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In its ongoing effort to make Yahoo mail modern and relevant, the company has integrated Flickr to the email service.

Additionally, the photo-sharing site has been integrated into notifications for Yahoo search results for images and video.

Yahoo acquired Flickr in 2005 for $35 million while it was still a fledgling company.

By integrating it into the email service, users will be able to send photos and albums easier directly from their Flick accounts. Yahoo says "Just click on the arrow next to the paperclip and choose "Share from Flickr," to access the feature."

Moving to the Search, users can now set alerts for specific keywords in Web searches, video searches and image searches. Yahoo will "send you a message when the topic you are following shows up in a search result."

The U.S.' biggest carrier Verizon, has made a 32GB model of the Samsung Galaxy S4 available online for $299 with contract.

Until this weekend, Verizon only had the 16GB version available for $199.

Of course, the phone has expandable memory via microSD, so the extra $100 to move up a model is definitely not worth it. High-end 16GB microSD cards sell for $10-$20.

Buyers will see their devices ship starting on July 3rd.

According to a new study by app analytics firm Distimo, you must gross $47,000 per day to crack the Apple App Store's top 10 paid apps list.

The app that ranked 10th for top paid averaged about 4000 downloads a day, on average, in May 2013, says the report.

To break into the top 50, you have to average revenue of $12,000 per day.

Moving over to free applications, the 10th spot required 72,000 downloads per day and the top 50 required 23,000 or more downloads.

Somewhat strangely, Distimo found that Thursdays were the easiest day of the week to break into the top lists, as less downloads are done on that day. Weekends see major surges and the top lists do not move usually.

According to new comScore data, Apple still tops smartphone market share in the U.S. over other brands, even though Android remains the top operating system.

Apple ended May with 39.2 percent share, up 0.3 percentage points from the quarter before. Rival Samsung saw strong growth from 21.3 percent to 23 percent by the end of May, likely thanks to the launch of the Galaxy S4.

Other smartphone makers continue to fall into irrelevance behind the duopoly, with HTC, Motorola and LG all falling. HTC now has 8.7 percent, Motorola has 7.8 percent and LG has 6.7 percent rounding out the top 5.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple has signed a new deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. for component supplies, helping the company somewhat break its dependency on bitter rival Samsung.

The first chips for the joint venture will reach production lines in early 2014.

Apple's agreement will have TSMC building next-generation 20nm A-series SoCs for the iPhone and iPad. Samsung will remain the main supplier of the chip for 2013.

Sources claim the deal was years in the making, but TSMC was "unable to manufacture silicon up to the speed and power standards required by Apple." That hurdle has now been jumped.

In their ongoing effort to move away from Samsung, who for a time was their exclusive A-series processor maker (among other components), the company has signed display deals with LG and Sharp and NAND memory deals with Toshiba.

Apple has begun testing a patch/update for their new mid-2013 MacBook Air and its 802.11ac Wi-Fi issues.

Although the issues have not been widespread, there have been complaints about bugs and connectivity issues relating to the Wi-Fi which has the future-proofed 802.11ac standard.

Apple has been providing select customers the option to test the pre-release version of the "MacBook Air WiFi Update 1.0," asking them to give feedback on bugs or any issues with the installation process.

The new Airs, both the 11-inch and the 13-inch varieties, will eventually receive the update.

So far, Apple has not sent the pre-release software, perhaps waiting until more users sign up to test it.

This is not the first time Apple has quickly had to patch their new devices for a Wi-Fi issue. Last year's MacBook Pro with Retina had glitches with connecting 802.11n networks in the 5GHz band.

Google has listened to the significant outcry from its Android users and returned the easy access delete button to their native Gmail app.

The new version, 4.5.2, will allow users to delete emails when long pressing the actual email from the inbox (or other folder).

In the previous version, which was a major overhaul in its own right, Google removed the trash icon, making the default selection "Archive." To delete the file, users had to go to the setting and "Show Delete Only" from the Archive menu. It was annoying.

More info here in the official Gmail updates page: Gmail for Android

The U.S. Department of Justice will probe a retired four-star general of the Marine Corps over the release of confidential information related to the Stuxnet virus.

NBC claims the general, James Cartwright, has been under investigation for allegedly leaking details of the virus to various sources. Cartwright was also a vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

To date, eight people have been prosecuted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration over the leaks.

Stuxnet was designed to disable Iran's uranium-enriching centrifuges and in 2010 the virus caused over 1000 of the devices to spin at such high rates that they went out of control and became useless temporarily. The centrifuges are crucial to the country's nuclear program, a program which could eventually lead to atomic weapons.

The virus is generally believed to have been created by Israel and the U.S. jointly to avoid having to bomb the facilities.

Cartwright was one of the top military officers involved in the "Olympic Games" cyberwar program started by President GW Bush and continued by President Obama. The origins of the virus were revealed in an award-winning piece in the New York Times.

If you are a Google early adopter and have signed up for their experimental "field trials," a new feature has been added.

