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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him — There's no question Research In Motion is in the midst of a major transitional period. The company is planning to launch a brand new product line based on a brand new operating system within the next 12 months …
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Research In Motion / Inside BlackBerry:
RIM's Response to “Open Letter” — An “Open Letter” to RIM's senior management was published anonymously on the web today and it was attributed to an unnamed person described as a “high level employee”. It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult …
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BGR, CNET News, IntoMobile, CrackBerry.com blogs and MobileSyrup.com
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 Watch, Digital Trends, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CBS News, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Google Watch, Neowin.net and The Next Web
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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 …
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eWeek, Digits, Search Engine Land, Bag and Baggage, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Interactive Marketing and Geekosystem
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google+ Solves the Social Privacy Problem by Making Friending Very Complicated
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BuzzMachine, Eric Lundquist, ReadWriteWeb, Raven Blog, O'Reilly Radar, Technology Review, GMSV and PC World
Reuters:
Facebook plans “awesome” launch next week: CEO — Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, is set to launch a new feature next week, possibly in the mobile or tablet arena, its CEO said. Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook's Seattle office …
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Peter Boctor / GeekWire:
Facebook's Zuckerberg: TV, books, movies next in line for social disruption
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NielsenWire:
In US, Smartphones Now Majority of New Cellphone Purchases — Apple iOS up, Android flat, RIM down among recent acquirers. — Smartphones continue to grow in popularity. According to Nielsen's May survey of mobile consumers in the U.S., 38 percent now own smartphones.
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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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Marc Lifsher / Los Angeles Times:
California tells online retailers to start collecting sales taxes from customers — Beginning Friday, Amazon.com and other large out-of-state retailers will be required to collect sales taxes on purchases that their California customers make online. — Workers push carts full of merchandise …
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The Business Insider:
Twitter Is Under Federal Investigation — The Federal Trade Commission is actively investigating Twitter and the way it deals with the companies building applications and services for its platform, we've learned. — In Spring 2010, Twitter started making noises that it planned to provide users …
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Search Engine Land, Electronista, @jakeadelstein and The Next Web
Twitter Blog:
200 million Tweets per day — Halfway through 2011, users on Twitter are now sending 200 million Tweets per day. For context on the speed of Twitter's growth, in January of 2009, users sent two million Tweets a day, and one year ago they posted 65 million a day.
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AllTwitter and The Next Web, Thanks:beingcallum
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
The iPad: Now With 100,000 Apps Available — At the end of March we ran a story on the iPad App Store reaching the 75,000 apps milestone in less than 365 days since the original iPad came out in April 2010. Considering the competition the iPad had to face in the past year …
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Marc Andreessen / ben's blog:
Meet Our New General Partner, Jeff Jordan — This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. — Today I'm delighted to announce that legendary Internet industry CEO and executive Jeff Jordan has joined Andreessen Horowitz as our fifth General Partner.
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
LAL Raises $5M Led by New Andreessen Horowitz Partner Jeff Jordan
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Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney:
New Apple app rules kick in June 30 — will Kindle vanish? — Big changes are coming to Apple's App Store on Thursday — and they could mean big trouble for e-book sellers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. June 30 is the deadline for app makers to get in compliance with Apple's strict new rules …
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App Advice, MacRumors and MacDailyNews
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Flipboard 1.5 Integrates LinkedIn, Adds A Content Guide For Curated News Browsing — An update to social news viewing app Flipboard goes live in the app store today, with a new souped up 1.5 version that optimizes the reader experience even further. Earlier this week we had the chance …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Pretty Tablet, Though Late for the Ball — Have you been reading the headlines? There was a big earthquake in Haiti. Some men were rescued from a mine in Chile. Oh, and apparently there was a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. — What's that you say? This all sounds like last year's news?
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mocoNews, Macworld, Computerworld, This is my next, Technologizer, Gizmodo, Time, SlashGear, GMSV, LAPTOP Mag, blog.chron.com and 9 to 5 Mac
Sheldon Levine / Sysomos Blog:
Lulzsec Takes Over The Internet... In only 50 Days — In only 50 days a group of hackers calling themselves “Lulzsec” have made quite an impact on the way people will look at internet security. For those that don't know, Lulzsec is a community of hackers who set out to show the world …
Max Wang / DigiTimes:
Apple aims to ship 12-14 million iPad 2s in 3Q11 — As the IT market approaches the third quarter, the traditional peak season, Apple is turning more aggressive in placing orders for its iPad 2 and is set to ship 12-14 million units in the quarter, up from 7-9 million units in the second, according to market watchers.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
@Jack To Moderate President @BarackObama's First @TownHall On @Twitter Next Week — President Obama has held town halls on both Facebook and YouTube, and to round things out a bit, the White House has announced that the President will be holding his first town hall on Twitter next week.
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Jacqueline Botterill / About Skype:
Skype brings Video Calling to Android Phones — LUXEMBOURG, 30th June 2011 - Skype today announced an updated version of its Skype for Android app - Skype for Android 2.0, bringing Skype Video Calling to the currently fastest growing mobile OS1. — With the new version …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge: Google Can Be Sued for Wiretapping in Street View Debacle — A federal judge has found that Google can be held liable for damages for secretly intercepting data on open Wi-Fi routers. The ruling is a serious legal setback for the search giant over activity it has engaged in across the United States for years.
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Search Engine Land, Googling Google Blog, Associated Press, Ars Technica, Gawker and Security Watch
John Markoff / New York Times:
Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78 — Robert Morris, a cryptographer who helped developed the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world's computers and touches almost every aspect of modern life, died on Sunday in Lebanon, N.H. He was 78.
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ExtremeTech, Global Nerdy, CrunchGear and Gartner
Madhu Gupta / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn Groups API: Professional Engagement Anytime, Anywhere — Millions of professionals use LinkedIn Groups to connect and share insights with like-minded professionals every day. With almost one million groups on LinkedIn, the top request we receive from group owners is to provide …
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ReadWriteWeb, Simply Zesty, scribbal.com and The Next Web
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.
