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| Michael Sippey / Twitter Blog: |
Experience more with expanded Tweets — Starting today, you can discover more interactive experiences inside any Tweet on twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com. When you expand Tweets containing links to partner websites, you can now see content previews, view images, play videos and more.| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others scramble for new top-level domains like .app, .xbox, and .book — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has revealed the names of the 1,930 applications for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDS).| ICANN New gTLDs: |
Reveal Day 13 June 2012 - New gTLD Applied-For Strings — ICANN developed the New generic Top-Level Domain Program to increase competition and choice by introducing new gTLDs into the Internet's addressing system. What is a gTLD? It is an Internet domain name extension such as the familiar .com, .net, or .org.
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| Charles Arthur / Guardian: |
Icann criticised over ‘commercial landgrab’ — Amazon and Google dominate applications for new top-level domains, including .app, .shop, .book, .love, .amazon and .google — More than 1,000 new internet “top level domains” - such as .app, .kids, .love, .pizza and also .amazon and .google … | iFixit: |
MacBook Pro with Retina Display Teardown — This is it: The Chosen One of MacBook Pros. While other MBPs were gifted only the standard annual updates, this particular model was bestowed with a Retina display, a thinner profile, two Thunderbolt ports, a full sized HDMI port, and less annoying cooling fans.| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
MacBook Pro with Retina display review — Apple's new flagship is powerful, thin, and has an industry-leading high-res screen — does it live up to great expectations? Though Apple quietly discontinued the 17-inch MacBook Pro this week, hardly a tear was shed.| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Retina MacBook Pro is the least repairable laptop ever, says iFixit — Apple's new MacBook Pro with Retina Display is ridiculously fast and thin — but you can forget about ever taking it apart. — The repair gurus at iFixit unveiled their teardown of the Retina MacBook Pro this morning …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Analysis: Apple's big enemy in smartphone wars: delay — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has spent nearly three years fighting its rivals in a global smartphone patent war. Now, setbacks in two key U.S. court cases are laying bare why a drawn-out battle could be bad news for the iPhone maker.| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Linus Torvalds: Linux succeeded thanks to selfishness and trust — Linus Torvalds developed Linux in 1991 while at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He became a US citizen in 2010. — Linux creator Linus Torvalds will find out later if he has won the Millennium Technology Prize … | Robert McMillan / Wired: |
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
The high-school blogger who's been cracking Apple's secrets — In the walk-up to this week's big keynote, nobody had more scoops than Mark Gurman FORTUNE — Trying to scope out Apple's (AAPL) product plans in advance is serious business for a small army of tech journalists …
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Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, The Loop, Stowe Boyd and Pulse2 Technology …. Thanks:@philiped
| Anya Kamenetz / Fast Company: |
Building The Next Internet, 250 Times Faster — Developers in 25 cities are getting a playdate with GENI, an ultra-fast broadband sandbox, with the goal of building apps that push beyond the limits of today's Net. — The series of tubes that make up the Internet are getting bigger.
