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Bloomberg:

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.

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.

More: Nest, Guardian, PC Magazine, The Register, Re/code, iPhone in Canada Blog, GadgeTell and App Advice

Tweets: @sacca and @edbott

Wall Street Journal:

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 …

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Nest Learning Thermostat has its security cracked open by GTVHacker — While we wait for Google I/O (which starts tomorrow) to find out what will become of the company's TV platform, a team that we've seen bust open the padlocks on Google TV, Chromecast and Roku has a new target.

More: GTV Hacker, BetaNews, Inquirer and SlashGear. Tweets: @gtvhacker

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Tab S review: slim design, long battery life, stunning screen — It'd be silly of me to talk about tablets in the past tense — we still write stories about them daily and clearly, we review them, too. But of the ones we've seen lately, most have been low-end; mid-range at best.

More: DisplayMate, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, CNET, Inquirer, LAPTOP Mag, SamMobile and DisplayBlog

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Samsung's Latest Tablet Boasts Sleek Hardware, Confusing Software — Last fall, Apple scored an engineering coup when it managed to shrink its full-sized tablet down to just one pound in weight and 0.29 inches in thickness, while retaining and even expanding its longtime lead over competitors in battery life.

More: The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, AnandTech and SlashGear

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

ABC News Comes to Apple TV with Live and On-Demand Video, Local News, and Historical Footage — ABC News is launching a new Apple TV channel today, bringing access to live and on-demand content to Apple's set-top box. The channel offers a variety of news and entertainment offerings …

More: 9to5Mac, Re/code, AppleInsider, ABC News, ABC News, The Next Web, VentureBeat, CNET, Gizmodo, Gigaom, iMore, MacNN, Variety and MacDailyNews. See also Mediagazer

John Markoff / New York Times:

Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough — SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Modern computers are not unlike the looms of the industrial revolution: They follow programmed instructions to weave intricate patterns. With a loom, you see the result in a cloth or carpet.

More: VentureBeat, Neowin and The Verge. Thanks:@reckel

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: PC World, PR Newswire, Gigaom, blog.chron.com, TechSpot, Softpedia News, Re/code, Pulse 2.0, The Register, Ars Technica, Android Central, SlashGear, DSLreports, AndroidGuys, Pocketables and Android Police. Tweets: @starfire2258

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

Is time spent a better metric than pageviews? Upworthy says it is, and open-sources its code for attention minutes — At this point, almost everyone — online publishers and advertisers alike — agrees that raw pageviews are a poor measure of the value that a media outlet provides …

More: BuzzFeed, Upworthy Insider, Poynter and BuzzFeed. See also Mediagazer

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft launches €99 Nokia X2 Android phone: 4.3-inch, dual-SIM, 1.2GHz dual-core, 1GB RAM — Microsoft continues Android push with Nokia X2 handset — Available in July for 99 Euros — Microsoft isn't giving up on its Android smartphones. After acquiring Nokia's phone business in April …

Amir Mizroch / Wall Street Journal:

Yo Plans Expanding Notifications to Businesses — Or Arbel, the founder of the Yo app, on Monday talked about future plans for the one-word messaging app and a possible business model for his rapidly growing company, Life Before Us, LLC. — In an interview from San Francisco, where Arbel …

More: PandoDaily, Yahoo Tech, VentureBeat, Tech Times and iPhone in Canada Blog

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Technorati quietly killed its once-authoritative blog ranking system in May — There was once a time when Technorati.com meant something to online publishers. It was their professional reputation, and featuring on it was the goal of many. — Technorati hosts its own ranking system …

More: Marketing Pilgrim and Pulse 2.0. Tweets: @loic

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.

More: Gigaom, Wired, Digital Trends, I4U News, Electronista, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, Engadget, New York Times, Co.Design, TechRadar.com, PC Magazine, CNET, Mashable, TechHive and App Advice

Tweets: @fmanjoo and @kfury

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

CloudPhysics gets $15M to provide analytics for VMware users — Data analytics company CloudPhysics raised $15 million in a series C investment round, bringing the company's total funding to $27.5 million. The company's predictive analytics platform will supposedly make life easier for users …

More: TechCrunch, BetaNews, VentureBeat and Pulse 2.0

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.

More: Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Neowin, The Tech Report, Geek.com and The Register. Tweets: @pmarca

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.

More: App Annie Blog, 9to5Google, The Verge, USA Today, GSMArena Blog, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Pulse 2.0 and TechnoBuffalo

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.

More: nvidianews.nvidia.com, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, eWeek, Phys.org, The Register, PC World, TechEye, HotHardware.com News, PC Magazine and Gigaom

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 …

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 …

Ron / WinBeta:

Microsoft wants you to buy a Surface Pro 3, offers up to $650 in Store credit for your old MacBook Air

More: AppleInsider, The Verge, Computerworld, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Windows Phone Central, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, BetaNews, LAPTOP Magazine, GeekWire, Neowin and MacRumors. Tweets: @markgurman. Thanks:@refsrc

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