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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8 — On Wednesday, Microsoft offered the first glimpse of Windows 8, a sneak peek reveals much about both the influences and strategic goals of the major overhaul of Microsoft's 25-year-old operating system.
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Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Windows 8 for tablets shown at D9 — We had a gut feeling Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky was going to show off Windows 8 or the next version of Windows for tablets and it looks like that's exactly what he is about to do! We just caught this picture of what appears …
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The Microsoft Blog, BGR, SAI, Neowin.net, The Next Web, @maryjofoley, Techie Buzz and @tomwarren
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Microsoft Windows President Steven Sinofsky Live at D9 — At D6, Microsoft gave the world its first look at Windows 7, the successor to the much maligned Vista. Now, three years later, the world into which that OS launched has changed drastically. The growing popularity of tablet PCs …
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Engadget, The Next Web, WinRumors and CNET News
Julie Larson-Green / Microsoft:
Previewing ‘Windows 8’ — REDMOND, Wash. - June 1, 2011 - Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface.
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TechNet Blogs, WinRumors and BUILD
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Limit Chipmakers Using Windows to Only One Tablet-Maker — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has asked chipmakers that want to use the next version of Windows for tablets to work with no more than one computer manufacturer, three people with knowledge of the plan said.
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The Microsoft Blog, PC World, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Fast Company and SAI
Jack Dorsey / Twitter Blog:
search+photos — Twitter brings the most meaningful information in the world right to your pocket. And, we're constantly working on ways to make that even better. — One good search can take you #anywhere. — Today we're starting to roll out a completely new version of Twitter search.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Partners With Photobucket On Photos And Firefox On Search
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The Next Web, gigaom.com, BGR, SAI, Mashable!, The Seattle Times, Engadget and Online Marketing Trends
Evan Gilbert / The Official Google Blog:
The +1 button for websites: recommend content across the web — Since we started rolling out the +1 button in March, you've been able to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads. — But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you're on it.
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Computerworld, BetaNews, Search Engine Watch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, CNET News, Search Engine Land, Google Operating System, The Register, Socialmedia.biz, Blogger Buzz, Googling Google Blog, Mashable!, paidContent, Inside AdWords, WebProNews, Daring Fireball, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Google Webmaster Central Blog, Android Phone Fans, Marketing Pilgrim and Droid Life
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Eric Grosse / The Official Google Blog:
Ensuring your information is safe online — The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world—opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression. But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things. Today, despite the efforts …
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MediaFile, PC World, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, BGR, CNNMoney.com, The Firewall, SAI, New York Times, Gizmodo, SFGate, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Threat Level, msnbc.com, Techland, Tech Trader Daily and Android Phone Fans
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google: Group In China Targeted Senior US Officials, Chinese Activists, Others With Phishing Attack
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Guardian, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Neowin.net and Reuters
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
How Powerful is Twitter? Well, Shaq Just Tweeted His Retirement — Dick Costolo just spent 45 minutes on stage at D9 talking about the power of Twitter. But I think Shaquille O'Neal just made a better argument for Twitter's power in just two words. — “im retiring,” the NBA star tweeted Wednesday, linking to a video.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Tells Developers to “Move Up the Value Chain” (Video)
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@wsjtech, VentureBeat, WebProNews, The Tech Trade, Adotas, @sdkstl and Electronista
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests — Well, this is ... unexpected. Jonathan Kaplan, who previously led the company that created the Flip camera, just announced his new project on-stage at the D9 conference — and it's a grilled cheese company.
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Gizmodo, RCR Unplugged, Epicenter, Business Week, AllThingsD, Daily Patricia, AllThingsD, Gawker, Techland, ITworld.com and Light Reading
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
HP Might License webOS, Says CEO (Video) — Hewlett-Packard's plans for webOS extend far beyond tablets, smartphones and PCs. Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker says the company is planning to make it available to its partners to provide mobility services to their customers.
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ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, MarketWatch, LAPTOP Magazine, Technologizer, VentureBeat, SAI, Engadget, This is my next, Light Reading, PhoneDog.com and Everything webOS
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's new data center is visible (at last!) from space — One of the mysteries surrounding the 500,000-square foot server farm Apple (AAPL) has famously constructed in a small North Carolina town called Maiden — besides its ultimate purpose — is why it didn't show up on Google Earth.