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| Kevin Morris / Daily Dot: |
Reddit bans “The Atlantic,” “Businessweek,” others in major anti-spam move — Reddit just dropped the banhammer. — As of today, more than a half-dozen prominent websites have been banned from the massively popular link-sharing site, including digital publishing heavyweights The Atlantic and PhysOrg.| Andrew Conway / Cloudmark Blog: |
The Social Network That Cried “Wolf!” — If you're reading this blog, then you're probably aware that last week 6.5 million Linkedin passwords were compromised. On Friday the Cloudmark Research team saw a huge increase in user spam reports relating to resetting Linkedin passwords.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
HTC Resists Push Toward Low-End Phones — TAIPEI—Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp. will stick to its strategy of selling medium- to high-priced phones, even though it has been struggling to compete in that price range where Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. are increasingly dominant.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Skype For Windows Now Features “Conversation Ads” — Skype just announced that it will now begin to show some of its users ads during 1:1 audio calls. These so-called “conversation ads” will only appear for users who don't have Skype credit or a subscription and, for the time being …
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| Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com: |
Developer gets iOS apps running on BlackBerry, for real (we asked for more evidence and got it) — This past Saturday a thread popped up in the CrackBerry Forums by new member businesscat2000, titled iOS Apps running on PlayBook! The thread linked to this video on youtube …
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| Derrick Harris / GigaOM: |
How Facebook keeps 100 petabytes of Hadoop data online — It's no secret that Facebook stores a lot of data — 100 petabytes, in fact — in Hadoop, but how it keeps that data available whenever it needs it isn't necessarily common knowledge. Today at the Hadoop Summit, however … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Exchange: A New Way For Advertisers To Target Specific Users With Real-Time Bid Ads — Facebook is testing and will soon launch Facebook Exchange, a real-time bidding ad system where visitors to third-party websites are marked with a cookie, and can then be shown real-time bid ads related … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple fails to fend off mobile tracking lawsuit — (Reuters) - Apple Inc must defend against a lawsuit accusing it of letting advertisers secretly track the activity of millions of mobile device users, a federal judge ruled, but Google Inc and several other defendants were dismissed from the case.
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| Georgina Prodhan / Reuters: |
Nokia in talks with EQT to sell Vertu: sources — (Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is in talks with private equity group EQT to sell its luxury handset subsidiary Vertu for around 200 million euros ($249 million), sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Waze And Others Contributing To Apple's iOS 6 Maps' Crowd Sourced Traffic Data — Shortly after yesterday's Apple WWDC keynote there was plenty of chatter amongst the pundits, journalists and developers about which apps Apple had screwed over with iOS 6.| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Aviary launches photo editing application on iOS, turns Android plugin into an app — Last we heard, Aviary was being chosen to replace the deceased Picnik as the main photo editor on Flickr, and now the startup is getting ready to launch its first iOS app and give its previous Android offering a major boost.
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| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
REVEALED! Here's Who Owns How Much Of Square — Jack Dorsey's payments startup, Square, has just hired a CFO and it's in the hunt for a reported $250 million round of fresh financing that would value it at anywhere between $2.5 billion and $4 billion, according to who you talk to.
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| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
State Department speaks out on Amazon Kindle deal — On Monday, I reported that the U.S. State Department was signing a $16.5 million agreement with Amazon to provide Kindles, content and service for overseas English language programs. Yesterday I was able to get on the phone …
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| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
Samsung aiming for complete mobile domination with rumored Facebook competitor — Samsung's made no secret of its ambitions to commandeer all aspects of mobile tech — from devices themselves to processors and software like ChatON and the recently announced Siri competitor S Voice.| Joel Mathis / Macworld: |
Developers: Retina-optimized Mac apps will take time — While Apple is already updating its own apps for Retina display, officials with third-party developers Adobe and Autodesk on Tuesday said they'll need time to ship Retina-optimized apps to the public. Their Photoshop and AutoCAD applications …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Another Big Exit For NY Startups: SinglePlatform Gets Acquired For $100 Million By Constant Contact — SinglePlatform has been acquired for $100 million by small business marketing tools company, Constant Contact. — Constant Contact has over 500,000 paying small business customers and 1,060 employees.
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TechCrunch, Betabeat, AllThingsD, The Next Web, The Tech Trade and WebProNews. Thanks:@mattbruck
| Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: |
Judge says bank can't use Facebook to reach defendant — try local paper instead — In the latest example of courts' unease with social media, a federal judge has refused a request by Chase Bank to serve legal papers on an identity thief via Facebook. — In an order issued Friday in Manhattan …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Mark Cuban puts $500,000 investment into immersive video startup, Condition One — Danfung Dennis spent the last decade working as a photo-journalist and filmaker in some of the world's most dangerous places, shooting war footage that appeared in Newsweek and The New York Times and directing … Sponsor Posts
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