Gmail contact info is now added to Google Search results, meaning you can see people you know when making relevant searches.

Google had previously added shipping and flight results from your Gmail allowing you to ask questions like "When does my flight leave?" and receive the right answer.

The search giant promises Google+ information will be added in the near future, as well.

As always, only you can see the results, and you can even use it with voice search.

Apple appears to be keeping to their two-week release cycle for iOS 7 beta launches, with the third version expected to hit on July 8th.

The new software is expected to launch this September alongside the iPhone 5S.

Beta 3 will likely be available for all iOS devices, including iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches. The iPad was unsupported until Beta 2 and Touches are still not supported.

From a design standpoint, Apple has made everything sharper, flatter and slimmer, and frankly it looks much, much better.

The company has added a new control panel that slides up from the bottom of the home screen and gives access to your most frequent settings such as airplane mode, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, brightness and also adds a new flashlight, quick access to AirDrop, AirPlay and a slider for your current music.

According to a new 24/7WS report, the Apple iPhone is now the profitable product in the U.S.

Beating out long-time staples like Coke and Marlboro cigarettes, the iPhone topped the list, thanks to a huge profit margin and tens of millions of sales.

In 2012, $80.5 billion of Apple's revenue came from iPhones, and the company sold 125 million units last year, with that number expected to go up again this year.

Apple's gross margins on the iPhone are between 49% and 58%, depending on the model. The overall profit margin is around 38 to 40%, higher than the company's overall 35.3% margin.

Check the rest of the list here: Most Profitable Products

EA has announced it is planning to "re-establish Origin as a service to gamers, not as a means to drive transactions."

Origin, the company's digital game distribution platform, is a rival to Steam and has been available to Windows users since 2011 and Mac users since earlier this year.

"In the near term, quite frankly, our focus is making that download better, making that install better, making that automatic patching better," executive vice president Andrew Wilson said. "Making that friends presence better, making the various game services better. That's what you're going to see from us over the next year, which is really re-establish Origin as a service to gamers, not as a means to drive transactions."

Wilson also confirmed that the company has acknowledged that the service does not necessarily have the greatest of consumer sentiment, following a scandal in which it was discovered that EA's Origin EULA allowed for spying on your personal information, regardless of its relation to the actual program.

"I want to reiterate, it's very important for people to understand that we don't expect that all of a sudden people are going to get up and go 'Oh! Great! We now love Origin!'" Wilson said. "We get it. We understand it," he added. "We have heard, we have made some changes already in terms of how we do things, and we're looking at more changes that we'll talk about over the coming months that really are gamer-focused."

According to Microsoft Xbox Live boss Larry Hryb, the company is launching an "Ultimate Game Sale" sometime next week for the Xbox 360.

The sale will include newer and older games, but the prices are still unknown.

Here is the full list of games:

Assassin's Creed III
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands 2
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Bulletstorm
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3
Crysis
Crysis 3
Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga
Dragon Age Origins
Far Cry 3
Far Cry Instincts Predator
Forza Horizon
Gears of War: Judgement
Hasbro Family Game Night 3
Hitman Absolution
Kinect Sports 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes
Lego Lord of the Rings
Mass Effect
Metal Gear Rising: Revengence
Monopoly Streets
Perfect Dark Zero
Prey
Rockstar Table Tennis
The Orange Box
Tomb Raider
Witcher 2
WWE 13
XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Planning manager for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Kinect, Albert Penello, has said that focusing on Xbox One and PS4 specs is meaningless to the next generation of gaming.

Instead, he believes consumers make their choice on gaming consoles based on the types of software content that is available on the systems over their lifetimes.

"The problem is that Sony decided to go out and publish a bunch of numbers, which are in some ways meaningless. Because this isn't like 1990, when it was 16-bit versus 32-bit," he told OXM.

"Here's what you care about, you bought a system to play great games and have great experiences. I feel like our games and experiences are going to be every bit as good, if not better, technically--on top of all the magic we're going to add with the instant switching, and the power of the cloud."

He said he would rather not even have a discussion on the differences in the under-the-hood specs of the Xbox One or PS4 because in the long run, it's not going to matter.

Intel's new CEO, Brian Krzanich, said he is focused on pushing out Intel Atom chip technology for smartphones, tablets and wearable technology.

Krzanich took over as Intel boss in May, being promoted from the posts of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer after Paul Otellini stepped down from the CEO post.

His top priority is the roll-out of chips for smartphones, tablets and wearable technology, seeking to push Intel into a space that it overlooked for too long while chip rivals thrived. He also said Intel continues to work on its push into television, but is taking a caution approach.

"We believe we have a great user interface and the compression-decompression technology is fantastic," Krzanich said, according to the Retuers news agency.

"But in the end, if we want to provide that service it comes down to content. We are not big content players."

The priority is to rapidly develop and rollout new Atom chips to be ready for emerging technology, such as wearable tech. "I think you'll start to see stuff with our silicon toward the end of the year and the beginning of next year," Krzanich said.