Appolicious - With the ambitious goal of transforming search-based “user behavior to another dimension”, SoundHound today unveils a new voice recognition app simply called Hound. And, at least for the time being, you can only speak into the free app on Android-based devices.

Yahoo! News - Google Music is a new way to listen to your music. By uploading music to the cloud, you can then access your music anywhere you have an internet connection, without having to download it onto your computer or phone. All your …

Yahoo! News - It's difficult to imagine a life without the viral internet oddities that YouTube serves up on a daily basis. This month YouTube turns 6, and the site synonymous with web video has crossed some impressive milestones. The site currently boasts …

Digital Trends - Facebook and Spotify are two weeks away from launching a new music streaming service, according to a Forbes report.

Appolicious - The smell of sunscreen, the sun’s relentless heat on my shoulders and the cackle of the seagulls is a surefire reminder that it’s time to hit the beach! I’m getting prepared by whittling my middle, developing healthy habits and scouting the best locations for my summer beach fun. If you love the beach as much as I do, check out some of these iPhone apps to prepare for the impending heat wave. They’re all free!

NewsFactor - Three Apple laptops won high marks from the tough critics at Consumer Reports in the magazine's June issue. The MacBook, MacBook Pro, and ultrathin MacBook Air scored high in portability, ergonomics and display as well as overall performance against comparable models by Sony, ASUS, Lenovo, Toshiba, Dell and Samsung.

AP - A key member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is challenging Apple Inc. and Google Inc. to require all developers that make apps for their mobile devices to adopt formal privacy policies.

Digital Trends - Google is once again showing off its big environmental conscience with video of the new Hamina, Finland data center, due to open up towards the end of the year. The new center, much like Google’s Saint-Ghislain center, will not be using chillers in its cooling system. Instead, waters from the Baltic Sea will be harnessed to keep servers cool.

Mashable - The "Facebook Phone" cometh! So the media lauded in a not-so-distant past that has since been rewritten in the truth: INQ Mobile, a device maker with a social penchant, worked with Facebook to release INQ Cloud Touch, an Android smartphone with rich Facebook integration. Monday, INQ Mobile and Foursquare announced that they were collaborating on a similar home screen experience for INQ's lineup of Android devices. The mobile marriage will help users better discover and explore nearby places via Foursquare.

Digital Trends - Yesterday afternoon, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak spoke to Michigan State University graduates as he received an honorary doctorate of engineering from MSU for his many accomplishments in the personal computing industry. However, toward the end of his mostly positive commencement speech, he warned graduates that the computers he’s helped create will soon make us irrelevant as a species.

Appolicious - Still searching for the perfect case for your iPhone 4? Well, you may be able to create your very own.

PC World - More bad news for RIM's Blackberry: A recent survey of cell phone users shows Google's Android is continuing to gobble up its market share.

PC World - Security researchers revealed a dangerous exploit in Skype for Mac which can be exploited to create a worm that can take control of Mac PCs.This FAQ will help you understand the potential impact of the threat, and what you can do to protect your system.

Appolicious - Raise your hand if you love your Android phone or tablet. OK, good.

Mashable - Post time for the Kentucky Derby 2011 is at 6:24 EDT today (NBC Coverage starts at 4 p.m. EDT), but in the meantime, which horse to pick? Let's use some Twitter analysis to see which horse has gotten the most buzz, and maybe that will help us pick a winner. Thanks to CBS and the Parnassus Group, which analyzed some 4000 tweets that referenced the Derby back to May 2, we might be able to gather some insight. However, don't bet on that horse that received the most tweets, because Uncle Mo will not be running in the race -- he was scratched from the lineup.

Digital Trends - In a post on his blog on Friday, prominent programmer Joe Hewitt announced that he has left Facebook and will now be working independently.

Digital Trends - Intel this week wheeled out its biggest weapon in the fight to take the mobile battle to ARM: “3D” transistors that use less electricity to produce more computing power for its next generation of processors. The technology is impressive, but if any company should understand how difficult it is to displace an entrenched vendor, it should be Intel. Historically, the advantages of being entrenched have historically worked for the Santa Clara company, not against it, making its planned upheaval a little ironic. Intel’s approach to this smart device market would mirror what a competing company would have to do to displace Intel on PCs. This means Intel needs to create a strategy that could beat Intel if Intel were the entrenched vendor rather than ARM. The stakes are high because ARM is positioning against Intel at the moment, and this move is backed by Microsoft.

Yahoo! News - Sony loses account details for 24.6 million customers Sony made headlines last week for a data breach of the PlayStation Network. This week Sony's online gaming network SOE joined the security scare, stating an additional 24.6 million customer accounts were compromised during the attack, with …

Digital Trends - Amid stories of a plan by hackers to infiltrate Sony servers for a third time, Reuters has obtained a letter from the electronics company’s computer  entertainment president, Kazuo Hirai. The letter, dated May 5, was sent to Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal, who had accused Sony of acting too slowly in response to last month’s massive data breach when millions of users of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services had their details stolen by hackers.