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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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Engadget, GigaOM, IntoMobile, BGR, Gizmodo, CNET News, BlackBerry Cool, MobileSyrup.com, FierceWireless, SlashGear, N4BB and CrackBerry.com blogs
Matt Hartley / Financial Post:
RIM bows to pressure, plans committee to examine leadership structure — Research In Motion Ltd. will create a committee that will examine possible changes to its corporate structure, including the possibility of separating the co-chairman and co-chief executive roles of its leaders Jim Balsillie …
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This is my next, Research in Motion, mocoNews, CNET News, Tech Trader Daily, Daring Fireball, Bloomberg, Reuters, GottaBeMobile and @tcarmody
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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D.M. Levine / Adweek:
Facebook Pitches Social TV Creating program guides based on what friends watch
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Lost Remote
Peter Boctor / GeekWire:
Facebook's Zuckerberg: TV, books, movies next in line for social disruption
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L.A. Times Tech Blog
Brad Molen / Engadget:
Google+ code reveals intent to unleash Games and Questions to the social world — Having a difficult time getting your honeydew list checked off because you're trying to level up in Mafia Wars? You may want to just chuck the whole sheet of paper in the trash.
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Inside Social Games, Computerworld, VentureBeat, The Business Insider, Electronista, Geek.com, AllThingsD, Games.com The Blog … and 9 to 5 Mac
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
The technology behind Google+ Hangouts — Ever since Google started to roll out its Google+ project on Tuesday, many of its users have been particularly excited about its group video chat service Hangouts. I agree, but not just because it's fun and easy to use. The real kicker is the technology that powers the service.
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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
The first Google+ privacy flaw
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, Redmond Pie, Digital Media Wire, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Interactive Marketing, Geekosystem and eWeek
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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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Interview: HP says Apple is not TouchPad's target — HP's TouchPad tablet hits stores tomorrow, and while the device is being compared to Apple's iPad 2, an HP executive told The Loop that's not its target market. — In an interview with The Loop, Richard Kerris, HP's vice president …
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Daring Fireball, The Next Web and DisplayBlog, Thanks:lessien
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Pretty Tablet, Though Late for the Ball
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PC World, Macworld, This is my next, GMSV and mocoNews
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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PC Magazine, BetaNews, TechCrunch, iFans, AllTwitter, The Next Web and scribbal.com, Thanks:beingcallum
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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Jason Cornwell / Gmail Blog:
A preview of Gmail's new look — We get a lot of great feedback about how Gmail helps you be more efficient, keep in touch with family and friends, and get work done. We've saved you from forgetting attachments and made sure that you got the right Bob. Over the years, adding countless features …
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Gizmodo, CNET News, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, Google Enterprise Blog, msnbc.com, VentureBeat and The Business Insider
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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Screenwerk, GamePolitics News, Wall Street Journal, ReveNews, GMSV and The Domains
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
An Open Letter To Jeff Bezos On Terminating The Amazon Affiliate Program In California
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Beyond Search, Fortune, the Econsultancy blog, Search Engine Watch, GeekWire and @qthrul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pool Party: Google Has Their Own Secret Photo-Sharing App Too — Built By Slide — Back in March, we first exposed Disco, a group messaging app that the Slide team within Google had built. And that's not all they've been working on. Say hello to Pool Party, another secret project by the same team within Google.
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Gizmodo, The Business Insider, scribbal.com and Electronista
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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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
LAL Raises $5M Led by New Andreessen Horowitz Partner Jeff Jordan — LAL (a.k.a. LikeALittle), the service that originated with flirting on college campuses and is now trying to enable connections with any nearby people, has raised a $5 million Series A round led by its seed investor Andreessen Horowitz.
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PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and Venture Capital Dispatch
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Marc Andreessen / ben's blog:
Meet Our New General Partner, Jeff Jordan
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StartupHoodlum, TechCrunch and Digits
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft to retire, refocus Windows Phone MVP program — Microsoft is making some big changes to one of its Windows Phone programs that is resulting in some unhappy former advocates. — A number of Windows Phone Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) — the volunteer army that has helped Microsoft …
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WPCentral.com
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
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
USPTO invalidates an entire Oracle Java patent-in-suit on a preliminary basis — At Google's request, the USPTO is reexamining all seven Java-related patents asserted against Android's Dalvik virtual machine. On Monday I reported on first Office actions that had been issued with respect to four of the seven patents.
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Reexamination Alert™ and The Next Web
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 …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Ready, set, sue! Net neutrality rules almost official — The Federal Communications Commission sent its net neutrality rules on their final steps to becoming a real law on Thursday. The agency sent the rules to the Office of Management and Budget to ensure it complies with arcane paper reduction rules …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft follows Google in pulling plug on its home-energy service — Not too surprisingly, Microsoft is pulling the plug on its Hohm energy monitoring service. — Microsoft admitted the discontinuation of Hohm via a June 30 blog post on the Microsoft Hohm community blog.
