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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Exposed: Facebook's Secret iPhone Photo Sharing App (Which Looks Amazing) — It's far too often that the term “killer” gets thrown around in tech blogs. And yes, we're just as bad as anybody. But what if I told you that a service that gets 6 billion photo uploads each month …
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Is Facebook about to have the last word in iPhone photo sharing? — Facebook is about to lunch a doozy of a photo sharing app for iOS, according to TechCrunch. The app will enter a space that's already crowded with startup offerings such as Color, Instagram, PicPlz and more …
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Washington Post and SAI
Richard Clarke / Wall Street Journal:
China's Cyberassault on America — If we discovered Chinese explosives laid throughout our national electrical system, we'd consider it an act of war. China's digital bombs pose as grave a threat. — In justifying U.S. involvement in Libya, the Obama administration cited the …
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Digital Trends, SAI, CNET News, @arrington and Reuters
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Michael Kan / Computerworld:
U.S. questioned China about Change.org attack
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: Google Nexus 4G detailed - 720p display, 4G LTE, Android 4.0 — Google is two devices deep in a quest to deliver its vision of what a mobile device should be, while pushing the envelope forward as far as specifications and collaboration is concerned.
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SAI, 9to5 Google, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, MobileSyrup.com, Neowin.net, Electronista and T3.com News
Clare Jim / Reuters:
Acer cuts 2011 tablet shipment target by nearly 60 percent — (Reuters) - Acer Inc slashed its full-year shipment target for tablets by almost 60 percent and expects lower notebook shipments as the world No.2 PC maker works to clear accumulated inventory. — However, Acer …
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Digital Trends, Inquirer, AllThingsD, Dow Jones Newswires, TG Daily, DailyTech, DigiTimes, PhoneArena, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, Electronista, Fudzilla, The Register, Android Phone Fans and TechEye
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New AirPort Extremes and Time Capsules confirmed, software update caching references found — Following our reports that Apple is gearing up to release updated AirPort Extremes and Time Capsules with software update caching, we have discovered references to unreleased AirPort Extremes …
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AppleInsider, BGR, MacRumors, SAI, Softpedia News, MacStories, CrunchGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, TUAW, iClarified, I4U News, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, TechUnwrapped, SlashGear and Gizmodo, Thanks:salemsayed
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Pandora Opens At $20 Per Share With A Market Cap Of $3.2 Billion — Yesterday, music streaming service Pandora priced its IPO at $16 per share (valuing the company at $2.6 billion). The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to $9 per share, at a market cap of $1.3 billion …
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The eMarketer Blog, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Fast Company, SAI, Evolver.fm, The Next Web and Mashable!
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Lynn Cowan / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Pandora IPO Prices At $16; Valued At $2.56 Billion
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's Retail Secrets Spilled: Don't Correct The Customers, Abide By The A.P.P.L.E. Code — It's no accident that Apple's retail empire has grown into a $12 billion+ business. — It's run as a strict operation, with specific guidelines on how employees can and can not talk to customers …
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eWeek, Digits, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Hillicon Valley, iLounge and GMSV
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham — Peter Pham, the president and a cofounder of mobile social startup Color, is no longer with the company, we've heard from multiple sources. The company launched publicly less than three months ago. — Color has been controversial …
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AllThingsD, MediaPost, mocoNews, Washington Post, PhoneArena, SocialTimes.com, @peterpham, Stowe Boyd, SAI, Fast Company and Facebook
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
How Larry Page Thinks About Search — Google's SVP of the search division, Alan Eustace, stuck around to answer a few questions after today's Google Inside Search event, and he gave some new insights into the way CEO Larry Page thinks about search. — Here are some long term goals:
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Shifting Tides: Google Borrows From Mobile for Latest Desktop Innovations
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FT Tech Hub and Dice Blog Network
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Close to US$500k stolen in first major Bitcoin theft — In the first Bitcoin theft of its size, a user has lost 25,000 BTC — or nearly $487,749 at today's market rates — to an unknown thief. — While the Bitcoin community has always been quick to point out that it's harder to forge …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
No more doubt: Oracle wants billion-dollar amount from Google — Yesterday's announcement of the Apple-Nokia settlement led to much speculation over how much money the Finnish handset maker receives. All analysts agreed that it must be a lot. But there are also other smartphone patent disputes of similar economic magnitude.
