At The Nexus #71: Best Stalker

Ryan Rampersad and Matthew Petschl discuss BlackBerry's return rate, why teens want iPhones, a botnet against WordPress, another scroogled ad from Microsoft, Ryan's early thoughts on App.net and more!

Links

• BlackBerry: No, our Z10s aren’t coming back in ‘unusually high numbers’ | ZDNet
• BlackBerry 10 consumer interest survey: Most Americans unaware | BGR
• 48% of U.S. teens own an iPhone. 62% plan to buy one. – Apple 2.0 -Fortune Tech
• Dell Launches Alienware X51 Ubuntu Gaming Desktop ~ Ubuntu Vibes | Daily Ubuntu Linux Updates
• Alienware X51 with UBUNTU Linux
• Google launches ‘Inactive Account Manager’ to deal with your data when you die | The Verge
• Google Glass Explorer Edition shipping to developers ‘within the next month’ | The Verge
• Google Fiber Blog : Austin, Texas
• Verizon kills early upgrade program, even for some current customers | Ars Technica
• Verizon unveils $35 prepaid mobile phone plan | Mobile – CNET News
• T-Mobile Begins $99 iPhone 5 Sales, Sees Lines At Retail Stores | TechCrunch
• Ex-Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to head former team of iPod engineers on new (iWatch?) projects | 9to5Mac
• Apple to pay $53 million in class-action suit following iPhone warranty policy | 9to5Mac
• Major brute force attack against WordPress underway – Ireland’s CIO and strategy news and reports service – Siliconrepublic.com
• Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google
• Nintendo killing news, weather, and other built-in Wii apps on June 28th | The Verge
• Microsoft tells Windows 7 users to uninstall faulty security update (Updated) | Ars Technica
• Microsoft’s Latest “Scroogled” Ads Attack Sharing Of Information That Google Developers Need To Process Transactions | TechCrunch
• Facebook Home available to download on select Android devices | The Verge
• Bitcoin crashes, losing nearly half of its value in six hours | Ars Technica
• 857820 – Drop only blink effect from text-decoration: blink; and completely remove element
• ryanmr on App.net
• siracusa on App.net
• ViewSonic VX2370Smh-LED Black 23″ 7ms (GTG) IPS-Panel HDMI Widescreen LED Monitor frameless design Built-in Speakers – Newegg.com
• thenexustv/tntv-backup via GitHub

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