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Live from WWDC 2011 — 10:05 am “The PC market shrank over 1% this year. The Mac has outgrown the industry.” 10:05 am “The Mac is kicking ass? What did he mean?” 10:05 am Phil is touting great quotes from the press about the Mac.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
WWDC 2011 liveblog: Steve Jobs talks iOS 5, OS X Lion, iCloud and more! — 12:04PM We're just about to be ushered into the photo pit... we'll drop a few more updates once we're settled. Just as a reminder, we aren't expecting any actual news to drop prior to 10AM PT.
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TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Tech Check, Tech Trader Daily, ITworld.com, mocoNews and iHackintosh
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
WWDC 2011 Prelude — What I Know — If I were to publish everything I know regarding tomorrow's announcements, it would be a short and decidedly unsensational article. What I know are a handful of minor features at the edges. The big picture regarding iOS 5 and iCloud — and how the two interrelate — is an utter mystery to me.
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VatorNews, BaltTech, GigaOM, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Guardian, AppleInsider, Fortune, GottaBeMobile, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo Australia, MacRumors, Tech Sanity Check Blog, Techland, TiPb, Appolicious Advisor, Geeky-Gadgets, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, iPodNN, iPhone Download Blog, Electronista, PR Newswire, Joel Housman, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, I4U News, MacStories and The Apple Core Blog
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple Lets Mac OS X Lion Out of Its Cage at WWDC
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App Advice and The Next Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It's Likely The Right Idea
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This is my next, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac, Business Wire, MediaPost, CNET News, Gadgets DNA, iPodNN, Edible Apple, MacStories, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Cult of Mac, TUAW, FierceMobileContent, Softpedia News, TiPb, PhoneArena, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, MobileSyrup.com, AllTwitter, Neowin.net, Gadget Lab, Geek.com, Redmond Pie, Geeky-Gadgets, 9 to 5 Mac, MacHackPC, Mashable!, App Advice, iPhone Download Blog, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, TechEye, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, Network World and iClarified
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Microsoft shows off new look for XBL, universal Bing-powered voice search — Quick refreshing of Microsoft's E3 landing page has apparently revealed some of the things it will be announcing within a couple of hours at its E3 press conference, including new features for Xbox Live like Voice Search and new look for the service.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
New Xbox Experience Streamlines The Entire UI, Adds Youtube, Live TV and Bing
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Gary A Swaby / The Koalition:
The Official E3 2011 Schedule And Live Stream List
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Siliconera, GeekWire, YouTube Blog and Xbox Live's Major Nelson
Chris Buckley / Reuters:
China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking claims — (Reuters) - Google has become a “political tool” vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.
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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Surprise! Facebook Credits and Apple's iTunes Play Nice With Each Other. — Facebook has Credits, Apple has iTunes, and then there's the plethora of points and coins found on the major consoles and online services. — For game players, it's the equivalent of traveling in Europe before the Euro.
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MacStories and The Next Web
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Apple faces antitrust complaint over iCloud in Germany — It seems a little odd for an as-yet unrevealed product to be the subject of an antitrust complaint, but that's what appears to have happened in Europe. — Music streaming service Simfy says that it has submitted a complaint …
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mocoNews, ReadWriteWeb, Unwired View, Geeky-Gadgets, Pocket-lint and WebProNews, Thanks:m4tt
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Working With Lady Gaga to Bridge Music and Technology — Soon after Apple started its music-centric social network Ping last year, Steven P. Jobs reached out to Lady Gaga and her business manager, Troy Carter, for feedback. — At the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. …
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CNET News, Betabeat, TechCrunch, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Stowe Boyd, more at Mediagazer »
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS — EBay said it is buying the rest of e-commerce platform Magento, which it previously had a 49 percent stake in, in a bid to build a broader commerce operating system that spans online, mobile, social and local.
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eBay Inc., AllThingsD, Mashable! and WebProNews
Francis Tan / The Next Web:
Sina Weibo preparing English site, to go head on against Twitter in 2-3 months — TechWeb reports that according to informed sources, Sina Weibo is “actively preparing” to release its microblogging platform in English to go directly head on against Twitter, in about 2-3 months.
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Digital Trends, MediaPost, Penn Olson, The Tech Trade, paidContent:UK, Softpedia News, SAI and AllTwitter
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt And Others Invest In Rich Media Display Ad Startup Spongecell — Spongecell, a startup that places rich media ads in display advertisements, has raised a new round of financing led by Eric Schmidt and Jim Pallotta, Chairman and Managing Director of Raptor Group.
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MediaPost, alarm:clock, WebProNews, Betabeat, Softpedia News, paidContent and Adotas
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Is YouTube Killing Music Piracy? — The music industry has witnessed some dramatic changes in recent years, even when piracy is left out of the picture. In just a decade the Internet and the MP3 revolution have redefined people's music consumption habits.
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ringtonia.com
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Microsoft's Plans for Skype Are Unclear — BERLIN — If Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, the Internet communications company, goes through, supporters of network neutrality may be losing a standard-bearer. — In Europe, Skype has been the chief litmus test for measuring the openness of mobile networks.
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Steve Cheney / steve's blog:
Why Groupon is Worth $25 Billion Dollars — Admittedly, Groupon is a work in progress. They continue to spend insane amounts of money to acquire customers and merchants to try to extend their dual-sided network effect with consumers and merchants. Many people see this as unsustainable, some adamant it's all just a Ponzi scheme.
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Screenwerk, SAI, Bloomberg, @erickschonfeld and @msuster
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How does Groupon work? Is the business model sustainable?
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broadstuff and parislemon, Thanks:dondodge
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft needs to tell Windows 8 developers now about ‘Jupiter’ and Silverlight — Telling only part of a story can be worse than keeping completely mum, as Microsoft officials seem to be discovering with Windows 8. — Last week during the first public preview of the Windows 8 user interface …
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TomsTechBlog.com and I'm Just Being Manan
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Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Windows 8: features, screenshots, and everything else you need to know
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LiveSide.net, FierceCIO News and Dell Community
