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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google opens up, then closes Google+ invites due to “insane demand” — If you were desperate to get a Google+ invite yesterday, there's a very good chance you could have landed one tonight as Google gave existing Plus users the ability to invite anyone to test out the service.
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Search Engine Land, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Engadget, @ryan, Neowin.net, @nicole, TechCrunch, PC World and Webscopia
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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, The Business Insider, GigaOM and Geekosystem
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 …
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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Common Sense Journalism, Marketing.fm and Search Engine Land
Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
What Google+ Learned from Buzz and Wave
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The Huffington Post, @arnoldkim, Digital Trends and Guardian, 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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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Specific Media CEO Talks MySpace and Justin Timberlake
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Fast Company, Guardian, Guardian and PSFK
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Myspace's 50 Million User Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm
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hypervocal, Thanks:nitashatiku
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
He's Bringing Myspace Back: Justin Timberlake Takes A Stake
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Mashable!, Business Wire, @dondodge, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Hollywood Reporter, SlashGear, AllThingsD, Deal Journal, MediaPost, Digital Trends and CNET News
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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9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, PreCentral.net, Computerworld, This is my next, Macworld, Gizmodo, New York Times, Gadget Lab, Electronista, Technologizer, LAPTOP Mag, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, USA Today, Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, InfoWorld, Tech Sanity Check Blog, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, PalmAddicts, Electronista, Fast Company, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, The Business Insider, DisplayBlog, Mobilized, BGR, parislemon and Product Reviews
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Bill Detwiler / TR Dojo Blog:
Teardown of HP TouchPad: Made like a PC and straightforward to repair
Thanks:techrepublic
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos On Terminating The Amazon Affiliate Program In California — Dear Jeff- — Thank you for your letter today, informing me that after seven years of being one of your affiliates — and having earned for you about $150,000 in that time — that you “deeply regret” …
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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, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, CNET News, I4U News, AppleInsider, MacStories, SlashGear, CrunchGear, iFans, Softpedia News, MacRumors, 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, Digital Trends, The Register and PC World
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, Gizmodo, MacRumors, CrunchGear and AppleNApps, 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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Engadget, The Register, Apple Bitch, T3.com News, eWeek, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Electronista, TUAW, iFans, MacStories, SlashGear and I4U News
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Now Lets Website Owners Measure The Power Of +1 (And Any Other Social Widget) — Back in March, Google officially started rolling out the +1 Button in its search results, allowing users to vote up the pages they found most useful. Two months later, on June 1, it launched a widget …
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Mashable!, Softpedia News, Softpedia News, Google Webmaster Central Blog, MediaPost, The Next Web, WebProNews and Search Engine Land
Todd Stone / The Business Insider:
Sorry Google And Facebook, The Kids Want To Intern At Startups — While interning at Google or Facebook is still heaven for computer science students worldwide, some have started to consider working at a small startup as a perfectly viable, if not more attractive, alternative.
Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:
Nokia's Asset Offload Continues: Messaging Biz Goes To Synchronica For $25M — The streamlining at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues apace. Today it was announced that the Finnish company has sold its North American messaging business to Synchronica, a specialist in that field, for $25 million in cash.
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TechEye, InfoWorld, Synchronica News, AllThingsD and My Nokia Blog
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, TechFlash, The Business Insider, All about Microsoft Blog and Seattle Times, Thanks:lovelletters
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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BGR, PhoneArena, Mobile Entertainment, GottaBeMobile, I4U News, DailyTech, Know Your Mobile, Phone Scoop, Neowin.net, FierceWireless, VR-Zone, TechSpot, The Next Web, VentureBeat, SlashGear, MobileCrunch, Fast Company, Know Your Cell, Gizmodo, GigaOM, parislemon, MobileBurn.com, Engadget and IntoMobile
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:
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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Computerworld, DigiTimes, AppleInsider, Fonehome, The Next Web and Electronista
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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Computerworld, Engadget, The Register and VentureBeat
