"With Tablet, Microsoft Takes Aim at Hardware Missteps: Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products."
New York Times [Free Registration Required] 4:46 PM
"Microsoft: Apostasy Or Head Fake?"
Monday Note 5:45 PM
"How Microsoft could find its groove again"
Gainesville Sun 8:22 AM
"Acer: Microsoft Surface will fail in fight with Apple"
Crave @ CNET 8:22 AM
"Microsoft Week: No More Mr. Softy"
Seeking Alpha 7:49 AM
"Will Microsoft's Surface Prove to Be a Tough Competitor in The Tablet Market?"
Daily Disruption 8:22 AM
"Microsoft's Surface Tablets: What Experts are Saying"
PCWorld 12:51 PM
"Microsoft's Surface will be WiFi only: Microsoft's Surface tablet will lack a 3G/4G antenna, at least at launch. Many say this is mainly to keep the price of the tablet down"
ITP Technology 8:22 AM
"Microsoft Surface: High tablet price lacks 3G/4G"
Product Reviews Net 8:22 AM
"RIM considers splitting business in two: paper"
Reuters 12:50 PM
"Another Day, Another RIM Sale Rumor"
AllThingsD 1:07 PM
"Amendments to U.N. treaty could censor the Internet: Dozens of countries have had closed-door meetings in preparation for an upcoming worldwide debate over changes to a telecommunications treaty, which threaten to block Internet freedom."
CNET News 9:40 PM
"Microsoft Gives Hardware Partners Some Hard Knocks"
TechNewsWorld 6/23
"Microsoft Tries to Etch a Future in Tablets: The software giant announces a new piece of hardware—and goes into competition with its own partners."
Barron's 6/23
"Microsoft re-Surfaces: takes aim at apple with new tablet, innovations"
Boston Herald 6/23
"Acer: Microsoft will fail if it copies Apple's hardware strategy"
VentureBeat 6/23
"Want to try Surface? Find a Microsoft store, if you can: If Microsoft limits Surface distribution to its stores, as it has said, initial sales likely won't go through the roof."
CNET News 6/23
"'Apple iPad rival' Microsoft Surface to be wi-fi only"
The Economic Times 6/23
"The Next Challenge for This Tech Giant" ["The big news in technology stocks this week was Microsoft's unveiling of its Surface tablet. Will it be a big enough hit to put a dent in the dominant market share of Apple's iPad?"]
The Motley Fool 6/23
"Microsoft: Should They Buy Nokia? (Video)"
Forbes 6/23
"Microsoft Did Not Sacrifice Existing Windows Phone Users For WP8"
Forbes 6/23
"Predictions and Suggestions for Microsoft's Upcoming Product Lineup"
Redmond Magazine 6/23
"Google slashes price for using Google Maps API: Shortly after Apple dumped Google Maps for iOS, Google announces it's time to dramatically cut the price for others using the online service. Google also gives a plug for its map-based ad service."
CNET News 6/23
General Interest
"Thumbnails On Firefox's New Tab Page Could Expose Your Private Data, Fix Coming Soon"
TechCrunch 5:45 PM
"The pop that wasn't: Life after Facebook's IPO"
Associated Press 8:28 AM
"Vocado Executive To Become New ICANN CEO"
redOrbit 8:19 AM
"Why Facebook Is Folding On Credits And Doubling Down On Payments"
TechCrunch 7:41 AM
"'Active' Video Games Don't Make Youths More Active"
New York Times 6/23
"Happy 100th Birthday, Alan Turing. Love, Silicon Valley. - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD"
AllThingsD 6/23
"Twitter quietly grows up; handles its scandal"
CNET News 6/23
"Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Returns to Twitter, Promotes 'Megabox'"
Mashable 6/23
"Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable'"
BBC 6/23
"The Woman in the Facebook Frat House: An early staffer recalls the raucous days of a company in transition from Harvard dorm room to Silicon Valley"
WSJ.com 6/23
"Update 3-Google CEO says 'nothing seriously wrong' -source"
Reuters 6/22
"Google's Larry Page loses voice, will not speak at key events: Page will not be speaking at an upcoming Google developer conference and the company's earnings calls next month"
IDG News Service 6/22
"Wall Street Is Worried About The Health Of Google CEO Larry Page"
Daily Ticker 6/22
"Firefox Promises Privacy Patch Against Tab Spying/Shared PC warning: Firefox 13 browser records and stores a user's most-visited pages, including sensitive content otherwise protected by HTTPS."
InformationWeek 6/22
"BT fixes bug that cut super-fast broadband down to super-slow 1Mbps"
ZDNet UK 6/22
"Alan Turing 100: Visionary, war winner ... game maker?"
