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June 1, 2012, 4:20 AM

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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) …

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: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Engadget and VentureBeat

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Sees Future in Windows 8 Fueled by $58 Billion App Market: Tech — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is so eager to have a panoply of applications for the next version of its Windows operating system that it has lined up design firms, recruited interns and sent engineers on an around …

More: parislemon, ZDNet, Ars Technica and I4U News

Jason Zander / MSDN Blogs:

Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5

More: Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Computerworld, Redmond Pie, BetaNews, CodenameWindows, InfoQ, TechNet Blogs and Pocket-lint

Paul Thurrott's / SuperSite for Windows:

Windows 8 Release Preview: The Ultimate Delta Guide

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: CNET, 9to5Google, BGR, gHacks Technology News and WebProNews

John Letzing / Wall Street Journal:

Google Points Antitrust Finger at Microsoft, Nokia — Google Inc. said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe arguing that Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology.

More: The Verge, Engadget, The Register, Android Phone Fans, GigaOM, Dow Jones Newswire and Los Angeles Times

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Google's EU antitrust allegations against Microsoft and Nokia were dismissed by the ITC

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not covered by copyright law, related claims against Google dismissed — Things weren't looking good for Oracle after the jury found that Google hadn't infringed upon the company's patents in the second phase of the trial, but the issue of infringement of the structure …

Reuters:

Facebook makes a comeback, options volume soars — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc bounced back from record lows in frenetic trading on Thursday to finish in positive territory for the first time in four days, lifted in late trade by a U.S. market rebound and a brokerage upgrade.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, Associated Press, International Business Times, CNNMoney.com and Los Angeles Times

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

New Netflix iOS app capitulates to bandwidth caps — Carriers like Verizon and AT&T are trying to convince Netflix to pay for the bandwidth its subscribers consume on their networks. Today Netflix delivered a rather oblique response. It's giving its iPhone customers the option …

More: SlashGear, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, Macgasm and Hacking NetFlix

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Netflix iOS app update adds new video player, controls, Facebook sharing toggle and more

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

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

The Rumored iPhone 5′s Four Inch Front Panel Can Nearly Swallow An Old iPhone Whole — Another day, another iPhone 5 leak. This time we're looking at a four-inch long front panel of what appears to be a new iPhone. This panel suggests a longer, 16:9 style body and screen and lines …

More: BGR, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Pocketnow, CNET, MacRumors and Gizmodo

Somini Sengupta / New York Times:

On Facebook, ‘Likes’ Become Ads — SAN FRANCISCO — On Valentine's Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of ... personal lubricant. — He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook …

Tweets: @cdixon

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Google Applies for More than 50 New Domains Including .LOL and .YouTube — Web Giant Spends Millions in Aim to Aquire .Google, .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: CNNMoney.com, CNET, The Official Google Blog, Mashable!, Business Insider, SlashGear, Technology Review, msnbc.com, Ars Technica, WebProNews, Hillicon Valley, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times and Domain Name Wire

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

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

More: The Verge, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Tech Daily Dose, Engadget, The Domains and 9to5Google

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns — FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warns a House committee that Google, iTunes, Facebook, and Netflix could face new international taxes. — (Credit: U.S. House of Representatives) — Democratic and Republican government officials warned …

More: Reuters, Google Public Policy Blog, Ars Technica, GigaOM, digitaltrends.com, Reuters, The Register and Geekosystem

Rob Walker / New York Times:

How Kinect Spawned a Commercial Ecosystem — When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a $150 motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers. A slim, black, oblong 11½-inch wedge perched on a base …

More: The Verge and TechFlash

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Spotted in the wild: Google+ Events feature on its way, with tie-in to Google Calendar — Google is putting a lot of effort into making its Google+ social network thing more robust to turn it into a viable competitor to market leader Facebook. One major feature Google+ was missing so far …

More: TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, Engadget and Marketing Land

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Kleiner Perkins Adds Megan Quinn, Former Products Director At Square, As Newest Investment Partner — Megan Quinn, the web exec who most recently served as the Director of Products at credit card processing tech firm Square, has joined Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as an investment partner.

More: PE Hub Blog, Reuters, Betabeat, NBC Bay Area, Betabeat, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, Fortune and CNET. Tweets: @johndoerr

Ryan Singel / Wired:

In Ad Network Nightmare, Microsoft Making ‘Do Not Track’ Default for IE 10 — Microsoft announced Thursday that the next version of its browser, IE 10, will ship with the controversial “Do Not Track” feature turned on by default, a first among major browsers, creating a potential threat to online advertising giants.

More: MSDN Blogs, TechNet Blogs, Washington Post, Neowin and Digits

Tweets: @csoghoian and @csoghoian

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Looks Like Pinterest, Takes On Evernote: Clipboard Launches Its Web Clipping Service To All — At first glance, you might mistake Clipboard, the impressively-backed web clipping service, for yet another Pinterest clone. But any similarities are only skin deep.

More: BetaKit, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Techland and GeekWire. Thanks:@sarahintampa

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Kickstarter Responds To Hidden “Failed Project” Claims — Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter, dropped us a line about the systems in place to “hide” failed projects. He told us that Kickstarter does indeed hide many projects from search robots, but it's for a good cause.

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: Gizmodo

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Finally Cracks Down On Auto-Sharing Spam With “10-Second Rule” — If you hate accidental auto-sharing, you're in luck. Now you have to be watching or reading something for at least 10 seconds before Facebook apps can auto-share the activity to your Timeline.

More: parislemon, Inside Facebook and Facebook Developer Blog

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