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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties — When I woke this morning at 5AM UK time, I discovered an in-box full of emails from people asking if I knew what was going on with Amazon. My books — and all books from Macmillan and its many divisions …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Apple-Amazon Ebook War Begins: Amazon Deletes Macmillan Books — Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT, is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $15. This won't end well.
Brad Stone / Bits:Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign Against iPad — Apple has clearly hurt Adobe's feelings. When Steve Jobs demonstrated an iPad at Wednesday's tablet event, its Safari browser clearly did not support Flash. Adobe has published a blog post calling Flash the Apple iPad's “broken link.”
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PC World:
Apple Pulls Flash Content From iPad Promos — JR Raphael, PC World — It looks like Apple's iPad really is magical after all. Marketing materials for the iPad mysteriously morphed overnight following complaints that they misleadingly depicted the device showing Flash-based content.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Can Flash be saved? — Let's go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn't work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPad v. A Rock — This speaks for itself. Thanks to Phil Santoro for creating it and sending it us (a play on the iphone v. rock joke). — Information provided by CrunchBase
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Gizmodo:
Slate Showdown: iPad vs. HP Slate vs. JooJoo vs. the Android Tablets — Everybody's talking about tablets, especially those single-pane capacitive touchscreen ones more specifically known as “slates.” The iPad is the biggest newsmaker, but there are lots headed our way (most with built-in webcams).
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix? Use Our Chart As A Guide — When we did the first version of this chart heading into the 2009 holiday sales season, four contenders—including the unexpected Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook—were set to crowd the instant-download e-reader field that Amazon …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS (update: handwriting keyboard?) — The iPad may not have a camera in its current incarnation, but Apple's at least laying the foundation for one: we just confirmed with extremely trusted sources …
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App Advice, The iPhone Blog, TUAW, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, Electronista, EverythingiCafe and MacRumors
Fraser Speirs:
Future Shock — I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad. — Some are trying to dismiss these ravings by comparing them to certain comments made after the launch of the iPod in 2001: “No wireless.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Multitasking: Intel does, iPad doesn't — How important is the ability to multitask on tablet-class devices like Apple's iPad? Important enough that the feature will likely be touted as a trump card for Intel-based smartphones such as a tablet-size phone from LG due later this year.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Irony: You Need A Map To Find Google Street View On The iPhone — We came to a strange realization on Friday at SEL headquarters: Google Street View is terribly unintuitive on the iPhone. As Danny Sullivan suggested, you practically need a map to find it.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google news — First, the news: Google told me today that they would consider giving more transparency about revenue splits in Adsense. — At a private meeting with a dozen and a half media people at Davos with CEO Eric Schmidt, President of sales Nikesh Arora, search boss Marissa Mayer …