The Register 6/22
"Alan Turing - Codebreaking, computing and bigotry: Science Museum celebrates 100th anniversary of man who cracked Enigma code and founded the computer age"
Techworld 6/22
"Open source cloud vendors air their differences: Citrix, OpenStack and Eucalyptus officials fire zingers back and forth"
Network World 6/22
"Malware targeting AutoCAD files could be sign of industrial espionage"
Network World 6/22
"After Oracle, OpenSolaris rises again: Oracle tried to kill it, but the former Sun project has emerged from the ashes, nurtured by a crowd of innovative startups"
InfoWorld 6/22
"CEO Of Internet Provider Sonic.net: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your Internet Provider Should, Too."
Forbes 6/22
"U.S. computer graphics scientist wins Kyoto Prize"
Associated Press 6/22
"Schilling says company crash cost him his baseball fortune"
CBSSports 6/22
"Curt Schilling: I lost $50M in failed gaming company"
Boston Herald 6/22
"Thousands of office printers hit by 'gibberish' malware"
ZDNet 6/22
"Office printers spew reams of garbage as 2-year-old Trojan runs wild"
The Register 6/22
"Megaupload's Dotcom bouncing back with new venture, attracts Apple co-founder's attention"
VentureBeat 6/22
"New site Megabox from Megaupload's Kim Dotcom: Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom has announced his plans to launch a new website, despite still being under arrest."
BBC 6/22
"Twitter taken offline by 'cascading bug', site confirms"
BBC 6/22
"Twitter double outage blamed on bug"
Reuters 6/22
"Flame can sabotage computers by deleting files, says Symantec"
CNET News 6/22
"Google Slips Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Details: Google accidentally spilled some beans about Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ahead of its official Google I/O debut. Here's what Google's slip-up says about the next version of Android."
InformationWeek 6/22
"Google Play says Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' will launch 'soon'"
ZDNet 6/22
"Google Allows Developers to Answer User Comments in Play App Store"
IDG News Service 6/22
"New Google Mapping Service Helps Organizations Manage Field Crews"
IDG News Service 6/22
"Google Maps Coordinate App Connects Mobile Workers"
InformationWeek 6/22
"Google CEO sidelined by mystery voice condition"
Reuters 6/22
"Nintendo Debuts 3DS XL With 90% Larger Displays: Available August 19 For $199"
TechCrunch 6/22
"Nintendo to revamp 3DS handheld with bigger screens"
BBC 6/22
"Nintendo 3DS XL coming to U.S. this summer"
The Verge 6/22
"Nintendo to sell 3DS with bigger screens in July"
Reuters 6/22
"Nintendo to start selling 3DS with larger screens in Japan, US, Europe"
Associated Press 6/22
"Nintendo to start selling 3DS with larger screens"
MarketWatch 6/22
Press Releases
"AMD Takes Graphics Crown With AMD Radeon(TM) HD 7970 GHz Edition"
Marketwire 6/22
"SkyFoundry And StreetLight Data Win IBM SmartCamp Boston"
PRNewswire 6/22
Microsoft
"Everything to Everyone: Needing to test a component in Internet Explorer 10, I spent some time with Windows 8 today, and boy, oh boy."
Binary Bonsai 6/23
"Weekly Wrap-Up: Microsoft Announces New Windows 8 Tablet, Surface"
ReadWriteWeb 6/23
"5 pros and cons of Microsoft Surface tablet"
CIO 6/23
"Why I Won't Be First In Line To Buy A Microsoft Surface Tablet"
Business Insider 6/23
"Texas AG Accuses Google of Withholding Data in Antitrust Probe"
PC Magazine 6/22
"The great mobility build-out/The newly launched federal digital strategy contains the seeds of an ambitious undertaking: managing the mobile technology revolution confronting agency IT managers."
Federal Computer Week 6/22
"Danish ISPs Agree to Move in Concert to Block Rights-infringing Content"
IDG News Service 6/22
"India unblocks The Pirate Bay and other sharing sites"
BBC 6/22
"UN turns players into refugees in a new app"
BBC 6/22
Analysis/Editorial/Help/Opinion
"Can Facebook change the search paradigm?"
The Search Agency 4:45 PM
"Whatever Happened to Google's Android@Home?"
TechCrunch 4:14 PM
"Sony Xperia Ion Review: Punching Above Its Weight"
TechCrunch 9:06 AM
"Can I save space on my PC by making large photo files smaller? A reader asks about the best way to make more space available"
Telegraph 8:14 AM
"Is modern technology creating a culture of distraction?"
GigaOM 6/23
"Hands On: Can an Ultrabook Be the Center of Your Digital Life?"
Mashable 6/23
"Review: Second time around, Google's laptop still not great"
Bloomberg News 6/23
"Dear New York Times: Eric Schmidt As CEO? Are You Nuts? Do You Even Know What Business You're In?"
Business Insider 6/23
"Do You Suffer From Social Media FOMO? [Infographic]"
Mashable 6/23
"Oops, I'm dead: what to do if Facebook thinks you're popping up daisies"
VentureBeat 6/23
"Amped Wireless R20000G, SR20000G, and UA2000: Routers, Repeaters, and Adapters (Oh My!)"
