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Apple:
Apple to Unveil Next Generation Software at Keynote Address on Monday, June 6 — Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote …
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Jobs to Unveil iCloud Service — Apple Inc. said Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs will kick off the company's annual developers' conference next week, with new versions of Apple's iOS and Mac operating systems to be unveiled. — The company also said the event will include details on iCloud …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Apple still trying to land films, TV shows for iCloud — Feature films could be part of Apple's iCloud launch next week. — In the past several weeks, Apple executives have stepped up their attempts to convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, @mrinaldesai, Electronista, VatorNews, iLounge, RazorianFly, Apple Bitch, The Next Web and MacStories, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Official: iOS 5, OS X Lion, and iCloud To Be Announced Next Week At WWDC
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CNET News, eWeek, SAI, internetnews.com, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Associated Press, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice and BGR
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Jobs to Unveil Apple's ‘Next Generation’ Software
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TechnoBolt, Computerworld, Bloomberg, AllThingsD, TUAW, MacStories, MacRumors, AppleInsider, CNET News and Between the Lines Blog
Brian Ellin / Twitter Blog:
Introducing the Follow Button — When you follow interesting accounts on Twitter, it's easy to stay connected with what's most meaningful to you. Today we're excited to launch the Follow Button, a new way to discover and instantly follow Twitter accounts directly from the websites you visit everyday.
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Search Engine Land, Mashable!, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, The Register, @rsarver, @rsarver, @dannysullivan, AllTwitter, @joshu, @dannysullivan, @rsarver, The Next Web, @apiannounce and WebProNews, Thanks:tomwarren
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Official: Google +1 Button For Websites Comes Tomorrow — It's official. Google's +1 button for web sites will be coming tomorrow. A launch partner accidentally tipped the news of the release to TechCrunch, and Google's since confirmed with me officially that it will be happening.
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Apple:
Apple iWork Now Available For iPhone & iPod touch Users — Apple® today announced that its groundbreaking iWork® productivity apps, Keynote®, Pages® and Numbers®, are now available for iPhone® and iPod touch®, as well as iPad®.
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gigaom.com, Computerworld, MacRumors, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Wire, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, PadGadget, TechnoBuffalo, Apple Headlines, Engadget, This is my next, SocialTimes.com, Apple Bitch, 901am and Neowin.net, Thanks:tomwarren
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
iWork hits iPhone ahead of WWDC for $10
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InfoWorld, Ars Technica, MobileCrunch, AllThingsD, Technologizer, Inquirer, TheAppWhisperer, AppleInsider, SAI, Macworld, CNET News and App Advice
Danielle Dellorto / CNN:
WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk — (CNN) — Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same “carcinogenic hazard” category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Cell phone cancer report comes amid industry lobby
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BetaNews, The Register, Ars Technica and Gizmodo
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Hardware Rules ‘Troublesome’ for Makers, Acer Says — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is putting “troublesome” restrictions on makers of processors used to run the coming Windows tablet-computer operating system, Acer Inc. (2353) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J.T. Wang said.
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Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Hardware 2.0 Blog, mocoNews, 9to5 Google, 901am, Electronista, OSNews, SlashGear, IntoMobile, DailyTech and SAI
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John Hsu / LiveSide.net:
First Windows Phone “Mango” hardware revealed - Acer W4
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VentureBeat, WMPoweruser.com, mocoNews, Pocket-lint, WinRumors, All about Microsoft Blog and Softpedia News
Matthew McEachen / AdGrok:
@AdGrok Is Going To @JoinTheFlock — We're happy to announce that Twitter has acquired the AdGrok team. Starting today, we will be working full-time on Twitter's revenue engineering team. — AdGrok and Twitter? — When Twitter approached us and asked if we'd be interested in working …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AdGrok Team Joins Twitter To Help With Revenue — Except Founder/CEO Who Goes To Facebook
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Jann Wenner: Magazines' Rush to iPad Is ‘Sheer Insanity and Insecurity and Fear’ — Successful Migration to Tablet Editions Will Take ‘Decades,’ Rolling Stone Co-Founder Says in Interview — Nobody mistakes Jann Wenner — whose Wenner Media publishes Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men's Journal — for a digital fanboy.
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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Federal government loosens its grip on the BlackBerry — Somewhere in America, perhaps at this very moment, a bad guy is under video surveillance. He is being watched, every movement, every step — but not on a little TV. That's so 2009. Instead, a special agent from the Bureau of Alcohol …
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9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Computerworld, Apple Headlines, PhoneArena, RazorianFly, Electronista, ITworld.com and Tech Trader Daily
Tim Young / Knowledge is Social:
VMware acquires Socialcast — Today, I am pleased to announce that Socialcast has been acquired by VMware. — Going forward, I am excited for the accelerant that VMware will provide to the product. VMware shares my vision of changing the way that people work, and we are completely aligned on Socialcast's future direction.
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Between the Lines Blog, The Future of Work, The Register, TechCrunch, Market Wire, The Tech Trade and VMware Blogs
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon: Online Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War — Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens …
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Popular Science, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, msnbc.com, Yahoo! News, Threat Level, VentureBeat, Reuters, BBC, The Register, Engadget, Digital Trends, Geek.com and CNET News
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Lodsys Responds to Apple, Files Lawsuits Against App Developers — Patent holding firm Lodsys today published a series of blog posts revealing that the company has filed suit against some App Store developers, accelerating its efforts to extract licensing fees from developers for using …
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Microsoft Streetside Isn't Just a Google Streetview Clone Anymore — Microsoft today released a number of major updates to the Streetside feature in Bing Maps. Streetside used to be very similar to Google's Streetview, but Microsoft just mixed things up a bit and included an important twist.
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ReadWriteWeb, GeekWire, Search Engine Land, PC World, LiveSide.net, Bing, WebProNews and TechNet Blogs, Thanks:fredericl
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple releases security update that removes MacDefender — There is now a security update available in Software Update that hunts down existing MacDefender malware installations and prevents further infections, reports TUAW. Security Update 2011-003 provides a File Quarantine definition …
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Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacRumors, TUAW, TidBITS, MacStories, Apple Bitch, Lifehacker and MacNN
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Yahoo's Board Likely To Let The Clock Run Out On Carol Bartz — Yahoo's board, we've reported, is quietly looking for someone to replace CEO Carol Bartz. — But it's not about to fire her, a source briefed on the thinking of board members tells us. — More likely: Yahoo will let the clock run …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
MacBook Air supplies constrained ahead of summer refresh — Sources around the globe have informed 9to5Mac that supplies and shipments of the MacBook Air are constrained ahead of the product's rumored June-July refresh. The latest rumors peg the update to to be fairly minor …
