Ryan Tate / Wired: The Price to Pay for Facebook's Free Wi-Fi?  A Scrap of Privacy  —  The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment, a project by two engineers during an all-nighter in May 2012.  Since then, Facebook has gradually spread …
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Michael Lee / ZDNet: Researchers able to predict Apple iOS-generated hotspot passwords  —  Summary: Although iOS generates seemingly random passwords for its hotspots to eliminate the use of ‘default’ passwords, researchers at a German university have found that they are able to break these passwords in under a minute.
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Alina Selyukh / Reuters: FCC nominee Wheeler says will promote competition  —  (Reuters) - Tom Wheeler, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, on Tuesday pledged to champion competition in the telecommunications industry and said an upcoming auction of airwaves is the biggest challenge facing the regulator.
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Janko Roettgers / paidContent: Netflix will launch in the Netherlands in late 2013, as its international expansion slows  —  Love Amsterdam?  So does Netflix: The streaming service revealed that it's going to launch in the Netherlands later this year.  —  Netflix revealed the next target of its ongoing international …
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Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: As Fab Raises Another $150 Million at a $1 Billion Valuation, E-Commerce Industry Looks On Warily  —  Here's an interesting exercise I tried recently when talking with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in e-commerce: “I say ‘Fab,’ you say?”  —  “Inspiring.”  —  “Ballsy.”  —  “Ambitious.”
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Wall Street Journal: Tencent-Led Funding Values Fab at Over $1 Billion  —  Two-year-old design website Fab is now worth more than $1 billion, thanks to an investment led in part by Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings Ltd.  —  China's largest listed Internet company is contributing to a $150 million round …
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft adds new creation tools to its social-search project  —  Summary: Microsoft is enhancing its Socl social-search site with new creation tools, including an animated GIF creator.  —  Microsoft's FUSE (Future Social Experiences) Labs is adding new capabilities to Socl …
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Alexis Kleinman / The Huffington Post: Last Telegram Ever Will Be Sent In India Next Month  —  The world's final telegram will be sent next month by India's state-run telecommunications company, the Christian Science Monitor reported.  The July 14 stop date will be over 160 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in the U.S. in 1844.
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Brian Klug / AnandTech: Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) Performance Preview: Qualcomm Mobile Development Tablet Tested  —  We've written about Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) before, for those unfamiliar, this is Qualcomm's new flagship SoC with four Krait 400 CPUs at up to 2.3 GHz, Adreno 330 graphics, and the latest modem IP block with Category 4 LTE.
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Myriam Joire / Engadget: Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MDP benchmarks: prepare for ludicrous speed  —  Today we had a chance to play with Qualcomm's latest dev tablet (MDP) which packs the company's mighty Snapdragon 800 SoC (MSM8974).  The device is slightly larger than last year's MDP and features a 11.6-inch 1920 x 1080 pixel display …
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Josh Taylor / ZDNet: Privacy authorities issue Google a ‘please explain’ on Glass  —  Summary: Ten privacy authorities from countries including Australia, Canada, and Israel have sent a joint letter to Google asking the company to address privacy concerns over Google Glass.  —  Josh Taylor
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Shelly Banjo / Wall Street Journal: Wal-Mart's E-Stumble  —  After Years Giving Short Shrift to Web, Retailer Plays Catch-Up With Amazon  —  A Wal-Mart distribution center in Bentonville, Ark., serves stores in neighboring states.  The company plans to add e-commerce distribution centers.  —  Amazon.com Inc. has become …
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Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: Power Testing: Can Two New Laptops Really Last All Day?  —  Most consumers pay little or no attention to the processors and other chips that power their computers, and rightly so.  In recent years, changes to the design of these chips haven't made major, noticeable differences in everyday computing tasks.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Kodak prepares $406 million offering as it eyes bankruptcy exit  —  (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co on Tuesday said it will seek court approval for a $406 million rights offering that could give creditors a big equity stake in the company after it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: Apple testing deep LinkedIn integration for iOS 7  —  Further bolstering the presence of third-party social networks in iOS, Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration for the upcoming release of iOS 7, according to code-based references found inside of the first beta of iOS 7.
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes: NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden  —  The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside.  —  On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a …
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Reuters: Dish abandons Sprint bid for now to focus on Clearwire  —  (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp said it would not make a new offer to buy No. 3 U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel in time for a Tuesday deadline and will instead focus on its tender offer for Clearwire Corp.
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Cade Metz / Wired: Amazon's Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing  —  The rumors are true.  Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA.  But what's most intriguing about the multi-million-dollar deal is not what Amazon is doing, but how the company is doing it — and what that means …
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Reuters: Huawei says has no plans to buy Nokia  —  (Reuters) - Chinese network equipment and cellphone maker Huawei Technologies Co said it “has no plans to acquire Nokia”, responding to a Financial Times report that it would consider buying the Finish phone maker.  —  The denial came …
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Onion Pi turns Raspberry Pi into Tor proxy and wireless access point  —  The do-it-yourselfers at Adafruit have provided step-by-step instructions for turning a Raspberry Pi into a Tor proxy and wireless access point.  A good project for users looking to anonymize their Internet traffic …
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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: Dell Committee Slams Icahn's Latest Offer, Saying It Falls Short  —  The special committee of Dell's board of directors overseeing its go-private process fired back at activist investor Carl Icahn's latest proposal today in a letter to shareholders, saying it is “not, in its present state …
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Reuters: Nvidia to license out graphics technology: CEO  —  (Reuters) - Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said he will license graphics technology to other companies, a new model for the chipmaker that could lead to new business with Apple, Samsung and other mobile device makers.
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Ubuntu phone OS has eight carriers signed on to boost development  —  Canonical has formed a “Carrier Advisory Group” of eight mobile operators who will collaborate to influence the development of Ubuntu for smartphones.  —  Canonical said the first members of the group are Deutsche Telekom …
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Nick Summers / The Next Web: Google adds ‘carousel’ of search results for nearby restaurants, bars and other local places  —  Google is updating its search results pages on the desktop today to show an interactive “carousel” of nearby restaurants, bars and other local places.  —  It works as expected; type in a query such as …
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Adobe's Q2 Earnings Beat Street With $1.011B In Revenue, $0.36 EPS, 700K Paying Creative Cloud Subscribers  —  Adobe just reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2013.  The company reported revenue of $1.011 billion and non-GAAP operating income of $247.3 for an earnings per share of $0.36 …
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