AnandTech 6/23
"Unfortunately, We Now Have To Speculate About What's Wrong With Google CEO Larry Page..."
Business Insider 6/23
"Is a Google redesign in the works?"
Digital Trends 6/22
"Recapturing the mojo: AMD's Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition/Stress-testing AMD's latest video card."
Ars Technica 6/22
"Unfixable Computers Are Leading Humanity Down a Perilous Path"
iFixit 6/22
"Here's now much data we generate every minute"
CNET News 6/22
"Top 5 hottest smartphones this summer"
ZDNet 6/22
"Ten techie homeowner tips for Jason's new house"
ZDNet 6/22
"Which mobile OS's apps make most money? Hint: It's not Android or iOS."
Washington Post 6/22
"What happened to Turing's thinking machines?"
ZDNet 6/22
"Top 10 fascinating facts about WWII code breaker Alan Turing"
V3 6/22
"How Smart Phones are Changing the Way We Bank, Drive, Have Sex, and Go to the Bathroom"
Time 6/22
"Will Wii U be best platform for Black Ops 2?"
TG Daily 6/22
"Alienware M17x Gaming Notebook, Amped with Ivy Bridge and GeForce GTX 680M, Hands-On Sneak Peek"
HotHardware 6/22
"Video Viewing Up On Tablets and Phones, Down On PCs"
PCWorld 6/22
"Is there more to Larry Page's sickness? One analyst wonders"
CNET News 6/22
"Google CEO's miss not a big deal—yet"
MarketWatch 6/22
"The Best Google Chrome Extensions 2012: Picking the best from so many great add-ons was hard, but we did so. Here are our choices for some of the greatest extensions you can add to your Google browser."
PC Magazine 6/22
"Is Nintendo's 3DS XL the Jump Start It Needs?"
Forbes 6/22
"Microsoft's Surface Many Annoy Hardware Firms, But They'll Live"
Forbes 6/22
"Microsoft's 'Audible,' Apple's Siri Are the Future of UIs: Analysts"
eWeek 6/22
"Game on: 3 high-performance laptops duke it out/We test the Eurocom Panther 4.0, HP Envy 17 and MSI GT783 to find out which will get gamers to the finish line fastest."
Computerworld 6/22
"Virtualization Security: Where's The Innovation?"
InformationWeek 6/22
"Twitter Crash: Hack Or Hardware Fail? Twitter blames a cascading bug, but hacking group UGNazi claims responsibility."
InformationWeek 6/22
"BlackBerry 10 hands on: Virtual keyboard and radical new UI"
ZDNet UK 6/22
"RIM May Miss FYQ1 Estimates, Says Credit Suisse; Further Deterioration Ahead"
Barron's 6/22
"Chip Wars: Samsung Building Arsenal, Intel and ARM Beware!"
Wall St. Cheat Sheet 6/22
"3 reasons we won't see a cloud API standard"
InfoWorld 6/22
"Great Open Source Cloud Debate Rages: One, and only one, open source project usually gains the upper hand in a new software category, but cloud has three tough contenders in OpenStack, CloudStack, and Eucalyptus. Must one win?"
InformationWeek 6/22
"Using A Cloud Service At the Office Without Permission? You're Not Alone"
AllThingsD 6/22
"Ousted Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci Cleaned Up on His Way Out"
AllThingsD 6/22
Tech Stocks
"Asia Markets: Stocks sink in Korea, Australia, as Japan seesaws/Japanese stocks swung back and forth between gains and losses early Monday, while South Korean and Australian stocks sagged ahead of a key European summit later in the week."
MarketWatch 9:45 PM
"Tech Stocks Seen As Next Market Leaders: MSFT, QCOM, EMC Are S&P's Top Picks"
Forbes 8:01 AM
"3 Reasons The Market Will Likely Continue To Decline This Week"
Seeking Alpha 8:02 AM
"Tech stocks end week on a high note"
MarketWatch 6/22
"U.S. stocks close higher; Nasdaq gains on week"
MarketWatch 6/22
"Stocks look to recover: U.S. stocks were headed for a mixed open Friday, a day after plunging on fears of slow global growth ahead of Moody's downgrade of several major banks."
CNNMoney 6/22
"Canada stocks waver on CPI, inflation data"
MarketWatch 6/22
"Asia Stocks Fall on Growth Concerns"
WSJ.com 6/22
"Asian Stocks Drop, Led by Miners, on Commodity Prices, U.S. Data"
Bloomberg 6/22
"Asia Markets: Asia stocks drop on growth outlook fears"
MarketWatch 6/22
"Samsung expects Galaxy S III sales to top 10 million during July"
"RIM considers splitting business in two: paper"
TechWeb
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