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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft reveals Xbox LIVE will be built into Windows 8 … Microsoft has revealed that its Xbox LIVE service will be built into PCs in the future. — Mike Delman, Microsoft's vice president of global marketing in the interactive entertainment business unit, revealed the company's plans in an interview this week.
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft's big plans for Xbox Live — LOS ANGELES — Microsoft will partner with regional cable companies to bring live TV onto the Xbox, a new feature that it announced Monday at the Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E3). — That means the TV services will be provided through cable …
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New York Times:
Spain Detains 3 in PlayStation Cyberattacks — PARIS — The Spanish police said Friday that they had apprehended three people suspected of computer hacking in connection with recent cyberattacks on Sony's PlayStation Network as well as corporate and government Web sites around the world.
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Tom Brewster / IT PRO:
Anonymous warns of Spain arrest revenge — Anonymous warns of Spain arrest revenge — Spanish police arrest three men suspected of being involved in the Anonymous hacking group, which has told the world to expect a response. — Anonymous has warned about repercussions following arrests …
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PC Magazine, AnonOps Communications, CNET News, Ars Technica, SC Magazine US and @anonops
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple enters the fray against Lodsys, files motion to intervene — Nine days after Lodsys sued seven little app developers in the Eastern District of Texas, Apple filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings. I have uploaded the motion and its attachments (except for a sealed one) to this Scribd folder.
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Apple sued by iCloud Communications over iCloud trademark — Well that didn't take long. In a suit filed yesterday in the US Disctrict Court in Arizona, a company named iCloud Communications, LLC has claimed trademark infringements against Apple over the use of the name iCloud.
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MacRumors, ReadWriteCloud, Fortune, iClarified, SlashGear, Boing Boing, iLounge, MacStories and InfiniteApple, Thanks:spinn12
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify Signs Universal Music, May Really Get to U.S., After All — Spotify has signed an American distribution deal with Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label. The pact means that the streaming music company now has U.S. deals in place with three of the four largest labels …
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App Advice, VentureBeat, SlashGear, SAI, Electronista, Gizmodo, Evolver.fm and hypebot
Rocky Agrawal / TechCrunch:
Groupon Was “The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A Business Owner” — Editor's note:This guest post was written by Rocky Agrawal, an entrepreneur who has worked on local products since 1995. He blogs at reDesign and Tweets @rakeshlobster. — “How much is your average sale here?”
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AppleInsider:
Apple poised to build nearly 400K next-gen MacBook Airs this month — The second-generation of Apple's revitalized MacBook Air notebooks are scheduled to enter mass production during the month of June, with an initial build volume hovering around 400,000 units.
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CNET News, StartupLocker, TUAW, GigaOM, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacRumors, Electronista and iClarified
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Apple [pilfers] rips off student's rejected iPhone app — iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo — Apple is famous for going to absurd lengths in its effort to enforce patents and trademarks. It recently sued Amazon for calling its app store Appstore. And it has publicly lectured competitors to …
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Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Samsung Chromebook Series 5 review — For almost two years now, Google's been talking up the idea of always-on, always-connected laptops based on a version of its Chrome browser. Local storage, of course, was not an ingredient in the equation. And while a lucky few developers got to put …
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Gizmodo, This is my next, parislemon and StartupLocker
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple slams Amazon's Android e-store as ‘inferior’ — In legal clash, also calls out Android security gaffes, including malicious apps infiltrating Google's download center — Computerworld - Apple this week called Amazon's Appstore for Android “inferior” as it urged a federal court …
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Electronista, App Advice, MacRumors, AppleInsider, PhoneDog.com and Computerworld
Kevin Kelleher / Fortune:
The checkered past of Groupon's chairman — Groupon's largest shareholder and chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, has a back story investors might want to know. FORTUNE — “Lets start having fun... lets get funky... let's announce everything... let's be WILDLY positive in our forecasts …
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SAI and VentureBeat
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Facebook begins testing new real-time “Happening Now” feed [Updated] — Updates at the foot of the post. — Facebook has begun testing a new real-time feature on a small number of user's home feeds, displaying at-a-glance a list of what their friends are sharing, who they are adding as friends and displaying checkin notifications.
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Betabeat, Mashable!, ZDNet, All Facebook, Dazeinfo, Inside Facebook, SAI, Digital Trends, Electronista, WebProNews, Tools, Yahoo! Advertising Blog, SlashGear and TechnoBuffalo
Gregory Ferenstein / Fast Company:
KinectShop: The Next Generation Of Shopping [Exclusive Video] — A new augmented reality shopping platform for Xbox Kinect will allow users to try on clothes in true 3-D, share photos with friends, and store wish-listed items on smartphones for shopping on-the-go.
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Sara Yin / PC Magazine:
Are the Carriers Strangling Windows Phone 7 at Retail? — Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is just getting started as a platform, but the people actually selling the phones may be favoring its competitors. — Going Shopping for Windows Phone 7 — I did some mystery shopping of my own …
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Erin Lindsay / White House Blog:
What Our Facebook Fans and Twitter Followers Told Us — Over the past few months, we've been working to improve the White House's social media presence to provide our Facebook fans and Twitter followers with timely, relevant and interesting updates about what's happening at the White House and around the Administration.
John Markoff / New York Times:
I.B.M. Researchers Create High-Speed Graphene Circuits — I.B.M. researchers said Thursday that they had designed high-speed circuits from graphene, an ultra-thin material that has a host of promising applications from high-bandwidth communication to a new generation of low-cost smartphone and television displays.
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Horace Dediu / asymco:
Getting to one billion iTunes accounts — There are 225 million iTunes account holders. 25 million joined in the three months. As the iTunes store has been operating since April 2003 it's possible to step back and look at its history and measure the rate of growth relative to other ecosystems.
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Electronista
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Is It Really Safe to Use a Cellphone on a Plane? — Like most airline passengers, you probably have serious doubts about those pre-flight announcements asking you to turn off your cellphones, blackberries, iPods and anything else electronic. — The announcements are flat-out ignored …
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AllThingsD, Dazeinfo, newsfeed.time.com, PE Hub Blog, textually.org and msnbc.com
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge furious at “inexcusable” P2P lawyering, nukes subpoenas — There are three quick steps to angering a federal judge: first, launch the country's largest file-sharing lawsuit against 23,322 anonymous defendants, even though most of them don't live where you filed the suit.
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PlagiarismToday, Electronista, GMSV and Gizmodo
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Third-Party Twitter Apps Can Access Your Private Messages Without Authorization — Any third-party Twitter app developer can currently ask you to authorize software using OAuth under the pretense that they will not be able to access any of your private - both sent and received - messages, while in fact they easily can.
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SlashGear, Mashable! and Techie Buzz
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Apple Recalls “Extremely Small” Number of Verizon iPads Over Duplicate ID Numbers — Apple confirmed to AllThingsD on Friday that it has recalled a very small number of Verizon iPad 2 models after the products were inadvertently shipped with identical electronic serial numbers.
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Rahul Vohra / The Rapportive Blog:
Follow, Reply, and Retweet from Gmail! — We want Rapportive to be the best way for you to connect with your contacts. This is why, since our accidental launch, we've shown your contacts' recent tweets: — Our Twitter widget has always given you valuable context at a glance …
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The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and Lifehacker
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Cafepress IPO Filing Gives A Glimpse At A Crowdsourced Business Model — Another day, another tech company is filing for a public offering. This time it's Cafepress, which allows users to design, buy and sell merchandise such as t-shirts, hats, bags, mugs, bumper stickers and more.
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AllThingsD and SAI
