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April 8, 2014, 5:30 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Everything to know about iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 (Roundup + New Details) — While Apple only officially announced its 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last week, we have been reporting all of the known information about what Apple plans to unveil at the event over the course of the past few months.

More: Los Angeles Times, I4U News, Pocket-lint, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Gotta Be Mobile and Business Insider

Chris Dixon / chris dixon's blog:

Mobile app dominance vs. web will hurt long-term innovation, likely make web a niche product — The decline of the mobile web — People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: — And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: — This is a worrisome trend for the web.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @qhardy, @nitashatiku, @joshconstine and @johnolilly

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Adobe debuts Lightroom Mobile for iPad with powerful, on-the-go photo editing — After briefly leaking earlier this year, Adobe is finally ready to show off its Lightroom Mobile for iPad software for photographers and photo editors. The iPad application borrows many of the essential features …

More: The Next Web, iMore, ZDNet, MacNN, AppleInsider, The Verge, Cult of Mac, Photography Bay, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, Macworld, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, TUAW, Pocket-lint and Mashable

AnandTech:

Galaxy S5 Review: Hardware upgrades and polished software make a solid replacement to GS4 — Samsung Galaxy S 5 Review — Samsung is now the undisputed king of the Android smartphone space. It was only a few years ago that the general public referred to every Android phone as a “Droid”.

Tweets: @fmanjoo

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:

Galaxy S5 Review: More a refinement than a significant upgrade, waterproofing the only new good feature

More: Tech.pinions, Re/code, Business Insider, TIME and Mashable. Tweets: @parislemon

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

The technology behind Android TV: how Google wants to reinvent apps for the living room — Google is working on yet another platform for the living room, and it doesn't just want to compete on looks alone: The company has come up with a novel way to develop TV apps and make use of their data.

More: Inferse.com, Gigaom Research, Light Reading, The Tech Report, eWeek, The Verge and Pocketnow. Tweets: @monkbent

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

After Raising $250 Million, Lyft Cuts Prices By Up To 20% In All Markets — Last week, Lyft announced that it had raised a massive $250 million round of funding as part of its effort to compete against other on-demand ride services. Now the company is going on the offensive against its competitors …

More: GeekWire and TechNode. Tweets: @stilenius. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's $7.2BN Deal To Buy Nokia's Devices Business Gets The Nod In China — Chinese regulators have approved Nokia's planned sale of its devices business to Microsoft, taking the $7.2 billion deal one step closer to closing. — Nokia said today it has received regulatory approval …

More: Nokia, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, The Official Microsoft Blog, Wall Street Journal and Reuters

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

S.F. cracks down on Airbnb rentals — Jeffrey Katz felt nauseous. — The special-ed teacher makes ends meet by hosting Airbnb guests in the living room of his San Francisco apartment. But last week, Katz found an eviction notice on his front door. — “You are illegally using the premises …

More: CNNMoney.com and PandoDaily. Tweets: @cjam, @fmanjoo and @raypride

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Heartbleed: Serious OpenSSL zero day vulnerability revealed — Summary: A new OpenSSL vulnerability has shown up and some companies are annoyed that the bug was revealed before patches could be delivered for it. — New security holes are always showing up.

More: Heartbleed Bug, CloudFlare Blog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Guardian, Softpedia News, bit-tech.net, Threatpost, Engadget, The Next Web, iTnews.com.au, Computerworld, The Register, Gotta Be Mobile and theWHIR.com. Tweets: @ioerror

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Commenting Platform Disqus Introduces Sponsored Comments — Disqus, which says it powers the comment sections on almost 3 million websites, is announcing a new type of ad unit today — Sponsored Comments. — Since Disqus already runs ads through its Promoted Discovery program …

More: Disqus and The Next Web. Tweets: @qthrul, @dangillmor and @om. See also Mediagazer

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google I/O 2014 registration dates pushed back by a week — now open April 15-18 — Google was scheduled to open the ‘lottery’ for tickets to its upcoming Google I/O event in the early hours of today - April 8 — but it has pushed the dates back to make things “even easier” for those wanting to attend.

More: TechCrunch, Google Developers and Android Police

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Amazon A9′s VP of Search heads to Apple to fix up Maps search — Benoit Dupin, Vice President of Amazon A9′s Search Technology group, has left the high-profile search technology firm to take up a job with Apple. Dupin's profile from Amazon A9′s executive management website disappeared …

Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@mikebeas

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Uber launching an on-demand courier service in Manhattan on Tuesday — Uber is launching an on-demand courier service tomorrow (exclusive) — Tomorrow, Uber will launch an on-demand courier service in Manhattan, allowing users to request item pickup and delivery via a smartphone app.

