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June 23, 2014, 6:00 PM

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iFixit:

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Teardown — It has finally come: Microsoft's all-new Surface Pro 3—all-new in the sense that it's third in a trilogy of devices. Where the second was actually just a rehashing of the original, the third is showing some promise of striking out on its own. Good for you, Surface Pro 3!

More: The Register, Business Insider, Gizmodo, PC World, BetaNews, Engadget, Technologizer, Inquirer, Windows Phone Central, CNET, WinBeta, ZDNet, Neowin, Geek.com, HotHardware.com News, Electronista and GSMArena Blog

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Surface Pro 3 review: much better than predecessors, software now needs more work than hardware — Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review — I can't believe it's only been sixteen months since I published our review of the original Microsoft Surface Pro. It feels like longer but that's likely …

Tweets: @whatthebit

Ron / WinBeta:

Microsoft wants you to buy a Surface Pro 3, offers up to $650 in Store credit for your old MacBook Air — Microsoft has been touting the Surface Pro 3 as the tablet that can replace your laptop. Microsoft has even compared the Surface Pro 3 with the Apple MacBook Air, during the Surface Pro 3 reveal in May.

More: The Verge, CNET, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iMore, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Neowin and Electronista. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@refsrc

Wall Street Journal:

Oracle Agrees to Buy Micros Systems for $5.3 Billion — Oracle Corp. agreed to buy Micros Systems Inc. for about $5.3 billion. — The deal is the biggest for Oracle, a serial acquirer, since its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010. — Micros sells software used by retailers and hospitality providers.

More: Oracle, ZDNet, MICROS Systems, Inc., InfoWorld, Gigaom, SiliconBeat, ZDNet, New York Times, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Reuters, DailyFinance.com and ABC News

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Google begins testing a domain registration service — Google today revealed that it is building a domain registration service called Google Domains. The product is still an early work in progress, so it's in invite-only beta for now. — Google's small business-facing division decided …

More: TechCrunch, Joel Arellano, The Verge, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, Business Insider, 9to5Google, DomainIncite and Android Central

Mike Billings / Wall Street Journal:

San Francisco sends cease-and-desist letter to MonkeyParking, warns similar parking services — San Francisco Tells Parking Startup to Stop Operations, Warns Two Others — Several parking startups that want to make it easier to find a parking spot in busy cities are facing a legal gauntlet …

More: Office of the City Attorney, Wired, The Register, Engadget, Gigaom, ReadWrite, City Insider, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, Ubergizmo, The Snitch and San Francisco Chronicle

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google Glass finally arrives in the UK, the first country outside the US — Google Glass, the head-mounted wearable computer unveiled more than two years ago, is finally available outside the US. After appearing in a support page linked to hardware availability, Google has launched the long-awaited device in the UK.

More: VatorNews, Engadget, PC Magazine, Marketing Land, BBC, Android Police, The Guardian, CNET, PC World, Glass Almanac, Droid Life, The Verge, CNET, Gigaom, Android Central and Valleywag

Matt McGee / Glass Almanac:

13 Google Glass frames and shades by Diane Von Furstenberg go on sale for $225 and $120

More: DVF, TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Los Angeles Times, The Register, Slate, Daring Fireball, The Technology Chronicles, CNET and The Verge

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:

How Marissa Mayer Fell Asleep and Kept Ad Executives Waiting For Hours … For media companies, the Cannes advertising festival is all about getting face time with top media buyers and advertisers. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer missed a golden opportunity to do just that last week.

More: Business Insider, Valleywag and Mashable

Tweets: @bplewis, @hunterwalk, @moorehn, @jeffjohnroberts, @caseynewton, @evelynrusli, @dmac1 and @danprimack

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Report: Sundar Pichai put Nest's Tony Fadell in charge of Google's consumer hardware roadmap — The man who built Apple's iPod is now running Google's hardware future — Google's acquisition of Nest wasn't finalized all that long ago, but it seems that CEO Tony Fadell is already making his way into Mountain View's highest ranks.

More: The Information, Business Insider, 9to5Google, BGR, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Phandroid and Android Central

Tweets: @tfadell, @dannysullivan and @amir

Chance Miller / 9to5Google:

Sprint and Samsung announce fitness-focused Galaxy S5 Sport, coming July 25 — Sprint and Samsung have just announced the Galaxy S5 Sport. Similar to the Galaxy S5 Active, available on AT&T, the Galaxy S5 Sport is IP67 water and dust resistance and has a textured casing to give it a more rugged and sturdy feel.

