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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
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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Financial Times:
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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Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Maximum PC, Edible Apple, TUAW, Technology Questions, Macsimum News, MacRumors, The Loop, Electronista, EverythingiCafe, iLounge and TeleRead
Pavni Diwanji / Gmail Blog:
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 …
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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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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google's Brin Talks About China Gamble
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Telegraph:
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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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
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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Sabrina / labs.moto.com:
Robot Touchscreen Analysis — A touchscreen is a touchscreen, right? Hardly! As MOTO pointed out in our recent Do-It-Yourself Touchscreen Analysis post, “All touchscreens are not created equal.” — With our simple test technique — which basically consists of using a basic drawing application …
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Ryan Naraine / ZDNet:
Pwn2Own 2010: iPhone hacked, SMS database hijacked — VANCOUVER, BC — A pair of European researchers used the spotlight of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest hear to break into a fully patched iPhone and hijack the entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted.
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Advertisers Show Interest in iPad — Advertisers initially approached new media as if they were going duck hunting, tiptoeing cautiously into the waters of mobile phones and the Internet. — With the iPad, it's big-game season. — Getting ready for the April 3 iPad introduction …
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Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
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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Taylor Buley / Forbes:
A Surprise Bug—Not China—Hits Google's Corporate Website
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Hacker, TechCrunch Document Leaker, Arrested in France (UPDATED) — 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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David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: Line2 Allows iPhone Users to Sidestep AT&T — For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. — It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T's signal is weak, like indoors. It can turn an iPod Touch into a full-blown cellphone.
Roger Cheng / Digits:
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.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Prediction: 1.2 Million iPads Sold in June Quarter and a New iPhone Form Factor — This is, perhaps, stating the obvious, but 2010 is likely to be a big year for Apple. With the iPad set to arrive April 3 and the company presumably headed into an iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple is poised to move a lot of product in the coming months.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
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
Christina Chen / The Official Google Blog:
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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Erictric, Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Search Engine Journal and ReadWriteWeb
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: How The iPhone Target Market Can Expand 7x — The market for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone has a long, long way to grow. — That's the basic conclusion of a report today from Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi on the ultimate addressable market for the phone.
John Nack / John Nack on Adobe:
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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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
China Unicom Dumps Google from Android Phones — Scratch China Unicom from the list of Google's (GOOG) Chinese search partners. The Financial Times reports that the carrier dumped Google's search service from the Android smartphones it's adding to its smartphone line-up.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
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.
Reuters:
Inside a global cybercrime ring — (Reuters) - Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace.
Trent Nouveau / TG Daily:
Microsoft says it won't abandon Windows Mobile 6.5 — Microsoft has reiterated that it will continue to support, ship and sell Mobile 6.5 alongside Windows Phone 7. — However, senior product manager Michael Chang told Computer World that the latest iteration of the OS represented “a [definite] departure and break at a code level.”
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
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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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon to blanket ‘one third’ of America with LTE this year, double coverage in 15 months — Remember when we heard that Verizon Wireless just might be able to bump its commercial LTE rollout to the first quarter of 2010? Man, talk about having our hopes and dreams dashed.
