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May 13, 2013, 10:40 AM
 

May 13, 2013

10:25 AM  •
Xperia Blog:  Xperia ZR announced: 4.6-inch 720p display, IP58 water resistant, 13MP camera with dedicated camera button
10:00 AM  •
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:  Apple, Google Pressed by N.Y. Over Handheld Device Thefts
9:35 AM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Google Launches Content Recommendation Engine For Mobile Sites, Powered By Google+
9:30 AM  •
New York Times:  Cyberattacks on the Rise Against U.S. Corporations
9:05 AM  •
Phillip Archer / The Genesis Block:  Bitcoin Network Speed 8 Times Faster than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined
8:30 AM  •
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg:  SoftBank Plans Silicon Valley Center as Part of Sprint Takeover
8:05 AM  •
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:  Zact tries to out-uncarrier T-Mobile with customizable mobile plans
7:40 AM  •
Sean Buckley / Engadget:  Galaxy S 4 mini surfaces again, strikes a few poses
7:15 AM  •
Matt Gemmell:  Tail wagging  —  Last year, Jony Ive was interviewed in the London Evening Standard.
6:50 AM  •
Steven Levy / Wired:  New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS
6:15 AM  •
Vijith Assar / New Yorker:  The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink
5:40 AM  •
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:  Taiwan Tries to Regain Its Lead in Consumer Electronics
5:05 AM  •
Fahmida Y. Rashid / SecurityWeek:  U.S. Senators Introduce ‘Deter Cyber Theft Act’ to Help Protect Trade Secrets
4:30 AM  •
Amy Chozick / New York Times:  Bloomberg Admits Terminal Snooping
4:20 AM  •
Sean Buckley / Engadget:  Samsung ready for 5G rollout in 2020, has reportedly pulled down 1Gbps in tests
1:55 AM  •
Horace Dediu / asymco:  iTunes users spending at the rate of $40/yr.
1:05 AM  •
CBS News:  Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together
12:20 AM  •
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:  With Windows Blue, Microsoft may (finally) do the right thing

May 12, 2013

10:40 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook's iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android
8:45 PM  •
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:  Analysis: Google+ struggles to attract brands, some neglect to update
6:50 PM  •
Tom Warren / The Verge:  Nokia's next Lumia teased on TV with a metal body and big camera lens
6:15 PM  •
Brian Stelter / New York Times:  ABC to Let App Users Live Stream Local Programming
5:15 PM  •
Jay Greene / CNET:  Pete Rose, Rob Schneider mock Google for Microsoft Office
3:00 PM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  Five Woot Execs Check Out, As Daily Deals Site Feels The Strain Under Owner Amazon
12:30 PM  •
Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News:  Google shuts down SMS Search
12:15 PM  •
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:  DRM in HTML5 is a victory for the open Web, not a defeat
10:10 AM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Facebook Home Is Losing Steam In The Charts...Fast
7:25 AM  •
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:  Everything We Expect Google To Announce At Its Biggest Event Of The Year Next Week
4:40 AM  •
Julian Sanchez / Wired:  FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed
1:55 AM  •
Thor Olavsrud / Macworld UK:  PayPal Says It's Time to Ditch Passwords and PINs, and Apple may lead the way with iPhone 6

May 11, 2013

11:40 PM  •
Ron Amadeo / Android Police:  “Google Play Games” Leaks Out In All Its Glory Ahead Of Google I/O - Hello, Cloud Game Saves [APK Teardown]
10:15 PM  •
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:  Bloomberg Execs Knew Journalists Were Tracking Clients In 2011
9:35 PM  •
Josh Chin / China Real Time Report:  Rare Move: Telecom Rivals Team Up on App Payments
7:30 PM  •
Casey Newton / The Verge:  Windows Phone hits 145,000 apps, but progress slows
5:25 PM  •
Steve Liesman / CNBC:  Fed, Treasury Examining Bloomberg Use of Terminal Data
5:15 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  As Tech Giants Scramble For Talent, It's Buy Or Die
3:10 PM  •
Stephen Shankland / CNET:  Google's VP9 video codec nearly done; YouTube will use it
1:05 PM  •
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:  Facebook's General Counsel Ullyot to Depart the Company
12:45 PM  •
New York Times:  Privacy Breach on Bloomberg's Data Terminals
11:05 AM  •
Joseph Menn / Reuters:  Special Report: U.S. cyberwar strategy stokes fear of blowback
8:10 AM  •
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:  Big changes coming to AppleCare this fall: warranty subscriptions, in-store iOS device repairs, more [u]
5:15 AM  •
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:  Patent Court Torn on Whether Software Deserve Patents
1:55 AM  •
Brad Reed / BGR:  Microsoft exec hits back at Windows 8 bashing, says OS is not like ‘a can of soda’
12:55 AM  •
Michael B. Farrell / The Boston Globe:  Boston goes Google as its drops Microsoft e-mail services

