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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X — In 10 years of writing Times columns, I've never encountered anything quite like this. — In Thursday's paper, I reviewed Apple's Final Cut Pro X, a professional video-editing program. It's not an update of the existing Final Cut …
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Jeffery Harrell, Richard Harrington Blog, Observatory, Digital Trends, TUAW, MacNN, Computerworld, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Macworld and MacStories
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Conan O'Brien Presents:
Conan's Editors Absolutely Love Apple's New Final Cut Pro X — Apple recently released their new editing software Final Cut Pro X and our editors absolutely love it!
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CNN, Engadget, RazorianFly, TUAW, The Next Web, The Wire, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac and Mashable!
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Health: Why It's Ending & What It Means — Google's quest to organize the world's information will no longer include one of society's most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever …
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The Official Google Blog:
An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter — In the coming months, we're going to retire two products that didn't catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models: Google Health (retiring January 1, 2012; data available for download through January 1, 2013) …
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ITProPortal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC Magazine, New York Times, TechCrunch, Computerworld, The Healthcare IT Guy, Engadget, eWeek, silicontap.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CloudAve, GigaOM, CNET News, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, FT Tech Hub, All about Microsoft Blog, It's All Tech, Search Engine Land, Ars Technica and Between the Lines Blog
Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Lacking Partnerships And Patience, Google Shuts Down Google Health and PowerMeter
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Computerworld and CNET News
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting — Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the company's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line.
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Felix Salmon:
Upgrading Skype and Silver Lake to Evil — Last week, Bloomberg's Joseph Galante published a story claiming that Skype investors in general, and Silver Lake in particular, were firing senior executives just before the company is sold to Microsoft, so that they don't get their full share of the proceeds from the sale.
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Skype Journal, FrameThink and The Business Insider
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages — Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier.
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Quora and Mashable!, Thanks:pragmatic_rebel
Susan Watts / BBC:
Newsnight online ‘chat’ with Lulz Security hacking group — The CIA website was reported to have come under attack by Lulz Security hackers earlier this month — The Lulz Security hacking group that has claimed attacks on high-profile targets including the CIA and Sony in recent weeks …
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Guardian:
Inside LulzSec: Chatroom logs shine a light on the secretive hackers
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Guardian, PC Magazine, Neowin.net, BGR, ITProPortal, Guardian, ZeroPaid.com, thinq_, Zero Day Blog, Bits, PSFK, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, New York Times and SiliconFilter
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
World's Most-Wanted Hacker Says He's Never Felt Safer
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Betabeat, The Next Web, PC Magazine, Guardian, App Advice, Anti spam and general …, Pocket-lint and VG247
Mike Schramm / TUAW:
Skype coming to the iPad soon — After plenty of success with the iPhone version of the Skype app, the company is finally releasing an official version for the iPad. Skype hasn't announced a date for release yet, but video of the app has leaked out online, and the app is expected to be approved soon.
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Pocket-lint, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, MacGazette.net, RazorianFly, iFans, IntoMobile, TiPb, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, App Advice, Engadget, Techie Buzz, It's All Tech, AllThingsD, Electronista, Mashable!, This is my next, OnlyGizmos, MacRumors, Crave, iClarified, PhoneArena, The Next Web, MacStories, InfiniteApple and Gizmodo
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Hackers leak former British PM Tony Blair data — Hackers today released what looks like personal information on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, including the contents of his electronic address book, with contact data for members of Parliament and for what could be Blair's dentist and his mechanic.
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i found the internet, THN, Boing Boing, Softpedia News and @_teamp0ison_
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation — Foursquare has just closed one of the most secretive rounds of venture capital TechCrunch has seen. — The company is raising $50 million, and all of it will go towards building out the company, no secondary sales here.
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Deal Journal, GigaOM, VatorNews and ReadWriteWeb
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Andrew Colley / TheAustralian:
Hackers put Telstra in filter bind — THE voluntary internet filter for child abuse is facing a major setback, with Telstra wavering on the commitment it made to the scheme last July. — At the time Telstra public policy director David Quilty said Telstra was happy to implement the filter …
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Slashdot, @davewiner and Digital Trends
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Jillian York / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Australia Heads Down the Slippery Slope, Authorizes ISPs to Filter
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Delimiter, Delimiter, International Business Times, Techdirt and ZeroPaid.com
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft exploits uproar over Firefox 4's retirement to beat IE drum — Addressing the IT furor over Mozilla's plan to pull support for Firefox 4, Microsoft issued an open letter affirming its commitment to support the current Internet Explorer edition through 2020.
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eWeek, Ed Bott's Microsoft …, The Register, PC World, GeekWire, Mikes Musings, All about Microsoft Blog and OStatic blogs
Matt Richman:
A Consequence of Losing the PC Wars — Apple brought in $4.976 billion in revenue from the sale of 3.76 million Macs last quarter. Divide the $4.976 billion in revenue by 3.76 million Macs and you get an average selling price of $1,323.40. — A June 1st research note from Peter Misek …
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Techie Buzz, Computerworld, AppleInsider, Bazinga Journal, The Loop, iClarified, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball and Daring Fireball
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Angry Yahoo Shareholder Confronts Bartz And Asks For Her Head (Audio Clip) — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got an earful yesterday at the tail end of the company's annual shareholder meeting. An angry shareholder, who identified himself as Steve Landry—an advisor to institutional investors with …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikipedia is Adding a Love Button Next Week — Kittens and beer for everyone! — Wikipedia is now an undeniably good source of information on almost any topic. In order to continue improving, the community-edited site needs a continuous flow of volunteer editors willing to put time and energy into making new edits.
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PC World, Wikimedia blog, Softpedia News and Mashable!
