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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core: Official Google Voice App Blocked From App Store — Earlier today we learned that Apple had begun to pull all Google Voice-enabled applications from the App Store, citing the fact that they “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple pulling Google Voice-enabled iPhone apps — Apple is systematically pulling iPhone apps that use Google Voice to simplify and reduce the costs of making phone calls, though it's suspected Apple isn't the one making the actual judgment call. — One of these, developer Sean Kovacs …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:The Fact & Fiction of Google Voice's iPhone Rejection
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:Verizon Wireless Details App Store Plans; Partners With BlackBerry
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Monster Merger: IBM Buys SPSS For Approx. $1.2 Billion In Cash Deal — IBM is buying analytics software and solutions provider SPSS in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share - a 42 percent premium to Monday's closing price of $35.09 on Nasdaq - resulting in a total cash consideration …
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Lisa Donovan / Chicago Sun Times:
Tweet about apartment mold draws lawsuit — It was a not-so-sweet Tweet about a Chicago apartment. — So Horizon Group Management LLC filed a libel lawsuit Monday against former tenant Amanda Bonnen, claiming one of her alleged Twitter posts “maliciously and wrongfully” …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Blip.tv Lands A Big Distribution Deal With YouTube And Others; Redesigns Dashboard — Mike Hudack, the founder of Blip.tv, just landed a major set of deals to expand the distribution of his Web video network. The biggest deal is with YouTube, which for the first time will allow Blip.tv …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
No new netbooks from Asustek, Acer in 2H09; Acer pushes back Android netbook — Asustek Computer and Acer will not offer any new netbooks in the second half of 2009, as Intel plans to push the launch of its entry-level products including the Pine Trail-M platform to the first quarter of 2010, according to industry sources.
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Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Barnes & Noble makes Wi-Fi free via AT&T — Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide offer Wi-Fi access, and the majority of them are already hotspots through AT&T. Those stores now offer free access via Wi-Fi, with a focus on expanding customer awareness of the Barnes & Noble's burgeoning e-book library.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Report: Hon Hai to build Apple tablets as soon as September — A Chinese newspaper has reported that Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will assemble tablet computers for Apple that may appear for sale as early as September. — The report, published by the Taipei, Taiwan Apple Daily paper …
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Novatel Wireless, Inc.:
Novatel Wireless Announces MiFi 2372 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot Optimized for North American HSPA Broadband Networks — Global HSPA Edition Brings Intelligent Mobile Hotspot Capability to Virtually Anywhere in the World — Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Nasdaq:NVTL), a provider …
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Marc Graser / Variety:
Twitter fizzles at Comic-Con — Number of tweets falls short of expectations — The tweets weren't as loud as expected. — Marketing mavens had thought fans would whip out their cell phones and use Twitter to spread the word instantly on what they thought about the movies Hollywood took to Comic-Con last week.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
US Movie Companies Go After The Pirate Bay - Again — Despite losing in court against the music and movie industries, The Pirate Bay continues to operate, a clearly unacceptable situation for the plaintiffs in the case. The verdict is subject to appeal and that could make the whole thing drag on for years yet.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Thanks for giving my pixels back, browser makers — I'd personally like to offer browser makers my gratitude for realizing that my screen isn't big enough. — I'm one of those people who wants every bit of display real estate I can get. The more I can see of the document I'm writing …
Casey Ho / Google Mobile Blog:
The Iterative Web App: Links Got Shorter and Smarter — On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
China's iPhone deal: New details emerge — The headlines out of China overnight Tuesday were headsnappers. — First Shanghai Security News reported that Apple (AAPL) had reached a three-year deal with China Unicom to market the iPhone in the world's largest cellphone market (600 million-plus subscribers).
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
OS X 10.5.8 Development Wrapping Up? — MacRumors has received word that Apple seeded OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Build 9L30 to developers last night, including only a single documented change related to an issue with external monitors and waking from sleep mode. There are reportedly no listed outstanding issues in the latest build.
Jamie Lendino / PC Magazine:
SiRF Unveils Next Generation GPS — SiRF, the San Jose-based embedded GPS company, has unveiled SiRFstar IV, a vast upgrade to the GPS architecture used in many portable and in-car GPS systems released over the past five years. — The new architecture aims to reduce battery drain, and it allows for much smaller receiver components.
Peter Enav / Associated Press:
Taiwan's Foxconn agrees on suicide compensation — The Taiwanese employer of a young Chinese man who killed himself after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype has agreed to pay compensation to his family, a company official said Tuesday. — Sun Danyong, 25 …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge rejects fair use defense as Tenenbaum P2P trial begins — There will be no fair use defense for Joel Tenenbaum at trial this week. — Everything about the Tenenbaum case has been highly unusual, and Judge Nancy Gernter's final pretrial order was no exception.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
AP: “We're Done” Answering Questions About Fair Use & Our Rights System — Still confused about the Associated Press's announcement last week about a new content tagging system that's supposed to provide rights information? I am — but the AP's apparently not talking to anyone further about it.
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
The Web Is Flat: Why Time Spent Online Is Leveling Off — Forrester Survey Says Use of Internet Media Stayed Steady at 12 Hours a Week — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time spent with the internet, as it turns out, doesn't balloon indefinitely. — That might sound obvious …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Design ideas show Firefox 4.0 with a Chrome look — Mozilla has released mockups that show how Firefox 4.0 conceivably might look, and two words spring to my mind: Google Chrome. — Last week, Mozilla showed some mockups for the nearer-term Firefox 3.7 that eliminated the browser's title bar …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
What Everyone Made from the Zappos Sale — If Zappos was a forced sale, would someone please come force me a raise? — Zappos just filed its S4 with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which details the history of the merger talks with Amazon. There's a lot of boring boilerplate here …