May 10, 2013

11:50 PM  •
Associated Press:  Washington state courts hacked; potentially up to 160,000 Social Security numbers accessed
10:45 PM  •
Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Apple forces Line to remove the ability to send virtual items as gifts from its iOS app
9:40 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook Is Getting Serious About Original Programming With “Facebook Live”
8:35 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Foursquare adds location filters by price, hours, and friend check-ins to its website, coming soon to apps
7:40 PM  •
Reuters:  Exclusive: Elon Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group
6:50 PM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  YouTube's New Subscription Service: Stars Not Included
6:05 PM  •
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:  Yahoo's Acqui-Hire Spree Continues With Mobile Gaming Startup Loki Studios
5:20 PM  •
David Kravets / Wired:  Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
4:40 PM  •
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:  Apple's two-step verification rolling out to additional countries: Canada, Argentina, Netherlands …
4:00 PM  •
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:  Sharp reportedly laying off 5,000 employees, focusing more on smartphone displays and bigger, better TVs for US market
3:20 PM  •
Esteban Israel / Reuters:  Twitter eyes big business in Brazil's World Cup, Olympics
2:35 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Microsoft's Bing adds Facebook commenting and Like actions to its social sidebar
2:10 PM  •
Adi Robertson / The Verge:  Bloomberg reporters allegedly used financial terminals to spy on Wall Street
1:45 PM  •
Marc Santora / New York Times:  In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme
1:20 PM  •
Angela Moscaritolo / PC Magazine:  Amazon Launches Cloud Drive Photos App for iOS
12:50 PM  •
Stephen Shankland / CNET:  Google builds push notifications into Chrome, Chrome OS
12:05 PM  •
Jon Russell / The Next Web:  Alibaba confirms it has bought 28% of AutoNavi, China's top mapping system, for $294 million
11:30 AM  •
Declan McCullagh / CNET:  Apple deluged by police demands to decrypt iPhones
10:55 AM  •
David Veldt / Interactually:  LinkedIn: The Creepiest Social Network
10:20 AM  •
AppleInsider:  New Nexus 7 to be highlight of Google I/O as ‘iPad mini 2’ faces delay, analyst says
10:15 AM  •
Mat Smith / Engadget:  Nokia announces the Lumia 928: 4.5-inch OLED display, OIS camera, available May 16th for $100
10:07 AM  •
Jason Harris / Nokia Conversations:  Introducing: Nokia Lumia 928 - bringing PureView to Verizon
9:40 AM  •
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:  Ahead of I/O, Google Wallet Drops Plans to Introduce a Physical Card
8:10 AM  •
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:  Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Censored 3D Printable Gun
7:25 AM  •
Ellyne Phneah / ZDNet:  Huawei, ZTE under probe by Indian government
6:20 AM  •
Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:  International Space Station switches from Windows to Linux, for improved reliability
5:25 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  Social Network Bebo Has Filed A Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition
4:10 AM  •
Phil Nickinson / Android Central:  Facebook quietly adds Facebook Home support (and unofficial support) for Galaxy S4, HTC One, others
1:55 AM  •
The Onion / Onion Inc.'s Tech Blog:  How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
1:01 AM  •
Jason Harris / Nokia Conversations:  Nokia Lumia 620 coming to America

