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| Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog: |
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really — Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist. — Today, we're introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.
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| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
Google Stores, Syncs, Edits in the Cloud — For years, some people who wanted to store files on remote servers in the cloud have been emailing the files to their Gmail accounts, or uploading them to Google's lightly used Google Docs online productivity suite, even if they had no intention of editing them there.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Google Drive officially launches with 5GB free storage, Google Docs integration — Google has just made Google Drive official. As expected, the service will offer 5GB of storage space for documents, videos, photos, PDFs and other files, and Google Docs is built-in to the service.
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| Jon Mitchell / ReadWriteWeb: |
The Google Drive Review You've Been Waiting For — Google Drive, the long-awaited file storage and syncing service, launches today. If you follow tech news closely, you've seen bits and pieces of the news leaking out over the past two weeks. We've tested it and we've talked to the team leaders.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
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| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
Google back in the smartphone sales game: unlocked Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ (GSM) available for $399 — Hang on to your kneecaps, folks. Google's just announced that its making the Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ available in its Play web store for $399 contract-free. That's right: the unlocked, unbranded …
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| Reuters: |
Proview owns iPad trademark in China -govt official — (Reuters) - Proview Technology (Shenzhen), which is battling Apple Inc in a Chinese court over the iPad trademark, is the rightful owner of that mark, a senior official with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) said on Tuesday.
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Apple's Q2 results: Are Qualcomm, iPhone 5 worries overblown? — Summary: Apple may deliver more iPhones than expected in the March quarter and iPad units should be solid. Mac units could be light. — Apple is expected to deliver strong second quarter earnings, but analysts will be looking …
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| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
Apple Found to Violate One Patent on Android Phones — Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) won a partial U.S. International Trade Commission judge's ruling in its bid to block imports of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s devices including the iPhone and iPad tablet computer.
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| Kate Kelly / CNBC: |
Facebook IPO Could Be Delayed by Deals, Distractions — Less than two weeks before the potential launch of Facebook's initial public offering roadshow, a string of acquisitions and other business distractions are threatening to delay the sale, say people familiar with the matter.
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| Jamie Keene / The Verge: |
Samsung's US Android 4.0 upgrade plans revealed, Galaxy S still excluded — A list of phones on US carriers set to receive an upgrade to Android 4.0 is now available on Samsung's support pages, providing confirmation for a number of devices. It's not the first time the manufacturer's update plans … | Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Firefox kills off favicon in URL bar — According to the blog of Mozilla Software Engineer Jared Wein, M.Sc, the Firefox team has just killed off the age-old favicon in yesterday's nightly build. Wein states that the changes are set to arrive in the release channel in mid-July …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Near-Final Version of Windows 8 Due in Early June — A near-final “release preview” version of Windows 8 is due in the first week of June, Microsoft confirmed late Monday. — Windows unit President Steven Sinofsky made the announcement at a Windows Developer Days event in Japan.
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| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
AT&T Profit Beats Esitmates on Solid Wireless Growth — AT&T Inc. (T), the largest U.S. phone company, posted first-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates after wireless subscribers spent more on browsing the Web, downloading video and sending e-mail.
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| Dan Farber / CNET: |
Android chief Andy Rubin said java.lang APIs are copyrighted in 2006 email — Andy Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile — As the second week of the Oracle-Google trial got underway Monday, Andy Rubin, the man behind the Android platform, took his turn on the witness stand.
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| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Planetary's Riddle Solved: Snaring Close-By Asteroid — The riddle of the space asteroid start-up may be closer to being solved. — On Tuesday, Planetary Resources Inc. will outline in Seattle its plan to convince governments that the technology exists to snare an asteroid in space in the near future at a relatively low cost.| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Feature: “The hidden side of your soul”: How the FBI uses the Web as a child porn honeypot — The e-mail arrived in James Charles Cafferty's inbox on July 14, 2011. Unlike most unsolicited e-mail on the Internet, the message did not pitch mortgages, get rich quick scams, or penis pills.| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Citrus Lane Lands $5.1M Series A Funding For Subscription Baby Goods Delivery Service — Citrus Lane, the Mountain View, California-based e-commerce startup that provides a subscription delivery service of products specifically for families with infants and toddlers, has raised $5.1 million …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The Two-Horse Smartphone Race — Apple, Samsung Use Different Playbooks in Battle for Supremacy; For Rivals, It's Specialty vs. Scale — Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. should make it abundantly clear this week that the smartphone industry is increasingly dividing into the haves and have-nots.| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
PinDollars Brings Affiliate Links Back to Pinterest — But Gives Money Directly to Pinners — Here's a little hack meant to nudge Pinterest into sharing revenue with its curators. PinDollars is a substitute for Pinterest's bookmarklet that scans pinned items and attaches affiliate links to related products when appropriate.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD takes a swing at Intel and Nvidia with new mobile graphics chips — A day after Intel launched its Ivy Bridge combo graphics-microprocessor chips, Advanced Micro Devices is launching a new series of fast and power efficient graphics chips for notebook computers.
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| Neal Gompa / ExtremeTech: |
IPv6 now deployed across entire T-Mobile US network — Yesterday, technical architect Cameron Byrne announced that T-Mobile has completed the deployment of IPv6 services across its entire network. This isn't the first IPv6 network, but it is the largest wireless IPv6 deployment in the world.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Android trojan steals keystrokes using phone movements (Updated) — Computer scientists have devised an attack that logs phone numbers, Social Security IDs, and personal identification numbers entered into smartphones by monitoring the devices' integrated motion sensors.
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| Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal: |
Adobe Pivots to New Target — New Focus on Sales to Marketing Pros Follows Flap With Apple Over Flash — Adobe Systems Inc. lost a high-profile battle with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs over a video technology last year. Now the software maker is reinventing itself as a one-stop technology shop for marketing departments.Sponsor Posts
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