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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions — Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”.
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ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, GigaOM, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, AppleInsider, mocoNews, SAI, Gizmodo, Macworld, GottaBeMobile, MediaNama, parislemon, mobiputing, Geek.com, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, iPhone, The Next Web, MacStories, SlashGear, Softpedia News, iPodNN, everythingiCafe, PC Magazine and App Advice, Thanks:pedaviet
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Steve Jobs Blinks! Apple Backs Down On App Subscription Rules — Apple appears to have backed down on a major component of its new in-app subscription rules, which should provide a big boost to content companies: It has scrapped a rule requiring apps that play content like music, movies …
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Nieman Journalism Lab and Engadget
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Stephen Elop: Android's Success Is Apple's Fault, And Beware The Boxes — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be on the ropes, but CEO Stephen Elop is still slugging away in the handset maker's comeback strategy. Today, he laid out some of Nokia's biggest challenges and opportunities …
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Matthew Saltmarsh / New York Times:
Nokia's Chief Technology Officer Departs — PARIS — The struggling Finnish cellphone maker Nokia said Thursday that its chief technology officer had taken a leave of absence and would be temporarily replaced by head of the company's research center. — News of the departure of Richard Green …
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CNET News, IntoMobile, Reuters, Reuters, paidContent, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, TechEye, Engadget and The Next Web
Reuters:
Citi says hackers access bank card data — (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed data on hundreds of thousands of bank card holders in the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies. — Citigroup said about 1 percent …
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
A Launchpad for Watching TV, Movies on the iPad — Watching movies and TV shows on an iPad is a pleasure. Deciding what to watch, and then figuring out which iPad app offers which film or show at that moment, isn't. — [ See post to watch video ] — There is a growing crop …
AppleInsider:
Apple shows off its networking savvy at WWDC — After building a temporary network of WiFi hotspots to provide coverage for the 5,200 attendees at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has set up a graphic visualization of the network itself. — Depicted within the Moscone West …
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TUAW, TechCrunch, iPodNN, App Advice and parislemon
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
All four Lodsys patents under invalidation attack in federal court — I have news concerning Lodsys because a Michigan company named ForeSee Results Inc. has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Lodsys's four patents with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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AllThingsD, iPodNN, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, SlashGear, AppleInsider, GigaOM, everythingiCafe, TechEye, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and Guardian
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Apple Asks Developers About App Legal Issues
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MacNN, The Next Web, Scotch and Code and MobileCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
“It Just Works.” — Amid all the big announcements at this year's WWDC keynote, there was an undercurrent that was subtle, but important. — “It just works.” Steve Jobs kept saying this over and over again on stage. When Jobs does this, it's never an accident. It's a message.
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The Download Blog, @juney and @stevecla
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Coupons.com Raises $200 Million At A Whopping $1 Billion Valuation — It looks like Coupons.com may have just become the Airbnb of mega-million dollar raises at billion dollar valuations. Today, Coupons.com, the largest provider of digital coupons, announced that it has received …
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Reuters, MediaPost, CNNMoney.com, GigaOM, DealBook, VentureBeat, SAI, Associated Press, Epicenter, couponsinc.com, Social Markets and silicontap.com, Thanks:sidharthdassani
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Safari's New Reading Lists Are Glorified Bookmarks - Not Instapaper Killers — Apple's Reading Lists are basically just glorified bookmarks. While Instapaper lets you save articles in its easy to read text-only view, Reading Lists don't make use Reader, Apple's new text-only mode for Safari at all.
Thomas Lowenthal / Ars Technica:
Bitcoin: inside the encrypted, peer-to-peer digital currency — Bitcoin—a pseudonymous cryptographic currency designed by an enigmatic, freedom-loving hacker, and currently used by the geek underground to buy and sell everything from servers to cellphone jammers.
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Reuters and Tech Europe
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Cupertino To Jobs: There's No Chance We're Saying No To The Apple Spaceship Campus — While he's no Steve Jobs, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has his unique charm. In a press conference today responding to yesterday's amazing Steve Jobs pitch, Wong said emphatically, “Cupertino is ready for this” …
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PC World, MacRumors, The Next Web, MacStories, Cupertino, NBC Bay Area, Shiny Objects, Engadget and @cityofcupertino
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Google doodle lets you play a recordable guitar ditty in honor of Les Paul — Have you been to Google's US home page recently? Do it, you've got less than 24 hours to check out its guitar-inspired doodle celebrating the birthday of Les Paul. The “Google” script is highly interactive thanks …
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Search Engine Watch, The Official Google Blog, Guardian, Mashable!, WebProNews, SiliconFilter, Gizmodo and techeblog.com
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Foxconn chief: iPads would be more profitable if they weren't so hard to make — Foxconn, a subsidiary of the Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, is being forced to find more efficient means of manufacturing Apple devices if it is to increase profit and increase its annual sales growth forecast, says company chairman Terry Gou.
