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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Launching Its Own Photosharing Service — Twitter has been completely emphatic about where developers should stake a claim, with Twitter Platform Lead Ryan Sarver warning the ecosystem to stay away from building “client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience.”
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Confirmed: Twitter Plans to Announce Photo-Sharing Service This Week — Twitter will announce a photo-sharing service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is set to speak at D9 on Wednesday.
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Softpedia News, AllTwitter, @ia, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, SAI and Shelly Palmer Digital Living
Apple:
Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6 — Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote …
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Engadget, AllThingsD, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, MacStories, iLounge and everythingiCafe
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Official: iOS 5, OS X Lion, and iCloud To Be Announced Next Week At WWDC — There goes all the fun rumors and wild speculation. Apple just released a press release detailing what's coming next week at the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. I'll let that sink in for a moment.
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Intel reveals skinny Ivy Bridge ‘Ultrabooks,’ Moore's Law-defying Atoms — Intel took the opportunity at Computex to update the tech-loving world on its processor plans, and it looks like those whispers we heard about low power and an accelerated Atom roadmap were spot on.
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Inquirer, Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Between the Lines Blog, Intel Newsroom, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Reuters, Digital Trends, Shiny Objects, TechEye, BetaNews, This is my next, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Mashable!, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, Bloomberg, netbooknews.com, CrunchGear, MacRumors and CNET News
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Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Ivy Bridge chips pushed to 2012, Macs will have to wait
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Inquirer, TechEye, SlashGear, Gadgetsteria and RazorianFly
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Nielsen: Android's lead over iOS may have stopped growing — Google's OS is still more popular than Apple's, but no more than it was in March Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Research in Motion (RIMM) have reached something like a three-way stalemate in the battle for dominance of the U.S. smartphone market …
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AllThingsD, Appolicious Advisor, Disruptors, App Advice and 9to5 Google
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon: Online Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War — Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens …
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CNET News, Reuters, TechEye, Guardian, Fast Company, The Next Web and @qthrul
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
The iconic Fifth Avenue Apple Store is New York's top photo attraction — See the circle labeled “1″ on the image above? Researcher Eric Fischer created this amazing heat map showing photo densities by using geotags that belong to millions of snaps publicly available on Flickr.
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ifoAppleStore, @jowyang and TUAW
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush to iPad Is ‘Sheer Insanity and Insecurity and Fear’ — Successful Migration to Tablet Editions Will Take ‘Decades,’ Rolling Stone Co-Founder Says in Interview — Nobody mistakes Jann Wenner — whose Wenner Media publishes Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal — for a digital fanboy.
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Fortune, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, FT Tech Hub, Poynter and Common Sense Journalism, more at Mediagazer »
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google To Begin Charging For Directions Location Extensions — Google announced they will begin charging for searchers clicking on the directions of the location extensions found on some AdWords ads. — Location extensions add an address and phone number to your Google AdWords ads.
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Search Engine Watch
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple launches worldwide MacBook Bottom Case Replacement Program — Per Apple's support document, they will now fix the issue with the rubber bottom on the white unibody MacBook coming off due to issues with glue. This applies to any MacBook purchased between October 2009 and April 2011.
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gigaom.com, Computerworld, AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Appletell, TUAW, Softpedia News, The Next Web and RazorianFly
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Appsfire Scores $3.6M As App Discovery Demands Grow — With Apple's App Store hitting the half billion app mark and Android Market poised to overtake it later this year, it's a busy time to be in the app discovery business. Appsfire, a France-based startup, is reaping the benefits …
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TechCrunch and Pulse2
Liam Tung / iTnews:
HP recalls another 162,000 laptop batteries — More fire-hazard hardware. — Hewlett Packard has recalled a further 162,000 lithium-ion batteries after discovering a product model series that was missed in last year's worldwide recall. — The batteries, shipped with laptops …
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blog.chron.com, TechEye, Reuters, DigiTimes and ITProPortal
Wall Street Journal:
Hackers Broaden Their Attacks — Lockheed and PBS Join the Roster of Recent Victims as Motives Expand; ‘Almost Anyone Is a Target’ — Hacking incidents at defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. and broadcaster PBS that surfaced over the past few days show how widespread corporate breaches …
Dan Webb:
It's About The Hashbangs — Before I get started here's the disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this rant are my own personal opinions on web development and do not represent the views of my employer, its engineering organisation or any other employees. — A few months back there was a flurry …
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Adactio, @n8agrin, @danwrong, @aral, FunctionSource and @carnage4life
Electronista:
Google preps iPhone search website revamp with app drawer — Google is reportedly preparing a large tweak to its iPhone-optimized search page that would put it much closer in line with the quality of the native mobile app. A discovery on Saturday has shown a version with tabs on top that …
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PhoneArena, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadgetell and Softpedia News
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Airbnb Has Arrived: Raising Mega-Round at a $1 Billion+ Valuation — According to several sources Airbnb is in the process of closing a whopper of a funding round: $100 million or more at a $1 billion-plus valuation. The round is being lead by Andreessen Horowitz, and includes participation from DST, say our sources.
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gigaom.com, VatorNews, HipMojo.com, Pulse2, VentureBeat, Startups Open Sourced, SAI and Quintura blog
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
From Danger to Android: The saga of the T-Mobile Sidekick — An early promotional brochure for the Hiptop, the original name used by Danger for what became the T-Mobile Sidekick — One of the iconic devices of the mobile revolution, the T-Mobile Sidekick, will reach a milestone next Tuesday …
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msnbc.com and Technologizer, Thanks:johnhcook
Brian Heater / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 hits Best Buy's site, decorative Androids fall off in the process — Remember the Android tablet we said might be the first real competitor to the iPad 2 earlier this month? Well, it just made its debut on the Best Buy site, and while the big “Coming Soon” …
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Softpedia News, I4U News, SlashGear, Examiner, LaptopMemo and Crave
Klint Finley / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Microsoft's Future in Data-as-a-Service? — The “realist” view on Microsoft's future is that Windows and Microsoft Office licenses will continue to be the company's bread and butter, and that enterprise-focused cloud initiatives like Azure and Office 365 will supplement this growth.
Om Malik / GigaOm:
Why Instagram Can Become The Mobile Social Hub — Trey Ratcliff, creator of 100 Cameras and I — Of all the apps on my iPhone, the ones that get most attention for me involve photos — from the built-in Camera app to Camera+ to photo filter apps such as Noir, ColorBlast and Hipstamatic.
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stuckincustoms.com, Gizmodo, Mashable!, App Advice and MacNN
