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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
All new Mac Pros and upgraded Mac minis with Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt in early August? — CNET's Brian Tong claims that Apple is gearing up to launch a revamped Mac Pro and an upgraded Mac mini in either late July or early August - more likely in August.
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MacRumors, @brian_tong, AppleInsider, MacStories, TechUnwrapped, Gizmodo, I4U News and TUAW, Thanks:markgurman
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Kinect: Microsoft's accidental success story — What happens when Microsoft applies a Google-like model to an Apple-like gadget? We're going to find out. — Computerworld - Microsoft introduced a peripheral device for gaming in November called Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
New York Post Blocks iPad Access Via Safari To Sell Subscriptions — It must have sounded like a great idea to someone at News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) at the time: “Hey, I know how we can sell more subscriptions through the New York Post iPad App! Let's block access through iPad Safari and make them go to the app instead.”
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Engadget, I4U News, PC Magazine, PC World, Examiner, Electronista, Geekosystem, AppleInsider, The Wire, Gizmodo, mediabistro.com, App Advice, Slashdot, RazorianFly, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneArena, The Loop, @felixsalmon and @mathewi
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The New Silicon Valley Douchebag — Anyone who was in the Valley during the late 1990s knows exactly the guy I'm about to describe. He wore blue shirts and khakis. He was a regular at the Bubble Lounge. He always insisted on grabbing the check, throwing down the dot com AmEx for everyone's drinks …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent / BitTorrent Sued For Patent Infringement — By now we've become accustomed to copyright infringement lawsuits, where people are suspected of illegally distributing movies and music using BitTorrent. — However, according to a lawsuit filed at a U.S. District Court this week …
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
SageTV HTPC software acquired by Google, next stop Google TV? — In what may be an interesting development for the future of Google TV, the folks at Mountain View have purchased SageTV. The HTPC software has been doing its media center thing on multiple platforms since 2002 …
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SageTV, Electronista, SAI, 9to5 Google, Gizmodo, I4U News, PC Magazine, PR Newswire, eHomeUpgrade, @gemzombie, @swedub, TechLifeWeb and Examiner
Yoko Kubota / Reuters:
Sega says 1.3 million users affected by cyber attack — (Reuters) - Japanese video game developer Sega Corp said on Sunday that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.
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Gamification Blog, ZDNet, CNET News, It's All Trivial …, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Destructoid, HeraldSun and @lulzsec
Jonathan / awe.sm:
URL shorteners are dead. Long live URL shorteners! — Last week, 364 days after first announcing their t.co link wrapping service, Twitter started rolling out automatic URL shortening on Twitter.com. URL shorteners existed long before Twitter and will continue to exist …
Thanks:jhstrauss
J.B. / Fusible.com:
Google set to launch Photovine? It applied for the trademark, now it owns the matching domain name — Google applied for a trademark on “Photovine” on June 7 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. — As of June 14, it appears Google owns photovine.com.
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Engadget, everything Android, 1001 Noisy Cameras, RazorianFly, SAI, PR Newswire, 9to5 Google, Electronista and The Next Web
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Paul Graham On Why You're A Mosquito And How Airbnb Is Worth A Billion Dollars — Y Combinator founder Paul Graham just gave another great interview to Bloomberg TV. — As we said the last time Paul Graham gave a great interview, he's both smart and witty, which always makes these worth watching.
ESR / Armed and Dangerous:
World Without Web — Technological change has a tendency to look inevitable in retrospect - “It steam-engines when it's steam-engine time.” Likely this is true in many cases, but I often think we underestimate the alarming degree of contingency lurking behind ‘inevitable’ developments.
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Cut Pandora some slack — Let's slow the rush to judgment on this week's most controversial company. — Pandora (P) has become the Internet stock that everyone loves to hate, just three days after going public. Here's a brief sampling of headlines from the past 24 hours: — Pandora's pox
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