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June 5, 2013, 7:05 PM

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Chris Schneider / The Microsoft Office Blog:

Outlook 2013 RT Coming to Windows RT Tablets as part of Windows 8.1 Update — Today at Computex 2013, Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of Microsoft's Windows Division, announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be available on Windows RT tablets as part of the free Windows 8.1 update coming later this year.

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft goes public with Windows 8.1 upgrade policies — Summary: Microsoft is sharing more on how existing Windows 8 and Windows RT users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ preview and final. — With the public preview builds of Windows 8.1 due out later this month …

More: PC World, The Next Web, The Register, Neowin and Ubergizmo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

‘Small’ Windows 8 tablets will ship with a free version of Office 2013

More: Computerworld, CNET, Digital Trends, Engadget, LiveSide.net, Ubergizmo and BetaNews

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Windows 8.1 shares highlights in video walkthrough

More: PC World, CNET, BGR, Engadget, ExtremeTech and LaptopMemo

Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry's next flagship phone: the all-touchscreen A10 — Sprint has already committed to selling the A10, which is the successor to the Z10, in November, CNET has learned. — BlackBerry's next flagship smartphone, the all-touchscreen BlackBerry A10, will launch during the holidays, CNET has learned.

More: Business Insider, GigaOM, Ars Technica, Unwired View, PhoneArena, BGR, IntoMobile, iDigitalTimes, MobileSyrup.com and Pocketnow

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

MacBook Air refresh looks set for WWDC, potentially with faster Wi-Fi — Apple appears set to release new versions of its MacBook Air notebook computer at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to information provided by a source. Earlier this week, we reported that Apple …

More: iMore, BGR, MacRumors, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile and www.idigitaltimes.co.uk. Thanks:@llsethj

John McDermott / AdAge:

Apple to Sell Audio Ads on iRadio, its Upcoming Streaming Music Service — New Ad Product Could Be Pricier Than Pandora, Thanks to Targeting Abilities — Now hear this: Apple will sell audio ads on its forthcoming streaming music service, already being dubbed “iRadio” by many.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Electronista, SlashGear, Macgasm and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @markgurman

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Amazon brings back long dormant Kindle DX, says it's ‘excited’ to do so — Months after being apparently retired from Amazon's e-reader line, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX is back in stock. Amazon has brought back the DX for $299, reflecting the price drop that was implemented late last year.

More: TechCrunch, GeekWire, Ars Technica, Engadget, WebProNews and Kindle Review

Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:

56% of American adults are now smartphone owners — Findings — 56% of American adults are now smartphone owners — For the first time since the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project began systematically tracking smartphone adoption, a majority of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind.

More: The Verge, Examiner, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Washington Post, AllThingsD, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, Marketing Land and WebProNews

Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post:

Apple, Samsung Face Grilling Over Stolen Smartphone Epidemic — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has summoned representatives of the four largest smartphone makers to a summit next week where he plans to press them on their failure to address soaring thefts of their products.

More: San Francisco District …, AllThingsD, ZDNet, NY Daily News, CNET, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, Betabeat and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@gerryfsmith

Terry Collins / Associated Press:

SF and NY officials to meet with leading smartphone makers to curb spike of thefts nationwide

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

A Fitbit for Fido: Whistle Will Help Track Your Dog's Activity — Ever wish you could talk to your dog? Understand what's bothering him? How much of the time she paces around when you're not home? — Whistle, a startup that makes a wearable tracking device for dogs, wants to help.

More: ABCNEWS, GigaOM, The Verge, Betabeat, Businessweek, Engadget, TUAW and SlashGear

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Clever hack brings Plex to the Apple TV, no jailbreak required — Apple hasn't opened up its Apple TV device to all third-party developers yet, but instead just added apps from a few high-profile partners to the platform. But that didn't stop two avid Plex fans, who were able to bring …

More: Plex, ParisLemon, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, Macgasm, TUAW, Cult of Mac, BetaNews, Hack a Day, App Advice and iLounge

Agam Shah / PC World:

AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS — After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tablets. — AMD is expanding OS options as it designs chips based on x86 …

More: Examiner, eWeek, Engadget, PhoneArena, The Verge, Pocket-lint and SlashGear

Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry in talks to preload BBM on rival handsets — BlackBerry Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear tells CNET that the company is talking to a number of partners and handset manufacturers. — BlackBerry is working with other handset manufacturers to get its BlackBerry Messenger service preloaded …

