Apple Is Said to Be Pressing for Internet Radio Deals  —  After months of stalled negotiations over its planned Internet radio service, Apple is pushing to complete licensing deals with music companies so it can reveal the service as early as next week, according to people briefed on the talks.

Some thoughts on mobile  — People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”.  This can be misleading.  Ask people who run internet companies and they'll tell you that user behavior on tablets is far more similar to user behavior on desktops/laptops than it is to user behavior on smartphones.

Microsoft CIO Tony Scott leaves to ‘focus on personal projects’  —  [Updated below with Microsoft confirmation and statement.]  —  Tony Scott, who oversaw Microsoft's internal IT operations for more than five years as the company's CIO, has exited the position, based on the word leaking out of the company this weekend.

Product > Strategy > Business Model  —  One of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy.  The way I like to think about this is get the product right first, then lock down the strategy of the business, then figure out the business model.

Intel Iris Pro 5200 Graphics Review: Core i7-4950HQ Tested  —  The Prelude  —  As Intel got into the chipset business it quickly found itself faced with an interesting problem.  As the number of supported IO interfaces increased (back then we were talking about things like AGP, FSB) …

Yahoo Shuts Down Mail Classic, Forces Switch To New Version That Scans Your Emails To Target Ads  —  Starting the week of June 3rd, tomorrow, Yahoo is discontinuing Mail Classic.  It's requiring all Mail users to switch to the new version of Mail and accept a TOS/Privacy Policy update that lets …

WWDC 2013: Slimmer Retina MacBook Pro w/1080P camera and MacBook Air microphone improvements expected  —  In a report this morning, one of the better Apple analysts, Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI securities listed his forecast for MacBook Pro and Air updates expected at WWDC.

Intel's future Pentium chip does Windows and Android  —  Atom is moving on up — to the Pentium and Celeron branding.  And Intel is renaming the architecture too.  —  Samsung Ativ Smart PC.  More Android-based Intel laptops are coming, the chipmaker says.  —  Intel's Atom is getting a makeover.

IE10 blows past IE7 and IE6′s combined market share, Firefox gains too, but Chrome hits 21-month low  —  The browser war continues into the middle of 2013.  May saw the second full month of IE10 availability on Windows 7, as well as the release of Firefox 21 and Chrome 27.

The Quantitative VC  —  It's no longer sufficient in venture capital for firms to wait for companies, people and trends to come to Sand Hill Road.  Seeing a startup on Demo Day at Y Combinator used to be the pipeline for scouting an early deal.  But these days, YC companies are raising from angels before demo days.