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Brad Stone / Bits:
Live Blogging Amazon's Kindle Event — On to Newspapers: Three newspapers will offer subscriptions on the Kindle DX for a reduced price in exchange for long-term commitments from subscribers: The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The Times, has taken the stage.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Kindle DX Offers 9.7 Inches of E-Ink for $489 — Amazon's new Kindle DX boasts a newspaper-friendly screen that's 2.5x bigger than the standard Kindle, but it's also got a few tricks of its own (new features in bold): — • 9.7-inch E-Ink screen (1200 x 824 with 16 shades of grey)
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Amazon Kindle DX announced: $489, ships this summer — Just as with the Kindle 2, Amazon posted the Kindle DX product page while the launch event was underway. Specs-wise, there's not much here we didn't know: the big changes are a larger 9.7-inch screen that rotates to landscape display …
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MacRumors, Hardware 2.0, CNET News, MediaMemo, bub.blicio.us, DVICE and Industry Standard
Amazon.com:
Introducing Kindle DX—Amazon's Large Screen Addition to the Kindle Family of Wireless Reading Devices — Large Kindle DX Display and New Features Provide Enhanced Experience for Reading a Wide Range of Professional and Personal Documents — The New York Times, The Boston Globe …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Just How Much Money Can Free iPhone Apps Make? Quite A Bit — Earlier this year Pinch Media released a report on the state of the App Store, describing some of the trends it had seen as developers tried to monetize their apps. The verdict: advertising on free applications simply can't match …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, AppScout, Gizmodo, ITworld.com, GigaOM, Macworld, NEWSFACTOR and Business Week
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Top iPhone Apps Make $400 to $5,000 Per Day On Ads
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
South Carolina Gives Craigslist Ultimatum: Remove Prostitution Or Face Criminal Charges — The various state attorneys general have focused like a laser on Craigslist these past weeks. Like most politicians hoping to get reelected, Attorneys General tend to follow the press and jump in front of any parade they see.
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Roberto Baldwin / Mac|Life all:
Source: 10.5.7 Hitting Your Mac on Friday — If you've been champing at the bit for the magic of 10.5.7, according to a super-secret Apple source, your champing can cease on Friday. The newest version of Leopard is slated to fix a slew of networking, syncing and bluetooth issues.
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TUAW, Agence France Presse, Softpedia News, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, TechBlips, Edible Apple and digg.com
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Alex Brooks / World of Apple:Mac OS X 10.5.7 Due Friday, 9J60 With Developers [Seed Notes]
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Can a Palm Pre multitask better than an iPhone? — Palm's comeback attempt rests squarely on the notion that it has found a better way to manage your complicated digital life. — Ever since its January coming-out party at the Consumer Electronics Show, Palm has generated buzz for the Pre unlike …
Palm, Inc.:
Palm Pre to Arrive in Canada on Bell Mobility Network — Print page E-mail page Download PDF — Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today announced that Palm Pre(TM), the first phone based on the new Palm(R) webOS(TM) mobile platform, will debut in Canada exclusively on Bell Mobility's 3G …
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Palm WebOS, Profectio, The Official Palm Blog, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, GPS Obsessed, PreCentral.net, Unwired View, Network World and Gearlog
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Boy, Apple's Design Aesthetic Really Didn't Rub Off on Kindle 1.0 at All, Did It? — What propitious timing. At a press conference in New York later this morning, Amazon (AMZN) is expected to announce a new large-screen Kindle designed for reading periodicals and textbooks.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Stickam brings easy, affordable livestreaming to your website — Want to add live video to your website, but lack the resources to make it happen? Stickam, one of the many companies out there offering services to broadcast live video online, wants to help.
Christine McGourty / BBC:
‘Anaconda’ harnesses wave power — A new wave energy device known as “Anaconda” is the latest idea to harness the power of the seas. — Its inventors claim the key to its success lies in its simplicity: Anaconda is little more than a length of rubber tubing filled with water.
Wayne Lin / Inside AdSense:
Showcase your site with Google Ad Planner's Publisher Center — To help you increase the visibility of your sites to potential advertisers, we've just launched the Publisher Center in Google Ad Planner. This will allow you to provide details about your sites to help attract advertisers.
Pete Barlas / Investor's Business Daily:
Google, Yahoo Find Mobile Ad Business A Whole New World — When Glu Mobile launched an ad campaign in February to sell its wireless games, the company at first ran ads on five mobile Internet networks, including those managed by Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO).
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BBC:
Robot to create Facebook profile — Facebook could soon be helping bridge the divide between humans and robots. — Researchers are giving a robot its own Facebook profile page to help foster meaningful relationships with people. — The page will be populated with interactions the robot …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Filters Copyright Infringing Torrents — Starting today, Mininova will use a content recognition system that detects and removes torrent files linking to copyright infringing files. The system will also prevent the torrents from being re-uploaded to mininova later on.
James / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia E52 boasts super call time — WARSAW, Poland - The Nokia E52 was revealed today in Warsaw and boasts astounding talk time - eight whole hours before you need to recharge. It also makes the most of Nokia's email functionality thanks to Nokia Messaging, making email set-up on the device simple and fast.
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Symbian-Guru.com, Mobilewhack.com, Unwired View, The Nokia Blog, Electricpig.co.uk and TechBlips, Thanks:thenokiablog
The Daily Beast:
Murdoch's Secret Plan to Charge for Content — Blogs and Stories — The Daily Beast's Stryker McGuire has learned that News Corp. has tasked a global team—reporting directly to the 78-year-old media mogul—with creating a model to charge for online content.
Nancy Gohring / PC World:
Microsoft to Forbid VoIP, Rival Stores at Mobile Market — Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB or that change the default browser on a device. — They are among 12 prohibited application types …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Some Intel chips don't support Windows 7 ‘XP mode’ — A small brouhaha is erupting over Windows 7 and Intel processors. The hubbub is centered on which Intel processors will not support “XP mode” in Windows 7 and, by extension, which PCs will not support XP mode.
Louis Gray:
Online Transparency Leads to New World of Group Dating — Guest Post By Micah Baldwin of Learn To Duck (Twitter/FriendFeed) — Like most everything, even dating has been changed by social media. — Before the explosion of the Internet, a man (or woman) had to find a woman (or man) …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: CEO Pete Sheinbaum Leaving DailyCandy, Comcast — Roughly eight months after shepherding the sale of newsletter publisher DailyCandy to Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), paidContent has learned that start-up vet Pete Sheinbaum is leaving as CEO effective Friday.
Tony Peric / prethinking.com:
Sprint Business Unit now Training online for Palm Pre - Sprint Employees fired for discussing Pre — BREAKING NEWS: This just in from a close ‘ninja’ pal. Sprint's business unit has confirmed that they have already been training with the Palm Pre via an online training module.
