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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
New Amazon Device Debuts Wednesday — The last time Amazon held a press conference in New York City was in February, when it introduced the Kindle 2.0. Now the company has scheduled another one for Wednesday morning at Pace University in lower Manhattan. — Expect a new large-format …
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RIM Unseats Apple in The NPD Group's Latest Smartphone Ranking — Buy-one-get-one promotions helps RIM increase U.S. consumer market share in first quarter of 2009 … - RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models) — Apple iPhone 3G (all models) — RIM BlackBerry Storm
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:iPhone Outsold By BlackBerry Curve In U.S. Last Quarter
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Rohan Seth / Google Mobile Blog:
Do more with Google Latitude! — When we launched Google Latitude a couple of months ago, we were flooded with feature suggestions. One frequent request was to allow you to share your location with even more people and not just your Latitude friends. Today, we're launching two applications that do just that!
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Google Operating System, Screenwerk, The Official Google Blog and Digital Inspiration, Thanks:blogfisher
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New York Times:
F.T.C. Looks Into Ties Between Apple and Google Boards — SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties among the boards of two of technology's most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amounts to a violation of antitrust laws, according to several people briefed on the inquiry.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle — The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated.
Technology Review:
A Manifesto — Newspapers and magazines won't vanish. But they must change. Here's how to save media. — Even a few years ago, Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, those 18th-century London gallants and the founders of the Spectator, would have recognized the forms and modes of business …
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In-Stat:
Web-to-TV Video Streaming Services Will Drive Nearly $3 Billion in Revenue by 2013 — The under-35 adult population in the US has already adopted Web-to-TV video capability, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com. Over 40% of young adult US households view Internet video on the TV at least once per month.
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Wojtek Dabrowski / Reuters:
RIM plans next-gen Storm as it eyes untapped market — TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion is planning a next-generation version of its touchscreen BlackBerry Storm smartphone as part of a continuing push into the retail market, its co-CEO said on Monday.
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PC Magazine, Electronista, Unwired View, Crave, Agence France Presse, eWeek, Engadget and Electronic Pulp
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
RIM Adding ‘Push’ To BlackBerry Apps — BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIMM) is giving app developers access to the company's flagship “push” technology, via a new API, announced today. This as Apple rolls out a similar feature this summer for its iPhone apps.
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MobileCrunch, PC World, Yahoo! Finance, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, BerryReview.com and Electronista, Thanks:atul
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Adam Hupp / Facebook Blog:
Live Updating the Stream — Since introducing the new home page, we've been working to make it easier for you to stay updated with your friends and connections. Your News Feed, in the center of your home page, offers you an updated stream of what's happening with them. Beginning today, that stream is going live.
Sean Fallon / Gizmodo:
HyperMac External Battery Gives MacBooks a 32 Hour Boost — A battery that provides 32 hours of continuous MacBook use? Now we're talkin'. Sound's great until you find out that the 222Wh Hypermac external charger costs a whopping $500. — On the plus side, Hypermac is offering …
Robbie / StatSheet.com ChangeLog:
Without Warning, Twitter Kills StatTweets (Businesses Beware) — Show your support for StatTweets by retweeting this message. — Twitter summarily shut down the StatTweets service without any warning. It's been two weeks and I've received nothing but form responses from Twitter Support.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Begins Heavily Promoting Mobile Services — Over the past day or so Facebook has begun heavily promoting their mobile services through ads on the site which all link to a new Facebook mobile landing page. They are trying to alert users to the robust set of mobile features …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
The Facebook Police Shut Down One Of The Most Popular Public Profiles — This morning I got an email from the owner of the “Cristiano Ronaldo” public profile stating that he had been disable after attracting over 2.85 million fans. The reason? Most likely because the public profile …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Curve 8520 Review - First Impressions — A CrackBerry.com Hands-On First Look at the BlackBerry Curve 8520... A New “Low End” BlackBerry That Rocks?! — Rumors of a new BlackBerry with the codename “Gemini” have been running around the interwebs since early 2009, evolving slightly with every new blog post made about it.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour — The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind …
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.
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Guardian, Fast Company, Electronista, CrunchGear, Electronic Pulp, eWeek, TechSpot, dailywireless.org and The Tech Report
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
YouTube: Placement Police — Web video company looks for a chunk of integration ad revenue — In recent months, YouTube has set off some jangled nerves among several of its more popular content producers. The company issued written notifications to several producers …
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Podcasting News, WebProNews, HipMojo.com, ReadWriteWeb, NewTeeVee, paidContent.org, The Noisy Channel and MarketingVOX
24/7 Wall Street:
The Sun Sets On BusinessWeek, Forbes, And Fortune — The May 11 issue of Fortune Magazine is a perfect demonstration of what the three largest business magazines have done for decades. Its cover story, “How Bernie Did It' is the culmination of a four-month investigation into the details …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
The logistics: Windows 7 RC public download to last through July — If you aren't an MSDN or TechNet subscriber, but still want to get your hands on the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), Tuesday May 5 is the day downloads begin. — But there's no need to rush. (And doing so might lead to server-overload frustrations.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft: We're not ditching Vista until at least 2011 — But it will stop patching consumer editions in April 2012 — Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. will not dump Vista when Windows 7 launches and plans to keep selling it to computer makers, system builders, volume licensees and consumers …
John Nack / John Nack on Adobe:
Some thoughts about the PSD format — Here's what I think people want to know: Is Photoshop's PSD format a goofy, antiquated piece of crap, and by extension is Photoshop slow, clumsy, and/or outdated? — No. (Read on for details.) — The questions arise because various Web sites1 …
