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4.7-Inch and 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 to go into production in July, may ship simultaneously in September — Apple's Big IPhones Said to Start Production Next Month — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s suppliers will begin mass production of new iPhones in China next month, according to people familiar with the plans.| 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.
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Google's Nest Labs Opens Its Platform to Outside Developers — Nest Aims to Establish Itself as Operating System for Web-Connected Devices in the Home — Google Inc. 's Nest Labs is opening its platform to outside developers, a big step by the thermostat and smoke-detector maker …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Nest to allow opt-in sharing of user information with Google for the first time, enable Google Now integration — Nest To Share User Information With Google For First Time — Nest Labs is set to share some user information with corporate parent Google for the first time since its February acquisition.| 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!| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Withings introduces Activité, a $390 watch with analog face and accelerometer to monitor your steps and sleep — The Withings Activité hides a fitness tracker inside a gorgeous watch — It's not just a screen on your wrist — it's a fashion statement — The Withings Activité isn't a smartwatch.
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| 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 …
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Joel Arellano, TechCrunch, DomainIncite, PC World, Marketing Land, SlashGear, Engadget, BBC, BetaNews, TechSpot, theWHIR.com, Electronista, Mashable, GeekWire, Global by Design, CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, SmallBusiness.com, Trakin' the india …, The Register, Pulse 2.0, Business Insider, TheDomains.com, GSMArena Blog, 9to5Google and Android Central
| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Looking beyond iPhone, ARM 64-bit chips get into servers with GPUs — Breaking from the cocoon of the iPhone 5S, 64-bit ARM processors will start delivering breakthrough performance in servers, aided by graphics cards used in some of the world's fastest computers.
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nvidianews.nvidia.com, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, eWeek, The Register, TechEye, Phys.org, HotHardware.com News, PC Magazine, PC World, Gigaom and Phoronix
| 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.
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| 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 … | 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.
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Box brings Notes to iOS while IPO waits in the wings — Summary: With the extension of Notes to mobile, Box is becoming more ubiquitous in the lives of its business users and even those using the cloud storage service for personal use. — Box is bringing its Notes feature to mobile devices amid a new upgrade to its iOS app.
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The Box Blog, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, PC World, TechWeekEurope UK and GeekWire
| James Kanter / New York Times: |
Letter from EU competition commissioner suggests new antitrust investigations await Google — Google's European Antitrust Woes Are Far From Over — BRUSSELS — Google has struggled for years to settle an antitrust investigation in the European Union, to avoid a huge fine and the stigma that would come with breaking the law.| Larry Hardesty / MIT News Office: |
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip — Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network. — Press Inquiries — The more cores — or processing units — a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes.
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Neowin, Ubergizmo, The Register, The Tech Report and Geek.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Quarterly App Revenue More Than Doubled Over Past Year, Thanks To Games, Freemium Apps — How well the Android app marketplace on Google Play is performing is the subject of a new report from recently expanded app analytics firm App Annie, out today ahead of this week's Google I/O 2014 developer conference.
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App Annie Blog, VentureBeat and TechnoBuffalo
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Opera's Chromium-based Web browser is now available on Linux — To the surprise of some, Opera has released a new version of its Web browser for Linux-based operating systems. — Available to download now, the last new version of Opera for Linux was version 12.16 from around a year ago …
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Opera, Inquirer, BetaNews, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Softpedia News and gHacks Technology News
| 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.
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9to5Mac, AdExchanger, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, The Next Web, TUAW, iMore and Cult of Mac
| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Interflow, a security and threat information exchange platform — In the wee hours of Monday morning, software giant Microsoft launched a new security and threat information exchange platform. The idea is to enable quick communication between cyber security providers.
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Microsoft Security …, WinBeta, Neowin and The Next Web
| Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: |
Etsy buys French handmade goods marketplace A Little Market, its biggest acquisition to date — Etsy Acquires French Market in Biggest Deal Yet — Online marketplace Etsy is making its biggest acquisition yet, buying Paris-based A Little Market, a French website for handmade goods, foods, and wine.
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Etsy News Blog, Gigaom and Re/code
| 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.
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Engadget, BBC, The Guardian, Google Glass, Android Police, AndroidGuys, CNET, Droid Life, PC Magazine, CNET, Valleywag, Gigaom, Android Central, The Verge and Glass Almanac
| Matt McGee / Glass Almanac: |
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