More: Sprint, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET, Engadget, TWICE, Softpedia News, Phandroid, IntoMobile and Android Police

Mike Dano / FierceWireless:

Sprint counters T-Mobile's iPhone test drive by reviving 30-day ‘satisfaction guarantee’

More: Sprint, Wireless Week, Android Central, Droid Life, Android and Me and AndroidGuys

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Brings Free, Ad-Supported TV Episodes To iOS, Plus HBO Content — Amazon may have denied earlier reports that it would launch a free, advertising-supported TV and music video service, as a departure from Prime Instant Video, but it has at least begun dipping its toe in to the waters of ad-supported TV, it seems.

More: 9to5Mac, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, TUAW and iMore

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Microsoft giving away 15GB of OneDrive storage, 1TB for Office 365 users — More free storage? Lower prices? It's all good news from Microsoft today: The company just announced that it will begin offering 15GB of free storage to OneDrive users, up from 7GB.

More: OneDrive Blog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, SuperSite for Windows, Technologizer, The Verge, TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Web, Geek Beat, InfoWorld, GeekWire and ReadWrite

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

“Free” Wi-Fi from Xfinity and AT&T also frees you to be hacked — Ars tests how easy it is to spoof big broadband providers to grab data. — If you've traveled and tried to get on the Internet, you've probably seen some pretty suspicious looking Wi-Fi networks with names like “Free Wi-Fi” and “Totally Free Internet.”

More: The Register, Consumerist and We Live Security

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Yahoo's Aviate intelligent home screen app leaves beta, gains useful new features — One-touch access to friends, conference calls, and directions — Aviate, the Android app that caters your home screen to the time of day and where you are, is finally opening its doors to the world.

More: Yahoo Aviate, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Wired, Droid Life, POPSUGAR, Android Police and Pocket-lint

Tweets: @ricmac, @hamburger and @k

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Mozilla puts a development environment into the browser with WebIDE — Nightly Firefox builds can develop, deploy, and debug apps all in the browser. — Browsers have long contained development tools to help debug and diagnose problems when authoring Web content, but Mozilla is taking Firefox to the next level.

More: Mozilla Hacks, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, OStatic blogs, The Tech Report, The Register and San Francisco Chronicle

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Cruise Automation previews $10,000 highway autopilot kit for specific Audi models — Tiny Startup Cruise Beats Google to Offer Self-Driving Car Tech to Consumers (Video) — Neither Google nor the big car manufacturers will likely be the first to put the keys to self-driving car technology in consumers' hands.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Connectedly, Brad Ideas and Yahoo Tech

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @sama and @alexismadrigal

JR Raphael / Computerworld:

Verizon stops providing free data for Chromebook Pixel buyers one year into 2-3 year agreement — Broken promises: Verizon, Google, and the Chromebook data debacle — When a company promises two years of free mobile data service with a device, you expect them to deliver.

More: Gigaom, Re/code, PR Newswire, Android Central, DSLreports, Android Police, Pocketables and Consumerist

Julianne Pepitone / NBC News:

Why ISIS' Social Media Campaign is ‘Even More Brutal’ Than Most — With a reported $2 billion war chest, ISIS is unusually well funded. Its relatively large force of 10,000 relies on more foreign fighters than most. And, perhaps most infamously, the group is too extreme even for Al-Qaeda.

More: The Verge, Guardian, CBS News, Channel 4, BBC, VICE News, Telegraph, ctvnews.ca and NPR

James Temple / Re/code:

Bill Maris, the Man Behind Google Ventures, Wants to Redefine Silicon Valley Economics — Bill Maris is unimpressed with the mechanics of Silicon Valley venture capital. — He sees a lot of short bets on incremental advances and copycat apps. He thinks partners get paid for putting money to work — not for making ambitious bets.

Tweets: @paulsingh

Stephen Hall / 9to5Mac:

Pangu untethered iOS 7.1.X jailbreak released, but proceed with caution — A new jailbreak from a Chinese team dubbed “Pangu” has been released, and reports are spreading quickly around the Internet that it does indeed successfully install the famed “Cydia” jailbreak package installer application.

More: Gizmodo, Geek.com, Redmond Pie, International Business Times, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks and Lifehacker. Tweets: @ih8sn0w

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