Techmeme: Google Unveils a Laptop With Its Brain in the Cloud (Walter S. Mossberg/AllThingsD)

12:40 PM ET, June 23, 2011

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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

Nokia's first Windows Phone: images and video, codenamed ‘Sea Ray’ — Ok, this one's odd. In fact, we didn't believe the images until a video just surfaced showing Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, foolishly asking a crowd of people to “put away their cameras” for the unveiling of something “super confidential,” codenamed “Sea Ray.”

Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Stephen Elop teases with Nokia Windows Phone - but N9 will be DOA, analyst says

Discussion: CNET News

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

American Express Teams With Foursquare — Foursquare, which made its debut in 2009, quickly began popularizing the idea of “checking in,” or using a cellphone application to tell friends that you are at a particular restaurant, bar or park. — Then Facebook and Google borrowed the concept — and even the term check in.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Despite Expanded AmEx Deal, Foursquare Is Still A Revenue-Free Zone

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Sources: PopCap In Late Stage Acquisition Discussions With EA For $1 Billion+ — Following up on our story earlier this evening that PopCap Games is in late stage acquisition discussions for a sum of over $1 billion — we've now heard from two sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts.

Discussion: TechFlash, ZDNet, alarm:clock, The Tech Trade, Ubergizmo, App Advice, RazorianFly, DigitalBattle.com, Geek.com, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, iLounge and Softpedia News

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

PopCap Games To Be Acquired For $1 Billion+ — Update: We've heard from multiple sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts. — Huge news in the gaming world: PopCap Games, the company behind such hits as Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled, is in the process of being acquired …

Discussion: PC World, MediaPost, Fast Company, Disruptors, IndustryGamers, VG247, Fudzilla, TechSpot, Appolicious Advisor, Blue's News, Digital Trends, Computerworld and Examiner

Siu Han / DigiTimes:

Apple iPhone 5 said to come with dual LED flash — Recent market rumors have indicated that Apple's iPhone 5 is likely to come with a dual-LED flash with Taiwan-based LED packaging firms Everlight Electronics, Edison Opto and Lite-On Technology being pinpointed as potential suppliers.

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

T-Mobile USA: We're now carrying over a million unlocked iPhones — As AT&T tries to swallow up the American wing of the German telekom, many have wondered whether Apple would allow T-Mobile to carry the iPhone. Apple's answer so far is a no*, but that hasn't stopped T-Mobile customers from adopting iPhones.

Discussion: PC World, GigaOM, MacRumors, ZDNet, TUAW, iPhone Buzz, iPhone, TmoNews, TiPb, SocialTimes.com, Ubergizmo, App Advice, SlashGear, PhoneArena and Electronista

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Exclusive: Top ISPs poised to adopt graduated response to piracy — Some of the country's largest Internet service providers are poised to leap into the antipiracy fight in a significant way. — After years of negotiations, a group of bandwidth providers that includes AT&T, Comcast …

Discussion: Techdirt, PC World, I4U News, Gizmodo, DSLreports, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, TorrentFreak, The Register, Music Ally, hypebot and The Next Web

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:

FTC to Serve Google With Subpoenas in Broad Antitrust Probe — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is poised to serve Google Inc. with civil subpoenas, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling the start of a wide-ranging, formal antitrust investigation into whether the search giant has abused its dominance on the Web.

Discussion: CNET News, Digital Trends, paidContent, The Hill, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, The Business Insider, Communications …, The Next Web, MarketBeat and Deal Journal

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Google Unveils a Laptop With Its Brain in the Cloud — Would you buy a laptop that comes with only one major program—a Web browser—and doesn't allow you to install widely used software such as Microsoft Office, Apple's iTunes, Adobe Reader, or, in fact, any other locally installed program?

Discussion: 9to5 Google

Felix Gillette / Business Week:

The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace — It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart — Alamy, Bloomberg, Getty Images — In 2006, Jeremy Jackson—the buff, bronzed former Baywatch child star—couldn't imagine a world without Myspace.

Discussion: The Business Insider

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Viacom sues Cablevision over iPad streaming — (Reuters) - Viacom Inc sued Cablevision Systems Corp to halt what it called the unauthorized streaming of its programing on devices such as Apple Inc's iPad. — The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court, one day after court documents showed …

Peter Murray / Singularity Hub:

New Japanese Pop Idol Shocks Fans With News-She's Not Real (video) — A star is born! (and she only takes up 150 gigs of memory) — Only 15 seconds in the limelight and she'd already created an overnight buzz. She was the newest member of the very popular all-girl Japanese idol group AKB 48.

