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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation.Blog:
Latest info on PlayStation Network Status — As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3. — We believe we have identified that this problem is being caused by a bug …
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Associated Press:
PlayStation 3 Network plagued by Y2K-like bug — NEW YORK - — Sony says it has found a bug that has knocked some PlayStation 3 users off the game console's online network. — Sony says the problem was likely caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system.
Griffin McElroy / Joystiq:PSN inaccessible, trophy-supporting games unplayable on non-Slim PS3s [update 3]
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Production Delays Mean iPad Inventories May Be Tight at Launch — When Apple's new iPad slate begins to arrive at market later this month, limited availability may leave some early adopters empty-handed-assuming it goes on sale this month at all. — In a research note this morning …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Condé Nast Is Preparing iPad Versions of Some of Its Top Magazines — Condé Nast's plans for the iPad tablet computer from Apple are getting firmer. — The first magazines for which it will create iPad versions are Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour …
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AppleInsider:
Apple prepping first Macs with HDMI - sources — Apple plans to introduce HDMI connectivity on some of its personal computers this year, embracing an emerging trend that has seen the high-definition audio/video interface crop up on an increasing number of systems from rival PC manufacturers, AppleInsider has learned.
Pew Internet:
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer — Overview — In the digital era, news has become omnipresent. Americans access it in multiple formats on multiple platforms on myriad devices. The days of loyalty to a particular news organization on a particular piece of technology in a particular form are gone.
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APC:
Microsoft: “No Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6.x devices” — Microsoft's tight hardware spec for Windows Phone 7 smartphones means that Windows Mobile 6.x devices - including HTC's just-launched HD2 - can't be upgraded. — Owners of HTC's highly-praised HD2 touchscreen smartphone …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
The A4 and the A8: secrets of the iPad's brain — Most companies, when they go to the enormous expense of designing a complex chip, tell everyone about it. Even a company like Sun or IBM, whose chips are used only in their own computers, unveil the details of their new processors …
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Wall Street Journal:
Google, Microsoft Spar Over Antitrust — Seeking $335,000 in unpaid advertising bills, Google Inc. filed suit against a small Internet site in Ohio in October. The complaint was so routine it was just two sentences long. — Google never expected the response it got.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
How AT&T Plans to Keep SXSW From Swamping Its Network — Smartphones, including iPhones, were all the rage at SxSW in 2009. — Last year, the hordes of South by Southwest-attending geeks toting iPhones blew out the AT&T network around the convention center in Austin …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
E-Readers' Price May Fall to $150 This Year With New Chip, Freescale Says — Freescale Semiconductor Inc., whose products power about 90 percent of electronic book readers, said a new chip will help drive down the price of the devices to less than $150 this year.
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book — In the emerging world of e-books, many consumers assume it is only logical that publishers are saving vast amounts by not having to print or distribute paper books, leaving room to pass along those savings to their customers.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Google Chrome only browser to make gains in February — Data collected by web metrics firm Net Applications suggests that over the month of February, Google's Chrome web browser was the only desktop browser to make any gains over the month. — Google Chrome saw a jump in usage share to 5.61%, up 0.39% from 5.22% in January.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Action Streams: A New Idea for Social Networks — Walled gardens are already under attack because of the ease of sending content like messages and photos from one website to another. Sites that don't let content flow in and out freely, when that's what users want, are fighting against the powerful tide of the internet.
Leslie Patton / Associated Press:
EU cell phone users to have limited online surfing — BRUSSELS - — Mobile phone operators must now limit how much they charge customers for using the Internet within the European Union, after new rules went into effect Monday. — Customers have until July 1 to set a maximum monthly cost …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
New Wacom Cintiq 21UX Has 2048 Pressure Levels and Back Touchpads — I'm a fan of Wacom's Cintiq display tablets, so I'm excited about their new 21-inch model, the Cintiq 21UX. According to Wacom, it has better pen performance and ergonomics. The two back touch-strips have me intrigued.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why Google makes it easy to leave Google — We profiled Google's Data Liberation Front when the initiative was first made public last year, but what has Google's in-house data export team been up to since? Designing stickers, for one thing. — “CAGE FREE DATA,” they proclaim …
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet — A new tool can be used to collect, analyze, and visualize large quantities of data. — Vast quantities of data are freely available on the Web, and it can be a potential treasure trove for many businesses—providing they can figure out how to use it effectively.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Raging Septuagenarian — Taking on the Times, Google, and, in a sense, his own children, Rupert Murdoch is not going gently into the night. — On Saturday, January 9, Rupert Murdoch was on his Boeing 737 returning to New York from a business trip to Los Angeles when he learned …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Aggressively Pursues ‘Joint Venture’ Trademark — On March 1, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's latest trademark application for “Joint Venture” under application 77942739. Apple has filed their trademark under International Classes 35 relating to retail services …
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Melanie D.G. Kaplan / Between the Lines:
TigerText can erase sent text messages. Is it really the ‘perfect app for cheating’? — OK, confession time: How many of you have ever sent a text that could one day come back to haunt you? — Yeah, that's what I thought. — Those text messages? Now bygones. The answer from here on out: TigerText.
Royal Pingdom:
Is Facebook secretly planning an internet-wide payment platform? — Is Facebook taking the first steps towards making itself an internet-wide payment platform? — You may know that the company is working on something it calls Facebook Credits (it's in beta).
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
In Wake Of Fabulis Debacle, Citibank Makes Changes To Internet Business Policy — Last week, Citibank found itself in the eye of an Internet storm after it was revealed that the bank had blocked the business account of Web startup fabulis over (non-existing) ‘objectionable content’ on the company's blog.
