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Wall Street Journal:
Magazines Use the iPad as Their New Barker — Advertisers Gather Around as Publishers Tout Tablet Device's Bells and Whistles — A laundry list of open questions about Apple's iPad isn't keeping magazine publishers and advertisers from lining up for the launch of the tablet computer next week.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
WSJ on iPad for $17.99 a month, magazines to be at or near newsstand prices? — The Wall Street Journal is running a piece that focuses on ad sales for the iPad. Pretty boring stuff except for a few nuggets related to the actual content we crave. Rupert Murdoch already confirmed …
Shira Ovide / Digits:
Time's Managing Editor: iPad Content Awaits ‘Its Orson Welles’ — “I was very keen on being present at the creation.” — That's Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time magazine, excitedly talking about the iPad version he expects to roll out at or shortly after the hotly anticipated launch of the tablet computer on April 3.
Bing / Search Blog:
New Stuff Coming From Bing This Spring — Today at SES New York we shared with attendees our plans to begin testing some new Bing features as we start to move into the next wave of innovation which will be rolling out later this spring and summer. — Our focus remains consistent …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Bing Makes More UI Changes-And Checks In With Foursquare — Today, Microsoft's search engine-that-could, Bing, will begin rolling out another significant upgrade to the user interface seen by consumers. — The software giant also announced on its Bing blog and at an industry conference …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
JooJoo tablet now shipping, should greet US consumers on March 29th — We noticed a minor textual change on the JooJoo order page just a few days back, and apparently it was no mistake — Fusion Garage has announced today that its long-awaited tablet PC has started to ship from the factory.
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
The Bounty For An Apple Bug: $115,000 — It's been a tough month for Apple's security team. — First Mac hacker extraordinaire Charlie Miller revealed that he'd found 20 exploitable vulnerabilities in Apple's Preview software, all of which apply to Safari as well.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
iPhone, Safari, IE 8, Firefox hacked in CanSecWest contest
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Hacker busts IE8 on Windows 7 in 2 minutes
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Ryan Naraine / ZDNet:
Pwn2Own 2010: iPhone hacked, SMS database hijacked
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Ars Technica, Download Squad, TG Daily, Engadget, MobileCrunch, DailyTech, Security Watch, Zero Day, Boy Genius Report, EverythingiCafe, CrunchGear, Softpedia News, ithinkdifferent, blog.zynamics.com, Daring Fireball, I4U News, WMPoweruser.com, SlashGear and InfoWorld, Thanks:arjo
Harsh / AdMob Metrics:
February 2010 Mobile Metrics Report — In this month's report, we separate the traffic in our network into three categories - smartphones, feature phones and mobile Internet devices - to examine the relative growth rates of each over the past year. — Some of the highlights from the report include:
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Smartphone traffic is up 193% in a year — Led by iPhone and the Androids. Traffic from the iPod touch is growing even faster. — Click to enlarge. Source: AdMob — Smartphone traffic is up. Feature phone share is down. And traffic from mobile Internet devices (like the iPod touch) …
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
HTC CEO: Nexus One Is A Success — Despite customer service problems and sluggish sales, Peter Chou says his company's Android phone has done well. — LAS VEGAS — The launch of Google's Nexus One smart phone appears to have been a mess of customer service mishaps, delayed international launches …
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Arn / MacRumors:
CBS.com Prepping HTML5 Video Playback for iPad — With the imminent arrival of the Apple iPad, it seems at least one major television network is updating their website to provide video playback support for new tablet device — without Flash. CBS.com's website began displaying a couple of strange …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Ads Will Now Follow You Across The Web — Advertisers are beginning to realize that ads on the Web have their own lifecycle. People who eventually click on an ad don't always click on it the first time they see it. Just like on TV or in print, they need to be bombarded by the same message before they take an action.
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter's Secret Business Model Should Get Rid Of Those Twitter Ads You Hate — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone appeared on CNBC today talking about Twitter's business model. — He remained tight-lipped as usual, but did say Twitter's monetization plan will not just enrich Twitter, but hopefully all the Twitter applictions.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
BMO ups its iPad sales estimate 30% — Analyst sees Apple taking 35% to 40% of the tablet and e-reader market in 2010 — In a note to clients issued Thursday, BMO Capital's Keith Bachman offers several reasons for raising his price target on Apple (AAPL) to $265 a share from $250 …
David Goldman / CNN Money:
Congress slams China and Microsoft, praises Google — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Two days after Google stopped censoring search results in China, a congressional panel praised the company's actions while excoriating the Beijing government for its record on Internet censorship and human rights.
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Loretta Chao / China Real Time Report:
U.S. Push on Internet Freedom Could Backfire
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David Colker / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google adds Twitter feed in China, again defying that country's rules — In a move sure to anger Beijing's censors, Google has introduced a real-time Twitter feed on its search results pages — in effect, lifting a nine-month blackout of the microblogging service in China.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple inks $240M deal with Samsung for 3M more iPad displays — Apple has agreed to pay Samsung nearly a quarter of a billion dollars as part of a new pact that will see the Korean electronics maker become the second major supplier of 9.7-inch display screens for current and future versions of the iPad.
Tyler Tschida / App Advice:
OmniGraffle To Be Part Of The iPad App Store Grand Opening, But Is $49.99 Too Much To Pay? — The Omni Group's Ken Case made it very clear that the company was committed to iPad development with his iPad or Bust! blog post, and today we found out just how serious they are.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Smartphone Motion Patent's Authors Are Google, Apple Engineers — A quick follow-up on that broad motion-control patent I wrote about Thursday. I haven't been able to turn up any information on Durham Logistics, the limited liability company to which the patent is assigned …
Dong Ngo / Crave: The gadget blog:
Toshiba intros highest capacity laptop hard drives — The laptop hard drives are about to have a significant increase in capacities without compromising the performance. — Toshiba announced Wednesday two new 2.5-inch (laptop) hard drive families that feature the largest amount of storage in their classes.
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Meet The Genius Behind Apple's Beautiful Retail Stores (AAPL) — Peter Bohlin is the genius architect behind Apple's most famous stores around the world. — His work includes the cube store on 59th street and Fifth Avenue in New York City, as well as the new all glass store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Time Warner Cable Launches Wi-Fi HotSpots — Updated: Time Warner Cable this morning confirmed that it's launching Wi-Fi hotspots for customers of its NYC RoadRunner broadband service. According to the company: … Time Warner Cable, a large cable service provider based in New York City …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Complete ACTA text leaked online - at last — Floodgates open on secret copyright talks — After weeks of extracts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) being published on the interwebs, a French digital rights group has finally leaked a complete copy of the deal online.