More: BGR, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Android Community, Pocketnow, PhoneArena and Yahoo! News

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

Obama Orders Regulators to Root Out ‘Patent Trolls’ — WASHINGTON — One company threatened to sue 8,000 coffee shops, hotels and retailers for patent infringement because they had set up Wi-Fi networks for their customers. Another claimed that hundreds of small businesses were violating …

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Why patent trolls will laugh in the face of the US government's weak attempts to fight them

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, ConsortiumInfo.org …, The Verge, Ars Technica, Intellectual Ventures … and Wall Street Journal

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla Readies Major Firefox Redesign As It Ponders What The Browser Of The Future Should Look Like — “Maybe we shouldn't even call it a browser anymore,” Mozilla's VP of Firefox engineering Jonathan Nightingale told me a few days ago. “'Browser' is really an antiquated word.

More: The Next Web, Digital Trends and Business Insider

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google makes its stock Google Keyboard gesture-typing app available on the Play store — Google today released its Google Keyboard app for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above. You can download it now directly from Google Play, although it's only available …

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com and IntoMobile

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Airbnb will fight regulators in New York City on behalf of host who was fined $2,400 — After initial hesitation, the company hired a prestigious law firm and is ‘in it for the long haul’ — The popular vacation rental service Airbnb is starting to clash with regulators in New York City …

More: VentureBeat, Y Combinator Posthaven, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Skift, Thisisgoingtobebig.com, VatorNews and Betabeat

James Trew / Engadget:

HTC One ‘mini’ leaks showing 4.3-inch 720p display and UltraPixel camera — HTC One mini? HTC M4? Whichever moniker you want to give it, that appears to be what we see above. Shown in a bunch of photos on Estonian site forte.delfi.ee the 4.3-inch device seems to corroborate much of what we've heard already.

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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Science Is Raising A New $30 Million Fund To Back Its Startups And Others — L.A.-based incubator and studio Science is in the process of raising a $30 million new investment fund, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Science was founded in 2011 by former Myspace CEO …

David Barboza / New York Times:

Lei Jun Builds His Xiaomi Empire by Aping Apple and Steve Jobs — BEIJING — China is notorious for its knockoffs. But now comes a knockoff of one of the gods of American ingenuity: Steven P. Jobs. — In a country where products like iPhones are made but rarely invented, Lei Jun …

More: Gizmodo and iDownloadBlog.com

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Thalmic Labs Raises $14.5M To Make The MYO Armband The Next Big Thing In Gesture Control — Thalmic Labs, the Waterloo-based startup working on an all new form of user input for computing devices with the MYO amrband, today announced the close of its $14.5 million Series A funding round, led by Spark Capital and Intel Capital.

More: VentureBeat, Xconomy, The Technology Chronicles, Y Combinator Posthaven, GigaOM, PandoDaily, Globe and Mail and Financial Post. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:

Republican National Committee Hires Senior Facebook Engineer As Chief Technology Officer — WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee has hired a senior Facebook engineer with a decade of experience in Silicon Valley to fill its newly created position of chief technology officer, The Huffington Post has learned.

More: GOP.com, CNET, Reuters, AllFacebook, Post Politics and WebProNews

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Pandora Launches New HTML5-Based TV Experience, Starting With Xbox 360 and PS3 — Pandora today launched a new browser-based interface for TVs that it hopes will help set the standard for using the service in the living room. The first devices to support this new HTML5-based interface …

More: Pandora Blog, CNET, Engadget, TechSpot, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, SlashGear, WebProNews, ZeroPaid.com, Evolver.fm and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Says Differences in Publisher Deals Belie E-Book Conspiracy Charges — Central to the U.S. Department of Justice's e-book price fixing case against Apple are the Most Favored Nation (MFN) agreements the company struck with publishers that ensured it would always be able to sell e-books at least as cheaply as rival retailers.

More: CNET, Fortune, The Verge and IOL

Preeti Upadhyaya / Silicon Valley Business Journal:

Google allows advertisers to run images alongside search ads — Google announced today that it would allow advertisers to run images alongside their search ads. — Until now, Google had only allowed text-based search ads. Ad extensions in the past had allowed businesses to include more links, addresses or phone numbers.

More: Inside AdWords, VatorNews, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch and WebProNews

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