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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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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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Digitizor, Examiner, Mashable!, CNET News, OStatic blogs, WebProNews, TG Daily, Neowin.net, SlashGear, @jowyang, Marketing Pilgrim, Gadgetsteria, PC World, GMSV, Examiner, Pocket-lint, Google+ Info, 9to5Google and CNET News
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
When Guests Check In, Their iPhones Check Out — When booking a weeklong yoga retreat, Amanda Levy signed up for a special package. Called “digital detox,” it promised a 15% discount if Ms. Levy, a sales executive at a San Francisco social-networking company, would agree to leave …
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The Business Insider and Gawker
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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Gizmodo, 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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New York Times, AccMan Pro, The Social Customer Manifesto and CIO Central
Kate Murphy / New York Times:
iPads Replacing Pilots' Paper Manuals — What is in those bulky, black flight bags that pilots carry into the cockpit? It is not a change of clothes but reams of reference material needed for the flight — about 40 pounds of it. There are the aircraft's operating manual, safety checklists …
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TeleRead and Stowe Boyd
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.
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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BackType:
BackType Has Been Acquired by Twitter — We're thrilled to announce that BackType has been acquired by Twitter! We'll be bringing our team and technology to Twitter's platform team, where our focus will be developing tools for Twitter's publisher partners.
Thanks:davemcclure
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, Pocket-lint and WL Central, more at Mediagazer »
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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PC World, Examiner, The Loop, DailyTech, blog.chron.com, MobileBurn.com, CrunchGear, TechEye, Engadget and PhoneArena
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
Francis Tan / The Next Web:
China to deploy huge Big Brother surveillance network with Cisco's help — China plans to put a network of 500,000 surveillance cameras in place around Chongqing to keep an eye on its citizens, with the help of Western tech and networking companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. The government claims …
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Fast Company, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Digits, TechEye and China Real Time Report
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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AllThingsD, alarm:clock, LightSquared, GeekWire, Washington Post and Reuters
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 …
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, textually.org and Mashable!
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Amazon's Bid For The Book Depository: User Backlash And Regulatory Inquiry — Yesterday's news that Amazon would be gobbling up UK-based online bookseller The Book Depository is not a done and dusted deal just yet. Today, the Office of Fair Trading announced that it would be soliciting …
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