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May 31, 2012, 3:10 PM

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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, IntoMobile, PhoneArena 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, MacNN, AllThingsD, CNET and TechCrunch

Tweets: @allthingsd and @ahess247

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains — Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its window for new generic top-level domain name applications. ICANN will publish a list of all the applied-for strings in two weeks …

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

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Google Spends Millions for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube

More: CircleID. Thanks:@delrey

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: ABCNEWS, Business Insider, AllThingsD, Techdirt, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, Gizmodo, Digits, CNET and Los Angeles Times

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

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

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: The Verge, ReadWriteWeb, ExtremeTech, Google Commerce, CPC Strategy and eBay Strategies

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

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

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, The Tech Trade and CNET

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

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

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google Translate now allows website owners and visitors to edit translations — Google Translate is an incredibly useful tool, particularly for any of us that live outside of our home country but lack full-on fluency, however in spite of its value, it can also be extremely frustrating.

More: CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, SoMobile, The Verge, Google Translate Blog and WebProNews

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

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: CNET, PC Magazine, App Advice, The Official Netflix Blog, Macgasm, WebProNews and The Verge

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

RIAA Accuses Google Of Not Doing Enough To Fight Piracy, But May Be Guilty Of Not Doing Enough Itself — The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has once again come out swinging at Google, saying the company isn't doing enough to fight copyright infringement online.

More: digitaltrends.com, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Plagiarism Today, RIAA, Hillicon Valley and Computerworld

Darrell Etherington / BetaKit:

Diffbot Raises $2M to Power Its Learning, Web Browsing Robot — The first startup out of Stanford's StartX student accelerator program, website form and content recognition engine Diffbot, is today announcing a $2 million round of funding from a select group of investors including Sky Dayton …

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, VatorNews, socalTECH.com, silicontap.com and GigaOM

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: AllThingsD, The Verge, PC World and Microsoft Corporation. Thanks:@ryanburk

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Vimeo Adds Customizable Music Options And A New, Cloud-Based Enhancer Tool — Online video site Vimeo has always sought to differentiate itself as a platform for high-quality video content. Now the IAC-owned video platform is now adding features to help creators enhance their videos and make even them more attractive to viewers.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat and Engadget

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 and PC World

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Why we need to blow the article up in order to save it — Many media outlets — and not just traditional players like newspapers or magazines, but even some newer and more digital-savvy ones — still think of the article or the story as the bedrock foundation of news and journalism.

More: TeleRead and Zero Percent Idle

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Researchers Link Flame Virus to Stuxnet and Duqu — SAN FRANCISCO — Security experts have only begun examining the thousands of lines of code that make up Flame, an extensive, data-mining computer virus that has been designed to steal information from computers across the Middle East …

More: Help Net Security, The Next Web, BBC, CNET, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Internet Evolution, Associated Press, msnbc.com and TPM IdeaLab

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