| Apple Might Launch a Bigger iPhone, as Well as a Cheaper, Colorful One | | Apple is looking into launching iPhones with a 4.7-inch and a 5.7-inch screen, Reuters reports, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. The company is also considering launching a cheaper variant of the iPhone, that would cost around $99 and come in 5-6 colors. The moves are described as being "under discussion," meaning they may never actually happen.
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| '300: Rise of an Empire' Trailer Debuts Online | | A trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire, the follow-up to 2006 action film 300, surfaced online Wednesday. Similar to its predecessor, Rise of an Empire is filmed in a graphic-novel style, and depicts mortal-turned-god Xerxes in his bid to overtake more territory.
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| iPhone Users Can Expertly Retouch Portraits With Facetune | | 12:56:21 AM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Something about that portrait you snapped just isn't cutting it. Maybe it's that pesky blemish, stubble or unruly strand of hair that's trying to ruin your pic again. But fear not, the people from Lightricks Ltd. are making your photo-editing needs easier (and cheaper). Meet Facetune, which at time of writing was ranked number three on the App Store's top paid apps chart.
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| Frequent Twitter and Facebook Users: You Might Be Narcissists | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:32 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Listen up, active tweeter and Facebook-poster: you might be a narcissist. At least, that's according to a new study from the University of Michigan. It found that frequent social media use could be fueling narcissistic tendencies in social media users of all ages. Michigan researchers Elliot Panek, Yioryos Nardis and Sara Konrath published their study results online in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.
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| George Takei's Facebook Ghostwriter Apologizes | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:47 PM | Sam Laird |
| Hip, hilarious and oh-so-topical, George Takei has one of the most popular and beloved Facebook feeds on the social web. His compassion and humor have helped him smoothly reincarnate himself as a modern Internet sensation after starring as Hikaru Sulu on the 1960s Star Trek TV series.
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| Does Facebook Really Need Hashtags? | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Congratulations, hash symbol. You've come a long, long way. Remember when we used to call you a pound sign or a number sign? Remember when people used to confuse you with the musical symbol for sharp? Remember when Bell Labs technicians gave you the made-up name "octothorpe"? Well, no longer.
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| Facebook Hashtags Not Open to Advertising — Yet | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:22 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Facebook's introduction of hashtags paves the way for a lucrative stream of new advertising, but the company is not opening the program up to advertisers, at least not at this time. Reps from the company confirmed that hashtags are off limits to marketers right now. However, there doesn't appear to be any reason why Facebook would block hashtag buys in the future.
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| Facebook Finally Gets Hashtag Support | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:42 PM | Christina Warren |
| Hashtags are coming to Facebook to help users better surface conversations. Support for the all-but-ubiquitous topic organization system was rumored in March and will roll out to a small percentage of users Wednesday. Facebook will roll out hashtags to more users in the coming weeks. The social network wants to make it easier for users to find content already on Facebook, and functional hashtags are the first step.
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| MySpace Is Dead. Long Live Myspace. | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:45 PM | Pete Pachal |
| MySpace is dead. Long live Myspace. The new Myspace, which first came online in late 2012 as a music-discovery service with the support of Justin Timberlake, officially launches to the public today. At the same time, the old capital-S MySpace is no more, departing for that big social network in the sky (although all user content will still exist on the new site).
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| Kanye West: I Am the Steve Jobs of Internet, Fashion and Culture | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 12:13 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The approaching responsibilities of fatherhood certainly haven't humbled Kanye West in the least. The hip-hop artist reflected on his career — his achievements, missteps, fame and contention — and revealed some of the creative process behind Yeezus, his sixth studio album, in an extensive interview in Tuesday's New York Times. The interview is classic Kanye: "Yeah, kill self.
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| iOS 7 vs. iOS 6: Icon Face-Off | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:34 AM | Taylor Casti |
| Apple's new iOS 7 re-imagines each of the native app icons. Moving away from Apple's usual skeuomorphic design tendencies, the icons embrace the "flat" trend credited largely to Microsoft's Windows 8. While iOS users can rejoice at the removal of eyesores like Newsstand and Game Center icons, many aren't sure whether this new batch of icons is an improvement.
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| Hands On With iOS 7: It's Just the Beginning | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:22 AM | Christina Warren |
| When Tim Cook unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC this week, he called it "the biggest change to iOS since the original iPhone." He's right. iOS 7 isn't just a visual overhaul of Apple's venerable mobile operating system; it's a near-total rethink of many of the core paradigms that have come to make iOS, well, iOS. SEE ALSO: See How Siri Works in iOS 7 iOS 7 looks different, sure, but even in beta, it feels different, too.
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| Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is Half-Camera, Half-Smartphone | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:50 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| It's official: Samsung has announced the Galaxy S4 Zoom, the most powerful smartphone-camera hybrid on the market today. Check out its front side, and you'll see a device very similar to a Galaxy S4 Mini. It has a 4.3-inch qHD display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of storage memory (expandable via microSD cards, and a 1.9-megapixel camera.
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| 8 Social Networks for Your Next Apartment Hunt | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:31 AM | Jessica Fee |
| Finding a new apartment is a huge headache. While the Internet makes it easier to peruse potential places, it also introduces its own complications. We've compiled a list of networks that make the process simple and social. Some sites connect you to reliable listserves, while others let buyers review brokers. But all function slightly better than Craigslist.
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| PayPal Teases Cash for Registers Program with Goofy Video | | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:50 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Who knew PayPal had a sense of humor? The online payment giant is attempting to create some buzz for its Cash for Registers program with this goofy video, a spoof of Law & Order and other cop shows that features a couple of detectives attempting to answer the question: "Who killed the cash register?" Best supporting actor role should go to the cash register, which manages to be deadpan throughout.
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