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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.
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JR Raphael / 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.
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9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Adobe Flash Platform Blog and Computerworld, Thanks:jr_raphael
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Turn Your iPhone and iPod touch into iPad — Apple iPad, which was announced earlier this week received a mixed reaction from all over the world. Some found it as an oversized iPod touch, while others thought that it has the potential to redefine the way we will use our computers in the future.
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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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
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).
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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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.
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld:
The iPad shows that Apple and Google still have a relationship — If you were worried about the demise of the Apple-Google business relationship, the iPad announcement gave you some reason to hope that there is still a lot of cooperation. — Recent reports have had Apple talking to Microsoft …
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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.
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broadstuff, ParisLemon, TechnoLlama, DisplayBlog, /message and rc3.org, Thanks:jondillon
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Intel & Micron Announce 25nm NAND Flash Production, SSDs to get Bigger/Cheaper in Q4 — Buy the Kingston SNM225-S2/160GB 160GB — I wasn't supposed to be able to tell you about this until Monday, but it looks like the news leaked early so IMFT gave us the green light.
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Matt Mireles / The Metamorphosis:
Dear Startup Lawyers, Please Blog. — As an entrepreneur, I've long been befuddled by the utter lack of transparency and overall opacity of the market for legal services. From what I understand, this is how the VC world was just five years ago. And then guys like Fred Wilson …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Owen Van Natta Talks About His First 8 Months Running MySpace (video) — I sat down with MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this week to talk about his first eight months on the job. This is one of Owen's first video interviews since taking the job last April.
Thanks:erickschonfeld
