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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Patent Peace: Yahoo and Facebook in Advanced Negotiations to Settle Fractious Infringement Lawsuits — Top execs at Yahoo and Facebook have been hammering out the outlines of a deal over the last several days to end their contentious patent infringement litigation, according to multiple sources close to the situation.

More: CNET, VentureBeat and The Verge

Samuel Iglesias / Tea for iPhone:

“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” What Would a Siri API Look Like? — It has been widely rumored that Siri will be supporting 3rd party apps. Right now most heavy users of Siri have become accustomed to the multitude of apologies and I-don't-knows that accompany out-there queries. Examples:

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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

The Instagram Effect? Mobile Photo Sharing App PicPlz To Shut Down Permanently On July 3 — PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3. — PicPlz delivered the news through …

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins Is Shaking Silicon Valley — MEN invented the Internet. And not just any men. Men with pocket protectors. Men who idolized Mr. Spock and cried when Steve Jobs died. Nerds. Geeks. Give them their due. Without men, we would never know what our friends were doing five minutes ago.

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

The Apple Television Is Coming, And This Is Why It's Going To Be Revolutionary — Apple analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray has a big report on Apple's plans for the TV industry. — He says it's a question of “when” Apple releases its television, not “if” now.

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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

How Do Top Android Developers QA Test Their Apps? — A couple weeks ago I ran this post showing how one Hong Kong developer, Animoca, tests its Android games. The company, which has had more than 70 million downloads, tests every one of their apps on about 400 different devices.

More: Neowin. Thanks:@eldon

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Exclusive: new Verizon FiOS plans coming June 17th, 300Mbps service to cost $204.99 per month — Verizon offered up quite the tease last week when it revealed that it was boosting speeds on its FiOS internet plans while refusing to detail how much it was going to charge for each tier.

More: TechnoBuffalo, PC World, CNET, Examiner, Ars Technica, Pulse2 Technology … and Neowin

David Pierce / The Verge:

Any.do task manager launches for iOS and Chrome, now syncs across platforms (hands-on) — Any.do is one of the most popular and acclaimed to-do list apps for Android, and today the company behind it is bringing the same app and experience to the iPhone and the Chrome browser.

More: TechCrunch, GigaOM and Android Phone Fans

Harry McCracken / Techland:

Newton, Reconsidered — A hands-on assessment of Apple's pioneering, ill-fated Personal Digital Assistant, twenty years after its original unveiling. — In the grand scheme of things, 1992 is such recent history that it barely qualifies as history. When it comes to portable gadgets …

More: Engadget, MacStories and TUAW

Wolf Rentzsch:

Mac App Store vs Buying Direct — Since the launch of the Mac App Store, a common question potential customers ask developers is “Should I buy your app directly or through the Mac App Store?” — Developers have been remarkably cagey, mostly replying with the non-answer “choose whichever is better for you”.

More: App Advice, Alfred App, MacStories, Daring Fireball and Computerworld

Peter Henderson / Reuters:

San Francisco vs Silicon Valley as a tech destination — More than ever, technology entrepreneurs, and their investors and employees, are choosing the urban charms of San Francisco over the sprawl of neighboring Silicon Valley. In the South of Market district, the nexus of the city's tech industry …

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet:

Why chip names tell us very little about the iPhone 5 — Summary: The problem with processor names is that history tells us that there's very little we can deduce about the underlying hardware from these letters and numbers. — A report by 9to5Mac claims to have details of the hardware relating …

More: 9to5Mac, iHackintosh and Computerworld

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Android 4.0 now on 7.1 percent of devices, still woefully behind previous versions — Google tracks the different version numbers of Android devices that access Google Play (nee Android Market) and every month or two we check in to see how the latest versions are doing.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Global Nerdy, Phones Review, Ars Technica, PC World, 9to5Google, parislemon, PC Magazine, Android Police, MobileBurn.com and Engadget

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Samsung Galaxy S II for T-Mobile getting ICS on June 11th

More: Softpedia News, Mashable!, GadgeTell, AndroidGuys, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Sammy Hub, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, Gotta Be Mobile, GigaOM and Engadget

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