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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Pegatron receives orders for 15 million iPhone 5s from Apple — Taiwan-based notebook maker Pegatron Technology is estimated to have landed orders for 15 million iPhone 5s (iPhone 4S) from Apple and is set to start shipping in September of 2011, according to sources from upstream component makers.
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Five million iPad 2 touch sensors to be shipped in July — Five million touch sensors for the iPad 2 will be shipped in July, according to sources with Apple's supply chain. — Shipments in June were also five million, with TPK Holding and Wintek supplying 1.4-1.6 million units each …
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Electronista, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and PhoneArena
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends — Facebook Friend Exporter is a Chrome extension developed by Mohamed Mansour, an open source software engineer, that lets you grab all the information about your Facebook friends so you can import them elsewhere.
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Examiner, Digitizor, CNET News, Neowin.net, @jowyang, Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, GMSV, Gadgetsteria, Pocket-lint and Google+ Info
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Extension slurps Facebook contacts into Google+
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Mashable!, TG Daily, PC World, Examiner and 9to5Google
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Business Insider:
“Apple's... Exclusive Supply Chain Of Advanced Technology [Is] Literally Years Ahead Of Anyone Else On The Planet” — An amazing take by an anonymous user on Quora on why Apple products sometimes seem so superior. Because they are. Because they get them before anyone else.
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Fortune, TiPb, Quora, Mike Cane's xBlog and Softpedia News
Simon Mackie / GigaOM:
Why Google+ could find a home in the workplace — Last week, Google rolled out a beta of its highly-anticipated new social networking platform, Google+. Reaction to the launch so far has been mainly positive, with praise for the app's design and features.
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AccMan Pro, The Social Customer Manifesto and CIO Central
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox PDF reader passes ‘pixel-perfect’ test — Mozilla programmers have achieved a goal to build a PDF reader out of Web programming technology, the “pixel-perfect” rendering of a particular file. — The file, a research paper on fast execution of JavaScript (PDF), contains formatted text …
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Softpedia News, Chris Pitchin' Hey and Slashdot
Rocky Agrawal / TechCrunch:
Google Offers Versus Groupon: The Portland Throwdown — Google Offers just finished its first month. Google has been testing its Groupon compete in Portland and I've been closely tracking the results. — Doing a head-to-head comparison like this is a bit difficult because the two companies run deals differently.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most Followed User On Google+ — In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statistics counter. — The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers …
Samantha Murphy / New Scientist:
Exclusive first interview with key LulzSec hacker — It was early May when LulzSec's profile skyrocketed after a hack on the giant Sony corporation. LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting laughter at the victim of a prank. For 50 days until it disbanded …
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New York Times and WL Central, more at Mediagazer »
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
White processor-bumped 64GB and black 4G TouchPad due in August, Opal and Pre3 by fall — Hold tight to your TouchPads, people, because things are about to get rocky. We've received a confidential HP product brief that outlines some of the future for webOS devices.
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PhoneDog.com, Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, TechSpot, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Electricpig, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Engadget, WebOS Arena, Tablets Planet and Everything webOS
Ben Hirschler / Reuters:
Evidence “increasingly against” phone cancer risk — (Reuters) - Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday.
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Examiner, DailyTech, blog.chron.com, MobileBurn.com, CrunchGear, TechEye, Engadget and PhoneArena
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LightSquared Raises $265 Million To Build High-Speed Wireless Network — LightSquared, a company that is developing a wholesale only, net-neutral 4G-LTE network that combines with satellite to provide nation-wide broadband wireless access, has raised $265 million in new funding.
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LightSquared, GeekWire, Washington Post and Reuters
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (@VP) Joins Twitter — Following President Barack Obama's announcement that he will actually start Tweeting from @BarackObama, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has also joined Twitter, under the account @VP. — This seems to be the Vice President's first official active Twitter account.
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Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Betabeat, The Business Insider and Mashable!
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Netflix plots Latin America expansion, certifies TI for high-def streaming — Netflix on Tuesday said that it will expand into 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean in an international expansion that could juice growth going forward. — With the move, Netflix is ramping up its international expansion.
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Netflix, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, PR Newswire, AllThingsD, GigaOM, CNET News, Reuters, The Business Insider, Softpedia News and Mashable!
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Feature: Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal? — Amazon.com made waves in March when it announced Cloud Player, a new “cloud music” service that allows users to upload their music collections for personal use. It did so without a license agreement, and the major music labels were not amused.
