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May 31, 2013, 2:05 PM

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Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Judge orders Google to comply with FBI's secret NSL demands — San Francisco federal judge tells Mountain View company to comply with FBI's warrantless National Security Letter requests for user details, despite ongoing concerns about law's constitutionality.

More: DSLreports, ZDNet, The Verge and Boing Boing

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Justice Department tries to force Google to hand over user data — Secret lawsuit in Manhattan filed last month asks judge to force Google to cough up user data without a search warrant. A different court has already ruled that the process is unconstitutional.

More: www.idigitaltimes.co.uk. Tweets: @jonathanstray

Brooke Crothers / CNET:

Acer $400 ‘PC’ will run Android, pack Intel's Haswell chip — Acer is about to announce a PC that runs Android, showing that Windows and PC will not necessarily be synonymous in the coming months. — The Acer DA220HQL AIO will be priced just above $400 at most resellers.

More: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, PC World, Pocketnow, Engadget, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, TechEye and CPU-World

Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters:

Megaupload founder wins access to evidence seized in raid — (Reuters) - A New Zealand court granted Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom access on Friday to all evidence seized by police in a 2012 raid, bolstering the Internet entrepreneur's fight against extradition to the United States to face online piracy charges.

More: TorrentFreak, Stuff.co.nz, VentureBeat, CNET, BBC, Gizmodo, The Register, National Business Review, GamePolitics blogs, Boing Boing, Inquirer, Bloomberg, PC World, Agence France Presse and The Next Web. Tweets: @kimdotcom

Christopher Williams / Telegraph:

BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims — BT has dumped Yahoo! as email provider to its six million broadband customers following months of customer complaints over hacking. — Marissa Mayer is battling to restore Yahoo!'s reputation for technological competence

More: ZDNet, BT, Business Insider, ComputerWeekly, Mashable, HEXUS.net Business …, The Register, Computer Business Review, Gizmodo UK, IT PRO and Inquirer

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Rumor: Apple Is Considering Launching An Ad Exchange — Is Apple planning to launch an ad exchange, the way Facebook and Twitter have done? — That's the rumor. — We heard it from an executive who is one of the biggest players in online advertising. — We can't confirm it.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, MacRumors, AdExchanger, 9to5Mac, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, MacNN and WebProNews

Xbox Wire:

The Beauty of Xbox One: A New Approach to Design — “Xbox has always had something to say. It's always been bold with a strong personality,” said Carl Ledbetter, Creative Director, Industrial Design. “Xbox One needs to serve our most loyal gaming fans and deliver unique entertainment experiences …

More: GeekWire, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, T3 News, The Official Microsoft Blog, Inquirer, destructoid, The Verge, Neowin, Polygon, TechNet Blogs and VG247

AppleInsider:

Apple's iPhone sales reportedly up 400% in India thanks to aggressive pricing strategies — The institution of installment payment plans and deep discounts in India has netted Apple up to a fourfold boost in iPhone sales over the past four months, said investment firm Credit Suisse …

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, ZDNet, GigaOM, Times of India, Ubergizmo, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, BGR and PhoneArena

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Following Twitter and Evernote, LinkedIn beefs up security with optional two-step verification via SMS — LinkedIn today announced it has added optional two-step verification to its user accounts. The feature is another layer of security to protect against the increasing number of attacks …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, CNET, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Verge and gHacks Technology News. Thanks:@thekenyeung

Joshua Green / Businessweek:

Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big Data Brains — During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama's reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google's (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina …

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth leaves Twitter to start something new, The Guardian's Bulusu now PM — TweetDeck founder Iain Dodsworth announced today that he is leaving Twitter to start “something new”. In a Tweet, he shared that it's been two years since his Twitter client was acquired …

More: AllThingsD and TechCrunch

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Microsoft to settle Vringo lawsuit over search-related patents — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp(MSFT.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing it of infringing patents that enable Internet search engines to place advertisements most effectively. — Vringo Inc(VRNG.O), whose …

More: Softpedia News, Computer Business Review and Seeking Alpha

Andy / TorrentFreak:

Movie2K Down: The Mystery and Possible Reincarnation Revealed — While the world's largest torrent indexes tend to grab most of the headlines, a relatively new range of sites have been scooping up huge numbers of users during the past few years. — Avoiding the relative complexity of torrent clients …

More: Softpedia News

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Twitter Prepping Ad-Retargeting Exchange to Rival Facebook's — FBX Partners, Brands To Hold Seats On Retargeting Platform — Facebook waited until after its public offering to go after the digital ad dollars tied up in display retargeting with last summer's launch of Facebook Exchange (FBX).

More: CNET, Business Insider, WebProNews, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, Marketing Land, Mobile Marketing Watch and Adotas. Tweets: @pkafka

Jack Clark / The Register:

Heroku publishes API for its platform cloud — Amazon piggybacker wants kids of its own — Heroku has released the public beta of a platform API to help its developers build apps and services that sit on top of its PaaS, which in turn sits on Amazon Web Services.

More: ZDNet, Heroku and Web Host Industry Review

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Asus will release a 4K 30.5-inch monitor in the US this June — Perfect for professionals, gamers, and people with too much money — 4K Ultra High-Definition TVs are already on their way to our living rooms, but Asus is planning on giving users the option to connect a next-gen monitor up to their laptops and desktops next month.

More: Engadget, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, GSMArena Blog, Boing Boing, The Tech Report, Geek.com, SlashGear and Electronista

Cade Metz / Wired:

Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet — At Google, Chris Zacharias spent his “20 percent time” building a new version of YouTube just for places with slow internet connections. It was called Feather, and the basic idea was to build a YouTube page that contained …

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Not So Anonymous: Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Tightens Identity Requirement — Since the crypto-currency Bitcoin hit the limelight, many libertarians and privacy advocates have heralded it as anonymous, digital cash. But the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange-and the U.S. regulators breathing down its neck-see things differently.

More: PandoDaily, Mt.Gox, GigaOM, SlashGear, www.idigitaltimes.co.uk, Ars Technica, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, Business Insider and CoinDesk

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:

Google exec sees Google Fiber as a ‘moneymaker’ — Google Fiber head Milo Medin says the company is not just conducting an expensive research project in Kansas City and other places getting the technology. He expects the gigabit fiber networks to make money.

More: DSLreports, 9to5Google, ftthcouncil.org and Business Insider

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