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8:50 AM ET, April 24, 2008

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Apple:
Apple Reports Record Second Quarter Results  —  Revenue Up 43 Percent Year-Over-Year  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008.  The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share.
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Unlocked iPhones help drive Apple Q2  —  Don't cry for me AT&T...  Find out how to eradicate 99.7% of spam  —  Announcing its second quarter financial results today, Apple confirmed the obvious by saying a “significant” number of iPhones are being purchased from its outlets with the express intention of unlocking them.
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BBC:   Mac sales push up Apple profits
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Apple Q2 2008: Mac sales surge, iPhones not so much
Colin Barr / Technology news:
Motorola phone sales tumble 39%  —  Messy quarter at Motorola  —  Motorola (MOT) continues to struggle.  The Schaumburg, Ill., handset maker posted a first-quarter continuing operations loss of $194 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with a year-ago loss of $218 million, or 9 cents a share.
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PR Newswire:
Motorola Announces First-Quarter Financial Results  — First-quarter GAAP loss from continuing operations of $0.09 per share, including net charges of $0.04 per share from highlighted items  —  Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today reported sales of $7.45 billion in the first quarter of 2008.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
The I Hate Facebook Club Is Growing  —  Joyce Park, co-founder and CTO of Renkoo (developer of Booze Mail), says all is not well in Facebook Developer Land.  —  Park complains that many application developers get ahead despite the fact that they violate Facebook's terms of service.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Facebook Platform Faces Rough Road Ahead, Despite Successes
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
So You're Launching a Platform: After Ubiquitous APIs - What's the Next Frontier?  —  We're here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and are getting inundated with press releases about new APIs and developer platforms, many from companies we've never even heard of in the first place.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Live blogging: Max Levchin of Slide opens the Web 2.0 Expo keynotes
Alexandra Kenin / Official Google Mobile Blog:
New mobile image ads  —  The mobile ads team is happy to announce the launch of mobile image ads.  These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run on the mobile content network.  Take a look at the mobile image ads example page to see samples.
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Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service:
Google Launches Mobile Banner Ads
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Brad Reed / PC World:
SDK Showdown: Apple IPhone vs. Google Android  —  In this corner: the current champion of the mobile phone market, the iPhone.  In the other corner: a scrappy open source challenger, Android.  —  While the iPhone has without a doubt been the big success story of the past year in the mobile phone world …
Discussion: Macworld and Network World
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CNN:
T-Mobile Android Phone Release Seen Bringing ‘Avalanche’  —  SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- With Deutsche Telekom AG's (DT) T-Mobile USA Inc. preparing to ship out its first cellphones built on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) open Android platform later this year, wireless carriers are expecting an avalanche …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Riding the power of undersea waves  —  MENLO PARK, Calif.—Back and forth, back and forth.  That's the idea behind WaveRoller.  —  The company, based in Espoo, Finland, says it has devised a way to generate electricity from waves without buoys or other floating devices, the mainstay of other wave power companies.
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Justice Dept looking at Google/Yahoo test  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible antitrust implications of Google's two-week test with Yahoo to combine some of their Web search and advertising business, a source informed about the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Justice Department Probes Yahoo's Test Of Google Ads
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
SlideShare Slammed with DDOS Attacks from China  —  SlideShare, a Mountain View-based startup that lets you upload and embed PowerPoint presentations on the web, appears to have stirred the red dragon last week.  —  About ten days ago the company began receiving anonymous requests …
PhotographyBLOG:
LG Secret / KF750  —  The LG Secret is a new 5 megapixel camera-phone that can also shoot DivX video at 120fps.  At just 11.8mm thick, the LG Secret is the slimmest 5 megapixel camera phone on the market.  Photo and video editing features include facial editing and SmartLight …
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection:
Announcement: Lower Data Transfer Costs … Dear Amazon Web Services developers,  —  We've often told you that one of our goals is to drive down costs continuously and to pass those savings on to you.  We have been able to reduce our costs for data transfer, so we're pleased to announce …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Memo to Yahoo: Incoming-Duck and Cover!  —  And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins.  —  Not with a bang, but a whimper.  And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players.  —  But while the first moves by Microsoft …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Turmoil Not Finished: Engineering VP Lee Mighdoll Out  —  Blaine Cook isn't the only high-profile engineer to leave Twitter in recent weeks.  Lee Mighdoll, brought on in early January as the startup's VP of engineering and operations, is also out.  —  “After three months …
 
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper::  Public Documents + Shoe Leather Reporting …
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Electronista:
Toshiba SSDs to reach 512GB, drop in cost
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Patrick Klepek / MTV Multiplayer:
Is Microsoft Hiring A ‘Halo’ Team For Peter Jackson This Week?  [UPDATED]
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ooma Not Dead Yet
Leigh Alexander / Kotaku:
Microsoft, Rare, Gyration Talk 360 Wii Remote Rumors
Tom / New Scientist Technology Blog:
Science fiction inspires DARPA weapon
Discussion: Gizmodo, Voices and Slashdot
Sue Factor / Official Google Blog:
What makes a design “Googley”?
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook Now Running 10,000 Web Servers
 Earlier Items: 
Rick Merritt / EE Times:
DoD may push back on Apple's P.A. Semi bid
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Xbox chief on Grand Theft Auto IV, console shortages and Sony PS3 gains
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Man discovers his net wasn't neutered
David Carnoy / CNET News.com:
Time runs out on Microsoft's SPOT watches
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Curse of the “Pod”  —  PodShow is the latest company to ditch …
Smashing Magazine:
5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web
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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1 begins today
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs
Discussion: DBMS2 and Blogging Pro
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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