May 9, 2013

11:55 PM  •
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:  Many Air Passengers Never Turn Off Electronics, Survey Finds
11:35 PM  •
Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:  Icahn, Southeastern Propose Alternative to Dell Buyout
11:05 PM  •
Carl Franzen / The Verge:  White House looks to 3D printing with $200 million plan for military, energy manufacturing
10:30 PM  •
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:  Matrix Partners Closes On Tenth Fund; Raises $450 Million For Early-Stage Investments
9:55 PM  •
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:  Members of Congress finally introduce serious DMCA reform
9:20 PM  •
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:  Apple wins trademark case over ‘iBooks’
9:00 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Microsoft touts Yammer's growth: Sales up 259% YoY, 312 new customers in most recent quarter
8:40 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  ESPN Eyes Subsidizing Wireless-Data Plans
8:35 PM  •
Leo Mirani / Quartz:  How Facebook could save Nokia
8:15 PM  •
Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:  Can't raise a Series A? Just sell yourself to Yahoo
7:55 PM  •
John Fontana / ZDNet:  Google unveils 5-year roadmap for strong authentication
7:35 PM  •
Choire Sicha / The Awl:  Twitter Verification? No Thanks
7:30 PM  •
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:  Facebook promises to fix Home with upgrades after user complaints
7:10 PM  •
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:  Apple Wins Order on Google Documents in Samsung Case
6:50 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  Kickstarter founders say Zach Braff film, Veronica Mars have brought $400k to other projects
6:30 PM  •
Rachel King / ZDNet:  Nvidia smashes Q1 estimates but outlook is wobbly
6:25 PM  •
Christopher Mims / Quartz:  New Zealand isn't exactly outlawing software patents—it's doing something more interesting
6:05 PM  •
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:  Salesforce Acquires Bookmarking Startup Clipboard for More Than $10M
5:57 PM  •
John Cook / GeekWire:  Salesforce.com buys Clipboard, in exit for ex-Microsoft researcher: Service to shut down June 30
5:55 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Flipboard Brings Personalized Magazines To Android, Heads To The Web With New Magazine Management Tool
5:40 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Canalys: Over 300m smart devices shipped in Q1 2013, 59.5% powered by Android, 19.3% iOS and OS X, 18.1% Windows
5:15 PM  •
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:  Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default
5:10 PM  •
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:  Mozilla courts app developers to Firefox OS with free Geeksphone Keon handset ahead of launch
4:55 PM  •
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:  State Department Demands Takedown Of 3D-Printable Gun Files For Possible Export Control Violations
4:50 PM  •
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:  First look: Pixelmator 2.2 Blueberry goes live in the Mac App Store
4:45 PM  •
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:  Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo
4:30 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Google launches a one-click button to save files on the Web to Google Drive
4:15 PM  •
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:  Apple Still Negotiating With Sony and Warner Over iRadio Royalties
4:00 PM  •
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:  Will Waze Be Facebook's Next Instagram?
3:45 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Neftlix for iOS now auto-plays next TV episode, offers after-movie recommendations, and more
3:40 PM  •
Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:  Microsoft Developed Prototypes for a TV Set-Top Box
3:30 PM  •
Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:  Box buys Crocodoc to display files more beautifully in any browser
3:15 PM  •
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:  YouTube introduces subscription channels with a group of partners starting at $0.99/mo, will expand
3:05 PM  •
YouTube Blog:  New ways to support great content on YouTube
2:50 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Facebook Previews New Features For Home, Which Is Near 1M Downloads And Increases Users' Time Spent On Facebook By 25%
2:35 PM  •
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:  TestFlight Opens Android Beta To All Users, After Crossing 50K Downloads For Apps In Closed Testing
2:25 PM  •
Stephen Shankland / CNET:  W3C proceeds with Web video encryption despite opposition
2:10 PM  •
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  With $3.2M in funding, Dekko unveils a clever tech to insert animations into the real world
1:55 PM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  Can Congress Blow Up the TV Bundle? John McCain Is Going to Try — Again.
1:40 PM  •
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:  Amazon Developing Smartphone With 3-D Screen
1:30 PM  •
Andrew Adams / KSL-TV:  ‘Deleted’ Snapchat photos saved in phone data, can be examined as evidence
1:15 PM  •
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:  AT&T-owned AIO Wireless launches pre-paid and BYOD service, but no LTE
1:00 PM  •
Darren Murph / Engadget:  Huawei W1, the company's first Windows Phone 8 device, comes to the US in prepaid form
12:45 PM  •
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:  Yahoo acquires GoPollGo polling service, shuts down all widgets, polls and properties
12:30 PM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Yahoo Acquires Tech And Talent Of Frequent Flyer Flight Search Startup MileWise, And Shuts It Down
12:25 PM  •
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:  BlueStacks rivals OUYA with GamePop Android console and a $6.99 per month “Netflix for games” service
12:05 PM  •
Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters:  Huawei's CEO breaks silence, says company not connected to U.S. cyber threats
11:45 AM  •
Richard Lawler / Engadget:  Sony's 2012 earnings show a net profit of $458 million, its first since 2008
11:20 AM  •
Eva Dou / Digits:  PC Makers Hopeful on Windows 8 Changes
10:55 AM  •
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:  EA confirms 10 percent of staff laid off in major restructuring
10:35 AM  •
New York Times:  Fwd.Us Raises Uproar With Advocacy Tactics
10:20 AM  •
Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:  Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite
10:05 AM  •
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:  Flipboard amps up user-generated magazines with Android release and new Web-based editing tool
10:00 AM  •
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:  In Nook, Microsoft sees a chance to compete against Amazon and Apple
9:05 AM  •
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:  Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary
8:30 AM  •
Reuven Cohen / Forbes:  New Zealand Government Announces That Software Will No Longer Be Patentable
8:05 AM  •
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:  Trade Sanctions Cited in Hundreds of Syrian Domain Seizures
7:30 AM  •
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:  Nokia unveils the touchscreen Asha 501 with new software platform, we go hands-on (video)
7:05 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Apple, Oracle Pay Their CFOs the Most as Cash Hoards Grow
6:30 AM  •
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:  Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield and delays launch
5:55 AM  •
KC Lemson / Windows Phone Blog:  Full-res photo and video backup now available worldwide for Windows Phone 8
5:10 AM  •
Clare Jim / Reuters:  Apple supplier Pegatron boosts China workforce by 40 percent in second quarter
4:15 AM  •
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:  The Loop magazine for iPhone and iPad released
4:10 AM  •
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:  Reports: Facebook Is Buying Social Mapping/Traffic App Waze For Up To $1B To Court Mobile Users
1:55 AM  •
Dan Frommer / SplatF:  AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart
1:20 AM  •
Sam Biddle / Valleywag:  Michael Arrington Sues Jenn Allen Over Rape Claims
12:45 AM  •
Kim Zetter / Wired:  Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Become Your Own Spy Agency

