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Wall Street Journal:
Two New IPhones Coming; One May Be Aimed at Verizon — Apple Inc. is developing a new iPhone to debut this summer and also appears to be working on a model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless, say people briefed on the matter. — While Apple has unveiled a new iPhone every June …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
WSJ's Lame Entry in the iPhone Rumors Game — The Wall Street Journal: … Keep in mind there's a big difference between “is” and “appears to be”. And they have no actual details of the next-generation iPhone. Nothing. Not the A4-family CPU system-on-a-chip.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
WSJ: Apple ‘developing new iPhone,’ plus another for Verizon (update: iPhone HD?)
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Rumored iPhone 4 Specs: 960x640 Display, Front Facing Camera, Multitasking
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Godfather of iPod Severs Final Ties With Apple — An era is formally ending at Apple. Tony Fadell, one of the creators of the iPod and iPhone, is breaking off his nine-year affiliation with Steve Jobs & Co. — Mr. Fadell's exit from Apple, which he planned to announce online Monday night, has been gradual.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Verizon begins Android 2.1 update rollout for Motorola Droid — Flippin' finally, right? Verizon Wireless put the long-awaited Android 2.1 update on hold for its cadre of Motorola Droid owners earlier in the month, with an all-too-vague “TBD” as the only detail as to when we could look for it to actually, really land.
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Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
Chinese censors disable Google searches — Chinese censors have disabled all Google searches on the mainland, blocking the US company's Hong Kong servers from delivering results. — In almost every major Chinese city, users reported that trying to access Google searches returned an error page.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Glitch Caused Google Disruptions in China
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Steven Sande / TUAW:
And so it begins... Seton Hill University to give all students an iPad — We were talking about this the other day in the virtual “back room” at TUAW — when would the first university announce that they were going to give every one of their students an iPad? — It didn't take too long.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
What's Next for SlingPlayer Mobile? (iPad!) — I recently checked in with my former Sling peeps, regarding mobile clients. Specifically, codecs and resolution. As we know, a Slingbox Android client is on tap this summer. And I wondered if they're sticking with WMV video streaming or moving to H.264 for this platform.
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Marc Benioff / TechCrunch:
Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2. — The first piece of software I ever wrote was on the TRS-80 Model 1. It was called “How To Juggle”, and it had 4K of memory. It was my version of “Hello World”, what every programmer first writes on a new piece of hardware.
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
MapQuest Brings Free Voice Navigation to the iPhone — It's quite inevitable, really: After Google announced free turn-by-turn GPS navigation for Android devices — followed by Nokia's decision to offer the same on its smartphones — the price of full-featured GPS navigation apps on other platforms is hurtling toward zero.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google, Microsoft, ACLU & Others Push For “Digital Due Process” - No Personal Data Without A Warrant — A broad coalition of interest groups, non-profits and private companies, including Microsoft, Google, AOL, the ACLU, EFF and others, have come together to set forth four principles …
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Christina Warren / Mashable!:
The iTunes App Store Comes to Facebook — Interacting with the iTunes App Store just got easier, thanks to the new App Store Facebook page. — Developed and powered by Vitrue, the new page puts the App Store inside Facebook — making it easy to search for apps, share them with friends …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Future Apple's iPad OS Upgrade Pricing Policies Revealed as Apple Seeds GM iPad SDK, Firmware and Licensing Agreement — Apple has begun seeding the Golden Master version of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK to developers. This represents the shipping version of the software that developers must use to develop iPad applications.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Flash Player To Come Bundled With Google Chrome, New Browser Plugin API Coming — The rumors were true: Adobe and Google are tightening their partnership, seemingly both warily eying Apple in the process - and Mozilla plays a role in this story as well. — Concretely, Adobe has announced …
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
EBay Introduces a New Classifieds Site and More Mobile Apps — On Tuesday, eBay plans to unveil a new classifieds site, called eBayClassifieds, to replace its old site, Kijiji, in the United States. It will also introduce two new mobile apps, one for listing and selling items for sale and another for posting or searching classifieds.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Dell Aero hands-on and UI walkthrough (video) — We took a look at the Dell Aero during last week's CTIA bonanza, but AT&T and Dell weren't exactly forthcoming with letting us take the UI for a spin. Luckily, we're pretty resourceful folks, so we've wrangled some face …
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Reuters:
Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees — (Reuters) - As Apple Inc gears up for the crush of customers expected for Saturday's iPad launch, employees who staff its retail stores are just as curious about the tablet as the fans who will line up outside.
Melanie D.G. Kaplan / Between the Lines:
TiVo Premiere hits shelves, making couch potatodom even more appealing — The TiVo Premier and TiVo Premiere XL boxes hit the shelves at Best Buy yesterday. To mark the launch, I talked to TiVo, Inc. Senior Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy Naveen Chopra …
Erez Zukerman / Download Squad:
Sony BMG takes Beyonce's official YouTube channel down for “copyright infringement” — In an act of corporate insanity that reminds me of military behavior as described in Catch 22, Sony BMG removed the videos from Beyonce's official YouTube channel for “copyright infringement.”
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Elan Sues to Ban Apple Multitouch Products in U.S. — Even the iPad — Elan Microelectronics filed suit against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission today, alleging that certain Apple products violate a multitouch patent previously awarded to the Taiwanese company.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
iPad or Not, Amazon Will Still Make a $1 Billion From e-Books — The countdown to Apple's iPad, one of the most anticipated gadgets of the year (at least from the media's perspective), has begun. Many believe that the device will change the content industry in a meaningful way, by being a counterweight to Amazon.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Medialets Rolls Out Universal SDK For iPhone And iPad Ads — Medialets, an advertising and analytics startup, bet big on the iPhone at the launch of the App Store two years ago, and has been riding the Apple wave ever since. The network is one of the most widely used ad platforms and counts NPR, CNN and Fox as clients.
Markus Goebel / TechCrunch Europe:
Europe's biggest publisher embraces the WePad — [Germany] Billed as an iPad competitor, the WePad is not vaporware, but is in fact, The Chosen One. At least, that's the view of some, who are hailing the WePad as the saviour of the German print publishing industry.
