Peter Burrows / Businessweek: A Booming Market for Used iPhones  —  Apple (AAPL) is expert at stoking desire, seducing consumers to line up and pay a premium for its newest models.  At the moment, though, the hottest iPhones are less expensive—and old.  Sales of refurbished iPhone 4's and 4S's are booming among price …
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Agam Shah / Computerworld: Intel claims Haswell will offer 50% more battery life in laptops  —  The new processor design is important for PC makers as they try to battle tablets and smartphones  —  Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50% more battery life in laptops than did their …
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Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: How the Xbox One draws more processing power from cloud computing  —  UPDATE: The original version of this story misstated the 300,000-server capacity for Xbox One's cloud computing architecture as 30,000 servers.  Ars regrets the error.  —  While Tuesday's Xbox One presentation answered …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: Jony Ive's new look for iOS 7: black, white, and flat all over  —  With the grand unveiling of Apple's next operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch approaching, sources have provided detailed descriptions of what users and developers alike could expect from the software's fresh look.
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Douglas Busvine / Reuters: Russia's leading social network banned by “mistake”  —  (Reuters) - Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a “mistake” but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power.
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Parker Higgins / Electronic Frontier Foundation: Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging  —  In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans.  In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing “Talk” …
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Jana Winter / Fox News: Homeland Security bulletin warns 3D-printed guns may be ‘impossible’ to stop  —  EXCLUSIVE: A new Department of Homeland Security intelligence bulletin warns it could be “impossible” to stop 3D-printed guns from being made, not to mention getting past security checkpoints.
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Fernando Alfonso III / Daily Dot: The real origins of Tumblr  —  Months before Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition turned him into an overnight media sensation, David Karp recounted the creation of Tumblr at the Austin Convention Center during the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March.  “I wanted that presence myself.
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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: Rhapsody releases completely redesigned iPhone app with new UI, full-screen player, much more  —  Rhapsody is rolling out an all new iPhone app today following some big updates to competitive music services earlier this week including Pandora and Rdio.  Rhapsody is calling this app update …
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John Kirk / Tech.pinions: Android's Market Share Is Literally A Joke  —  This is the first of two articles looking at how we measure - and mis-measure - who is “winning” in the mobile sector.  Article one focuses on market share and was inspired by an article written by Bill Shamblin, entitled: “Chasing Smartphone Market Share Is A Chump's Game.”
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Emily Gera / Polygon: Atari seeking $22.2 million in bankruptcy auction  —  Atari will sell off its assets individually this July over a four day period after failing to find a bidder for its full catalog, the Wall Street Journal reports.  —  The game publisher is seeking a minimum of $22.2 million in bids …
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Harrison Weber / The Next Web: Digg's Google Reader alternative will be called Digg Reader and won't come as a standalone app  —  Speaking on stage at Internet Week New York, Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin revealed that his company's upcoming Google Reader replacement will not be a separate app, and will simply be called “Digg Reader.”
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Nate Raymond / Reuters: Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge expressed a tentative view that the U.S. Justice Department will be able to show evidence Apple Inc engaged in a conspiracy with publishers to increase e-books prices.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD: Nokia Adds New Suits In Patent Spat With HTC  —  Nokia on Thursday said it has filed additional cases in its patent dispute with Taiwanese phone maker HTC.  —  The new actions, which include a second complaint to the U.S. International Trade Commission and a federal suit in Southern California …
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Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: Jon Stewart rubs Tim Cook's Senate testimony the wrong way [Video]  —  You can't help but laugh at Stewart's ribbing of the senators' questioning, but it is pretty clear Apple is pushing for simplicity and is only jumping through the loopholes because they are there.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: Apple's Newest iPhone Ad Still Says Nothing, Is a Little Less Great  —  The deceptively simple iPhone ad Apple rolled out last month has garnered all sorts of praise.  Totally justified!  —  So you can see why they'd try a new one, using the exact same format, music and spec-less pitch.
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Microsoft's Bing News adds trending topics and related individuals, expands articles index from weeks to years  —  Microsoft on Thursday announced significant improvements when searching with Bing News: trending topics and related individuals.  The company also revealed it has expanded its articles index size from weeks to years.
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Wall Street Journal: Google Follows Amazon's Lead on New Shopping Site, Delivery, Other Services  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin say they don't pay much attention to rivals.  But the search company increasingly appears to be following Amazon.com Inc.'s lead.
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Wall Street Journal: Google Copies Amazon's Playbook  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin say they don't pay much attention to rivals.  But the search company increasingly appears to be following Amazon.com Inc.'s lead.  —  The latest example involves cable ties, AC-DC adapters, radiation detectors and the like.
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Online Video-Ad Network Tremor Video Files For Its IPO  —  Video ad network Tremor Video has filed for its long-awaited public offering.  The company's shares will trade on the NYSE at TRMR and it wants to raise at least $86 million.  —  Tremor Video, which runs ads on more than 500 Web sites …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors: AT&T's GoPhone Prepaid Brand to Gain iPhone and LTE/HSPA+ Support Tomorrow  —  MacRumors has learned that AT&T's GoPhone prepaid wireless brand will be undertaking a significant expansion of its services starting tomorrow, offering support for the AT&T's fastest LTE and HSPA+ data networks …
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Zachary Lutz / Engadget: Rumors persist of HTC One with stock Android, despite the official denial  —  Is Russell Holly a seer of the future, or did he just manage to get lucky?  That's the question we're currently kicking around at Engadget.  You see, when he first revealed that a Galaxy S 4 would be introduced …
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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: Google adds Google Drive files and Calendar events to Gmail's search for US users  —  Google on Thursday announced Gmail users will soon be able to see relevant emails, Google Drive files, Calendar events, and so on as they type out a query.  The search feature is rolling out to US English users “over the coming week.”
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Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid: Samsung Galaxy S4 Developer Edition headed to Verizon and AT&T  —  About The Author  —  Quentyn Kennemer is a Contributing Editor for Phandroid.com and has posted 7315 articles.  Connect with him on G+.
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Bloomberg: Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Presaging Bidding War  —  Google Inc. (GOOG), maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze Inc., setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook Inc., people familiar with the matter said.
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