Top Items:
Apple:
Apple Revolutionizes Video Editing With Final Cut Pro X — Apple® today announced Final Cut Pro® X, a revolutionary new version of the world's most popular Pro video editing software which completely reinvents video editing with a Magnetic Timeline that lets you edit on a flexible …
Discussion:
AppleInsider, Gamification Blog, Macworld, Engadget, Podcasting News, TechCrunch, USA Today, Computerworld, Geek.com, Mashable!, 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, AllThingsD, MacStories, Pulse2, MacRumors, Insanely Great Mac, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, The Loop and TiPb
RELATED:
Gary Adcock / Macworld:
First Look: Final Cut Pro X — Apple's new non-linear editing app plots a roadmap to the future of video editing — With the release of its hotly anticipated Final Cut Pro X (FCP X), Apple breaks new ground—not just with its flagship video editor's interface and underlying infrastructure …
Discussion:
MacRumors, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW and Daring Fireball
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple iPhone 5 to be major update after all; announcement and availability in August? — While Apple has indeed been giving some developers access to a device known as the iPhone 4S — an iPhone 4 with upgraded internals — BGR has independently confirmed that the next-generation iPhone …
Discussion:
Mobile Marketing Watch, mocoNews, LAPTOP Magazine, The Seattle Times, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, App Advice, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, SAI, Technology Questions, Network World, iPhone Alley, MacHackPC, MarketBeat, Gizmodo, WebProNews, 9 to 5 Mac, Techland, SlashGear, iPhone Download Blog and MacStories
Naked Security / Sophos:
‘LulzSec suspect’ arrested by New Scotland Yard — New Scotland Yard has confirmed that it has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks against a number of organisations. — It is being widely speculated …
Discussion:
AllThingsD, Ars Technica, Examiner, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Computerworld, Mashable!, Sky News, eWeek, Metropolitan Police, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, BBC, Zero Day Blog, PC World, CNET News.com, Threat Level, Between the Lines Blog, ZeroPaid.com, PC Magazine, The Digital Home, Electronista, dailywireless.org, New York Times, Softpedia News, The Register, ZDNet, TechEye, The Firewall, Techie Buzz and Pocket-lint
RELATED:
Heidi / Nokia Conversations:
Introducing the Nokia N9: all it takes is a swipe! — SINGAPORE - At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today, Nokia introduced the Nokia N9, the first-ever pure touch smartphone that is all about making things simpler. Nokia N9 focuses on the most important things that people do …
RELATED:
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Apple unveils updated Time Capsule, bumps storage to 3TB — It's been a good long while since Apple unveiled a new Time Capsule, almost two years since the 2TB model rolled out. At the time that was a volume of storage that you couldn't possibly fill up — even if you ripped your entire Peter Gabriel collection in lossless.
Discussion:
AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM and MacRumors
RELATED:
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple about to drop cheaper AirPort Extreme, 3TB Time Capsule (update: FCC confirms)
Discussion:
Computerworld, PC Magazine, Engadget, Ars Technica, Techland, Macworld, MacRumors, Crave, MacStories, Electronista, BGR, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, TUAW, I4U News, MacStories, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, TiPb, MacDailyNews, Gadget Lab and TUAW, Thanks:lillerik
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Real Reason There Was No Email On The BlackBerry PlayBook — When Research In Motion shipped the PlayBook without native email support, it was surprising. — After all, RIM's greatest strength is a killer email-application for BlackBerrys. Why didn't it have email baked into the PlayBook?
Discussion:
Reuters, Daring Fireball and Gadget Lab
DigiTimes:
Apple demands 10% quote cuts from component suppliers in 2Q11, says paper — Apple's suppliers of components such as PCBs, optical components, battery modules and touch panels are reportedly facing pressure from Apple, which has demanded quote cuts of 10% for the second quarter of 2011 …
Discussion:
DigiTimes, Redmond Pie, iPhone Download Blog, App Advice, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR, Softpedia News, iClarified, Edible Apple and iPhone
Bloomberg:
Real M&A: RIM Takeover Beckons Microsoft — Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) has lost so much value that an acquirer could pay a 50 percent premium and still buy the BlackBerry maker for a lower multiple than any company in the industry. — RIM, once worth $83 billion, has fallen …
Discussion:
GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Inquirer and Android and Me
Michael McWhertor / Kotaku:
The PR Man Whose Duke Nukem Forever Tweet Got Him Fired Speaks Out — If you know the name Jim Redner, there's a good chance you know him for the single Duke Nukem Forever tweet that caused a brief public relations s**tstorm last week. If you don't, Jim Redner will tell you all about the …
Discussion:
Wired.com, ITProPortal, Neowin.net and IndustryGamers
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone — Not too long ago, theorists fretted that the Internet was a place where anonymity thrived. — Now, it seems, it is the place where anonymity dies. — A commuter in the New York area who verbally tangled with a conductor last Tuesday …
Stephen Shankland / Deep Tech:
Mozilla releases Firefox 5, first rapid-release version — Mozilla delivered two things today: Firefox 5 for personal computers and Android phones, and the promise to deliver the browser just a few months after its predecessor. — The organization, once the leading challenger …
Discussion:
Computerworld, Inquirer, VatorNews, internetnews.com, The Mozilla Blog, MacStories, Macworld, The Register, Softpedia News, Pulse2, Mashable!, Pocket-lint and Lifehacker, Thanks:pragmatic_rebel
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Apple iOS 5 now outperforms IE9 HTML5 on Windows Phone Mango — Microsoft kicked off a mobile HTML5 performance war back in April. — The software giant demonstrated a Windows Phone Mango device against an Android and iPhone 4. Windows Phone came out on top but it hasn't taken Apple long to respond.
