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June 12, 2012, 3:55 PM

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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.

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MacStories, BuzzFeed, Engadget, Webmonkey, Destructoid, ExtremeTech 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.

More: Forbes, Shiny Objects, 9to5Mac, Google Plus, Forbes and MacRumors

Don Reisinger / CNET:

MacBook Pro with Retina Display ships in ‘2-3 weeks’ — (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) — Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina Display stole the show at yesterday's Worldwide Developers Conference. But the contention by Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing …

More: Forbes, BGR, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, TUAW, The Verge, Datamation.com and MacRumors

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display Review

More: Computerworld. Thanks:@mspoonauer

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

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 …

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 …

More: PC Magazine, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Marketing Land, The Verge, Gizmodo, Betabeat, msnbc.com, AllThingsD, Complex.com, Mashable! and The Next Web

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 …

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, Techland, Royal Pingdom, Pulse2 Technology …, memeburn, AppleTell and ZDNet

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Steps Up Rivalry With Google

More: blogs.smartmoney.com, Pogue's Posts, The Atlantic Wire, New York Times and CNET

Horace Dediu / asymco:

The iOS App market sales run rate is $4 billion per year

More: Daring Fireball

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 …

More: Computerworld, Inside Facebook, Mashable!, WebProNews, Tip Desk, TechCrunch and Black Web 2.0

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 …

More: Reuters

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 …

More: MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, WebProNews, Macgasm, The Verge, The Next Web and App Advice

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 …

More: ZDNet and Dwight Silverman's TechBlog. Thanks:@tsimonite

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.

More: Gizmodo, MobileBurn.com, PC Magazine, Pocketables, Android News, Rumours …, Engadget, Know Your Cell, DroidMatters.com, The Verge, NFC World, Macgasm and PhoneArena

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Maps in iOS 6 will require A5 processor for 3D “flyover,” navigation — iPhone 3GS in particular will get a reduced feature set in iOS 6. — iOS 6 promises to bring lots of new features to iPhone and iPad users—more than 200, according to Apple's count.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, PhoneArena, LiveSide.net and RyanSpoon.com

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history — Frank Schilling is betting big on new domain extensions. — (Credit: Frank Schilling) — Frank Schilling made his fortune in the aftermath of the dot-com bust, buying up thousands of domain names others didn't want.

More: Business Insider and Domain Name Wire

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.

More: InfoWorld, The Oatmeal, GeekWire, TorrentFreak, Plagiarism Today, Mashable, Slashdot, Social Media, Gawker and Boing Boing

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 …

More: msnbc.com, Channel 4, Digital Media Wire, Sulake, TechCrunch, GamesIndustry International, Telegraph, GamePolitics blogs, Daily Dot, GigaOM and The Next Web. Tweets: @paullafo

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?

More: Engadget, NBC Bay Area, The Verge, Macgasm, TUAW, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@thatdrew

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 …

More: VentureBeat, hipmunk blog, TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology … and Tnooz

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.

More: ZDNet

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 …

More: Betabeat, The H Open Source and tbray.org

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google Updates “Hot Searches” With Images & Stories — Google has announced an update to Hot Searches, formerly known as Google Hot Trends. The update gives the page a more magazine look with images from news papers, news stories, related searches, and more. But it appears to remove the ability to search for hot trends by date.

More: Inside Search, 9to5Google, Softpedia News and The Verge

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.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, Fast Company, BetaKit, GigaOM, VentureBeat and The Next Web

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.

More: Neowin, The Next Web and The Verge

iFixit:

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?

More: Gizmodo and MacRumors

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” …

More: comScore Voices, Wall Street Journal, Mercury News, comScore, Inc., comScore, Inc., Media Decoder, The New Persuaders, GigaOM, internetretailer.com, Business Insider, Pulse2 Technology …, Digiday, Marketing Pilgrim, PandoDaily and WebProNews

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Yext lands $27M to perfect local business listings — New York City-based Yext, a company that offers a simple way to control your business data across more than 50 local search publishers, announced today that it has landed an additional $27 million in a fifth round of funding.

More: VatorNews and Business Insider

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 …

More: Twitter Blog

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