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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Lets Those In Google+ Offically Invite Others — Already in Google+ and want to let others in? Google's now allowing this. — Just look to the bottom of the right-hand side of your stream. You should see an invite icon, like this: — Select that, and you can invite anyone you like!
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The Next Web, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Engadget, @ryan, @nicole, TechCrunch, PC World and Webscopia
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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
The first Google+ privacy flaw — A big part of Google's pitch for its new social networking service is that it's easier for users to manage who sees what they post on the site. Privacy has never been a strong suit for either Facebook or Google, but the Circles feature on Google+ is a simpler …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google+ Solves the Social Privacy Problem By Making Friending Very Complicated — I've been using Google+ for a little over a day now and I think I'm just starting to grasp how this “Circles” concept works. The idea is to give users much more control over who they share with …
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Fred Stutzman, PC World and The Business Insider
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool — I thought I'd type up some notes after an evening of using Google's new social network, Google Plus. This is a really big deal, a super ambitious effort involving scores of engineers over months of near total secrecy.
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Search Engine Land, Marketing.fm, Irregular Enterprise Blog and TechSpot
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi:
Google social czar Vic Gundotra just said they have shut down the Google+ invitation system for awhile due to “insane demand”
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@chrismessina
Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
What Google+ Learned from Buzz and Wave
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The Huffington Post, @arnoldkim, Digital Trends, Guardian and SiliconFilter, Thanks:arpitnext
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Myspace to Be Sold to Specific Media for $35 Million — Closing another chapter on one of the Internet's most iconic properties, Myspace has been sold to to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million. — Sources close to the situation said the deal is being completed today …
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Myspace's 50 Million User Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm
Thanks:nitashatiku
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
He's Bringing Myspace Back: Justin Timberlake Takes A Stake
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Mashable!, Business Wire, @dondodge, SlashGear, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllThingsD, Hollywood Reporter, Deal Journal, MediaPost and CNET News
Lee Brenner / hypervocal:
Was MySpace Downfall Inevitable? Plenty of Blame to Go Around
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CNNMoney.com, Ars Technica, Search Engine Watch and Sean Percival's Blog
Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:
TouchPad Needs More Apps, Reboot To Rival iPad — A small army of multitouch tablet computers has been launched this year to take on Apple's iPad, which has managed to sell 25 million units and attract 90,000 tablet-specific apps in just about 15 months, and is already in its second generation, the iPad 2.
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Bill Detwiler / TR Dojo Blog:
Teardown of HP TouchPad: Made like a PC and straightforward to repair
Thanks:techrepublic
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable — The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals—Promise's Pegasus RAIDs—starting shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather expensive $50 cable that is only available from Apple.
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iFixit Blog, MacStories, SlashGear, I4U News, Softpedia News, CNET News, CrunchGear, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Neowin.net, iFans, TUAW and Gizmodo
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Massive botnet ‘indestructible,’ say researchers — 4.5M-strong botnet ‘most sophisticated threat today’ to Windows PCs — Computerworld - A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say.
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InfoWorld, TG Daily, ITProPortal and Digital Trends
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
New MacBook Airs with OS X Lion, Thunderbolt and Sandy Bridge in mid-July — Apple's new MacBook Air line has been expected for weeks now, with evidence supporting a refresh coming by way of constraints at global retailers and most recently at major Apple reseller BestBuy.com.
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Neowin.net, SlashGear, Ars Technica, BGR, AppleNApps, MacRumors, Gizmodo and CrunchGear, Thanks:jakeosmith
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Supply of Apple's white MacBook severely constrained ahead of Lion debut
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The Register, Apple Bitch, T3.com News, eWeek, VentureBeat, MacRumors, TUAW, iFans, MacStories, SlashGear, Electronista and I4U News
Bloomberg:
HP Is In Talks to License WebOS Software — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), the world's largest maker of personal computers, is in talks to license its webOS mobile software, Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker said in an interview. — “We are talking to a number of companies,” …
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Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
HP confirms talks to license webOS, Samsung reportedly interested
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GottaBeMobile, Engadget and ITProPortal
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:
Amazon: associates program in California to be terminated (Update: Gov. signs tax law) — Amazon announced today that its Associates program is to be terminated in California, in response to a new sales tax bill there. The move appears to be pre-emptive hardball to try and avert the bill being signed into law.
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John Cook / GeekWire:
Audio: Microsoft's Ballmer gives a bellowing response to calls for his dismissal — You'd think that the Seattle Rotary Club might be friendly turf for Steve Ballmer. But it didn't take long for a Rotarian to toss a hardball question to the Microsoft CEO after he finished formal remarks today at the Westin in downtown Seattle.
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WinRumors, The Next Web, The Business Insider, TechFlash, All about Microsoft Blog and Seattle Times, Thanks:lovelletters
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Amazon tablet supplies potential delayed by Apple touch panel demands — Amazon's tablet production plans could be constrained by Apple's existing touch panel demands, and the two giants spar for component supplies. According to DigiTimes' sources, Amazon is looking for 1.5-2m touch panels …
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AppleInsider, DigiTimes, Fonehome, The Next Web and Electronista
Dean Hachamovitch / MSDN Blogs:
Site-ready HTML5: Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers — IE10 Platform Preview 2, the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos, is now available for download. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 technologies as well as improving performance:
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Court Orders ISPs To Disconnect File-Sharers — In May, news broke that a group of record labels had initiated steps to have The Pirate Bay censored in Finland. The Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) and the local branch of the IFPI announced that they had filed a lawsuit at the District Court in Helsinki.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
IBM leaps two hurdles for next-gen memory — IBM has solved two related problems with phase-change memory and now says the next-generation data-storage technology will be ready for use in 2016 in servers. — In a paper for the IEEE International Memory Workshop, Big Blue researchers describe …
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Engadget, The Register and VentureBeat
Reuters:
Hitachi may join Toshiba-Sony merger in small LCDs: sources — (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd is in talks with Toshiba and Sony about joining the merger of their liquid-crystal display (LCD) units, a move that would create the world's largest maker of small panels, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
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Reuters, TechEye, DisplayBlog, CrunchGear and Electronista
