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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
StumbleUpon Stumbles Out of eBay's Arms to Be Reborn as a Start-Up: The Entire Memo — The content discovery service, StumbleUpon, has gotten itself back to start-up status, after being bought by eBay two years ago. — It announced today that it was returning to being an “investor-backed startup” …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pre gets caught taking a walk in the park — If you're looking for rhyme or reason, unfortunately we can't offer either for the time being. All we know is this: It looks like Sprint and Palm may be loosening the reins a bit when it comes to allowing the Palm Pre out into the wild.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm Pre launching no earlier than May 16 according to leaked doc? — We've been made privy to some Sprint planning documentation that implies that the carrier is looking to get all its Pre ducks in a row by May 16, which would suggest that there's no way in hell it's launching any earlier than that.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon: “ham-fisted” error caused glitch with gay books — Amazon has been taking a beating online for the removal of sales ranking on a number of gay- and lesbian-themed books. The company initially called it a glitch that was being fixed. Now Amazon is calling it a “ham-fisted” error that goes far beyond gay titles.
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker's Behind Amazon's Big Gay Outrage — Twitter had a big tizzy yesterday over Amazon.com's supposed censorship of gay and lesbian titles, did you hear? Just one problem: A well-known hacker has come forward and claimed the whole thing was his prank.
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:Blogs and Twitter Coin “AmazonFail”
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Ars Technica, BetaNews, Publishers Weekly, WalletPop Blog, Jacket Copy, CRAIG'S POP LIFE and The SiliconANGLE, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea — Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.
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Kim Tong-hyung / The Korea Times:Internet Users Flock to Foreign Sites to Avoid Censorship
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Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData — Award-winning website from the Center for Responsive Politics now provides 20 years of downloadable money-in-politics data—for free — WASHINGTON — Politicians, prepare yourselves. Lobbyists, look out. Today the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Top Facebook Applications See 25 Percent Drop In Traffic Since Redesign — If you thought the last redesign spelled the death of the Facebook platform, you ain't seen nothing yet! Last July Facebook released their new design and within a matter of months, widget applications had become a thing of the past.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Analyst: Apple placed chip order for 32GB iPhones — Apple has reportedly ordered 100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash chips, with the bulk of its order coming from its main iPhone chip supplier, Samsung, according to a research report released Monday by a Lazard Capital Markets analyst.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year — New data shows that the vast majority of corporate IT departments won't touch Microsoft's next OS until at least 2011. — Microsoft may need to keep its Windows XP operating system around a little longer—at least for its deep-pocketed corporate customers.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Hulu: More Vids to Fewer Uniques in March — Monthly viewer stats used to be pretty boring to write. To paraphrase Jan Brady, it was always “YouTube, YouTube, YouTube!” Then along came Hulu and things got more interesting as the premium content site started to take off.
Mark Walsh / MediaPost:
What iPhone Apps Are Used Most? Hint: Not Games — When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else. — According to an upcoming report on smartphone usage by online market research firm Compete …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jim Breyer Joins Dell Board Of Directors, Fast Becoming Most Powerful Man In Silicon Valley — Jim Breyer, a partner at Accel Partners, joined the board of directors of Dell today. That's interesting in itself, but the man also sits on the board of Facebook, Walmart and Marvel, as well as a number of younger startups.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Let's Go Crazy: New Prince iPod Costs $150 Per Song — The newest special-edition iPod to hit the market comes from Prince. It is purple, it is produced in a limited batch of 950, and it will cost you $2,100. — But at least it contains every Prince song ever recorded, right? Nope.
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Kindle 2's Fuzzy Fonts Have Users Seeing Red — Amazon's Kindle 2 is slimmer, faster and has longer battery life than its predecessor. But the newly launched e-book reader falls short when it comes to how well it displays text, say some users. — “When you read a lot of text on the screen …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Deconstructing Apple's Tiny iPod Shuffle — A teardown by researchers shows the device's components cost a mere 28% of its retail price—a fat profit margin. Biggest supplier: Samsung — When the first iPod graced store shelves almost eight years ago, it could pack about 1,000 songs …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, TG Daily, Ars Technica and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:dmac1
Louis Gray:
Twazzup Takes On Twitter Search to Make Sense of Real-Time Web — Twitter's acquisition of Summize in 2008 gained the red-hot status update service arguably the most impactful new entrant into the Web 2.0 space last year, as the company looked to harness the millions of daily tweets flowing through its system and make sense of it all.
Katherine Bourzac / Technology Review:
Gmail Sidesteps the App Store — The technology behind the new Gmail could challenge Apple's control over third-party applications. — Last week, Google announced an upgrade to its Web-based Gmail service for users of the iPhone and Android-powered devices.
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Arn / MacRumors:
All-Time Top iPhone App Sales Figures and Estimates — As part of Apple's one billion app countdown for their iTunes App Store, they have also compiled a list of the all-time top 20 apps [App Store] for both Paid and Free apps. — Perhaps most interesting is what the potential market for a very successful paid iPhone app might be.
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Ongoing problems at Twitter — Twitter administrators don't seem to be able to shut down the various XSS / CSRF worms that have been plaguing the service over the weekend. — The actual problems to end users haven't been devastating - so far. Most of the Twitter worms simply modify people's profiles to infect more users.
Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Print is still king: Only 3 percent of newspaper reading happens online — Surprise. — All generally accepted truths notwithstanding, more than 96 percent of newspaper reading is still done in the print editions, and the online share of the newspaper audience attention is only a bit more than 3 percent.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Microsoft rep faces tough questions at Linux Summit — At the Linux Collaboration Summit, Microsoft platform strategist Sam Ramji faced some tough questions during a panel about operating systems. He argued that Microsoft doesn't oppose open source software and that collaboration …
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Confirmed: Retail Patapon 2 to be UMD-free — Our inside source has given us word that Sony will release its upcoming title Patapon 2 purely through digital means, even though empty cases with the download code will be available at retailers. Sony may be inching even closer …
