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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
RIM Earnings: Oh, the Humanity! — It's no secret that Research In Motion's latest earnings were going to be terrible, but my God these are bad enough for Canada to declare June 28th a National Day of Mourning. — Posting financials after market close Thursday, RIM reported a gruesome … | Zach Epstein / BGR: |
RIM posts huge Q1 miss: First net loss in 8 years, BlackBerry 10 launch delayed, 5,000 jobs to be cut — Analysts anticipated another miss ahead of Research In Motion's first-quarter earnings report on Thursday as sales continue to stall ahead of the struggling smartphone vendor's …
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Engadget, GigaOM, The Next Web, AllThingsD, DailyTech, PhoneArena and CNET
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
RIM's Q1 2013 Results: $518 Million Loss On $2.8 Billion In Revenue, BlackBerry 10 Launch Pushed To 2013 — RIM has just released their Q1 2013 financials, and they're about as bleak as the company expected. The Canadian company reported a loss of $518 million (which breaks down to $0.99/share diluted) on revenues of $2.8 billion.
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| Scott Knaster / Google Developers Blog: |
Google Compute Engine: Computing without limits — Over the years, Google has built some of the most high performing, scalable and efficient data centers in the world by constantly refining our hardware and software. Since 2008, we've been working to open up our infrastructure to outside developers …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google launches alleged Amazon Web Services killer, but lacks maturity, options — Summary: Google has thrown down a Amazon Web Services challenge, but has a way to go to match its rival on breadth and depth. — Google launched Compute Engine Infrastructure as a Service in a bid …
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Google Enterprise Blog and CNET
| Laura June / The Verge: |
Google announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, available today — On stage at Google I/O, Brian Rakowski, Vice President of the Chrome division at Google has just announced Chrome for iPhone and iPad. It's something iOS users have been asking for for a very long time, and plenty of people will be happy.
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| Tim Stevens / Engadget: |
Nexus 7 review: the best $200 tablet you can buy — In 2008, when the Eee PC was revolutionizing the computing world and driving every manufacturer to make cheaper and smaller laptops, Sony washed its hands of the whole thing. The “race to the bottom,” the company said … | Brian Klug / AnandTech: |
Google Nexus 7 and Android 4.1 - Mini Review — The fact that Google launched a 7" tablet by ASUS isn't a particularly huge surprise, given that ASUS showed off the Eee Pad Memo back at CES. The story goes that Google liked that particular tablet so much, it became slotted in to become …
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
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| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
Google announces offline editing for Docs, available later today — We're live at day two of I/O and the theme of this keynote is all about “Going Google.” With this focus on Mountain View's various cloud-based apps, Clay Bavar, Director of Product Management for Google Apps, announced that Docs will now work offline for editing.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands On With Google Drive On iOS — As promised at this morning's Google I/O conference, Google has launched a version of its Google Drive application on iOS today, which offers native support for the service formerly known as Google Docs on both iPhone and iPad.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said To Prepare ITunes Changes To Improve Sharing — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world's biggest music store since its 2003 debut, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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BGR, GigaOM, msnbc.com, PC Magazine, Pocketnow, TUAW, Know Your Cell, Evolver.fm, Engadget, BuzzFeed, AllThingsD, MacStories, Kirkville, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, Macgasm, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, The Tech Trade, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, Apple Bitch, PadGadget, everythingiCafe, The Verge, Gizmodo, WebProNews, TechSpot and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Google vs everyone: an epic war on many fronts — June, it seems, is the season for new product announcements in Silicon Valley. At its annual WWDC shindig, Apple announced a slew of new products including its hot-new Macbook Pro with Retina display and iOS 6.
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft Said To Plan Xbox Music Rivaling Apple, Spotify — Attendees at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, June 5, 2012. Microsoft Corp. expanded the sports and entertainment content offered through the Xbox, and is planning to add iTunes and Spotify for music.| Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts: |
Supreme Court Disappoints Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga and Yahoo — Supreme Court disappointed Obamacare haters and tech firms today — The big Supreme Court news today is that Obamacare got five thumbs up from the Court, meaning the president probably did this at some point this morning.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details its Windows 8 upgrade plans — Summary: Microsoft is getting closer to the Windows 8 finish line, and is finalizing details like its upgrade paths from older Windows releases to the coming version. — Microsoft has shared with select partners some specifics …
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Engadget, Wired, The Next Web and Neowin
| Ben Jones / TorrentFreak: |
Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal by High Court — A case that seemed, just 5 months ago, to be a veritable David and Goliath fight is certainly living up to its billing. — The battle between Megaupload (David) and the US Government and the MPAA (Goliath) started out with a flurry … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Google Nexus Q media streamer: first impressions and video — One of Google's surprises yesterday was the Nexus Q media streamer, a product that sees the company expanding into the living room with its own branded hardware. The Nexus Q differs from competing devices in that it only serves as a conduit.
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| Jon Phillips / Wired: |
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| Reuters: |
Exclusive: China to launch Netflix-like movie service — (Reuters) - The government-run China Movie Channel will launch an online service like Netflix Inc in China this year, promising a big new revenue source for Hollywood from streaming its films and TV shows to subscribers in the world's most populous nation.
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| Barry Collins / PC Pro: |
Why Microsoft killed the Windows Start button — Microsoft claims it took the controversial decision to remove the Start button from the traditional Windows desktop because people had stopped using it. — The lack of a Start button on the Windows 8 desktop has been one of the most divisive elements of the new user interface.
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CNET, VentureBeat, DailyTech, TechSpot and Gizmodo
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Rupert Murdoch Announces The News Corp. Divorce: The Full Memo — Here's Rupert Murdoch's official “internal” announcement explaining the News Corp. split. — The important stuff: — Murdoch will remain CEO of both the publishing business and the entertainment business.| Bloomberg: |
Virgin Mobile Will Open Retail Stores to Capitalize on IPhone — Virgin Mobile, the pay-as-you-go carrier owned by Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) (S), plans to open its first 10 retail stores tomorrow in Chicago, aiming to profit from the iPhone's expansion into the prepaid wireless market.
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MacRumors, Computerworld, TUAW, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, Gotta Be Mobile, GadgeTell, Macgasm, Phones Review and IntoMobile
| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Project Glass Is The Future Of Google — Over the last few years one could easily say that Google had lost their way. They were no longer known for search. Somehow they'd turned into a company that acquired a series of nonsensical entities, launched half baked products that eventually hit …
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