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Data Center Knowledge, Datamation, MacNN, CNNMoney.com, Shiny Objects, PC Magazine and Geek.com
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Perfectly Times their iCloud Trademark Filing in Europe
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Computerworld, CNET News and TechCrunch
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple may offer free iCloud services with aggressively priced Mac OS X Lion
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9 to 5 Mac, Ars Technica, Edible Apple and MacRumors
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
JP Morgan: Apple's iPad rivals reduce build plans after ‘early dose of reality’ — A new investor report from J.P. Morgan on Wednesday indicates that Apple's competitors in the tablet market have reduced their build plans after receiving an “early dose of reality” in the form of lackluster sales.
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Great Speculations, NPD Group, International Business Times, Tech Trader Daily, Electricpig.co.uk and mocoNews
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Jack Dorsey Is “The James Franco of the Internet” — Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square and product chief at Twitter, didn't have much of anything going on today so he dropped in on D9. — All kidding aside, the seemingly super-human Dorsey will be taking questions from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher …
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, AllThingsD and @stevenjayl
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on Google, Clones and Hubris-But Not on an IPO — Groupon's CEO Andrew Mason makes history today as the first speaker at the D conference to ever request that his image be based on a recent driver's license photo — goofy grin and all.
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SAI and AllThingsD
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Samsung Chromebook goes on sale early at Gilt (update: sold out) — We can't say we expected Gilt to be the first place to offer Samsung's new Chromebook but, well, here we are. Google's now sending out emails like the one above to at least some folks that signed up to be a part of the Cr-48 pilot program …
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This is my next, Betabeat, Gizmodo, thechromesource, Geek.com, The Digital Reader and CrunchGear
Anil Dash:
Apple's Twitter — I've been waiting a year for someone to write about this, but my laziness has not yet paid off, so here are a few things that we all know about everybody's favorite Cupertino fruit company: — Apple has client app software on hundreds of millions of devices in the form …
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GigaOM and parislemon
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Groupon Books Travel Plans Through Expedia Partnership — Groupon is partnering with Expedia to create a new discount travel service that will let people book hotel rooms and airfare at half the cost. — The announcement is being made today at the D Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes …
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VatorNews, Screenwerk, GeekWire and @mrinaldesai
Jeremy A. Kaplan / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Northrop Grumman May Have Been Hit by Cyberattack, Source Says — Top military contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. may have been hit by a cyber assault, the latest in a string of alarming attacks against military suppliers, a source within the company told FoxNews.com.
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Computerworld, The Register, CSO's blog and SiliconANGLE
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Official: Google Offers Goes Live, First Portland Offer Arrives — [As promised below in our post from late Tuesday night, the first Google Offer just arrived minutes ago in my Gmail inbox. Here's a screenshot, followed by the remainder of Tuesday night's post about it.]
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Macworld, BetaNews, Oregonian, SiliconFilter, The Official Google Blog, Search Engine Watch and GeekWire, Thanks:mattmcgee
Reuters:
LightSquared near $2 billion a year Sprint deal: sources — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp is close to completing a $2 billion-a-year network sharing agreement with hedge fund billionaire Phil Falcone's LightSquared telecommunications venture, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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Evan Williams / EVHEAD:
The Future of Identity Belongs to Apple and Google — Why is it, when you install an app from the AppStore that requires an account, and you don't already have an account on the service, you have to fill out a form and create one? — It seems like a dumb question, until you consider that this is not your computer.
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Richard Lai / Engadget:
Acer W4 Windows Phone Mango handset eyes-on (video) — It'll be a little while before Windows Phone 7 Mango phones pop up in the shops, but here at Computex, Acer decided to give us a little tease with a mockup of its upcoming W4 handset. Before you get all excited, though …
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LiveSide.net
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Google WebRTC browser voice/video chat released to take on Skype and FaceTime — Google has released a developer preview of WebRTC, its open real-time voice and video chat system that uses HTML and JavaScript to put video and audio conferencing into the browser.
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The Next Web and Geeky-Gadgets
