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May 31, 2012, 4:10 PM

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Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Delivering the Windows 8 Release Preview — Today, Windows 8 Release Preview is available for download in 14 languages. This is our final pre-release, and includes Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, new Windows 8 apps for connecting to Hotmail, SkyDrive, and Messenger (and many more) …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, ABCNEWS, Business Insider, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, Microsoft Corporation, Liliputing, wmpoweruser.com, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and TechNet Blogs. Tweets: @winobs. Thanks:@ryanburk

David Pierce / The Verge:

Windows 8 Release Preview: new apps, improvements, and Flash support (hands-on) — Two months after unleashing Windows 8 upon the world, Microsoft's back with the latest step toward the release of the company's next operating system: the Windows 8 Release Preview.

More: VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Engadget, blog.chron.com, The Next Web and Everything Microsoft

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Google Spends Millions for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube — Google Applies for .Google, .Lol, .Youtube, .Docs and Many Others — Last month, Google told Ad Age that it was poised to go on a web-domain buying spree. Today, the company announced in a blog post …

More: CNET, Marketing Land and Los Angeles Times. Thanks:@delrey

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains

More: The Official Google Blog, Domain Name Wire, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, CircleID and The Domains

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Cricket first pre-paid US carrier to offer iPhone; on $55/month unlimited plan, starting June 22 — Cricket Communications, a Leap Wireless company, is the latest carrier to offer new Apple iPhone models (the iPhone 4 and 4S to be more specific) in the United States.

Karl Bode / DSLreports:

Cricket to Start Offering Prepaid iPhone - $55 for ‘Unlimited’ Talk, Text and Data (With Throttling)

More: PR Newswire

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Google, Facebook vie for stake in Vevo — It's a battle of the tech brands. — Both Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are exploring an investment in Vevo as part of a broader partnership with the music-video service, The Post has learned.

More: 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Fortune, CNET, The Next Web, Hollywood Reporter, Black Web 2.0, Fox Business and Music Week

Wall Street Journal:

Inside Nokia's Struggle Against Apple's iPhone — Nokia Corp.'s new top-of-the-line smartphone sells for $200 less than Apple Inc.'s cheapest iPhone 4S. But under the hood, Nokia actually pays more for the phone's components, according to an analysis—underscoring the challenges …

More: The Next Web, SlashGear, PhoneArena, IntoMobile and MobileSyrup.com

Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:

25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web — Sometime around 1988, my landlady and I cut a deal. She would purchase a Macintosh computer, I would buy an external hard drive, and we would leave the system in the living room to share. She used the device most …

More: The Verge, TUAW, Boing Boing and The Loop

Steven Levy / Wired:

All Things D is Haunted by the Man Who Isn't Here — This year, as with the last ten, several hundred top digerati have flocked to Southern California for the All Things D tech conference. As in previous years, the roster of speakers, interviewed by conference runners Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher …

More: Daring Fireball, TUAW, MacNN, AllThingsD, CNET and TechCrunch

Tweets: @allthingsd and @ahess247

AllThingsD:

Collected Videos of Late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs at D, Now Free on iTunes

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Ari Emanuel Wants You to Shut Up and Pay Up — The D10 conference kicked off yesterday with a gospel choir and a marching band. Tonight, we got a pro wrestling match. — In one corner: Ari Emanuel, playing the role of “Hollywood guy who thinks Hollywood is in pretty great shape.”

More: Digits, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, AllThingsD, Business Insider, Techdirt, Pulse2 Technology …, Gizmodo, Digits and CNET

Tweets: @wsjtech, @lanceulanoff, @erichippeau, @robpegoraro, @antderosa and @lessien

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

How a trio of hackers brought Google's reCAPTCHA to its knees — Hackers exploit weaknesses in Google's bot-detection system with 99% accuracy. — The background noise added to the audio version of Google's reCAPTCHA didn't include high frequencies, making it easy for histograms …

More: The H Security

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google Product Search To Become Google Shopping, Use Pay-To-Play Model — Google Product Search is getting a new name, Google Shopping, and a new business model where only merchants that pay will be listed. It's the first time Google will decommission a search product that previously listed companies for free.

