Techmeme: In-flight Internet: the view from 35,000 feet and three years (Glenn Fleishman/Ars Technica)

1:50 PM ET, June 6, 2011

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: Ars Technica, @josephrosario, This is my next, SAI, AllThingsD, Bits, Digits, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Computerworld, BGR, Engadget, PC Magazine, MacRumors, Macworld, Gizmodo, GigaOM, AllThingsD, TiPb, Gadget Lab, MediaFile, Telegraph, The Loop, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, The Next Web, blog.chron.com and Macworld

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.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Tech Check, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, ITworld.com, Geek.com, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile, mocoNews and iHackintosh

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Apple officially introduces OS X Lion at WWDC - $29, releasing in July

Discussion: BGR, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, Between the Lines Blog, App Advice and @tuaw

Poornima Gupta / Reuters:
Steve Jobs takes stage at Apple's iCloud event

Discussion: SAI, Gawker, msnbc.com, TechEye and Guardian

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Microsoft's Kinect-based UI for XBL has Bing voice search across Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and live TV — 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 …

Discussion: BetaNews, SAI, Fast Company, VentureBeat, BGR, This is my next, LiveSide.net, The Next Web, Microsoft News, techblog.dallasnews.com, Ars Technica, SlashGear, GeekWire, ITworld.com, WMPoweruser.com and Electronista

John Biggs / CrunchGear:
New Xbox Experience Streamlines The Entire UI, Adds Youtube, Live TV and Bing

Discussion: VentureBeat and Engadget

Gary A Swaby / The Koalition:
The Official E3 2011 Schedule And Live Stream List

Discussion: Gizmodo, Siliconera, 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.

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal: Cyberspies Target China Experts

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.

Discussion: Evolver.fm, MacStories and The Next Web

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.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It's Likely The Right Idea

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.

Discussion: eBay Inc., AllThingsD, Mashable! and WebProNews

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 …

Discussion: mocoNews, ReadWriteWeb, Pocket-lint, Geeky-Gadgets 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. …

Discussion: CNET News, Betabeat, TechCrunch, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Stowe Boyd, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: Digital Trends, MediaPost, Penn Olson, The Tech Trade, paidContent:UK, SAI, Softpedia News 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.

Discussion: MediaPost, alarm:clock, Betabeat, Softpedia News, WebProNews, 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.

Discussion: ringtonia.com

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.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, dailywireless.org, textually.org and Slashdot

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.

Discussion: SAI, Screenwerk, SAI, Bloomberg, @erickschonfeld and @msuster

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How does Groupon work? Is the business model sustainable?

Discussion: ITworld.com, 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 …

Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com and I'm Just Being Manan

Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Windows 8: features, screenshots, and everything else you need to know

Discussion: LiveSide.net, FierceCIO News and Dell Community

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 1:50 PM ET, June 6, 2011.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Techmeme Sponsor Posts:

Tribe AI:

Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.

Zoho:

CIO challenge 6: Can we find an effective solution that also minimizes operational costs? — Welcome to the next and final installment of our CIO series! After what feels like a thousand cups of coffee …

Hamming:

Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.

Techmeme Leaderboards:

Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.

Sponsor Techmeme

Who's Hiring in Tech?