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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.
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Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, CNET News, SlashGear, PreCentral.net, Gizmodo Australia and TechSpot
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 was returning to being an “investor-backed startup” …
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Download Squad, TechCrunch, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Beet.TV, VentureBlog, Mashable! and eBay Ink
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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” — This weekend's news that Amazon.com removed sales rankings for gay and lesbian books has coined a new term, already in heavy rotation on Twitter and the blogosphere: AmazonFail. — Twitter posts tagged “AmazonFail” are flooding the microblogging site.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, BetaNews, Publishers Weekly, Epicenter, CRAIG'S POP LIFE and Jacket Copy, Thanks:mrinaldesai
PC World:
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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CNET News, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org, Google Blogoscoped, Network World and ReadWriteWeb
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Kim Tong-hyung / The Korea Times:Internet Users Flock to Foreign Sites to Avoid Censorship
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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.
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.
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.
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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 …
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.
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, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, TG Daily and MacRumors, Thanks:dmac1
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.
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.
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 …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Buy.com offering Apple official unlocked iPhones for $799 — Buy.com is offering an official Apple Unlocked iPhones now for $799. This is an official Apple iPhone which isn't jailbroken. You can do iTunes updates and not have to worry about locking your iPhone up again. Apple warranty also applies.
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Silicon Alley Insider, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, iLounge, TheAppleBlog, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The iPhone Blog and Mobility Site
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
New Sony PSP trend? Retail Patapon 2 rumored 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.
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.
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.
Galen Moore / Mass High Tech:
Online video firm ScanScout lands $8M funding — ScanScout Inc. has received a $5.1 million tranche, part of a funding round valued at $8.1 million, according to a document filed with federal regulatory authorities. — The round is the third for the Boston-based in-stream video ad network provider …
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Report: Carriers ‘pass’ on forthcoming Dell handset — Whenever Dell does unveil its much-hinted-about new handset, it will apparently be taking a nontraditional route to the market, according to an analyst report Monday. — Dell has decided to sell its new product through retailers only, Ashok Kumar of Collins Stewart said.
Peter Burrows / BusinessWeek:
A One-Time Raging Bull on Apple Rages Again. — Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu is out with a report this morning, advising investors that Apple's stock could rise from its current $119 to $152. That would be a 26% gain in the shares, which have already risen 45% in recent weeks despite concerns …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Don't Buy A Smartphone Until June! — In the market for a smartphone? Unless you desperately need one today, it's a smart idea to wait — at least until early June. Apple, Palm, and other companies are readying new phones for summer launches. And there's a good chance you'll want to try out one or more of them.
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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.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
SMS search tool Kwiry to shut down next week — Kwiry, “the remind yourself to do a search about something later” company is closing up shop next week. According to a company blog post, the service is shutting itself down due to “economic realities.” In the meantime, users are kindly …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft to start pushing IE 8 browser — Microsoft said it plans next week to start pushing its Internet Explorer 8 browser to consumers who have Windows' automatic-update feature turned on. — The software maker released the browser for download at last month's Mix conference …
