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June 17, 2014, 4:40 AM

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New York Times:

Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy — When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products. — That philosophy continues to guide Apple, even under its new chief executive …

More: I4U News, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, eWeek, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, TUAW, 9to5Mac, BGR, App Advice, SiliconBeat, MacDailyNews, MacNN, iLounge and iPhone in Canada Blog

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nest Brings Back The Protect At $99, But Waving Is Still Disabled — The Nest Protect is now available following its two-month hiatus after it was pulled for safety concerns. The smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector is now only $99, down from its $119 launch price.

More: Engadget, Nest, New York Times, MacRumors, iMore, AppleInsider, ABC News, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Re/code, Gizmodo, CNET and App Advice

Wall Street Journal:

Nuance explores possible sale, met with Samsung and private-equity firms — Nuance Communications Explores Possible Sale — Speech-Recognition Software Maker's Customers Include Samsung, Apple — Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. has held discussions …

The Unicode Blog:

Unicode version 7.0 released: 2,834 new characters including 250 emoji — Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 — Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, adding 2,834 new characters. This latest version adds the new currency symbols for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani manat …

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Settles E-Books Pricing Case With States, Consumers — Apple Inc. (AAPL) reached a settlement with U.S. states and consumers seeking damages over the company's fixing of electronic book prices, avoiding a trial in which it faced as much as $840 million in claims.

More: Re/code, CNET, The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Reuters, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and App Advice

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Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Parallels' new remote desktop apps let you control your PC like a phone — Remote desktop apps have an easier time working on tablets, where you have a lot of display area to work with, but they're frequently awkward on smartphones. Wouldn't it be nice if you could control a PC at home like it was just another phone app?

More: AppleInsider, CITEworld Nancy Gohring, MacRumors, Macworld, GeekWire, Technology Personalized, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac

Steven Levy / Wired:

One year on, Loon balloon flight times increase 10X, download speeds reach 5-20 Mbps with LTE — Google's Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later — Earlier this month, Mike Cassidy, a project director at Google's high-risk research division X, woke before dawn in the Northwest Brazilian state of Piauí.

More: Project Loon, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, CNET, DSLreports, Re/code, Android Authority, Gizmodo, GeekWire, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @hadip

Geoff Gasior / The Tech Report:

In SSD endurance test, no failures until 700TB of writes; Corsair Neutron GTX, Samsung 840 Pro, Kingston HyperX 3K go past 1PB — The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte — And then there were three — I feel for the subjects — of our SSD Endurance Experiment.

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @drpizza and @codinghorror

Jill Lepore / New Yorker:

What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong — In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps—college students and new graduates—to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

The history of Android: The endless iterations of Google's mobile OS — Android's home screen over the years. — Android has been with us in one form or another for more than six years. During that time, we've seen an absolutely breathtaking rate of change unlike any other development cycle that has ever existed.

More: BGR

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority:

Moto G 4G LTE now available directly from Motorola for $219 — The Moto G continues to be one of the most popular devices world-wide. In fact, it is Motorola's most sold smartphone ever made! It came as no surprise that Motorola would release a worthy successor.

More: Android Central, GSMArena.com, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid and Phones Review

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple considered buying Parse before building new CloudKit feature itself — In an extensive profile of Parse co-founder and Facebook executive Ilya Sukhar, The Information reveals that Apple considered purchasing the cloud services startup before Facebook:

More: The Information and iMore

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Ahead Of Smartphone Launch, Amazon Announces Its Appstore Has Tripled Year-Over-Year To 240,000 Apps — Ahead of a press conference this week where Amazon is expected to introduce its first-ever Amazon smartphone, the company is making a point to call out how much its mobile app ecosystem has grown in recent months.

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:

With an Amazon Smartphone, the Retailer Seeks a Tether to Consumers

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Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Google names first round of Glass at Work partners — Summary: Google chose broad mix of industry segments to develop enterprise applications for Glass, ranging from medical and media to sports and entertainment. — While Google Glass remains a subject of mockery in the consumer realm …

More: TechCrunch, Google Glass, Los Angeles Times, 9to5Google, Los Angeles Times, Droid Life, Wearable World News, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Gigaom, Marketing Land, The Verge, WebProNews and 9to5Google

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In Stealth — Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among …

More: VentureBeat and Gigaom

Amy Schatz / Re/code:

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Making Violent Threats on Facebook Is Criminal — The Supreme Court announced plans to wade into the issue of whether you can go to jail for posting violent or threatening messages on social media sites — even when your intent to actually carry out those actions is unclear.

More: USA Today, VentureBeat, Mashable, CNET, SlashGear, Fast Company, Washington Post, Engadget and The Hill. See also Mediagazer

BBC:

US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images — The Worldview-3 satellite is set to launch in August — Sites like Google and Bing Maps will be able to use higher-quality satellite images, thanks to US government restrictions being lifted. — Companies had not been allowed …

More: Guardian, Inside Google, Nextgov, TechSpot, SiliconBeat, The Register and Gizmodo

GeekWire:

Seattle mayor reaches deal to legalize Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, without driver limits — It looks like UberX, Lyft and Sidecar are here to stay in Seattle. — After more than one year of City Council meetings, protests and debate, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray today announced an agreement between …

More: Seattle Times blogs and SlashGear. Tweets: @erikb, @alexavaughn and @knitpurl

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Box Acquires YC-Backed Streem — This morning Box, a cloud-based file-management service, announced that it has acquired Streem, a Y Combinator-backed company that allows customers to stream files to their desktop environments. — Box declined to share terms of the agreement …

More: The Box Blog, eWeek, VatorNews, Network World, InfoWorld, Gigaom Research, VentureBeat, CITEworld, The Next Web, Gigaom and bizjournals

Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal:

New Wikipedia terms of use require anyone paid to edit articles to disclose that arrangement — Wikipedia Strengthens Rules Against Undisclosed Editing — A week after a coalition of big public relations firms vowed not to secretly edit their clients' Wikipedia pages …

More: Wikimedia blog, The Next Web, Digital Journal and Marketing Land. See also Mediagazer

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