May 8, 2013

11:55 PM  •
Mathew Ingram / paidContent:  LinkedIn continues its evolution as a media entity with the launch of magazine-style news channels
11:30 PM  •
Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:  Internet Service on Planes: FCC to Consider Using Satellite Airwaves
11:05 PM  •
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:  Twitter favorites @Sunnyvale with new office lease
10:40 PM  •
Jeff Jordan / Fortune:  Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel
10:15 PM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  NowThisNews Mobile Video Service Raises $4.8 Million
9:50 PM  •
Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:  This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl)
9:25 PM  •
Matt Warman / Telegraph:  Say goodbye to the pin: voice recognition takes over at Barclays Wealth
9:00 PM  •
TechCrunch:  Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion
8:20 PM  •
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:  Google Translate For Android Can Now Interpret 16 Additional Languages By Camera, Adds Phrasebook Support
7:35 PM  •
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:  Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy
6:15 PM  •
Peter Nixey:  Dear Apple, let's talk about photos
5:40 PM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Coursera leaps another online learning hurdle, partners with Chegg and 5 publishers to give students free textbooks
5:05 PM  •
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:  Hotel Tonight is revamping the hotel review for mobile devices
4:40 PM  •
Matt Brian / The Verge:  Sony courts developers by dropping PlayStation Mobile membership fees
4:15 PM  •
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:  Groupon beats street with higher than expected Q1 revenue of $601.4 million, EPS of $0.03
4:10 PM  •
Microsoft:  Microsoft names Corporate Vice President Amy Hood as new Microsoft chief financial officer
3:30 PM  •
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:  Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware
3:15 PM  •
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:  Klout Integration Pushes Human Powered ‘Expert’ Answers Atop Bing's Search Results
3:00 PM  •
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:  India launches monitoring system to track all calls, texts, and online activity
2:45 PM  •
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:  Donald Trump Launches FundAnything, a Kickstarter Clone Meant to Bring Crowdfunding to the Masses
2:30 PM  •
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:  Path Inks Partnership With Sprint To Be Featured App On Three New Devices
2:15 PM  •
Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News:  HTC First Facebook Phone Drops to $0.99 at AT&T;
2:01 PM  •
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:  Microsoft CFO Search Said to Pit Reller Against Hood
1:45 PM  •
Eliza Kern / GigaOM:  Hipstamatic attempts to revive mobile photographers with the launch of social app Oggl
1:30 PM  •
Shara Tibken / CNET:  Google, authors wrangle in court again over digital books
1:20 PM  •
Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:  Yahoo's Mayer Plans Search Revamp to Narrow Google Lead
1:05 PM  •
Ronnie Cohen / Reuters:  San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell phone warnings
12:50 PM  •
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:  Apple Seeks Android Source Code Records in Samsung Suit
12:30 PM  •
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:  Trulia Acquires Market Leader For $355M To Take Its Business Beyond Listings And Into SaaS For Real Estate Professionals
12:10 PM  •
Declan McCullagh / CNET:  DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats
11:50 AM  •
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:  HealthTap scores $24M from Khosla & others, former Square COO Keith Rabois joins board
11:15 AM  •
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:  Internet in Syria has been restored after being disconnected for over 19 hours
11:10 AM  •
Sayantani Ghosh / Reuters:  Fusion-io founders quit to start new venture, shares slump
8:35 AM  •
CNN:  Syrian government responds to reports of widespread Internet outage
7:35 AM  •
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:  AOL's Earnings Are Light, but Revenue and Ad Sales Are on Track

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