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Exclusive: iPad iBooks Pricing Revealed - Matches The Kindle — The launch of the iPad has caused a veritable war over eBook pricing between Apple and Amazon. To promote the Kindle and expand its market share, Amazon sells kindle editions of newly released and best selling books at a loss.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Bits, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, TiPb, Electronista, TeleRead and iphoneera.com, Thanks:xonder
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Random House fears iPad price war — The world's largest book publisher by sales could keep its books from Apple's iPad when it goes on sale, as the Bertelsmann unit fears the effects of the tablet device on pricing
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Macworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Loop, Electronista, Gizmodo, Macsimum News, EverythingiCafe, iLounge and TeleRead
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Has Google been hacked? Corporate site sends users to China — List of executives and corporate info redirected to Google China — Google's corporate information sites appeared to have been hacked this morning. — Users searching with Google for “Google executives” …
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eWeek, Fast Company, VentureBeat, CNET News, Pulse2, Epicenter, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, Mashable!, John Battelle's Searchblog, Search Engine Journal, WebProNews and InformationWeek, Thanks:beet_tv
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Taylor Buley / Forbes:
A Surprise Bug—Not China—Hits Google's Corporate Website
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Preview: Instapaper on iPad — I'm probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone's anticipation to hype this up. Oh well. Maybe I'll do that for the Instapaper edition for Apple's next revolutionary computing platform. — First: Instapaper is definitely coming to iPad.
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PC World, Macworld, Guardian, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, App Advice, Gadget Lab, blogs.chron.com, VatorNews, iLounge, TiPb, EverythingiCafe, Insanely Great Mac and Gizmodo, Thanks:atul
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Instapaper For The iPad May Be The First Killer App. And It Will Be Universal. — The simple bookmarking application Instapaper made by Tumblr developer Marco Arment is one of my favorite applications, period. Between the web, the iPhone, and the Kindle, it's easily one of my most-used apps.
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An update for our customers on Google Apps and China — Yesterday, we stopped censoring our search services - Google Search, Google News, and Google Images - on our Chinese domain, www.google.cn. This makes good on our commitment to stop censoring search results in China, and you can read more here.
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Google's Brin Talks About China Gamble
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Guardian:
Sergey Brin urges US to act over China web censorship
Sergey Brin urges US to act over China web censorship
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The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, PC World, Neowin.net, Erictric, GMSV, DailyTech, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, mikelgan's blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, news.xinhuanet.com, Digital Daily, thebigmoney.com, eSarcasm, Technology Liberation Front, InformationWeek, Maximum PC and SiliconANGLE, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Excerpts: Google's Testimony to Federal Commission on China
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Detecting suspicious account activity — A few weeks ago, I got an email presumably from a friend stuck in London asking for some money to help him out. It turned out that the email was sent by a scammer who had hijacked my friend's account. By reading his email, the scammer had figured …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China — GoDaddy.com Inc., the world's largest domain name registration company, plans to tell lawmakers Wednesday that it will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants …
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Twitter Hacker, TechCrunch Document Leaker, Arrested in France — The AFP is reporting that the person who leaked internal business documents from Twitter Inc. to the blog TechCrunch last July is also the same person who compromised the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama and other celebrities last year.
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Sprint CEO: Rate Plans Will Move From Minutes To Gigabytes — Sprint Nextel Chief Executive Dan Hesse said that in about two years, monthly cellphone bills will focus on the amount of data used and move away from the number of available voice minutes.
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Clearwire calls for one global mobile technology
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Facebook ‘linked to rise in syphilis’ — Facebook has been linked to a resurgence in the sexually-transmitted disease syphilis, according to health experts. — The virus has increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular …
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Microsoft shows off its next version of Office Communications Server — Microsoft is offering its first public glimpse of Office Communications Server 14, its all-in-one instant messaging/VOIP/conferencing product at the VoiceCon show in Orlando on March 24.
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Gurdeep Singh Pall / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Predictions for the Future of Unified Communications
Predictions for the Future of Unified Communications
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Video: Sneak peek of Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop — Bryan O'Neil Hughes shows off some rather eye-popping (if we may say so) technology for synthesizing texture inside a future version of Photoshop: — The demo starts with some small pieces, so if you're short on time …
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Google's Newest Search Ad Format, Loved and Hated by Brands — ‘Sitelinks’ Work Really Well — Too Well — for Marketers Choking on Costs Per Click — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The most significant change to Google's search ads in years could be the most controversial to the nation's biggest brands.
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Google Operating System, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Engine Land, Thanks:davidakaplan
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Collaborative bookmarking with lists — Earlier this month we added stars in search so that you can easily mark and rediscover your favorite websites. Today we're debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.
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Kobo's Cheap E-Reader Headed for Borders — In the era of the iPad, there are two paths that the still-nascent gadgets known as e-readers can take. They can try to take the iPad on head-to-head by adding fancy color touch screens and new features that go beyond reading.
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Fox Mobile Offers Hulu-like Subscription Service for Smartphones — Fox Mobile is hoping it can convince consumers to shell out to watch TV on their smartphones. The News Corp. subsidiary this morning unveiled Bitbop, a subscription service for smartphone owners that will deliver both streaming …
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AT&T 3G MicroCell starting nationwide roll-out in mid-April — Unless you've been in one of a few key test markets, you've been pretty much out of luck boosting your AT&T signal in the comfortable confines of your home since the 3G MicroCell first launched — until now.
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New Motion Control Patent Could Shake Up Smartphone Industry — Here's a potentially noteworthy development in the patent litigation-riddled mobile device market. Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a very broad patent on motion-based smartphone control …
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YouTube Pre-Roll Ads Get Double-Digit CPMs; Homepage Banner Gets $200K To $400K Per Day — Get The Internet Analyst in your inbox every day. To sign up, please submit your name and email address here. — Online video viewing more than doubled in 2009 as more quality content …
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New software lets businesses track employee Facebook, Twitter activity — Social Sentry, debuted at DEMO, detects confidential information in public posts — Facebook and Twitter users should probably just assume that what they post publicly is being monitored by their employer.
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Nielsen's New App Playbook Debunks Mobile App Store Myth — Mobile carrier app stores are a long way from dead. Despite the fanfare around application stores tied to specific mobile devices such as iPhones and BlackBerries, a new Nielsen survey finds ongoing loyalty to carrier stores.
Thanks:mrinaldesai