Discussion:
App Advice, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, paidContent, AllThingsD, AppleInsider and everythingiCafe
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Barnes & Noble: Nook market share, sales surge, but so do losses — Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch said that the company's e-book market share is now 26 percent to 27 percent in the U.S. with Nook-related revenue topping $250 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
Discussion:
paidContent, AllThingsD, Kindle Review and Tech Trader Daily
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Milk's First Project Revealed: Oink, A Mobile App To Vote, Rank, And Share — As we heard in April, Kevin Rose and former Digg designer Daniel Burka have teamed up to start Milk, a mobile app development lab in San Francisco. The company also raised $1.5 million from a number of all-star investors …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
“Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?” — It's been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped. Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple created. Many of these companies haven't yet shipped the tablets they've announced.
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone Mango ‘secret’ features demo [video] … WinRumors has been able to play around with a couple of Windows Phone Mango devices this week. — Microsoft's next-generation Windows Phone operating system is slick, full of features and addresses the needs of consumers and businesses every step of the way.
Discussion:
SuperSite for Windows, ReadWriteWeb, GeekWire and LiveSide.net
RELATED:
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ preview
Discussion:
WPCentral.com, TechSpot, pocketnow.com, Gizmodo, LiveSide.net, SlashGear, The Next Web, WMPU, Smartphones … and Neowin.net
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Apple Tried And Failed To Make A Black MacBook Air? — Apple did indeed test out a black powder-coated MacBook Air, but the treatment absorbed body oils and didn't live up to Steve's standards, according to an anonymous Apple employee. — This employee got in touch after we wrote about emails …
Discussion:
SAI, LAPTOP Magazine, Geek.com and Neowin.net, Thanks:jlgolson
Frank McGurty / Reuters:
RIM starts handing out layoff notices, report says — (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has started to hand out layoff notices after it said on Friday it would cut an unspecified number of jobs, a local newspaper said on Tuesday. — A spokesman for the Canadian company …
Discussion:
Fast Company, SAI and Electronista
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Turntable.fm Really Is Awesome. Is It Legal? — Turntable.fm is a little miracle that does something simple and essential: It lets you play your favorite songs for your friends and strangers on the Web, in real time, for free. — I'd say it's astonishing no one has done it before …
Gregg Tavares / games.greggman.com:
WebGL Security and Microsoft Bulls**t — Disclaimer: — 1) I work at Google on Chrome — 2) Nothing I say here represents my employer in anyway. This my own opinion. — It's frustrating to see how bad Microsoft can really be. I'm one of Microsoft's biggest fans.
Discussion:
Techie Buzz
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Needham: Android's market share peaked in March — After the Verizon iPhone launched in the U.S., Android suffered its first quarterly decline — Click to enlarge. Source: Needham & Co. — The chart at right, taken from a note Needham's Charlie Wolf sent to clients Monday, could be labeled “The Verizon iPhone Effect.”
Discussion:
App Advice, GigaOM, Tools, 9to5 Google, 9 to 5 Mac, SAI, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, AllThingsD, I4U News, FierceMobileContent, PalmAddicts and Android and Me
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft pitches new ads powered by Kinect's voice-recognition capabilities — What do you get when you cross natural-user-interface technologies, like Kinect's voice-control, with ads? Microsoft is calling them NuAds and is pitching them to advertisers as of this week.
Discussion:
GeekWire, Microsoft Advertising Blog, New York Times, FT Tech Hub and MarketingVox News & Trends
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Divvyshot's Sam Odio Explains Why He Left Facebook to Found Freshplum (Video) — Sam Odio, who joined Facebook a little more than a year ago when his small photo-sharing start-up Divvyshot was acquired, is now onto his next company: A price-optimization system for e-commerce called Freshplum.
