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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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CNET News, Google Watch, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, @ryan and @nicole
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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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Digits, Search Engine Land, Digital Trends, Interactive Marketing, Geekosystem, Gizmodo and Softpedia News
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google+ Solves the Social Privacy Problem by Making Friending Very Complicated — I've been using Google+ for a little more than 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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ReadWriteWeb, BuzzMachine, GigaOM Pro and Technology Review
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.
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 …
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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PC Magazine, Mobile Marketing Watch, Internet2Go, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Fortune, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, The Business Insider, ITworld.com, paidContent, IntoMobile, BGR, Daring Fireball, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys, CNET News, Neowin.net, Evolver.fm, Techland, AllThingsD, Telecompetitor, FierceMobileContent, USA Today, GigaOM, MobileBurn.com, iLounge, Electronista, @digiphile, I4U News and msnbc.com
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Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Nielsen: iPhone sales climb as Android sales flatten out
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The Loop and Daring Fireball
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
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GMSV, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews, ReveNews and Digital Trends
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Amazon Associates Program terminated in California immediately, no longer offering notice period
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Associated Press and Daring Fireball
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing:
Amazon: associates program in California to be terminated (Update: Gov. signs tax law)
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Ars Technica, Search Engine Watch, ZDNet, the Econsultancy blog, PolitiCal and Examiner
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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Fortune, GigaOM, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Edible Apple, iClarified, TUAW and Pocket-lint
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, Electronista, CrunchGear and Gartner
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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Computerworld, App Advice, MacRumors, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web and Electronista
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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MacRumors and MacDailyNews
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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VatorNews, Media Decoder, VentureBeat, @whitehouse, Mashable!, Gov 2.0, @twitter, Washington Wire, scribbal.com, techPresident, The Next Web and Fast Company
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt cable — The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals—Promise's Pegasus RAIDs—started 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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Inquirer, Engadget, GigaOM, Gadget Lab, Digital Trends, iFixit Blog, DailyTech, AppleInsider, I4U News, MacStories, SlashGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, Neowin.net, CNET News and iFans
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.
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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GigaOM, VatorNews, Mashable!, The LinkedIn Blog, PC World, ReadWriteWeb, Appolicious Advisor, PhoneArena, AllThingsD, Read It Later Blog, MobileBurn.com, Tools and Poynter, Thanks:jonfingas
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Specific Media CEO Talks MySpace and Justin Timberlake — ‘We Intend to Make MySpace What It Was Supposed to Be,’ Tim Vanderhook Says — Not only did little-known ad tech company Specific Media acquire the once-mighty MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million in cash and stock today …
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PC Magazine, Music Ally, Guardian, Guardian, Guardian and PSFK
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Myspace's 50 Million User Profiles Now Belong to an Ad Targeting Firm
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AllThingsD, Thanks:nitashatiku
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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Computerworld, The Register, CNET News, Neowin.net, The Microsoft Blog and WinRumors, Thanks:lovelletters
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Teams Up With Virgin America To Allow Passengers To Test Out Chromebooks In-Flight — Google just announced that it is teaming up with Virgin America to allow passengers to “test-fly” the search giant's new Chromebook computers for free. Virgin passengers will be able to use …
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CNET News, SiliconFilter, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, Google Chrome Blog, PR Newswire, Softpedia News, Electronista and The Next Web
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
LightSquared faces more turbulence over GPS — IDG News Service - There's little disagreement about what a test report expected this week will say about LightSquared's proposed LTE network: It knocks out GPS on many devices. There's far less consensus about what causes the problem and what to do about it.
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BetaNews, GigaOM, LightSquared, DSLreports, PC World and Reuters
Horace Dediu / asymco:
How much is an iOS user worth to Apple? About $150. Every year. — During the last WWDC Apple revealed that there were 54 million active Mac users. If we look at the history of the product we can see that it took about 5.5 years to sell 54 million Macs.
Jinesh Varia / Amazon Web Services Blog:
AWS Lowers its Pricing Again! - No Inbound Data Transfer Fees and Lower Outbound Data Transfer for All Services including Amazon CloudFront — We are continuously working hard to drive down our costs and pass those savings back to our customers. And indeed, AWS has reduced pricing more than a dozen times in the last 4 years.
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GigaOM, GeekWire, All about Microsoft Blog and Softpedia 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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New York Times, mocoNews, Fortune, Computerworld, Macworld, Technologizer, This is my next, PreCentral.net, GMSV, Gizmodo, Engadget, Guardian, Mobilized, SlashGear, Time, BGR, Computerworld, IntoMobile, Daring Fireball, LAPTOP Mag, Ars Technica, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, USA Today, blog.chron.com, 9 to 5 Mac, PalmAddicts, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, TR Dojo Blog, AppleInsider and Tech Trader Daily
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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PC Magazine, Computerworld, TechEye, Engadget, insideHPC and VentureBeat
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Nokia shutters online and retail stores in UK, US web store — Nokia will be entering Q3 free of any direct-to-consumer sales channels in the US and UK. The Finnish smartphone maker shuttered its remaining UK retail stores earlier this month (with the exception of Heathrow Airport …
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PhoneNews.com, The Next Web and SlashGear
