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Tweet Canonical has decided to give up on its hope to bring about convergence across all types of devices and has announced it will move to GNOME in Ubuntu 18.04. Canonical will now focus on IoT and cloud. Read more… Neowin

Tweet NuAns has unveiled the Neo Reloaded, a new version of its Windows 10 Mobile handset, which ditches Microsoft’s OS in favor of Android 7.1, with a larger, high-res screen and a newer processor. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Data from ComScore shows that Microsoft’s Bing search service gained a 0.2 percent market share in U.S. search between February and March 2013, and has gained a total of 1.6 percent in the last year. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet In April, the Department of Justice sued Apple and five book publishers for allegedly colluding to fix ebook prices. Eight months later, the DOJ has settled with four of the five publishers. The settlement allows retailers to discount settling publishers’ ebooks with just a couple of restrictions, so many people expected it would lead to much lower ebook prices. But, as David Streitfeld notes in the New York Times , that hasn’t happened…

Tweet Google has released a list of even more services and apps it will be shutting down in the next few months. That includes new signups for Google Sync, several features in Google Calendar and more. Read more… Neowin