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Michael Rose / TUAW:
How soon is now? Pre-order timing for iPad confirmed, 5:30 am PT — We've had more than a few inbound requests today, via email and Twitter, asking a slightly obsessive but completely understandable question: When can I pre-order my freakin' iPad? — True to form, the simple answer of …
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Kelli B. Grant / SmartMoney:
Should You Pre-Order an iPad? — OWNING A CUTTING-EDGE gadget has a certain cool factor, but early adopters rarely get a great deal. Some observers say Apple's (AAPL) new iPad, available to pre-order Friday for an April 3 release, isn't likely to be an exception — though there will probably …
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Apple's iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support — Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset's 4. software update …
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Chris Nguyen / Google Mobile Blog:
In stock nearby? Look for the blue dots. — Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering, demonstrated last December a preview version of Product Search for mobile with local inventory, which lets you see right in your search results whether items are in stock at nearby stores.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Incredible out in the wild once more, Verizon color scheme alive and well — Android Forums is alight today with fresh HTC Incredible chatter — a phone every Android fan on Verizon is desperately waiting for — and we've managed to glean a few more pictures and possible specs out of the mess.
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Why Google Android is winning — The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data on the U.S. smartphone market suggest that both should be worried by what they see in their rear-view mirrors:
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Verizon Wireless' tech chief says unlimited Internet access ‘has to change,’ echoing AT&T [Corrected] — The two largest U.S. wireless carriers agree that the days of unlimited Internet cellphone access are numbered. — A week after AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said the telecom industry …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Overdoing the interface metaphor — We're often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad. — But it's not absolute, and it's not always the best idea.
Go Rumors:
Qualcomm's Multi-Fold Device Can Replace Your iPad And iPhone — In digital media circles, there are traditionally three screens for user consumption : the TV, mobile phone and desktop. This conventionality is seen to be the primary reason why manufacturers were not comfortable in developing …
Biz / Twitter Blog:
What's Happening—and Where? — Every day, millions of tweets are created. These little bursts of information are about anything and everything—they make Twitter a hub for discovering what's happening right now, anywhere in the world. A recent burst of interest in location sharing applications …
Christopher Dawson / Googling Google:
Is the Apps Marketplace just playing catchup to Microsoft? — In the last two days, I've had two very different conversations. The first was with Google's senior product manager for the Google Apps Marketplace, Chris Vander Mey. The second was with Alex Payne, a product manager with Microsoft's MS Online team.
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Mozilla begins testing Account Manager for Firefox to simplify web logins — Mozilla's developers are busily crafting all kinds of features for future versions of Firefox — Jetpack's no-restart add-on functionality,out of process plugins, a bigger, badder JavaScript engine.
Lauren Weinstein / Lauren Weinstein's Blog:
Why I'm Skeptical of the FCC's Call for User Broadband Testing — Greetings. The FCC has issued a call for Internet users to test their broadband connections and report the results back to the FCC for analysis. — After inspecting the associated site and testing tools …
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Apple's eBooks will be much more organized than Apps — TrakPal V2 iSatFinder Coordinates CycleTracks iNomad Found in Haiti Locate Me! GPS Meeting Point — When Apple's eBook Store opens next month iPad owners will have a lot of categories to browse.
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Derek Kerton / Techdirt:
Skype Deliberately Crippling Functionality of iPhone and WinMo and Verizon Apps? — There's something anti-competitive afoot in the ‘VoIP over 3G’ space this year. Let me run you through a timeline, and see if you can't spot the dirty pool: — Skype has had a highly functional VoIP client …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
JooJoo hits the FCC, reveals NVIDIA Ion, 3G card — Well well. We'd always suspected that the JooJoo tablet was hiding something extra to run HD video and Flash, and it's just hit the FCC with full documentation and a teardown confirming that there's an NVIDIA Ion GPU paired with an Atom N270 packed inside.
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Lucie Morillon / Reporters Without Borders:
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0 — The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
President Obama Discusses Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law — For years the entertainment industry has been lobbying for tougher measures against online piracy. In France this has resulted in the implementation of a 'three strikes and you're offline' regime and many other countries are considering similar measures.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Reuters to Journalists: Don't Break News on Twitter — Last night, Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Starbucks Fans Can Become ‘Baristas’ on Foursquare — Beginning Thursday, latte addicts who visit Starbucks outlets can get more than just a caffeine fix. They will also be rewarded on Foursquare with a barista badge. — Location-based mobile services like Foursquare are at the cutting edge …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Finally, a Major New Reason to Use Blogger: Easy Custom Templates — At this point, blogging has been around so long that there's nothing extraordinary about almost anyone-from an eleven-year-old to a grandma-having his or her own blog. One basic thing about blogging, however …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Xbox Takes U.S. Console-Sales Lead After 2 Years, Surpassing Wii — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 beat Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 last month to become the best-selling video-game console in the U.S. for the first time in more than two years, helped by the release of the “BioShock 2” shooting title.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Apple's future won't be brought to you by the letter ‘i’ — Apple has been dealt a severe blow having been told that it no longer has a monopoly on the letter “i” as part of the name for its products. — A trademarks tribunal has knocked back Apple's bid to stop a small company from trademarking …
