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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
The True Cost of Amazon's New Kindle — The research firm iSuppli tears apart the Kindle 2 to determine how much its components really cost — It has taken the online retailer Amazon less than two years to make its Kindle device more or less synonymous with the electronic book reader,
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CNET News, Engadget, eWeek, The Toybox, Hardware 2.0, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, TeleRead and Gearlog
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Pro Apps and MacBooks to see update at WWDC — We just got a call in from our favorite Apple source who says that Apple is going to have a minor update at WWDC for MacBooks and MacBook Pros. He said he wasn't sure what the minor upgrade was but there was speculation that there might …
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The Apple Core, I4U News, O'Grady's PowerPage, CrunchGear, Softpedia News, Mac Soda, MacRumors, Gearlog and Gizmodo
Business Wire:
AT&T's First-Quarter Results Highlighted by Wireless Gains, U-verse TV Growth, Double-Digit Increase in IP Data Revenues — EPS of $0.53 versus $0.57 for the year-earlier first quarter; incremental noncash pension/retiree benefit costs reduced first-quarter 2009 EPS by $0.05, consistent with full-year outlook
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T: First quarter earnings shine; 1.6 million iPhones activated — AT&T on Wednesday delivered first quarter net income of $3.1 billion, or 53 cents a share, on revenue of $30.6 billion. That tally handily topped Wall Street estimates. Meanwhile, AT&T said it activated 1.6 million iPhones in the quarter.
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Ars Technica, Apple 2.0, GigaOM, paidContent.org, Tech Trader Daily, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, FierceWireless and Silicon Alley Insider
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:AT&T activates 1.6M more iPhone 3Gs as data revenues jump
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo analysts play deal or no deal on Microsoft search pact — Yahoo's first quarter earnings conference call was a humdinger—and possibly designed that way. — Everyone knew Yahoo's quarter would be so-so at best (Techmeme). And everyone knew attention would be focused on potentially outsourcing search to Microsoft.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter OAuth “Temporarily Disabled”, Developers Left Hanging — Twitter, you need to do a better job at communicating with the developer ecosystem that has been formed around your API for the past couple of years. — At least, that's the message the developers themselves seem to be sending out to the startup at an increasing rate.
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:I Should Have Heeded My Own Advice About Twitter
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Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Nokia: We Don't Know Why Criminals Want Our Old Phones — The mystery why cybercriminals want a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer. — Hackers have been offering up to €25,000 (US$32,413) in undergrounds forums for Nokia 1100 phones made in the company's former factory in Bochum, Germany.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Congress wants new probe into P2P file-sharing snafus — Congress is growling at LimeWire again over the “inadvertent file sharing” problem. Two House members want to know what the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are doing to fix things.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
PBS Brings Bugs, Presidents and Soufflés to the Web — Public television may be non-profit and government-sponsored, but it has many of the same problems as commercial broadcasters when it comes to the Web. More and more viewers want to watch “Nova,” “Frontline,” and “Antiques Roadshow” …
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ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, Digits, NewTeeVee, CenterNetworks, Mashable!, Lifehacker and ClickZ
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Will Hit A Billion Apps At 1:24:06 AM PST On April 23 (As Of Right Now) — We all know that Apple is closing in on a billion app downloads in the App Store. Currently, the counter on the main Apple.com claims it's about 10 million away from the major number.
Seth H. Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
First Google Android Netbooks spotted — Certainly this can't be it. The first Google Android netbook should certainly be more monumental than this $100 device from SkyTone. Guanzhou, China-based Skytone is famous for making Skype headsets and ultra low cost children's computers.
Matt Asay / CNET News:
IBM puts Oracle to the sword with EnterpriseDB — IBM is going on the offensive against the pending merger of Sun Microsystems and Oracle. — IBM announced Wednesday that it nabbed 100 of Sun's and Hewlett-Packard's customers last quarter alone for its high-end servers and mainframes …
John Leyden / The Register:
One third of workers open to bribes for data theft — Who wants to be a millionaire? — A somewhat self-serving survey ahead of an information security trade show in London next week reveals a third of workers can potentially be bribed into handing over company data.
Joe Teh / TechieLobang:
Specifications Of Acer Latest Smart Handheld — Today, ACER launches 5 smart handheld. You can read the press release here or the media launch coverage here. It is rare that a brand launches so many handsets at a time. Nevertheless, I understand that many are interested in the specifications of them.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Core MySpace Executive Team “Definitely Out.” Expect Announcement Soon. — An update to my post earlier today that News Corp., under new CEO of Digital Media Jonathan Miller, is looking to replace MySpace CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe. We've confirmed that things are actually moving …
Mats Lewan / CNET News:
Sorting out the Pirate Bay verdict — In the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial, many Swedish law experts say they consider Friday's high-profile guilty verdict severe but fair. Very few had predicted the verdict before it was handed out. — Complicating the case in many observers' eyes …
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Firefox 3.0.9 targets 12 security vulnerabilities — Mozilla released an update to Firefox 3 on Tuesday that patches 12 security vulnerabilities, four of which it rated as critical. — Firefox 3..9, the Web browser's third update this year, fixes two critical vulnerabilities …
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Mozilla.org, eWeek, Security Watch, Mozilla, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, TechSpot, The Register, Mashable!, Lifehacker, webmonkey, The Mozilla Blog and Mozilla Links
Mats Lewan / CNET News:
Face recognition comes to Flickr — Without any big fuss, a face-recognition feature has been added to Flickr. — The new feature was launched recently by Swedish start-up Polar Rose. It lets users import all their photos from a Flickr account to an account on Polar Rose …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Your health on the iPhone! — For my entire life, I've relied on habit. I wake up when my eyes open in the morning (sometimes prompted by the alarm clock), eat when my tummy says its time, exercise in the mornings, and fall asleep when I'm dead tired. — But the applications being built …
Washington Post:
‘Causes’ Social Networking May Be All Talk, No Cash for Nonprofits Seeking Funds — Though Popular, ‘Causes’ Ineffective for Fundraising — It seems foolproof: nonprofits using the power of the Internet to raise money through a clever Facebook application.
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Todd Ogasawara / MobileContentToday:
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Mobile App Analytics — To paraphrase Mark Twain and Benjamin Disraeli... There are lies, damned lies, statistics and mobile app analytics. There's no doubt in my mind that apps for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch lead in number of apps …
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
HP Pavilion dv3t Arrives at $799 — The HP dv3t isn't as svelte and light as the dv2 that I've been reviewing and benchmarking, but it too is available for under $800. Falling in the more mainstream notebook genre, the dv3t offers a 13.3-inch LED display with the same 1280×800 resolution as the dv2.
Tatum / Whiskey Media:
The Iconoclastic Business Problem — Iconoclastic t-shirts are for sale at the Onion. This insider insider joke will make your head explode. — I loved reading Sarah Lacy's post at Techcrunch, Bloggers: Let's Band Together and Stop the Hype Cycle, last Sunday.
