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Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
First Look: OLPC XO-2 — I am here this morning in Cambridge, Mass., at OLPC's Global Country Workshop. Opening the conference this morning was OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, who announced the second generation of the OLPC XO laptop, which will be called the XO-2.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y — At OLPC's Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half XO 1.0's size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:OLPC 2.0 coming; will project survive to see its launch?
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Jesusdiaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed — We all suspected it, but now it is confirmed: someone very, very close to the 3G iPhone launch has told me that Apple will announce their new model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th. The second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Party's Over, Bloggers: CBS, NBC, Fox Threaten Free Clip Service Redlasso — Redlasso, a TV clip service favored by bloggers everywhere, is being threatened with legal action by three of the major media conglomerates: Fox (NWS), CBS (CBS) and NBC (GE). The three companies have sent …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Bloggers Rejoice! Customized TV Clips With RedLasso (Updated)
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Techmeme News:
Techmeme listens: 32 months in the making, search arrives! — Hours after Techmeme launched in 2005, search uberblogger Danny Sullivan remarked “there's no keyword search facility that I can see. I want that, and soon!” Nobody wants to let Danny down, so I got right to work and 32 months later, a search box now sits atop the site.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechMeme Finally Adds Search — Tech news site TechMeme launched on September 12, 2005. It was an immediate hit and remains the most important blog news aggregator: Dan Farber wrote perhaps the best description of the site to date, back in 2007: “TechMeme provides a one-page, aggregated …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong — Their words, not mine. — I've mostly stopped bothering to post when Twitter is down like it is now and like it was yesterday (honestly, it's news when they keep the site live for 24 hours at this point). But, seriously, they need to get their act together.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple's Mac sales up 50 percent in April — The blistering success of Apple's personal computer business continues to turn heads, with Mac unit sales growing 50 percent year-over-year for the month of April compared to just 17 percent growth by the broader market.
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Infinite Loop, Digital Daily, Macsimum News, The Mac Observer, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and The After Mac
Danielle Sacks / Fast Company:
Can Alex Bogusky help Microsoft Beat Apple? — “Life conspires to beat the rebel out of you,” says Bogusky, with partners, from left, Jeff Steinhour, Chuck Porter, and Jeff Hicks | Alex Bogusky built the country's slickest ad shop using Apple products. His next challenge: Persuade people like him to buy Microsoft's stuff.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft's $300 million makeover
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Michael Hatamoto / BetaNews:
Sprint confirms it's implementing data usage caps — A number of Sprint mobile broadband users have shown their disgust over an internal memo that indicated the company has placed a cap on its mobile broadband service. — In an e-mail and phone correspondence with BetaNews …
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Life On the Wicked Stage
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why the Roku Netflix Player is the First Shot of the Revolution — In the small, generic plastic box that is the new Netflix Player made by Roku, I think you can see the future of video. — I'm not saying that this product itself is going to take the world by storm, even though …
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Hurd: EDS Deal Expands HP's Enterprise Reach — Hewlett-Packard's CEO says he believes the EDS acquisition will make the company's service offerings stronger. — Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd believes that the $13 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems will help build …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Bubble Alert: Facebook Traffic Declines 10% in April — The latest stats from Nielsen Online show a significant decline in month-over-month unique visitors to Facebook in the US. In April, traffic fell to 22.4M uniques, down from the 24.9M reported in March.
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SarahLacy.com, TECH.BLORGE.com, David Galbraith's Blog, All Facebook, WebProNews and Silicon Alley Insider
Brandon Badger / Google LatLong:
Extra! Extra! Discover the world's news in Google Earth — The launch of Google News on Google Earth is a milestone in the evolution of the geobrowser. By spatially locating the Google News' constantly updating index of stories from more than 4,500 news sources, Google Earth now shows …
Kelly Jackson Higgins / darkREADING:
Permanent Denial-of-Service Attack Sabotages Hardware — Researcher to demonstrate a permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack that remotely wipes out hardware via flash firmware updates — You don't have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack.
Reuters:
Russia's Yandex plans up to $2 bln NY IPO - source — Russian biggest internet firm Yandex plans to raise between $1.5 billion and $2.0 billion in a New-York initial public offering in autumn this year, a source close to the offering told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Movie Clips on Skype? Sure, Why Not? — eBay and by proxy Skype wants to do just more than IM and voice chats. And that is why they're pushing the service, and its clients, into new directions — from telepresence to video to whatever they can think of next.
