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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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GigaOM, PC World, Guardian, Telegraph, AppleInsider, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Appolicious Advisor, iPodNN, VentureBeat, Fortune, TiPb, Electronista, Joel Housman, MacRumors, Tech Sanity Check Blog, Techland, Digital Trends, Geeky-Gadgets, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Gizmodo, iPhone Download Blog, everythingiCafe, MacStories and The Apple Core Blog
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It's Likely The Right Idea — Could it be? Is this it? iOS 5?! I honestly have absolutely no clue. But it certainly seems like it at least could have the right idea. — Tomorrow morning, Apple is set to preview iOS 5 for the first time during the WWDC keynote.
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9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, Cult of Mac, TechEye, TiPb, Mashable!, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, LAPTOP Magazine, iPhone Download Blog, Gadgets DNA, GottaBeMobile, Pocket-lint, MacStories, AllTwitter, Geeky-Gadgets, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, MacHackPC, App Advice, Electronista, Gizmodo, Network World, everythingiCafe and iClarified
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple may surprise with June 14 launch of Mac OS X Lion
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Computerworld, blog.chron.com, Technologizer, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, Ars Technica, MacRumors, MacHackPC, MacStories, iClarified, I4U News, Shoutpedia and MacNN, Thanks:markgurman
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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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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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
Lionel Menchaca / Dell Community:
Microsoft's Windows 8 Gamble Just Might Work
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Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Computerworld and The Business Insider, Thanks:dell
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
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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Betabeat, Adotas, paidContent, Softpedia News and MediaPost
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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Betabeat, CNET News, TechCrunch, Stowe Boyd and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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, 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, Yipit Blog and parislemon, Thanks:dondodge
Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade:
Behold the Fling Mini, the Little Brother to the Fling for iPad — The Fling joysticks for the iPad are fantastic little contraptions. Two suction cups, a conductive joystick, and a cleverly designed plastic spiral all work in perfect harmony to provide a tactile gameplay experience …
Glenn Fleishman / Ars Technica:
In-flight Internet: the view from 35,000 feet and three years — In-flight Internet access has had its up and downs, and, yes, this article will have its share of aviation-related puns. An aborted launch by Boeing in 2004 seemed to ground the idea, but a second attempt in 2008 has remained aloft.
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textually.org and Slashdot
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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Penn Olson, mocoNews, AllTwitter and SAI
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.
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Nook Simple Touch compared to Kindle 3 — Paul Miller wrote a great review at This Is My Next that any potential Nook owner should read. But it doesn't seem like he owns a Kindle or does a lot of e-ink reading, so I'm going to take a different slant: whether someone who wants an e-reader …
