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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
$2.99 Minimum Paid App Price at BlackBerry App World! — WOAHHHHHH... Hold your Horses! After RIM updated their BlackBerry App World website tonight, they also updated their Developer FAQ which now includes a chart that details the pricing tiers for apps. Take a look above.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Juicing the BlackBerry: RIM wants back-end money from new apps — Research In Motion (RIM) is set to launch its application store for the BlackBerry, now dubbed “App World,” at the end of this month. For third-party developers on the outside, it may sounds like a very enticing proposition …
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Digital Daily, Electronista, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, Boy Genius Report and Gizmodo
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Real Photos of the BlackBerry 9630! — FINALLY!!!!! What you're looking at above are the first real photos of the BlackBerry “Niagara” 9630. As you can see, this CDMA full-QWERTY BlackBerry is looking sweet and very much has the appearance of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Bold morphed into one.
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Boy Genius Report, Unwired View, SlashGear, BerryReview.com, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch and Engadget
Alan Patrick / broadstuff:
FACEBOOK BLINKS, COPIES TWITTER, STILL GETS IT WRONG. — From the Facebook Blog comes the admission that they are having to change their model and copy Twitter: … Translation - we're copying Twitter's real time stream. … Translation: By 2009 it was clear no one gives a sh*t …
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David Recordon / O'Reilly Radar:Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
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FactoryCity, The Equity Kicker, All Facebook, Evolving Web and Ben Metcalfe Blog, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine — At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn't get it, and he's certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn't understand the massive valuation …
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Search Engine Watch, SiliconAngle, Microblink, SheGeeks, Regular Geek, Mashable!, AdAge and The Mind of Alex
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Obama names D.C. official as federal CIO — Updated 5:52 a.m. with details from the official announcement. — President Obama on Thursday named Vivek Kundra, Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, to the position of federal chief information officer.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK & Europe:
Sky News realises news breaks first on Twitter, not TV - Creates a Twitter Correspondent — TechCrunch has been saying for a long time - at least since November last year - that Twitter is an emerging source of news. Recent tragic events have only served to emphasise this.
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Amazon's Apple Deal: Kindle Cannibal? — Customers may have less incentive to buy a Kindle, now that they can download e-books onto the iPhones and iPods they already own — A new tool that lets consumers download digital books onto Apple devices could spur demand for some of the 240,000 …
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Rick Aristotle Munarriz / Motley Fool:
Game Over for GameStop? — GameStop (NYSE: GME) probably doesn't see Toys “R” Us as much of a competitor in video game retailing, but that is about to change. — Toys “R” Us is starting to buy and resell used games in a few test stores, according to Forbes.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung's Nano-powered Q1EX UMPC loses its QWERTY, gains 4.5-hour battery at the FCC — Meet the latest iteration of the Samsung Q1 handheld: the NP-Q1EX. First spotted at CES in January, Sammy's going back to its UMPC roots by ditching the split QWERTY in favor of a clean …
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Dave Rubert / NaviGadget:Samsung NP-Q1EX — Samsung is getting ready to release an UMPC …
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Courtney Chin / Inside AdSense:
Introducing expandable ads on AdSense sites — We're excited to introduce to you expandable ads, a new type of ad that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Schmidt: I Didn't Diss Twitter — Eric Schmidt explained on CNBC tonight that he didn't mean to insult Twitter when he said it was a poor-man's email system. What he meant, he says, was that people are going to want to use all their different communications systems together.
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Business Week:
Twitter Has Potential Buyers Atwitter — As the microblogging service explodes in popularity, the suitors are lining up. Facebook has already made a play—others will likely follow — The microblogging service Twitter has caught on with everyone from celeb Ashton Kutcher to CEOs.
Colby Ranger / The Official Google Blog:
Tipping points — Ideas are everywhere, but how do we know which ones actually work? At Google, we put a lot of stock in both the wisdom of crowds — the idea that lots of people responding to a given question can collectively find the best answer — and the value of community.
QuadsZilla / SEO BlackHat:
Twitter - The New Parasite Host on the Block — I hate twitter. But as long as twitter pages continue to rank in Google for everything under the sun, you're a fool if you're not using twitter accounts for parasite hosting. — For you new kids, parasite hosting is where you leverage …
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Offbeat Name? Then Facebook's No Friend — What Caitlin wanted did not seem that hard. She had signed up for Facebook after she married, as Caitlin Shaw. Now, to make it easier for old friends to find her, she wanted to add her maiden name. Her maiden name is Batman.
Mitchell Oke / Gear Diary:
Windows 7 on the HTC Shift — There have been two activities that have become the norm across the world of technology blogging in the last couple of years: unboxing, and loading Mac OS X onto netbooks. As a person who is lucky enough to have the opportunity to play with lots of phones …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Seen In the Wild — I was reading a piece on Venturebeat, on Kutano. And this ad was at the bottom. — This is an ad? — Yep. Innaresting. Four years ago (God, yes, I've been writing for more than that, er, ummm....22 years, in fact...) anyway, I wrote this about Google and the need to market its products:
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Lamond Not Telling Whole Story, Say Sources — Pierre Lamond, the legendarily successful Sequoia Capital partner, caused tongues to wag earlier this week when he abruptly announced that he was leaving the firm to join Khosla Ventures, just down the street on Sand Hill Road.
BBC:
User info stolen from music site — The music streaming service Spotify has been targeted by hackers. — The Swedish company says people's personal details, including e-mail addresses, dates of birth and billing addresses, were all stolen. — However, it is thought credit-card details …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek evaluating Qualcomm platform Eee PCs — Asustek Computer is evaluating the possibility of developing Eee PCs that adopt Qualcomm's platform, however the company currently does not yet have any mass production plans for non-Intel Atom-based Eee PCs, according to Samson Hu, general manager of Eee PC business at Asustek.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog — Don't count out Joost just yet. We recently wrote it still has a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos.
