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Natalie Harrison / Apple:
iPad Available in US on April 3 — Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
iPad to be released on April 3, pre-orders on March 12 — You'll have to make do with this until April — Get thee to the clickery! The iPad is hitting the streets on April 3 and you can start pre-ordering on March 12. — As far as we can tell there was no real “delay” here, per se.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Microsoft's Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details (update: video!) — We've been dying to know more about Microsoft's Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered …
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Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Docs welcomes DocVerse — The future of productivity applications is in the cloud. We've always believed the web is the best platform for creating and sharing information, and Google Docs has already helped millions of people become more productive.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google Agrees to Buy DocVerse for $25 Million — Google Inc. is set to announce it has acquired DocVerse, a technology start-up that allows people to collaborate on Microsoft Office files online, according to people familiar with the matter. — Google has agreed to pay around $25 million …
Gabor Cselle / reMail:
reMail is now Open Source — Last month, we announced reMail's acquisition by Google. Since we'll be focusing on other projects at Google, we also decided to remove reMail from the App Store. Existing users were able to keep using it because reMail is a client-only application.
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Flora Graham / CNET News:
HTC on Nexus One cracked screen: “They don't go in pockets” — Last month, we shared the sad story of how our brand-new Google Nexus One went from Crave fave to purple nurple, with a cracked screen that scarred its beautiful AMOLED screen forever. — We took our Nexus One to HTC support …
Dan Moren / Macworld:
iPad developers struggle with hands-off approach — Hard as it may be to believe, the original iPhone shipped two and a half years ago with just 16 applications, all of them designed by Apple. Today, that number has increased by a factor of thousands, a fact that Apple hasn't been the least bit shy about using to its advantage.
Ckindel / Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone Development:
Different Means Better with the new Windows Phone Developer Experience — In just over a week we (finally!) get to pull the cover off of the Windows Phone application & game developer experience at MIX10. There, through keynotes and more than 12 technical sessions over 3 days, we will …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another YouTube Revenue Guess: $1 Billion in 2011 — Since Google releases almost no information about YouTube's financial performance, the best we can do is make educated guesses. Here's another one: The word's biggest video site will generate over $1.1 billion in revenue by 2011, and Google will keep about $700 million of that.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Apple's multitouch lawsuit is both dumb and dangerous. … - Is Bart Stupak Deliberately Misinterpreting the Abortion Language in the Senate Health Care Bill? - Not Even the Cheshire Cat Was Smiling by the End of This Movie- Why Steve Martin Stopped Being Funny- Help! Is It OK To Sleep With the Nanny?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Redpoint Invests $4.4 Million In Fast Growing Posterous — San Francisco based Posterous, a fast growing publishing platform, has taken a $4.4 million investment from Redpoint Ventures. Partner Satish Dharmaraj, who is also an individual investor in Posterous, led the round and joins …
Erica Yen / DigiTimes:
Apple iPad may delay transition to SSD, say hard drive makers — The appearance of Apple's iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to sources from hard drive makers. — Apple, which has enjoyed success with its iPods and iPhones …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm's PDK to Allow Easy Porting of iPhone Apps — Palm's single biggest asset is webOS. Sadly, the company's single biggest deficit-aside from the public's apparent lack of interest in its smartphones-is the webOS application ecosystem. But that's changing.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to discontinue its mid-market server line — Microsoft is discontinuing its Essential Business Server (EBS) product family, company officials said on March 5, and have decided against releasing an EBS 2010 product. — According to a post on the Essential Business Server team blog …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google's App Store for Business to Launch Next Week — Google is set to launch an app store for business next week, Mashable has learned from sources close to the company. It will be focused around creating software for Google Apps and could launch as soon as Tuesday.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook's iPhone Usage Jumps 20 Percent In Under A Week — Thanks to a new post-logout mobile promotion by Facebook, the company has seen a jump in overall mobile usage in the past week, most significantly on the iPhone where mobile usage has grown 20 percent.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple's Power Advertising Patent May Stir the Crazies into a Frenzy — In October 2009, Patently Apple posted a report titled “Apple Prepares to Rock the Market with Hardware Subsidizing Program” and when All Things Digital decided to post my report - it took off like a bat out of hell.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Clicker Redesigns Its Online Video Guide — When Viacom announced this week that it would pull “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” from Hulu, the popular video hosting site, many online video viewers were understandably upset. Even though the videos won't disappear from the Internet …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Roger Ebert Makes Pay Play: The Ebert Club — Roger Ebert thrives on the web. Now he'd like to get paid for it but not by blocking access to the site or its 10,000-review archive. Instead the Chicago Sun-Times movie critic—a master blogger and tweeter—is going the value-added route …
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
T-Mobile “Very Fast Mobile Web” coming March 14 — When we speculated T-Mobile might call their new HSPA+ network “4G” they were very quick to point out that was not the case (yet). Instead, T-Mobile chose to inform us of their network upgrade schedule and said they would …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Bing Maps Rolls Out Its Largest Image Update — Bing Maps has rolled out what Microsoft is calling its “largest amount of new imagery ever in terms of square kilometers.” Apparently that represents 6.7 million square kilometers. There's new aerial and Bird's Eye imagery across many countries on several continents.
PC World:
Intel to Launch Eight-core Nehalem-EX This Month — Intel will release its fastest and highly anticipated eight-core Nehalem-EX server processor later this month, a company executive said late Thursday. — The processor will be targeted at four-socket servers, said Shannon Poulin, Xeon platform director at Intel.
Russ Frushtick / MTV Multiplayer:
Xbox Live Now Allows For Sexual Orientation In Profile, Gamertag — There's been a fair amount of controversy surrounding the Xbox Live's Code of Conduct, concerning what you can and can't say on the service. One of the more hot button issues was the ban of anyone declaring their sexual preference in their profile or Gamertag.
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Will StatusNet Be Another Open-Source Star in the Enterprise? — What a week for StatusNet, the open-source, microblogging service that serves as the foundation for identi.ca, one of the first services to emerge as a focal player in the movement around the real-time Web.
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Tom Downey / New York Times:
China's Cyberposse — The short video made its way around China's Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank.
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