Discussion: Gizmodo

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Dox everywhere: LulzSec under attack from hackers, law enforcement — Hacking group Lulz Security has found itself coming under attack from all angles, drawing unwanted attention from both law enforcement and other hackers groups. Though the group's antics have won it many fans …

Sara Forden / Bloomberg:

Google's Page, Schmidt Face Senate Subpoena Threats — Google Inc. (GOOG)'s reluctance to provide a top executive for testimony to a Senate panel probing its market power has prompted threats of subpoenas for Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Chairman Eric Schmidt.

Discussion: The Politico and ITProPortal

Bloomberg:

Apple Bid to Bar Amazon ‘Appstore’ Will ‘Likely’ Be Denied — Apple Inc. will “probably” lose its court bid to stop Amazon.com Inc. from using the term “Appstore” for a service selling programs for Android devices, a federal judge said. — Apple, whose top-selling product is the iPhone …

Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

Tablet Display Technology Shoot-Out Apple iPad 2 - Motorola Xoom - Asus Transformer — Introduction Tablets are essentially large portable displays - handheld screens designed for conveniently viewing content and images anywhere you want while untethered. For Tablets the display is the single …

Discussion: PC World, Technology Questions, ITProPortal and App Advice

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Winklevoss twins abandon appeal of Facebook ruling — (Reuters) - The Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling upholding a $65 million cash-and-stock settlement reached with Facebook Inc. — The 2008 settlement was intended …

Phil Nickinson / Android Central:

Verizon's new data plans broken down in complete detail — Having a hard time wrapping your head around the upcoming changes to Verizon's smartphone data plans? We just got all the dirty details dropped in our laps. Charts, e-mails, the whole kit and kaboodle, folks. — Let's start with what you see above.

Discussion: DSLreports, Android News, Rumours …, AndroidGuys, App Advice, Gizmodo and pocketnow.com

Matt Galligan:

Things I'd like to see in Turntable.fm — First off, if you haven't heard of Turntable.fm, what rock have you been hiding under? It's the new killer music site started by Stickybits founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen. Basically you join a room, where up to five DJs are spinning …

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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Turntable.fm Hits 140,000 Users in Its First Month

Discussion: Music Ally and VentureBeat

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

ComScore: the iPad Owns 97 Percent of US Tablet Traffic — As part of its new “device essentials” data product release comScore put out some interesting comparative findings about web traffic patterns from a broad array of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.

Discussion: PR Newswire

Jaikumar Vijayan / PC World:

Survey: 90% of Companies Say They've Been Hacked — If it sometimes appears that just about every company is getting hacked these days, that's because they are. — In a new survey ( download .pdf ) of 583 U.S companies conducted by Ponemon Research on behalf of Juniper Networks …

Discussion: Digital Trends, Bits, Gizmodo, ITProPortal and Techland

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

AT&T Scales Up Its Content Delivery Ambitions — AT&T has been in the content delivery business, broadly speaking, for a long time. Even when one refers to the nerdy niche business of “content delivery networks,” AT&T has still been doing that for quite a while. — But now the carrier is apparently getting serious.

Discussion: ReadWriteCloud, PR Newswire and The Business Of Online Video

Danielle Sacks / Fast Company:

How Jack Abraham Is Reinventing EBay — Jack Abraham sold his startup to eBay for $75 million. Now all he has to do is help the e-commerce giant redefine the future of retailing. — AT THE MOMENT when most boys are plotting how to launch gum into a classmate's braids, 12-year-old Jack Abraham was hired by his father.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

What Are Hulu's Owners Really Selling? — Yes, Hulu is for sale. The video site hired bankers from Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners last week, people familiar with the company tell me. They've just started asking potential buyers if they'd like to sign an NDA and take a look-see.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Company Town, Variety, @dannysullivan and @pkafka, more at Mediagazer »

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Hulu Plus for Android is available now... for six devices — The good news is that Hulu Plus for Android is on the market, but the bad news is that you may not be able to install it yet. The official Hulu Blog has just been updated with news that six phones — Nexus One, Nexus S …

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