Reuters: Sprint files lawsuit against Dish and Clearwire  —  (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp has filed a lawsuit against Dish Network Corp and Clearwire Corp to prevent the completion of Dish's offer for Clearwire's shares.  —  The lawsuit details how Dish has “repeatedly attempted to fool Clearwire's shareholders …
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Chris Burns / SlashGear: Nationwide LTE data test finds AT&T fastest, Verizon most reliable  —  A United States-wide test of mobile data has been run this year with each of the top mobile service providers under the magnifying glass.  This is not the first time PC Mag has run such a test, but as in each successive year …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: Jony Ive's title flattened to ‘Senior VP, Design’ alongside iOS 7 revamp  —  To go along with his complete redesign of iOS, Jony Ive's official executive title at Apple has been flattened to drop the word “Industrial.”  The change is notable as this new title plants Ive's position …
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times: Apple Executive Defends Pricing and Contracts in Antitrust Case  —  Just days after Apple introduced the iPad and opened an e-bookstore, the biggest player in the e-book market, Amazon, changed the way it sold digital titles.  Steven P. Jobs took out his iPhone and shot off an e-mail …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Online Coupon Giant RetailMeNot (Formerly WhaleShark Media) Files For $230M IPO  —  Online coupon giant RetailMeNot has just filed for $230 million IPO, according to an S-1 released today.  —  RetailMeNot, which was acquired in 2010 by the $300 million-funded WhaleShark Media …
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Lucas Mearian / Computerworld: Samsung mass produces 1.4GBps PCIe flash cards for notebooks  —  Latest Samsung flash card exceeds SATA 6Gbps bandwidth  —  Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing what's believed to be the industry's first PCI-Express (PCIe) solid state drive (SSD) for next-generation ultra-slim notebook PCs.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: Google Settles Suit, Clears Way For Stock Split  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.
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BuzzFeed: President Obama Defends NSA Spying  —  It's “transparent,” the president tells Charlie Rose in an interview.  Here's a portion of that transcript, from PBS.  —  Image by Matt Dunham / AP  —  Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I've said, and I continue to believe …
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PandoDaily: Virtual gaming headset Oculus Rift raises $16 million from Spark Capital  —  Fresh off the heels of a buzzy turn at gaming conference E3, Oculus Rift has raised its first round of funding, according to several people familiar with the situation.  —  The Southern California company …
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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: Apple claims it can't decrypt FaceTime and iMessage data, details extent of government requests  —  In the wake of the PRISM scandal, Apple has issued a public statement detailing the extent of US government data requests.  In the statement, it repeats that it does not provide any agency …
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft Drops Outlook.com Linked Accounts Feature  —  Long overdue, this move will improve security and better centralize your primary Microsoft account  —  Microsoft announced today that it would stop supporting an Outlook.com feature called linked accounts and push customers toward aliases …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Disconnect, An Ex-Googler's Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M, Extends To More Browsers  —  As we continue to see more details brought to light in how the government requests and uses information about what we do on the web and on our mobile devices, an ex-Googler …
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David Shapiro / The Official Google Blog: Chromebooks: coming to more stores near you  —  In Northern California where I live, summer is here, which means family vacations, kids' camps, BBQs and hopefully some relaxation.  But it also means back-to-school shopping is just around the corner.  So in case you're on the hunt for a laptop …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: New screenshots from hacked iPad iOS 7 simulator show potential Maps, Safari, Game Center UIs  —  This past weekend, we highlighted a couple of screenshots from a hacked version of the iOS 7 simulator that supports the iPad, and we also provided some steps to tweak the simulator yourself.
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Globe and Mail: Verizon eyes wireless entry as Ottawa aims to salvage competition  —  Verizon Communications Inc. is looking at a move into Canada's cellular telephone business, one of several possible new entrants whose arrival would salvage the federal government's ambitions for a fourth wireless player across the country.
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Ben Gilbert / Engadget: Digg's Google Reader replacement beta opens on June 26th, friends and family get access on the 19th  —  Digg — yes, that Digg — has a replacement in the works for Google Reader, and it looks like it'll arrive just ahead of the final days of Google's RSS aggregation service.
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Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE Advanced coming soon, but most carriers aren't ready  —  Samsung is planning to release a variant of the Galaxy S4 that supports LTE Advanced (LTE-A), the next generation of superfast mobile data.  The device will come to South Korea within weeks, according …
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Jay Greene / CNET: Microsoft revs speedier, smarter speech recognition for phones  —  Using a novel method that mimics brain functions, Microsoft researchers say they've doubled the speed at which speech is recognized and results are returned.  They've also improved accuracy by 15 percent.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Post $25M Funding, Russian Startup Ostrovok Slashes Staff To Aim For Break-Even  —  It was only in March that one of Russia's hottest startups — hotels booking service Ostrovok.ru - raised $25 million in a Series B round led by billionaire investor Yuri Milner.
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Digg Blog: Digg Reader Update!  —  Over the last 90 days, the Digg engineering team — all 5 of them — has been heads-down building an updated take on the RSS reader.  For our first public release, in time to (just) beat the shutdown of Google Reader, our aim has been to nail the basics …
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge: Edward Snowden says ‘the truth is coming,’ but when will we see the rest of his evidence?  —  Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old intelligence contractor who exposed the secret NSA PRISM surveillance program on June 6th, is answering questions from the public for the first time since revealing himself to the world.
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: Not a good sign: Barnes & Noble just keeps slashing Nook tablet prices  —  Why is Barnes & Noble extending price cuts on Nook tablets?  It may be because the retailer is trying to clear out stock.  —  Barnes & Noble is extending price cuts on its Nook tablets, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories: Automattic Acquires Poster for iOS  —  In a post (via 512 Pixels), developer Tom Witkin has announced that his WordPress client for iPhone and iPad, Poster, has been acquired by Automattic - the company that is also behind WordPress.com (among other products).  He writes:
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Mat Smith / Engadget: Skype video messaging officially launches on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android — but not Windows Phone  —  Out of beta and free, Skype today launches its video messaging service across all its major platforms.  You can now send an unlimited number of messages (video missives were previously limited during beta …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days  —  The DOJ will rest its case.  Apple will present its defense.  Summations on Thursday.  —  FORTUNE — Eddy Cue, the alleged “ringmaster” of a conspiracy to raise e-book prices in 2010, returns to a Manhattan federal court Monday …
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