More: Uber Blog, Businessweek, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, Vox, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Mashable, Engadget and Business Insider

Tweets: @drew, @reckless, @levie, @howells and @ajs

Thanks:@cullenmacdonald

Max Chafkin / Fast Company:

The story of Better Place, Shai Agassi's failed electric car startup that raised nearly $1B — A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World — “So this is the car.” I'm standing outside a shopping mall somewhere in Tel Aviv, Israel, as Guy Pross shows me his ride.

More: The Verge and Gigaom

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Jerk.com scammed money to remove Facebook-scraped profiles, says FTC — A typical Jerk.com profile, where visitors can vote on whether a particular person is or is not a jerk as well as fill in supplementary, personally identifying information. — As of Monday, the FTC has charged …

More: Federal Trade Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Boston Globe, MediaPost, Oregonian, CBS News, NationalJournal.com, Bloomberg, Protecting Your Pocket, Consumerist, MarketWatch, Adweek, The Switch and TheHill

Michael Crider / Android Police:

#1 new paid app in Play Store “Virus Shield” has no functionality, later removed by Google — The #1 New Paid App In The Play Store Costs $4, Has Over 10,000 Downloads, A 4.7-Star Rating... And It's A Total Scam [Updated] — Computer security is important, even if the computer in question fits in your hand.

More: SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, The Register, DailyTech, TechSpot, BGR, Redmond Pie, The Hacker News, Gigaom Research, Computerworld, Business Insider and GSMArena Blog. Tweets: @edanuff

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Google takes legal action against Turkey's YouTube ban — Remember how a Turkish court ordered an end to the country's YouTube ban? Well, that decision has already been reversed — and Google has launched an all-out legal assault in response. The search firm has filed a complaint …

More: ITworld.com, 9to5Google, Mashable and Softpedia News

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Raspberry Pi gets more Arduino-y with new open source modular hardware — The Raspberry Pi Compute Module, ready for your custom hardware soon. — Raspberry Pi Foundation — Soon, there could be Pi in just about any device that needs embedded computing power.

More: Raspberry Pi, VentureBeat, Electronista, The Register, TechCrunch and Inquirer

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Another mobile carrier bites the dust: Cincinnati Bell sells its spectrum to Verizon — As I've written before, in a U.S. mobile industry dominated by mega-carriers, it's becoming harder and harder for smaller regional carriers to survive. Cincinnati Bell became the latest case in point on Monday …

More: Cincinnati Bell, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, Re/code, PhoneNews.com, CrackBerry.com and DSLreports

Sarah Silbert / Engadget:

Thunderbolt 2 Networking enables 10 Gbps Ethernet connection, supports Macs and PCs — Intel's Thunderbolt 2 connectivity standard is getting an update here at NAB 2014 with the addition of Thunderbolt Networking. Put simply, this new feature will let you pair computers with a Thunderbolt cable …

More: Technology@Intel, AppleInsider, Electronista, MacRumors and SlashGear

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter Acquires Android Lockscreen App Cover, Moves Deeper Into Mobile Services — A very interesting acquisition announcement from Twitter today: it's buying Cover, an Android lockscreen app that lets you customise what apps you see and when. For now, Cover will remain live in the Play store.

More: Cover, The Verge, Gigaom, Re/code, The Next Web, VatorNews, BGR, Marketing Pilgrim, I4U News, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat and silicontap.com

Tweets: @caseynewton and @rsarver

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

Samsung Gear Fit Review: Not as good as dedicated fitness trackers, has low battery life, notifications from Galaxy S5 work well — Samsung Gear Fit Review: The Smartwatch Gets in Shape — Gear Fit Takes a Step in the Right Direction by Combining Fitness with Phone Functions

More: Telegraph and Mashable. Tweets: @wjrothman

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Samsung announces the Galaxy Ace Style, a mid-range smartphone running Android KitKat — Last week, Samsung showed off the Galaxy Ace Style, a mid-range smartphone running Android KitKat, and today the device was formally announced by the company. — The Galaxy Ace Style looks …

More: Samsung Tomorrow, GSMArena.com, ZDNet, Gearburn, Pocketnow, Android Central, Android and Me, 9to5Google, PhoneDog, CNET, SamMobile and I4U News

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