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Verizon Intros Share Everything Plans: Unlimited Talk/Text And Shared Data For Up To 10 Devices — Verizon Wireless today announced the addition of Share Everything plans. They're essentially family plans, allowing you, mom, dad, and big or little brother or sister to share from a pool …
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DailyFinance.com, The Seattle Times, ZDNet, Digits, Computerworld, Telecompetitor, Liliputing, iPhone and PhoneArena
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| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
MacBook Pro Retina Display Analysis — I'm in San Francisco until tomorrow morning, but aside from dinner I've been spending as much time with the next-gen MacBook Pro as possible. Apple, as always, has done an excellent job of giving users enough reasons to want this thing.
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MacStories, MacRumors, Engadget, ExtremeTech, 9to5Mac and Computerworld
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Andy Hertzfeld blasts Apple over Mac Pro neglect — Hertzfeld argues that “the only thing that's still high-end about [the Mac Pro] is the bloated price.” — Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the original Apple Macintosh development team and current Google employee, has taken a swipe at his former employer over the Mac Pro.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Big Tech: Twilight of the Trucks: WWDC Was All About Apple's Big Bet on Mobile — Just as the farm truck has faded, so will the PC in Apple's world. Photo: Puuikibeach — Almost exactly 2 years ago, Steve Jobs outlined his view of personal computing. We used to be an agrarian nation … | Horace Dediu / asymco: |
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| Sara Mauskopf / Twitter Blog: |
Tailored Trends bring you closer — Trends help you discover the emerging topics people are talking about on Twitter. You can see these topics as a worldwide list, or select one of more than 150 locations. In order to show emerging topics that matter more to you, today we're improving …
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| Matt Kelly / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Facebook Integration for WordPress — Starting today WordPress publishers can easily integrate Facebook features, such as social publishing and mentions, through the new Facebook for WordPress plugin. — The plugin was built by Facebook engineers in collaboration with open source partners …
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| Tom Simonite / Technology Review: |
The Antivirus Era Is Over — Conventional security software is powerless against sophisticated attacks like Flame, but alternative approaches are only just getting started. Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame … | Steven Russolillo / MarketBeat: |
Zynga Shares Plunge Below $5; Circuit Breaker Triggered — Zynga shares are getting pummeled today as broad worries about the company's user base have triggered yet another selloff. — Zynga dropped as much as 13%, tripped a short-sale circuit breaker and fell below $5 …
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| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Exclusive: Sprint Touch Wallet slides show carrier is serious about NFC wallet app — Last week we heard that Sprint was developing their own NFC-based mobile wallet application, and today an insider has passed along to us a couple presentation slides to let us know that it's real.| Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
Apple Pulls Messages For Mac Beta Ahead Of Mountain Lion Launch Next Month — If you haven't already installed the Messages application on your Mac, you will now have to wait until OS X Mountain Lion is released next month to get your hands on it. The Messages for Mac beta …
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MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, WebProNews, MacNN, Macgasm, The Verge, The Next Web and App Advice
| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Hipmunk Plans to Take Off Internationally With $15 Million in New Capital — Hipmunk, the offbeat travel site that has made “taking the agony out of travel planning” its tagline, tells AllThingsD that it has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. — The financing will enable …
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Camera app gets a new name: Camera •. Yes, “•” — When Facebook launched its Camera app, many of us noticed that when it was displayed on your home screen, it simply said “Camera.” How could Apple let them get away with that, as its the same name as their own built-in app?
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Macgasm, TUAW, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@thatdrew
| Milo Yiannopoulos / The Kernel: |
Habbo exposed as paedophile haven — Balderton Capital will return its 13 per cent stake in social gaming company Sulake at zero value after learning that one of the company's products, Habbo, is to be engulfed in a child sex scandal by Channel 4. — Finnish social gaming company Sulake …
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MacBook Air 13" Mid 2012 Teardown — Apple announced the updated MacBook Air yesterday at WWDC, so, naturally, we're taking one apart. Join us as we dig into the new 13" MacBook Air, equipped with USB 3.0 and MagSafe 2. You like what you see? Want to see more?| Zachary Lutz / Engadget: |
Go to school, get a Lumia 900: all incoming Seton Hall University freshmen to receive a Windows Phone — Granted, this'll be just one more way for upperclassmen to quickly identify the newbies, but all incoming freshmen to New Jersey's Seton Hall University will be given a Nokia Lumia 900 upon orientation … | Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Google's Tim Bray drafts new HTTP status code for censorship — XML co-inventor and Android Developer Advocate Tim Bray is submitting a draft for a new HTTP Status Code to be used when resources aren't available because of legal restrictions. The code, 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons …
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
Twitter Has Moved Into Its New Office, And It's Gorgeous — It's a beautiful day in San Francisco: sunny but not too hot, a nice breeze but not too windy. — So a lot of Twitter employees had lunch out on the rooftop garden of their office. — Their brand-new office, that is …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Money Management App Lemon Launches Digital Wallet, Closes $8 Million Series A — Lemon.com, the company behind the handy cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker mobile app, has now expanded its platform to include digital wallet functionality. And it has just landed an $8 million Series A, too.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, Fast Company, VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Next Web, BetaKit and AllThingsD
| Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: |
Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet — Lawyer demands $20,000, so webcomic raises $100,000 from the Internet — The saga of FunnyJunk vs. The Oatmeal takes an unexpected turn. — There's an excellent chance Mr. Carreon's mother does not look like this.
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GeekWire, The Oatmeal, Plagiarism Today, TorrentFreak, Mashable, Slashdot, Social Media, Gawker, Boing Boing and Daily Dot
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify App Soundrop Tunes Into First Investment: $3M From Spotify Lead Backer Northzone — Spotify's move last year to open its platform to other apps has created more stickiness for its streamed music services. Now, one of the startups based around that idea has found some traction of its own …
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VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, The Next Web, GigaOM and hypebot
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Facebook Says the Facebook Ads It Didn't Sell Work Great — Here's Facebook's retort to people who say Facebook ads don't work: A study that says people who see brand messages on the site spend more money on those brands, right away. — The catch: The study focuses on “earned media” … | Sara Yin / PC Magazine: |
LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts — LulzSec Reborn, the so-called redux of disbanded hacker group LulzSec, leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who used TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application. — The file contained an unusually detailed trove …
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msnbc.com, Computerworld, The Verge, TechSpot, Mashable and The H Security
| Jamillah Knowles / The Next Web: |
UK regulator reopens investigation into Google Street View — It looks as though Google Street View is about to get into more hot water with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). — The Register has noted that Steve Eckersley, the ICO's head of enforcement has written a letter …
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ZDNet, Guardian, Inquirer, PC Pro, GigaOM, V3.co.uk, TechWeekEurope UK and The Register
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Siri's Nemesis Evi Relaunches, Recruits Berkowitz From Wolfram Alpha, Opens US Office — We saw what happened yesterday with the Siri announcements from Apple. Clearly they see it as core to their strategy and its deep integration inside iOS reflects its increasing importance.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft offers glimpse of Office 2013 on Windows RT tablet — Summary: Office 2013 RT seems to be the final branding for the Office 15 apps that will run on Windows RT tablets, based on a demo during a Microsoft TechEd presentation. — The June 12 Microsoft TechEd keynote was billed as being all about Windows 8 for business.
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