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| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
The Windows 8.1 Preview is here! — A couple of weeks ago, Antoine Leblond talked about continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1. It continues to push ahead with our bet that the PC industry is going through a shift that is driven by mobility. We previously announced that Windows 8.1 …
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Channel 9, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Computerworld, The Verge, eWeek, PC World, MobileSyrup.com, MSDN Blogs, SiliconANGLE, Wired, SiliconBeat, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechNet Blogs, istartedsomething, Washington Post, Tnooz, CITEworld, TechnoBuffalo, Technology Personalized, Digital Trends, WebProNews, Technology Personalized, Windows 8 Applications … and TechNet Blogs
Tweets: @maryjofoley, @willsmith, @zpower and @owenthomas
Thanks:@brandonleblanc| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Launches Windows 8.1 Preview With Start Button, Deep SkyDrive Integration, Smarter Search Tool & More — Microsoft today officially launched Windows 8.1 Preview, the first public beta of its flagship operating system's next version, at its Build developer conference in San Francisco today.
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AppleInsider, PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, Ars Technica, ReadWrite, BetaNews, AllThingsD, AllFacebook, The Next Web, Engadget, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica, The Verge, Softpedia News, BGR, TechCrunch, Electronista, ABC News and The Next Web. Tweets: @nikcub
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Confirmed: Official Facebook app is coming to Windows 8 — Today at its Build developers conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Facebook will bring an official application to Windows 8 in the future. A timeframe was not specified. — Gathered developers managed applause at the news.
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Inside Flipboard, TechCrunch, CNET, Mercury News, GeekWire, CNET, eWeek, PC World, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft: ‘Metro-Style’ Office not due until 2014 — Summary: The ‘Metro-Style’ versions of Microsoft's core Office applications won't be out until 2014, Microsoft officials are confirming. — Microsoft officials are showing off a quick sneak peek of one of the coming “Metro-Style” …
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Engadget, CNET, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, Teching It Easy and Electronista
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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The Official Microsoft Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Engadget. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
This is Motorola Mobility's new logo — Motorola Mobility is making changes to its well-known brand this week, switching to a new, all-lower-case typeface that's both thinner and softer than the classic bold and italic “MOTOROLA” that has been used for decades.
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VentureBeat, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Android Authority, Droid Life, MobileSyrup.com, Android Beat, AndroidHeadlines.com, PhoneArena, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @zpower
| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S4 And HTC One Now Available, Will Start Shipping By July 9 — Despite plenty of rumors that attested to the contrary, Google didn't show off any new Nexus phones at its I/O developer conference. Instead it trotted out a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 …
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9to5Google, The Verge, BGR, CNET, IntoMobile and Ars Technica
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Dish withdraws bid for Clearwire following Sprint's latest offer — The Sprint, Dish, Clearwire, and SoftBank acquisition saga may be close to over. Dish has withdrawn its offer to purchase Clearwire, according to a press release pushed across the wire this afternoon.
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Computerworld, DISH Network, Engadget, AllThingsD, The Next Web, GeekWire and MobileBurn.com
| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Xbox One's Kinect now ready for $399 Windows developer pre-order — Microsoft is opening up pre-orders for development kits of its next-generation Kinect for Windows. The new peripheral, which was unveiled at the Xbox One launch in May, features a vastly improved sensor set and microphone array … | Scott Lowe / IGN: |
Sony Sacrificed the PlayStation 4 Camera to Beat Microsoft on Price — How the camera was cut last minute and left with an uncertain future. — When Sony announced that PlayStation 4 would be priced at $399 to an uproar of applause from the audience at its E3 press conference, it secured a critical edge over the Xbox One.
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BGR, Ars Technica, Forbes, destructoid, Computer And Video Games All, VG247 and Penny Arcade Report
| Alex Byers / Politico: |
NSA takes surveillance fact sheets off website — Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed light on and defend a pair of surveillance programs. Users now trying to access the documents detailing …
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Washington Post and The Huffington Post
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype & Yahoo Hit With Prism Data Protection Complaints In Europe — The European data protection activists behind the Europe v Facebook (evf) campaign group, that has long been a thorn in Facebook's side in Europe, have filed new complaints under regional data …
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Ars Technica, The Irish Times, PC World and CNET
| Jonny Evans / Computerworld: |
The guy who sold an unreleased Apple iPhone 4 to Gizmodo wouldn't do it again — and says he didn't get paid — Kudos to TheNextWeb for picking up on a story on Reddit today, in which Brian Hogan, the man who found and sold the 2010 Apple [AAPL] iPhone prototype tells us everything …
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The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, MacDailyNews, iMore and MacRumors
| Eric Franklin / CNET: |
Nvidia delays Shield to July, due to 11th-hour dilemma — Nvidia discovers last minute “mechanical issue” with Shield and promptly delays it to July. — Just when you thought it was out, they pull it back in. Nvidia has delayed its Shield portable gaming console just one day before its original June 27 … | Shira Ovide / Digits: |
Microsoft Also Challenges Government Surveillance Gag Order — Microsoft cited the First Amendment in its legal filing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and challenged what the company says are U.S. government restrictions on how much it can reveal publicly about secret orders …
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Engadget, AllThingsD and PC World
| Jordan Novet / GigaOM: |
Hadoop hype spawns $8M for DataTorrent, product opportunities for Splunk, Teradata — Data scientists and business analysts have found lots of ways to get new hunches about what their employers should do by managing and processing data inside Hadoop — not to mention making a little money for themselves.
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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, ZDNet, VentureBeat and ZDNet
| Barb Darrow / GigaOM: |
Heroku taps industry vet Tod Nielsen as new CEO — Tod Nielsen, who helped lead the charge on VMware's Cloud Foundry platform-as a service, has switched PaaS providers, joining Heroku as CEO. — The last we heard in January, Nielsen was on his way from VMware to its Pivotal spinoff, where he reported to CEO Paul Maritz.
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AllThingsD and ZDNet
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google Now for Android gets cards for TV shows and offers, voice action to play music, and more — Google today released an update to its Google Search app for Android, adding new features exclusive for Jelly Bean devices. You can grab the new version now directly from Google Play.
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Android - Google+, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, CNET, The Verge, Pocketnow, IntoMobile and Android Police. Thanks:@epro
| Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 includes ability to control your iPhone or iPad using head movements — Discovered by an anonymous tipster, iOS 7′s “Accessibility” section now includes a feature that allows you to control your iPhone or iPad with left or right head movements. We've tested this ourselves … Thanks:@nsdeltoro
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