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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Nexus One Is A Flop: 74 Days In, Just 135,000 Sold — This just in from mobile analytics company Flurry: Nexus One sales are still flopping. After 74 days on the market, Flurry estimates that Google has sold 135,000 Nexus Ones. — In its first 74 days on the market, the Droid sold 1.05 million units.
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Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:
Day 74 Sales: Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid — Through applications using Flurry for analytics reporting, Flurry can detect and count unique devices in the market such as Google Nexus One and Motorola Droids. Because applications embedded with Flurry have been downloaded …
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Between the Lines, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Daily, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Smartphones and Cell Phones, Digital Trends, DailyTech, SlashPhone, Android Phone Fans, Android Central, 9 to 5 Mac, Droid Life, Boy Genius Report, Erictric, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Android Community, Mobile Entertainment, MacNN and Seeking Alpha
Biz / Twitter Blog:
@anywhere — When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more.
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eWeek, Technologizer, Digital Trends, Dow Jones Newswires, GMSV, Daily Patricia, louisgray.com, Computerworld, Scripting News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Epicenter, Distorted-Loop.com, Softpedia News, ChannelWeb, Twitterrati, TG Daily, Erictric, The Register, ITworld.com, Bits, RotorBlog.com, PSFK, TechCrunch, CNN, Fast Company, AppScout, GigaOM, Pocket-lint, Silicon Alley Insider, Guardian, Mashable!, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Switched and Techland
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Rev2.org, Tech Central and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Reuters:
China warns Google to obey rules even if it pulls out — (Reuters) - Google should obey Chinese government rules even if it decides to retreat from the country over hacking and censorship complaints, a Chinese government spokesman said on Tuesday. — Investors have sold off Google Inc shares …
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David Flynn / APC:
EXCLUSIVE: Samsung to release ‘slate’ PC — Samsung is working on a slate-based device with desktop docking, which it says will have enough processing muscle to become the “primary device” for many people. — A senior Samsung executive has confirmed that the company will release a ‘slate’ PC in the second half of this year.
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CrunchGear, The Toybox, I4U News, SlashGear, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile.com, CNET News, ZDNET.com.au, Gizmodo, Maximum PC, Delimiter and TechSpot
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: HTC HD2 will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 series — Bad news, HTC HD2 owners: Microsoft has finally come right out and confirmed our suspicions that the mighty HTC HD2 won't be upgraded to Windows Phone 7 Series. Joe Belfiore just told us that the HD2 is …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: Marketplace will be the only way to get apps on Windows Phone 7 Series
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LiveSide.net, GigaOM, The Windows Blog, PhoneNews.com, Windows Phone Thoughts.com, MobileContentToday, Phone Arena, Joystiq, SlashGear, Digital Daily, istartedsomething, BetaNews and IntoMobile, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Kicks Off Implementation Of QR Codes — I can't see this on my own Facebook profile yet, but we've gotten a number of tips in our inbox in the past 10 minutes so it's safe to assume it's not a hoax or anything: Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes.
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Emory University Saves Rushdie's Digital Data — Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and four Apple computers (one ruined by a spilled Coke). The 18 gigabytes of data they contain seemed …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Delays hit iPad accessories, more shortages to come? — Over the past few days, Apple has altered some of the shipping times on their branded iPad accessories. First we noticed the iPad case making a slight shift from April 3rd to Mid-April. Today we notice Apple has delayed the iPad Keyboard Dock.
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Macworld, Electronista, MacRumors, EverythingiCafe, TiPb, Insanely Great Mac, App Advice and TUAW
InfoWorld:
Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks? — A leaked document reveals a strategy by the U.S. Army to hack the whistle-blowing Web site and take it down. Read on for the chilling details — I just received an email from Wikileaks editor Julian Assange that's pretty wild.
Robin Wauters / CrunchGear:
Alex eReader now on sale in the U.S. for $399 a pop, starts shipping mid-April — Spring Design this morning announced that its dual screen Alex eReader will be available online today (the rumors were true!) for $399. Customers can thus start pre-ordering the Android-based multimedia e-reader …
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Apple iPad Sales Estimates are Wrong — NEW YORK, (TheStreet) — Pre-orders of the Apple (AAPL) iPad started Friday and so too did the guessing game around how many of new tablet devices were being sold. — One of the most closely watched Apple iPad sales bloggers Deagol's AAPL Model estimated …
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Jon Brodkin / Network World:
60% of virtual servers less secure than physical machines, Gartner says — As virtualization adoption grows, so do security risks — Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft IE9 developer preview with HTML5 support ready for download — On March 16, Microsoft is making a first developer preview of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 available for download from www.IETestDrive.com. — The IE 9 Platform Preview doesn't include the IE 9 user interface; instead …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android And Palm Devices — File syncing and storage startup Zumodrive is expanding its mobile offerings today with free applications for Android and Palm phones. While there are a plethora of syncing and storage services available to users …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
NorthScale's Memcached Data Management Technology Attracts Zynga And Others — Under the radar startup NorthScale is publicly launching today with a new data management technology to help web-based companies, particularly startups that deal with large amounts of transactional data.
NexusOne News:
Google runs into a problem with Nexus One trademark application — Google filed an application for the Nexus One trademark back on 10th December 2009 for use in connection with mobile phones. It would appear however that whoever handled the filing didn't spend a lot of time on the initial …
Doug Hanchard / ZDNet Government:
FCC releases ‘Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan’ — The report is finally complete. Months of meetings, public input and feedback from websites like reboot.gov, broadband.gov and others, the FCC has released the report being submitted to Congress; Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
PayPal Launches Revamped iPhone App, Teams With Bump For Phone-Tapping Money Transfers — PayPal has just launched an upgraded iPhone application that adds new features and includes a facelift that's meant to help instill a greater sense of security. And it also brings with it big news …
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Opera Mini 5, Opera Mobile 10 graduate to stable — Well, that was fast. Just last week we speculated that Opera Software would release the final versions of their latest beta Web browsers in time for the CTIA cell phone conference in late March. Instead, Opera released them a week earlier than we predicted.
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Opera Press Room, Unwired View, AppScout, PhoneNews.com, Mashable!, Phone Arena, Mobile Knots, The Register and IntoMobile
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
Break the law and your new ‘friend’ may be the FBI — WASHINGTON — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. — U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles …
