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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple predicted to introduce lower cost iPhone models in June — Apple's next update to the blockbuster iPhone handset is expected by one prominent analyst to have a lower total cost of ownership, and to also include new gesture-based functionality. — Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley maintains …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated) — On Tuesday, Facebook was awarded a major patent for “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network”. This is a huge deal for a number of reasons, most significantly that it grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed - This Could Be Very Big — Facebook has been granted a patent on the Newsfeed, “displaying a news feed in a social network environment.” Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook found the patent first and says it could be “one of the most significant social web patents” in a decade.
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Palm CEO's Letter to Employees — Palm said on Thursday that its phones aren't selling as well as it had hoped and that revenues for its fiscal year would be “well below” its forecasts. In an internal company-wide email, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein elaborated further about the reasons behind …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to iPhone & iPad — On Feb 25, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's iPhone. Today's patent reveals yet another innovative concept that is designed …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Ad Plan: Copy Google — What will Twitter's long-awaited ad platform look like? Something like Google's. — That's the general description of Twitter's plan, according to people who have been briefed by the company. — Here are the very broad strokes:
Carrie-Ann Skinner / Computerworld:
EU orders Google to ditch Street View images after 6 months — PC Advisor - The European Union has ordered Google to delete images captured for its Street View service after six months. — Street View, which was made available in the UK last year, is an add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
When It Comes to Content, Amazon's Kindle Won't Be Undersold — On Jan. 27, Steven P. Jobs was still standing on a stage in San Francisco, presenting Apple's new iPad, when the phones started ringing. Senior managers from Amazon.com were calling newspaper, magazine and book publishers trying …
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Twitter phishing hack hits BBC, PCC, Miliband ... and Guardian — An invitation to find out about better sex is spreading virally around Twitter - but only leads to identity theft and malware (updated x2, with video) — Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Android vs. Apple: The flyover states — Google phones may outsell iPhones in eight U.S. states. Can you guess which ones? — Click to enlarge. Source: Myxer — Here's a bit of geographical trivia that may have business consequences. — According to a Myxer BoomBox Report released …
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
New YouTube Design Makes Everything A Playlist, Keeps You Watching Forever (GOOG) — YouTube's new design will make the playlist feature part of the standard YouTube experience, the Google (GOOG) video-sharing site announced today. — YouTube already has playlists, in which one video automatically begins when the last one ends.
Will Park / IntoMobile:
Adobe kills Flash Player 10.1 for Windows Mobile 6.5, smitten with Windows Phone 7 Series — There are a couple certainties when it comes to Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 and the prospects for integrated Flash support on smartphones - Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won't ever allow native Flash on the iPhone …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam — Facebook is about to become a quieter, less annoying place for users. The company just announced that it has deprecated “application notifications” and will require apps to use other, less intrusive methods of sending news to users.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway Raising $10 Million Angel Fund To Expand SV Angel — Super-angel Ron Conway, who is one of the most prolific and successful investors in Silicon Valley, is expanding his SV Angel fund to include outside investors (recently he has invested only his own capital in startups).
Steven Sande / TUAW:
AT&T rolling out MicroCell to five more markets — We've previously written about AT&T's MicroCell device and service here at TUAW. It's a tiny cell tower that you plug into your home cable or DSL connection to boost your phone reception. This is particularly handy for those with home offices …
Kevin Ohannessian / Fast Company:
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO on Motion Controls and the Year of the PlayStation 3 — Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, discusses how Sony is reorganizing, the motion-control competition with Microsoft, and how Sony ignored naysayers and found gaming success.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Tits and Apps — So with this whole thing where Apple has removed and banned like 5,000 “sexy apps” from the App Store, I think I've figured out the reason why, including why they're granting exceptions to established names like Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and Victoria's Secret. It's about branding.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Wireless: Industry Growth Drops Below 3%, And Still Sinking — Given the market's intense focus on the smart phone market, you'd think the wireless carriers would be growing like weeds. — But weirdly enough, that's not the case. As Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett pointed …
Lucia Moses / Mediaweek:
Glamour Readies iPad Edition — Another big magazine is prepping a version for the Apple iPad tablet—and this time, it's a woman's title, Glamour. — Most of the big titles that are pushing their magazines toward the iPhone and iPad, like GQ, Esquire and Wired, are aimed at technology-loving guys.
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Boy Genius Report:
Details on RIM's new BlackBerry slider? — This isn't confirmed, but with RIM rumored to be exploring sliding-QWERTY devices for a pretty long time, one of our BlackBerry connects dropped some info on us and we wanted it to share it. Here's what we know: — It's a portrait-oriented slider.
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint confirms that webOS 1.4 will hit today with Flash 10 on board — Sprint posted an update to its website stating that webOS 1.4 will hit the Palm Pre and Pixi handsets starting today. The update has a lengthy list of changes but most noteworthy is the inclusion of Flash 10 capability for the Pre.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
School administrator boasts to PBS about his laptop spying … This is pretty amazing footage — especially (as Scott notes) the absence of any questions about student privacy from the interviewer. I keep trying to imagine what my education would have been like if all my conversations …
