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Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

After nearly 10 years, Adobe abandons its Creative Suite entirely to focus on Creative Cloud — Adobe first launched Creative Suite 1 back in 2003, and now, ten years and six versions later, the company is taking a left turn: Adobe is abandoning its Creative Suite entirely to focus efforts on Creative Cloud.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Adobe Debuts “Project Mighty” Smart Stylus For Tablets And “Napoleon,” A Digital Ruler And Guide — Adobe surprised everyone by showing off a new hardware effort today at its annual MAX conference, including Project Mighty and Napoleon. Mighty is a pressure-sensitive digital pen that works …

More: AppleInsider, The Next Web, The Next Web, Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Gotta Be Mobile and App Advice

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Adobe launches new Creative Cloud-only apps and services: Photoshop CC, InDesign CC, Illustrator CC and more

More: PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG, 9to5Mac, Macworld, 9to5Mac and Macworld

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn't — Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say “yes,” but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently …

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Asustek to Make Small Windows 8 Tablets — Taiwanese PC Manufacturer Expects Prices to Drop Below $300 — Asustek Computer Inc. of Taiwan plans to sell small Windows 8 tablet computers this year, giving a boost to Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to reduce the size and price of mobile devices running its operating system.

More: Digital Trends, Unwired View and Electronista

Michael Kan / PC World:

Asus Chromebook coming in the second half of 2013

More: Engadget, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, CNET, 9to5Google and AndroidOS.in. Thanks:@bradchacos

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

First Retina iPad Mini is on track, DisplaySearch reports — A refresh of the iPad Mini is coming in the third quarter, NPD DisplaySearch said late Sunday in an update. — Update at 11:15 p.m. PT: The iPad Mini will get a refresh in the third quarter with a Retina display, NPD DisplaySearch predicted late Sunday.

More: AppleInsider, BGR, Cult of Mac, Examiner, MacRumors, Phones Review, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, PadGadget, Apple Bitch and Macgasm

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun — “Alright. One...two...” — Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape. A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …

More: BBC, CBS New York, Wired, CNET, NY Daily News, The Verge, Guardian, TechCrunch, Mashable, VentureBeat, Geekosystem, Business Insider, WebProNews, Technabob, Ars Technica and ExtremeTech. Tweets: @levie. Thanks:@uwepleban

Kara Swisher / Vanity Fair:

Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram — The sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom …

More: CNET, Salon, Business Insider, Fast Company, The Atlantic Wire, The Verge and DealBook. Tweets: @carnage4life

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Jon Rubinstein Joins Board of Qualcomm, as Mobile Chipmaker Ups Its Silicon Valley Cred — According to sources close to the situation, well-known tech exec Jon Rubinstein will be joining the board of Qualcomm, the San Diego-based chipmaker that has gotten a big boost of late for its role in the explosion of mobile devices.

More: Engadget, The Verge and Tech Trader Daily

MG Siegler / ParisLemon:

On To Google Ventures — It was almost exactly 19 months ago that I laid down the proverbial writer's pen and picked up the less proverbial pen for writing checks. It has been an amazing experience getting a fund up and running, learning, and ultimately, making a lot of wonderful investments.

More: Google Ventures Blog, AllThingsD, Valleywag, Business Insider, The Atlantic Wire, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Betabeat, 9to5Google and PE Hub Blog

Tweets: @google, @parislemon, @davemcclure, @kevinrose and @qthrul

The Japan Times:

Nintendo taps smartphone apps for console boost — OSAKA - Nintendo Co. is trying to modify its game consoles so customers can use smartphone applications on them as it searches for a way to return to profitability, company sources said. — The game console and software maker …

More: GeekWire, The Next Web, AppleInsider, ZDNet, Kotaku, PC Magazine, TechSpot, Geekosystem, TechCrunch and WebProNews

Keith Andrew / PocketGamer.biz:

Apple extends 2.25 banhammer to apps with sharing, recommendation and App Store search tools — Product: — App Store — Manufacturer: — Apple — Apple has begun clamping down on third-party tools that allow users to recommend apps to their friends, with releases equipped with an app search facility also now prohibited.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Mobile Marketing Watch, iPhone Hacks, Macgasm, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot and PadGadget

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple Misses IPhone Customers as Global Carriers Balk — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is missing out on a chance to court as many as 2.8 billion new smartphone customers, many of them in Asia, as wireless-service providers balk at conditions imposed by the iPhone maker and drag their heels in signing on as partners.

More: NYT Bits, iMore, GigaOM, MacRumors, App Advice, Cult of Mac, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace and AppleInsider

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

BILL GATES ON THE IPAD: ‘A Lot Of Those Users Are Frustrated’ — Bill Gates took a shot at the iPad while explaining Microsoft's rationale for the Surface this morning on CNBC. — He was asked about the declining PC market. He said that tablets are growing in popularity, and it's …

More: CNBC, ZDNet, AllThingsD, IntoMobile, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, Computerworld, PhoneArena, Betabeat and SlashGear

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network — Aereo has filed a complaint against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing additional lawsuits against the fledgling service. — Aereo is a web TV service that enables users to view over-the-air broadcasts via the web.

More: VentureBeat, VatorNews, AllThingsD, DSLreports, Ars Technica, Plagiarism Today, Poynter and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Intel's Silvermont Architecture Revealed: Getting Serious About Mobile — The most frustrating part about covering Intel's journey into mobile over the past five years is just how long it's taken to get here. The CPU cores used in Medfield, Clover Trail and Clover Trail+ are very similar to what Intel had with the first Atom in 2008.

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Intel Newsroom, ZDNet, GigaOM, Computerworld, Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Adam Mann / Wired:

Google's Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating the Interplanetary Internet — When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank. — In his role as Google's chief internet evangelist …

More: Motherboard and The Verge

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Internet Explorer 0-day attacks on US nuke workers hit 9 other sites — Attacks exploiting a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have spread to at least nine other websites, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace …

More: Krebs on Security, Softpedia News, Network World, Neowin, Help Net Security and SecurityWeek

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Announces Its First Developer Conference, The Invite-Only DBX On July 9th In SF — Dropbox doesn't want to be a storage service. It wants to be the data layer uniting your information on all apps. To get more apps and enterprises integrated with its platform, today it announced DBX …

More: Dropbox developers blog, AllThingsD, GigaOM, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Verge and Engadget

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