More: GigaOM, The Verge, ReadWriteWeb, Inside AdWords, WebProNews, ExtremeTech, CPC Strategy and eBay Strategies

Christine Lagorio / Inc.com:

How Alexis Ohanian Built a Front Page of the Internet — Reddit, created by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, was one of the first start-ups out of the Y Combinator program to be acquired, making Ohanian a 23-year-old multimillionaire. Here's how he did it.

More: Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology … and The Verge

Vygantas / Web Browser:

Facebook Drops Google Chrome Recommendation, Replaces It With Opera — More fuel to the rumor's fire. — It looks like Facebook management decided not to bother with the Google Chrome anymore as their latest “unsupported web browsers” page has since then removed the search giant's web browser.

More: 9to5Google, BGR and gHacks Technology News

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook introduces 5 tiers of page admin access — Facebook now offers pages fives different levels of page admin privileges so that businesses can assign roles to different people without giving up full control of their pages. — Previously, all admins had equal access to create posts …

More: The Next Web, Mashable!, The Verge, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim, Neowin, AllFacebook and Marketing Land

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

A Great Firewall? Google Now Warns Chinese Users When Search Terms Could Cause “Connection Issues” — Those who don't live or haven't recently traveled to China may not have experienced this first hand, but Google Search has been known to be “inconsistent and unreliable” in mainland China — to use Google's words.

More: CNET, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Inside Search and WebProNews

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Netflix iOS app update adds new video player, controls, Facebook sharing toggle and more — Recognising that its users are watching more and more of its content from a mobile device, Netflix has today pushed live an update to its iOS app, improving its video player and adding more controls and enhancements.

More: App Advice, CNET, The Official Netflix Blog, TUAW, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, Macgasm, WebProNews and The Verge

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

So Why Is LinkedIn An IPO Standout? — Earlier this morning at D10 KPCB analyst Mary Meeker showed a pretty definitive slide about the current state of the public markets with regards to tech companies. “The private market is in a bubble,” Meeker said, “We have a $1 billion fund …

More: Marketing Land, AllThingsD, Techvibes.com, AllThingsD, AllThingsD and The Tech Trade

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Sprint's HTC Evo 4G LTE launching June 2 — After a patent-based delay, the HTC Evo 4G LTE is ready for its spotlight. — (Credit: CNET) — After a delay, Sprint and HTC have a launch date locked down for the HTC Evo 4G LTE, Sprint's new flagship device: June 2.

More: Engadget, AllThingsD, IntoMobile and Gotta Be Mobile

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Intel formally launches Ivy Bridge laptop chips, slightly revises ultrabook requirements — Intel's third-generation Core processors launched over a month ago, but only the most powerful ones: today, Chipzilla's dual-core and ultra-low voltage (ULV) chips are official, meaning we'll soon start …

More: Technology@Intel, Inquirer, AnandTech, eWeek, MacRumors, CNET, ExtremeTech, LAPTOP Magazine, DailyTech, Softpedia News, Liliputing, Engadget, Engadget, Digits and VentureBeat

Myriam Joire / Engadget:

Gigabyte makes 975g X11 official, claims 'world's lightest' 11.6-inch notebook (update: hands-on video) — Well hello there again, Gigabyte X11. Hot on the heels of yesterday's leak, Gigabyte's just made its 11.6-inch X11 laptop (or is that an Ultrabook?) official.

More: CNET, The Verge, Pocket-lint, Techland, Gizmodo and Geek.com

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Reeling ACTA treaty rejected by three European Parliament committees — ACTA faces a final vote by the full European Parliament in July. — Momentum against Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continued to build on Thursday as three different committees of the European Parliament voted not to recommend adoption of the treaty.

More: PC World, The Register, ZeroPaid.com, Falkvinge on Infopolicy, Inquirer, BBC, ZDNet and Boing Boing

Caleb Garling / Wired:

Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google — Despite countless setbacks, Oracle continues to argue that Google ripped off its intellectual property Image: MartinBowling/Flickr — In the waning Java war between Oracle and Google, Oracle has lost another fight.

More: GigaOM

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Hotspot Shield lets your Android surf safely over public Wi-Fi — Looking for a little safety and mobile privacy at that public hotspot? AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield app might be worth the look for your smartphone: The company launched an Android version of the mobile app in Google Play on Thursday …

More: TechCrunch

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