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June 5, 2013, 11:40 PM

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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:

Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily — Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama — • Read the court order in full here — The National Security Agency …

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Guardian:

Verizon forced to hand over telephone data - full court ruling — The US government is collecting the phone records of millions of US customers of Verizon under a top secret court order. Read the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry's next flagship phone: the all-touchscreen A10 — Sprint has already committed to selling the A10, which is the successor to the Z10, in November, CNET has learned. — BlackBerry's next flagship smartphone, the all-touchscreen BlackBerry A10, will launch during the holidays, CNET has learned.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

MacBook Air refresh looks set for WWDC, potentially with faster Wi-Fi — Apple appears set to release new versions of its MacBook Air notebook computer at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to information provided by a source. Earlier this week, we reported that Apple …

More: Digital Trends, iMore, Business Insider, MacRumors, Gotta Be Mobile and BGR. Thanks:@llsethj

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft goes public with Windows 8.1 upgrade policies — Summary: Microsoft is sharing more on how existing Windows 8 and Windows RT users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 ‘Blue’ preview and final. — With the public preview builds of Windows 8.1 due out later this month …

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Chris Schneider / The Microsoft Office Blog:

Outlook 2013 RT Coming to Windows RT Tablets as part of Windows 8.1 Update

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

‘Small’ Windows 8 tablets will ship with a free version of Office 2013

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Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Windows 8.1 shares highlights in video walkthrough

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John McDermott / AdAge:

Apple to Sell Audio Ads on iRadio, its Upcoming Streaming Music Service — New Ad Product Could Be Pricier Than Pandora, Thanks to Targeting Abilities — Now hear this: Apple will sell audio ads on its forthcoming streaming music service, already being dubbed “iRadio” by many.

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple Says Differences in Publisher Deals Belie E-Book Conspiracy Charges — Central to the U.S. Department of Justice's e-book price fixing case against Apple are the Most Favored Nation (MFN) agreements the company struck with publishers that ensured it would always be able to sell e-books at least as cheaply as rival retailers.

More: CNET, AppleInsider, Fortune, IOL and The Verge

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Focus, criticism shifts to Amazon in Apple e-book trial

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Aaron Smith / Pew Internet:

56% of American adults are now smartphone owners — Findings — 56% of American adults are now smartphone owners — For the first time since the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project began systematically tracking smartphone adoption, a majority of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind.

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Agam Shah / PC World:

AMD breaks from Windows exclusivity, adopts Android and Chrome OS — After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tablets. — AMD is expanding OS options as it designs chips based on x86 …

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

A Fitbit for Fido: Whistle Will Help Track Your Dog's Activity — Ever wish you could talk to your dog? Understand what's bothering him? How much of the time she paces around when you're not home? — Whistle, a startup that makes a wearable tracking device for dogs, wants to help.

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Clever hack brings Plex to the Apple TV, no jailbreak required — Apple hasn't opened up its Apple TV device to all third-party developers yet, but instead just added apps from a few high-profile partners to the platform. But that didn't stop two avid Plex fans, who were able to bring …

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Amazon brings back long dormant Kindle DX, says it's ‘excited’ to do so — Months after being apparently retired from Amazon's e-reader line, the 9.7-inch Kindle DX is back in stock. Amazon has brought back the DX for $299, reflecting the price drop that was implemented late last year.

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google makes its stock Google Keyboard gesture-typing app available on the Play store — Google today released its Google Keyboard app for phones and tablets running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above. You can download it now directly from Google Play, although it's only available …

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry in talks to preload BBM on rival handsets — BlackBerry Chief Operating Officer Kristian Tear tells CNET that the company is talking to a number of partners and handset manufacturers. — BlackBerry is working with other handset manufacturers to get its BlackBerry Messenger service preloaded …

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Gerry Smith / The Huffington Post:

Apple, Samsung Face Grilling Over Stolen Smartphone Epidemic — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has summoned representatives of the four largest smartphone makers to a summit next week where he plans to press them on their failure to address soaring thefts of their products.

More: San Francisco District …, NY Daily News, CNET, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and Betabeat. Thanks:@gerryfsmith

Terry Collins / Associated Press:

SF and NY officials to meet with leading smartphone makers to curb spike of thefts nationwide

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Joe / iTweakiOS:

The Ugly Truth: Your iPhone and iPad Are LIMITED (T-Mobile the Exception) — For a long time now, possibly years, Apple iPhone and iPad users have always wondered why their devices seemed to be “out-performed” by Android devices, mainly Samsung Galaxy phones, when it came to cellular networking speeds and performance.

More: iClarified, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, MacRumors and Electronista

Ron Miller / CITEworld:

Boxer solves inbox management across email services — Another day, another iOS email management app. But this one is different because, unlike the ones that came before it, Boxer, which was released to the App Store today, doesn't just manage your Gmail. It manages every major email tool including Exchange.

More: AllThingsD, The Next Web, Business Insider, Laughing Squid and ReadWrite. Thanks:@ron_miller

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Leaked Nokia EOS images fuel the rumor fire — Images surfaced today of what could be Nokia's next camera-driven flagship phone. — Not one, but two sources bubbled up photos on Wednesday of a Nokia Windows phone that could be the handset-maker's next flagship, after its freshly-announced Lumia 925.

More: GSMArena.com, BGR, Windows Phone Central, Macgasm, Unwired View, My Nokia Blog and WMPoweruser

John Markoff / New York Times:

Device From Israeli Start-Up Gives the Visually Impaired a Way to Read — JERUSALEM — Liat Negrin, an Israeli who has been visually impaired since childhood, walked into a grocery store here recently, picked up a can of vegetables and easily read its label using a simple and unobtrusive camera attached to her glasses.

More: PSFK, The Verge and Wired. Thanks:@hilzfuld

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft, FBI take aim at global cyber crime ring — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the FBI, aided by authorities in more than 80 countries, have launched a major assault on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings, believed to have stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts over the past 18 months.

More: CNET, TechNet Blogs, The Next Web and Engadget

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Science Is Raising A New $30 Million Fund To Back Its Startups And Others — L.A.-based incubator and studio Science is in the process of raising a $30 million new investment fund, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Science was founded in 2011 by former Myspace CEO …

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