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The Next Web, Thanks:rusua
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
More Evidence for 2048x1536 iPad Retina Display — More evidence has emerged to suggest that a future version of the iPad will sport a “Retina” display with a resolution of 2048x1536, or double the horizontal and vertical pixels of the current iPad. — Back in January, a number of images …
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
iPad 3 rumors in 2011 persist
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App Advice, SlashGear, everythingiCafe and Shiny Objects
Felix Lin / Google Chrome Blog:
Chromebooks now available for sale — Last month we unveiled the first Chromebooks from our partners, Samsung and Acer. Chromebooks were built and optimized for the web to give you a faster, simpler and more secure experience without the headaches of traditional computers.
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Google Enterprise Blog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Windows Phone 7 Ad Impressions Up 92%; iOS And Android Neck In Neck For App Revenue — Mobile ad network Millennial Media has released its monthly monthly mobile report for May, giving us a view into how each OS and manufacturer is performing on the mobile ad network.
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Millennial Media, BGR, Fortune, WMPU and Electronista
Economist:
Tech bubble — This house believes that we are in a new tech bubble. — Overview — Rebuttal — Closing — Post-debate — Tuesday — Friday — Wednesday — Friday — June — Opening statements — The bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 saw the shares …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Digits, MediaPost, broadstuff, Tech Europe, ben's blog and BostInnovation.com
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Next-generation Xbox rumored to be unveiled at E3 2012 — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console will likely be shown at E3 2012, according to reports. — The software giant is preparing to announce the successor to the Xbox 360 at E3 2012 according to VideoGamer.com.
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VideoGamer.com, Techland, I4U News, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, Kotaku, parislemon, Pocket-lint, CrunchGear, Redmond Pie, msnbc.com, Digital Trends, That VideoGame Blog, BGR, Microsoft News, Eurogamer, IGN Gear, Neowin.net, Electronista, Destructoid, IndustryGamers, Computerworld, Ubergizmo and VG247
Katherine Boehret / Wall Street Journal:
A Slender Tablet With Widescreen Ambitions — New Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Is Thinner and Lighter Than the iPad 2 but Lags Behind When It Comes to Battery Life — If you've ever experienced the anxiety of buying an Apple product while worrying that a new model will come out days later, Apple's competitors feel your pain.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows Phone update schedule: one major version a year — Previously expected, but never before confirmed, Microsoft's plans for Windows Phone updates have been spelled out explicitly in a job posting, of all things. First noticed by MobileTechWorld, the job spec outlines the update policy …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Backed-Copious Launches A Social Marketplace For The Facebook Era — Social commerce has taken on many forms; from purchasing items on Facebook to product recommendations from your social graph to daily deal sites. There are plenty of startups that offer the functionality listed above …
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Fast Company, AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, MediaFile, Social Markets and Mashable!
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Duke Nukem's PR threatens to punish sites that run negative reviews — A large part of my job is dealing with people who work in public relations. The vast majority of those whose do PR for video game companies are polite, well-intentioned, and extremely professional.
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The Escapist, Neowin.net, Kotaku, BGR, The Digital Home, Technologizer, techblog.dallasnews.com and Softpedia News
BBC:
LulzSec opens hack request line — Lulz Security's request line features the voice of Pierre Dubois - possibly the name of its comic icon — The hacker group Lulz Security has opened a telephone request line so its fans can suggest potential targets. — It claims to have launched denial …
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CNET News, BetaNews, Neowin.net and CSO's blog
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Now The Proud Owner Of Re-tweet.com — As of yesterday, Twitter is the new owner of the domain name re-tweet.com (placeholder webpage) although it doesn't yet own retweet.com (currently used for some shady video monetization platform). — Hat tip goes to Fusible …
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Fusible.com, AllTwitter and The Next Web
Steve Kovach / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Bans App That Was Storing iPhone Passcodes — We shared some cool data with you on Monday about the most commonly-used passcodes on iPhones. — It came from developer Daniel Amitay, who made the Big Brother Security app. The app was designed to snap a photo of anyone who entered …
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PC Magazine, MacRumors, BGR, Inquirer, amitay.us, TUAW, iPhone Buzz, MacStories and msnbc.com
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Imagination Technologies Starts Licensing Next Gen iPad/iPhone GPU — Imagination Technologies, the company behind the iPhone and iPad's PowerVR graphic processor unit (GPU), has announced that six “key partners” have already selected their next generation PowerVR Series 6 GPU (codename: Rogue) for licensing.
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AppleInsider, imgtec.com, PhoneArena, O'Grady's PowerPage, Neowin.net, MacDailyNews, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, iClarified, iPhone, iLounge, Softpedia News and TiPb
