital cash.  But the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange-and the U.S. regulators breathing down its neck-see things differently.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Google announces Google Play Music and ‘All Access’ streaming coming to iOS in next few weeks  —  After launching its new Google Play All Access music streaming service earlier this month at Google I/O, Google's head of Android Sundar Pichai just confirmed during his interview at the D11 conference …
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
Vivek Gowri / AnandTech:
Razer Announces Haswell-based Blade, Blade Pro Gaming Notebooks  —  We've spent a fair amount of time with the first two generations of Razer Blade, and honestly really enjoyed most of it.  The original Blade released as a highly ambitious 17" Sandy Bridge gaming notebook from a company that previously had no history in the PC space.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony CEO plays down ‘media hub’ and says PlayStation 4 is for gamers  —  Sony chief executive Kazuo Hirai said today that the PlayStation 4 will differ from Microsoft's Xbox One, which is being pitched as an all-in-one entertainment box in the living room.  —  “I fundamentally believe …
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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Evernote Turns On Three New Security Features, Including 2-Factor Authentication, After Major Breach In February  —  After Evernote, the personal note-taking app with 60 million+ users, got slammed with a security breach in February 2013, today the company is turning on three new features …
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″.
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
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Anonymous Payment Schemes Thriving on Web  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Eight years ago, Ernie Allen, the head of the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, called the heads of major banks and credit card companies.  Why, he wanted to know, were they letting child pornographers move illicit profits through their systems?

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