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LulzSec / Pastebin:
LulzSec - 1000th tweet statement — Dear Internets, This is Lulz Security, better known as those evil bastards from twitter. We just hit 1000 tweets, and as such we thought it best to have a little chit-chat with our friends (and foes). For the past month and a bit …
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
The LulzSec Manifesto: More Sec Than Lulz — In honor of its thousandth tweet—and on the heels of compromising the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony, and more—the crew of the good ship LulzSec has presented the world with a manifesto, of sorts. So who is LulzSec? And what is it they want?
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LulzSec: We Are NOT Attacking Anonymous
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, TG Daily and blog.chron.com
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Everything That's Wrong With Research In Motion — An Ex-Employee Tells All — Research In Motion's collapse can be traced straight to the top of the company, where its execs are woefully out of touch with consumers, says a former employee who wrote us last night.
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@jeff, @gussent, ITworld.com, PE Hub Blog, The Business Insider, MobileCrunch, Electronista and MacDailyNews
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
RIM Co-CEOs Balsillie and Lazaridis Defend Corporate Structure — Research in Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have an answer for critics calling for their ouster, or at least the end of their power-sharing arrangement. — Take off, eh? — During a bizarre earnings call Thursday …
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Nielsen Wire:
Average U.S. Smartphone Data Usage Up 89% as Cost per MB Goes Down 46% — Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Telecom Research & Insights, Nielsen — The mobile Data Tsunami initially described here is still growing at an astounding pace. According to Nielsen's monthly analysis of cellphone bills …
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Apple could buy the mobile phone industry — The second quarter ends in less than two weeks. When it does, I expect Apple will have over $70 billion in Cash, Cash Equivalents, Short-term marketable securities and long-term Marketable Securities. That figure has been growing predictably.
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SAI, Daring Fireball, iPhone Download Blog, AppleInsider, Fortune, TG Daily, SlashGear, RazorianFly, The Next Web, TUAW and Electronista
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple amends complaint against Samsung, asserts more intellectual property rights against more products — Apple has already put its inevitable defeat against Nokia behind it and is in attack mode again. Yesterday (Thursday, June 16, 2011), Apple amended and expanded its complaint against Samsung …
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9to5 Google, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac, Appolicious Advisor, Engadget, TUAW, MacRumors, mocoNews, Neowin.net, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, CrunchGear, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, GigaOM, AppleInsider, The Next Web, RazorianFly, SlashGear, TiPb, Light Reading, iLounge, iClarified, MacStories and Edible Apple, Thanks:fosspatents
Paul Reynolds / Consumer Reports News:
In a first, a Nook beats the Kindle in our e-book reader Ratings — The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader is more than merely a worthy competitor to the Kindle, as I wrote when I saw the e-book reader demonstrated late last month. Now that we've tested the device in our labs …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Senators Unconcerned About Massive Unintended Consequences Of Criminalizing People For Embedding YouTube Videos — This is really no surprise, but the same Senate Judiciary Committee that unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act, despite worries from internet experts and major media …
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Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a Felony
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GeekWire, Gizmodo, PC World, Technology News, Bloomberg, Techland, GMSV, Digital Trends, GottaBeMobile and DailyTech, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify, Gearing Up for U.S. Launch, Closes Its $1 Billion Round — More momentum for Spotify: The streaming music service has finalized a huge funding round that gives it a valuation of about $1 billion. — The European company has raised around $100 million from DST, Kleiner Perkins and Accel.
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Pauline Fischer / The Official Netflix Blog:
Temporary Removal of Sony Movies through StarzPlay — Hi, Pauline Fischer, VP of Content Acquisition, here. You may have noticed that Sony movies through StarzPlay are not currently available to watch instantly. This is the result of a temporary contract issue between Sony and Starz and …
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Techdirt, PC Magazine, GigaOM, The Wrap, Deadline.com, SAI, The Next Web and Electronista
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
“.brands” approach with Internet name shake-up — (Reuters) - Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved. — After years of preparation and wrangling …
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Oliver Miller / The Faster Times:
AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out — I got the job through a friend. The job was this: I would write about TV for a section of the AOL Television website. In theory, this sounded great. In exchange for writing about “The Simpsons” and other TV shows, I would be making $35,000 a year …
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Microsoft, Google and Twitter debate whether HTML5 is “Holy Grail” — Is HTML5 the Holy Grail for building next-generation Web applications? — And should developers ditch the browser for client applications that run on specific devices, like the iPhone and Android?
Royal Pingdom:
Report: The most common web browsers and browser versions today — The web browser market is an ever-changing landscape. It can sometimes be rocky ground for web designers and web developers trying to make their websites and services work for all the various browser versions available out there.
Thanks:keithdsouza
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Spam clogging Amazon's Kindle self-publishing — (Reuters) - Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc's publishing foray. — Thousands of digital books …
Sebastian Moss / PlayStation LifeStyle:
Sega Pass Database Hacked, Account Information Compromised — Over the past few months, a slew of hacks, DDoS attacks and data breaches have rocked the gaming world. After the infamous hack of the PlayStation Network, many thought that it would be the end of the attacks, but publishers like Nintendo …
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PC Magazine, Mashable!, BBC, SlashGear, Geek.com, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Electronista and CrunchGear
Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the mind of the man who fired Steve Jobs — This is John Sculley. You might know him as the man who helped Pepsi overtake Coca-Cola, but you more likely recognise him as the infamous Apple CEO who fired Steve Jobs back in the 1980s. — Despite eventually being ousted himself …
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Sara Forden / Bloomberg:
Google Admeld Deal to Get Justice Review — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s $400 million purchase of internet advertising company Admeld Inc. will be reviewed by the U.S. Justice Department to determine whether it would hurt competition, two people familiar with the situation said.
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WebProNews and SAI
Surur / WMPU:
Nokia's first Windows Phone 7 handset will launch in 6 European countries first — At the 2011 Mobile Telecompaper conference Victor Saeijs, Vice President, Nokia Europe told attendees that the Netherlands will be included in the first wave to receive Nokia's new Windows Phone 7 handsets.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Apple signs up for WebGL graphics in iAds — Microsoft has declared WebGL too risky to use, but it turns out Apple is an ally of the 3D Web graphics technology. — Apple hasn't said whether it plans to ship WebGL, though nightly builds of the WebKit open-source browser on which Safari is based includes support.
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BetaNews, contextis.com and MarketingVox News & Trends
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Majority Of Smartphone Users Online “Multiple Times” Daily — In New York, at the Mobile Marketing Association forum, Google presented sponsored research on global smartphone user and marketer behavior. The data come from two related studies. The first is an “an online survey of thousands of mobile consumers in 30 countries.”
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Screenwerk, Mobile Entertainment and Google Mobile Ads Blog
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Exclusive: China software bug makes infrastructure vulnerable — (Reuters) - Software widely used in China to help run weapons systems, utilities and chemical plants has bugs that hackers could exploit to damage public infrastructure, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Inquirer, TechEye, ZDNet and thefastertimes.com
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
Falcone's LightSquared in Deal With Sprint — Billionaire Philip Falcone's LightSquared Inc. reached a 15-year deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) to share network expansion costs and equipment, and to provide high-speed wireless service to the phone company.
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