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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
You Can't Always Get What You Want: Apple's Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC — There was a lot of buzz prior to today's announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print — For a certain segment of geeks, checking the changes to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store Terms and Conditions after new features are added or a new version is released is as much a ritual as unboxing. One reason, at least in my case …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Demoted — Today's was a jam-packed keynote. Apple announced a lot of news; there is much to talk and think about. But the key line was when Steve Jobs, describing iCloud replacing iTunes as your digital hub, said, “We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device.”
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Michael Muchmore / PC Magazine:
Apple iCloud vs. Amazon Cloud Player vs. Google Music Beta — With Apple dropping the third shoe in online streaming music services, after Amazon and Google, some striking differences are now apparent. — The biggest player in digital music has finally vaporized its content.
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Apple iOS 5 hands-on preview — iOS 5 won't be ready for the masses until this Fall, but lucky developers — and eager tech bloggers — are able to get in on the action right now. We just got done downloading the 730MB BETA, and have decided to turn our iPhone 4 and iPad 2 into guinea pigs for all the newness.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
About The Nuance No-Show At Apple's WWDC Keynote
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9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, MacRumors, PadGadget, Gadgets DNA, MacHackPC, iSource, GottaBeMobile, iClarified, I4U News and Electricpig.co.uk
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft ‘flattered’ with Apple's iOS 5 Windows Phone features
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitter + iOS 5 Will Change Mobile Apps
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
iOS5 Has Been Jailbroken — Good news, iPhone jailbreakers!
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Peter Parkes / Heartbeat:
Problems signing in to Skype — Update 3: — Today's problems have stabilised, and recovery is ongoing. Skype should return to normal soon. — If you were disconnected from Skype earlier, you shouldn't need to manually sign back in to Skype - it should reconnect automatically when it's able to do so.
Naked Security / Sophos:
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users - facial recognition is enabled — When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only.
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ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook and The Register
Steve Boxer / Guardian:
Wii U: first hands-on with Nintendo's new console — With its tablet-like controller, the Wii U is a seriously weird piece of kit. But, yet again, once you get your hands on it, a multitude of new gaming experiences tumble out of it. And the machine will have more hardcore appeal, too.
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Nintendo unveils Wii U game console, with touch-screen tablet controller
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Kindles Getting Cheaper, and Huge: 10 Percent of Amazon's Business Next Year — Amazon's Kindle e-reader, a gawky novelty just three years ago, is now a big business getting bigger. Really big. — Jeff Bezos and company continue not to release sales numbers for the devices, but everyone else keeps guessing.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
App Engine: Google's deepest secrets as a service — The software scales. But will the Google rulebook? — Google will never open source its back end. You'll never run the Google File System or Google MapReduce or Google BigTable on your own servers.
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Wall Street Journal:
Security ‘Tokens’ Take Hit — RSA Offers to Replace Nearly All of Its SecurIDs in Use or Provide Monitoring — RSA Security is offering to provide security monitoring or replace its well-known SecurID tokens—devices used by millions of corporate workers to securely log on to their computers …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
RSA Offers To Replace Some Customers' Compromised SecurID Tokens
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Computerworld, PC Magazine, Threat Level, The Register, CNET News, PC World, Naked Security, Reuters, Inquirer and The Tech Herald …
Michael J. De La Merced / DealBook:
AT&T's Bid for T-Mobile Is Backed by Microsoft and Facebook — In its quest to win approval of its $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA, AT&T just got a lot of help from its friends. — Eight technology giants, including Facebook and Microsoft, and 10 venture capital firms, filed letters supporting the acquisition late on Monday.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
FT Bypasses Apple's iTunes, Launches HTML5 Web App (Free Access First Week) — The Financial Times would rather not have Apple take a 30 percent cut of in-app subscriptions for its iOS publications, and has launched a HTML5 Web app that enables readers to access content across tablets and smartphones.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Begins Tracking & Will Rank Individual Content Creators — Google announced today that it has begun indexing attribution of content to particular authors, not just to the websites they appear on. Links associated with the author of a page can now have the code rel="author" …
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhones And iPads Could Be Getting Intel Chips, Says Citi — Intel is in talks with Apple to manufacture its custom A4 and A5 chips, says Citi analyst Glen Yueng. — However, the manufacture of Apple's chips is only a prelude to a much bigger partnership.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
OmniVision and Sony to Supply 8-Megapixel Camera for iPhone 5 — According to a new report from Digitimes, camera image sensor supplier OmniVision has won “significant orders” for Apple's next-generation iPhone, set to debut later this year. Whilst OmniVision has been the selected supplier …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Glenn Beck to Charge Fee for Online Show — Glenn Beck is planning to charge his fans a monthly subscription for his daily talk show online starting this summer, as he makes the move from being a Fox News host to the owner of his own Internet network. — On Tuesday, Mr. Beck will announce …
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Jack Neff / AdAge:
Groupon Goes Into Supermarkets Via Loyalty Cards — Deal Has ‘Potential to Revolutionize Grocery-Marketing Landscape’ — Groupon is joining two Boston marketing-services and analytics firms to get deeper into the traditional grocery coupon business with a test today by Springfield …
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Next Big Thing in E-Commerce? Groupon Founders Fund Online Pawn Shop. — Groupon founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, who have famously extracted all sorts of money from the soon-to-IPO deals start-up and now run an investment group called Lightbank, are onto the next big thing in e-commerce: Pawn shops.
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Gizmodo, Fast Company and Social Markets
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Snubs The iAd — Remember Apple's iAd? Apple might not, either. — A year after being shown off as a “tentpole” feature of iPhone software, Apple's mobile advertising business didn't earn a single mention today, as execs previewed a new version of iOS at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Fusion-io Ups Price Of IPO To $16 To $18 Per Share; Now Valued At $1.4 Billion — The technology IPO rush continues this week as Fusion-IO, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, increased the price of its IPO to $16 to $18 per share. The company had previously priced …
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