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Apple could include LinkedIn for deep iOS 7 integration
by Dara Kerr, cnet.com

So far, Twitter is the only social network to get the full red carpet on iOS 7, but that could change.

Even though Twit­ter has been Apple’s pick of social net­works to be inte­grat­ed into iOS 7, it’s look­ing like LinkedIn could also make it t…

Adobe Releases Major Updates to Its Products
Kaylene Hong, thenextweb.com

Adobe has released major updates to its flag­ship prod­ucts – the only dif­fer­ence now is that instead of a new Cre­ative Suite, the updates are being released under its new Cre­ative Cloud umbrel­la.

The com­pa­ny said in a blog post that…

Yahoo! Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni
Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com

Yahoo! is offer­ing to pur­chase social email start­up Xobni for $30 mil­lion to $40 mil­lion, accord­ing to AllTh­ingsD’s sources. If the deal goes through, Xobni would be the lat­est acqui­si­tion by Yahoo! as CEO Maris­sa Meyer seeks to boost t…

Apple Discloses Government Requests on as Many as 10,000 Accounts
Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com

Apple is now the lat­est com­pa­ny to dis­close requests by U.S. law enforce­ment agen­cies.

In a dis­clo­sure pub­lished overnight, the com­pa­ny said that from Dec. 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, it had received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests…

Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20
Ingrid Lunden, techcrunch.com

We’ve been work­ing on get­ting more details on a press event that Face­book is hav­ing this week. Ear­li­er, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to some­thing else entire­ly. On June 20, a…

Woz: This is not my America
by Chris Matyszczyk, cnet.com

Stopped by Spanish language tech journalists at an airport, the Apple co-founder says that after the NSA revelations, he questions his own government and wonders whether it’s behaving like a king.

As the pas­sions and jus­ti­fi­ca­tions swirl…

Marketers Have Found a Way to Use Vine
Christopher Heine, adweek.com

Marketers pushing summer blockbusters are aggressively seeding Vine, Twitter’s nascent mobile app for six-second videos, into their social media fieldwork.For instance, Regal Entertainment Group this week plans to promote Monsters University and…

The YouTube Paradox And The Off-YouTube Solution
Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com

When it comes to video dis­tri­b­u­tion on the Inter­net, there are few solu­tions bet­ter than YouTube. The com­pa­ny is the No. 1 place to search for and find the video con­tent that view­ers want to watch, and for cre­ators it pro­vides a size …

How YouTube Became The Most Popular Video Site In The World
Megan Rose Dickey and William Wei 475, businessinsider.com

YouTube is far and away the most pop­u­lar video shar­ing site in the world. Peo­ple watch over 6 bil­lion hours of YouTube videos per month.

So, how did YouTube become THE place to go to watch videos online?

Find out every­thing you could…

Online universities: it’s time for teachers to join the revolution
Anant Agarwal, guardian.co.uk

Moocs, the new model of university education, have no race, colour, sex or wealth barriers, and can be accessed at a click

The past few centuries have witnessed revolutions in virtually every area of our world – health, transport, communications…

The future of music: technology is amazing, but ‘music’s a human thing’
Interview by Tom Lamont, guardian.co.uk

Cellist and Twitter composer Peter Gregson on the meeting ground between music and technology

Edinburgh-born Peter Gregson is a cellist, composer and founder of the Electric Creative Colab, a body that aims to foster collaborations between the a…

DIY YouTube directors to self-regulate under new censorship scheme
Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent, guardian.co.uk

Film watchdogs in three countries including UK are to pilot a program in which amateur video-makers can self-regulate

A simple plan to offer children protection from harmful and inappropriate internet footage by clearly rating it with traffic li…

Why Office Mobile For iPhone Matters
Tony Bradley, forbes.com

Microsoft released Office Mobile for iPhone today. Final­ly.

There have been rumors cir­cu­lat­ing for years that Microsoft would offer some form of Office apps for iOS devices. Spec­u­la­tion was fueled by the dra­mat­ic shift in the tech­nol­o…