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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday — The last time Amazon (AMZN) held a press conference in New York City was in February, when it introduced the Kindle 2.0. Now it is scheduling one for Wednesday morning at Pace University in lower Manhattan. — Expect a new, large format device that's optimized …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press — The iPod stemmed losses in the music industry. The Kindle gave beleaguered book publishers a reason for optimism. — Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapers — Amazon will reportedly unveil a new large-screen Kindle Wednesday. The company just scheduled a press conference for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in New York City at Pace University. Get the subtle hint?
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Big Screen Kindle Hail Mary To Newspapers Will Fall Incomplete — Hail Mary - noun: A long forward pass in football, esp. as a last-ditch attempt at the end of a game, where completion is considered unlikely. — New reports have several companies on the verge of releasing large screen …
Darren Murph / Engadget:NYT: Big-screen Kindle coming from Amazon “as early as this week”
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Trent Reznor rips Apple, rates smartphone OSes — Why should you care about what Trent Reznor has to say about Apple or smartphones in general? Well, for one thing, the front-man for Nine Inch Nails is a digital music visionary who's gone it alone and found gold in the deep coffers of the Internet.
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Business Wire:
Sprint Nextel Reports First Quarter 2009 Results — Driven by success of Boost Monthly Unlimited and wholesale, achieved the best sequential improvement in total gross additions, and loss of 182,000 total net subscribers represents a sequential improvement of over 1 million …
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Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:
The two trends that are conspiring against Microsoft — If you clicked into this article thinking it would be a Microsoft bashapalooza or a vapid prediction about the downfall of the Seattle software giant then you're going to be disappointed. — Microsoft isn't going anywhere.
Fred / A VC:
The End Of The IPO Drought Is Coming — I've said it a few times on this blog recently as offhand comments, but I feel compelled to say it a bit more loudly. I think we will see the end of the IPO drought for venture backed companies within the next year, possibly by the end of this year.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Best Buy to trial launch Palm Pre on June 7th — Well lookie here. This one isn't 100% confirmed just yet but a ninja hit us up with what could be some pretty juicy launch details for the rumor mill's favorite handset du jour, the Palm Pre. Here we go — according to our ninja …
New York Times:
Losing Popularity Contest, MySpace Tries a Makeover — As Owen Van Natta, the new chief executive of MySpace, starts his second week at the sprawling social network , he faces an acute demographic problem. — While Facebook is adding users, MySpace is losing them.
Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Mobile Ad Spending Mobilizes, Albeit At A Slightly Slower Rate — The rate of growth of mobile advertising has slowed considerably over the past several months, but it remains one of the fastest growing emerging mediums on Madison Avenue, according to a new forecast being released today by Interpublic's Magna unit.
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Nokia:
Nokia E71x with AT&T in stores across the U.S. today — Text it, don't say it - survey reveals growing trend in messaging — White Plains, NY, USA - Nokia announced that the slimmest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, will be available in AT&T retail stores and online beginning today.
Oliver Marks / Collaboration 2.0:
Jive Introduce ‘Software as a Service’ Social Business Express — Jive Software are launching a free for 90 days cloud version of their ‘Social Business Software’ (SBS) today - a lighter weight hosted solution for those who are grappling with internal infrastructure and resources challenges …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: The Hunt for Insights in the Online Chatter About Swine Flu — “SWINE flu” last week was the most searched term on Yahoo, displacing “American Idol.” — The Wikipedia page Swine influenza had 1.3 million pages views on Wednesday and on Thursday.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Two More Places We'd Like To See Twitter — Now that we're hooked on Twitter, we keep running across places in life where instant access to the messaging/microblogging service makes sense. No doubt Twitter's bizdev phones are ringing off the hook, but here's two places we'd love to hook into Twitter:
Jerry Shen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to launch 11.6-inch Eee PC later this month — Asustek Computer plans to launch an 11.6-inch Eee PC later this month, but will still consider 10-inch the mainstream specification for 2009, account for 50% of total shipments, while 11.6-inch models will account for 30%, according to company president Jerry Shen.