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Between the Lines Blog, Bloomberg, Fortune, thinq_, Computerworld, AllThingsD, iClarified, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac and iLounge
Zach Epstein / BGR:
HP TouchPad launches July 1st, starts at $499.99 — HP on Thursday announced that its HP TouchPad tablet will become available on July 1st. The TouchPad, which was first unveiled at a media event this past February, is the first webOS-powered tablet offering from HP.
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The Official HP Palm Blog, SAI, This is my next, The Tech Trade, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, webOSroundup and The Next Web
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal $300K From Customer — A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer's online account isn't responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to protect the account credentials.
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Softpedia News, Techdirt and Help Net Security
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Court: Passwords + Secret Questions = ‘Reasonable’ eBanking Security
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Meet The Man Behind Twitter's HUGE Integration With Apple — The big hero at Twitter this week is a guy named Raffi Krikorian. — Because it's talked about on TV all the time by people who work for media companies that would like you to follow them and consume all of their content, Twitter is very well known in the mainstream.
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Bloomberg and The Business Insider
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Future Of Mobile Advertising: Less Annoying, More Useful — As mobile phones evolve, mobile advertising is evolving, too. — Already, we've seen a shift from tiny text and banner ads to more sophisticated efforts. Some are trying to captivate you with mini-games, interactive widgets, and contests.
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The Business Insider and Poynter
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell's prototype 7-inch tablet touts slide-out split QWERTY keyboard (update: just a concept) — Whoa. Every so often, a giant in Round Rock pokes it head up above water long enough to put forth a truly mesmerizing design, and while it's no Adamo, this is most definitely the freshest …
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CNET News, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, Softpedia News, jkkmobile, Mashable!, CrunchGear and PhoneArena
Spencer Ante / Digits:
Apps From Foursquare, LinkedIn, Netflix Put Data at Risk, Firm Finds — You'd think the spate of Internet security breaches this spring would have companies on their toes. But when it comes to wireless apps, some are still making rookie mistakes. — Computer security firm viaForensics …
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Android Phone Fans, PC Magazine, SocialTimes.com, NBC Bay Area, viaForensics, SlashGear, About Foursquare and Gizmodo
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook gives regulators info on facial recognition — (Reuters) - Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world's top social networking service.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Verizon confirms sales of its Galaxy S II ‘superphone’ start in July — Other major carriers are also expected to have the hottest new smartphone, made by Samsung — Computerworld - Verizon Wireless Wednesday confirmed that it plans to start selling the Samsung Galaxy S II “superphone” …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Six Apart Releases Movable Type Updates To Plug Security Holes, Following PBS Hack — In a message posted on its corporate blog earlier this morning, blogging software maker Six Apart essentially admitted that security holes in its Movable Type product(s) are to be blamed for the recent …
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Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
The New Early-Adopter Addiction: Turntable — Editor's Note: This guest post written by former TechCrunch writer Steve Poland (@popo). His last post was Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer. — Signing up for Twitter at South by Southwest 2007 …
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Walter / iFixit Blog:
Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook Teardown — Just over six months ago, Google released the Cr-48 prototype Chromebook to developers—promising that production hardware would be forthcoming. They weren't lying! With today's release of the first production Chromebook, the Samsung Series 5 3G …
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Gizmodo, PC World, SlashGear, Ars Technica and Liliputing
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
HP Demands Oracle Reverse Course on Itanium Support — Hewlett-Packard says it has sent a formal demand letter to software giant Oracle insisting that it reverse its decision, made in March, to stop building software for Intel's Itanium server chip. — In the letter, which was not released …
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eWeek, The Register, TechEye and PC World
Jack Marshall / ClickZ:
Twitter: 12% of Q1 Revenue Came From Auto Advertisers — Since rolling out its first advertiser product in April 2010, Twitter has found particular success in the automotive sector, and hopes to extend that appeal to retail marketers next. — Speaking with ClickZ News this week …
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