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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple Tablet Aiming To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines — Steve Jobs said people don't read any more. But Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a “new device.” And they're not just going for e-books and mags. They're aiming to redefine print.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons — Anyone who has followed Apple news/rumors/patents over the past couple of years has probably noticed a certain trend emerging: Apple seems to be slowly shifting its entire line of products to touch-based computing.
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Technologizer, Mashable!, Steve Krause, Electricpig, I4U News and The iPhone Blog, Thanks:atul
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:Everything We Know About Apple's Touchscreen Tablet
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TECH.BLORGE.com, TeleRead, The Apple Core, GMSV, Electronista, Newsweek Blogs, PCLaunches.com, IntoMobile, everwas and digg.com
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Apple Genius Bar: iPhones' 30% Call Drop Is “Normal” in New York — How utterly s**tty is the iPhone on AT&T in the New York area? The average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls. And that's considered acceptable by Apple. — Giz reader Manoj took his iPhone to the Genius Bar …
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Brainstorm Tech, Engadget Mobile, I4U News, Phone Arena, The Register, The iPhone Blog, Gearlog, MacRumors iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac and LOOPRumors
Mark Relph / The Windows Blog:
The Windows 7 Logo Program — First, let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Relph and I am a Senior Director with the Windows Product Strategy Group and I lead a group known as the Windows Ecosystem Team. My team and I focus on a few specific areas - compatibility of applications & hardware …
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Technologizer, BetaNews, Download Squad, Crave, Engadget, Lockergnome Blog Network, AppScout, Windows 7 News and PC World
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK internet ad spend overtakes TV — Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV, says IAB — The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising …
Alex Himel / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Connect, Easy as 1, 2, 3 — Earlier today, we announced Translations for Facebook Connect, which simplifies and streamlines the process of translating a website into to any of the more than 65 different languages Facebook currently supports. As we continue to provide ways …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook eases Connect sign-up to expand reach across the web — Facebook is simplifying how outside companies can integrate its Connect service today, in an effort to boost the company's impact far beyond the borders of its social networking site. — It's launching a Facebook Connect Wizard …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
RIM launches TiVo for BlackBerry — How long does it take to pump out an TiVo app for BlackBerry? One year, evidently, as RIM and TiVo have just announced the availability of TiVo for BlackBerry. Allowing BlackBerry users with a TiVo set-top box to view their program guide and remotely schedule …
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mocoNews, BetaNews, Inside BlackBerry, CNET News, Softpedia News, MobileCrunch and Phone Arena, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million Funding — iMeem may go down in the history books as the little company that could. The service morphed from an instant-messaging centric social network into a widget service to a full on music streaming service (read an early post by us on iMeem here).
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Sources: ‘Light Peak’ technology not Apple idea — Industry sources are refuting a report claiming that a future fiber-optics technology was an Apple idea that was brought to Intel. — Light Peak was an Intel Labs project that the chipmaker was working on before anyone was thinking of using it …
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking — ABOUT two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers — and that number rises once they learn the different ways marketers are following their online movements, according to a new survey from professors at the University …
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DSLreports, Matt Cutts, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, BoomTown and Screenwerk
blog.seattlepi.com:
Judge overturns Uniloc's record $388M victory over Microsoft — A district judge has abolished a high-profile, $388 million award against Microsoft and ruled that the company did not infringe a patent held by software maker Uniloc. — The judgment, signed Tuesday by Judge William Smith …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Warner's $4.2 Billion AOL Fire Sale — When AOL CEO Tim Armstrong isn't busy hiring former Google executives, he's preparing for his company's spinoff from the Time Warner (TWX) mother ship, which is is supposed to happen by the end of the year. So when it does, how much will the Internet company be worth?
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
New Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements to Cover Fraud — New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim's dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report.
Eric Miraglia / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI's Next-Generation Codeline — YUI().use("node", function(Y) { Y.one("#message").setContent("Hello, World!") We're pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3's core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Fox Interactive Morphs Into News Corp. Digital Media; Management Reshuffle — So the ghost of Fox Interactive Media is finally buried, and now emerges the winner, ready to take on the world...or whatever. News Corp (NYSE: NWS). Digital Media (NDM) is the new name of News Corp.'s digital media group headed …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
OnLive raises big round from AT&T and others for on-demand gaming — OnLive is announcing today it has raised a third round of funding from AT&T Media Holdings, Lauder Partners and its existing partners as it moves toward the launch of its video games on demand service, which will let you play high-end games with no special hardware.
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DSLreports, paidContent, OnLive Blog, VG247, blogs.ft.com, TechCrunch, Blue's News and Joystiq
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intuit QuickBooks 2010 Includes App Store — Intuit launched QuickBooks 2010 on Monday, including the must-have feature of recent software platforms, an app store. — Both QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 include the new Intuit App Center, which allows users to download plug-ins …
Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Ribbit injects voice into Google Wave release — Ribbit, one of the earliest web-based telephone services (acquired last year by British telecom giant BT), plans to ride Google Wave's coattails — announcing the integration of several gadgets allowing voice calls, phone conferencing …
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Palm Pre Woes — When the Cloud Goes Down — The big news in the Palm world yesterday was the release of webOS 1.2. This new version had been delayed once or twice and contained a lot of fixes and new features. Like most Pre owners I jumped on the update as soon as the word spread …
Patrick Smith / paidContent:
Guardian.co.uk Planning Paid-For iPhone App — Guardian.co.uk is preparing to launch an iPhone app and it's likely to charge for it, paidContent:UK has learned. — Guardian News & Media confirmed an app is “in the pipeline” and digital director Emily Bell told us: “It's still in development …
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Seeking Alpha:
Palm Has a PREcarious Channel Issue — Yesterday morning, our teammate and partner, David Eller downgraded Palm (PALM) stock to Unfavorable from Neutral. Simultaneously, I published a report examining how this problem will likely disappear inside of Sprint (S). We maintain our favorable opinion on Sprint.
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Adobe boss takes seat at Dell — Annoyed with Adobe? Feel the company's customer commitment to be a little weak? Somewhat annoyed at the company's opaque price tier structure when it comes to Creative Suite sales in the UK and Europe in comparison to the US?
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Taylor Buley / Forbes:
Recognize That Cute Picture Online? — Affiliate advertisers could be abusing the photos you post. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Internet advertisement platforms are brimming with photos of sunny smiles and exposed body parts. Many of these ads are published by outsiders, called …
Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Nielsen Adds Internet Speed, Usage, Gaming To TV Ratings Characteristics — In another step toward the integration of online and television, TV ratings researcher Nielsen Co. has informed its clients that it is adding new sample characteristics to its ratings software that will enable advertisers …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Facebook Offers Translation Tool to Other Sites — Back in January 2008, Facebook was available in one language: English. That's when the company introduced a new translation tool that allowed its members to do the hard work of translating the site into their native languages.
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Facebook Developers, eWeek, Mashable!, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Inside Facebook and All Facebook, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft's Top Executives Get A Paycut — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) just completed the worst fiscal year in its history, with revenue down three percent; the first decline in sales in its history. And its executives did not get off easy. All of Microsoft's top executives …
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Matt Brezina / Xobni Blog:
Xobni now featuring Twitter! — Tonight we're launching a feature we've wanted to launch for a while and one which we've been using internally with much glee. Twitter is now integrated with Xobni. When you click on an Outlook email message from a contact, that contact's Xobni profile will now contain their recent tweets.
