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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
The iPad App Store Is Live — The first batch of iPad apps is live in the App Store, days before the device has been released to regular, non-media humans. First impressions? So many apps! Also: So expensive. Full listing here.
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Trevor Sheridan / App Advice:
Exclusive : It's Official - Netflix Streaming on the iPad — Netflix is a free app for the iPad that will be available on launch April 3rd. If you're a netflix subscriber you can watch instantly anything in Netflix's online collection directly on your iPad. You can stream TV shows and movies just like you would on your computer.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
App Store for iPad: More than 2,300 Apps and Counting — The App Store for the iPad has officially opened, and Apple is promoting the apps on the store's front page. There are more than 2,300 apps available for purchase now and more were being added, although you'll have to wait until at least Saturday to use them.
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
WSJ: CBS bringing free HTML5-encoded TV shows to the iPad, ABC plans detailed
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Stephen Fry / Time:
The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again? — It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough to contain Apple's current rate of expansion.
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Tim Gideon / PC Magazine:
Apple iPad (Wi-Fi) — REVIEW — After it was announced back in January, the unfortunately named Apple iPad ($699 direct, 64GB Wi-Fi) seemed like it could be the company's first major clunker in a long time: An expensive niche product that would inhabit a nebulous region between laptops and smartphones …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon: Time To Cut Kindle To $149, Piper's Munster Says — With the Apple (AAPL) iPad getting glowing reviews with sales scheduled to launch Saturday morning, the Street is getting increasingly nervous about the impact the device is going to have on sales of the Amazon.com (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader.
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Serenity Caldwell / Macworld:
Apple reveals its list of ‘iPad-ready’ Websites — If we weren't amidst the feeding frenzy of iPad hype before, we definitely are now. The reviews are out, confirmations have been sent, and new apps are popping up every day (not to mention accessories). But maybe you're not interested …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The JooJoo is here... seriously (updated with video) — Of all days for this thing to arrive... it had to be today. Yes folks, as you can see in our gallery below, the JooJoo is not only real, but we've got one. We're not going to go into details right now, as we've got our hands kind of full this week …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon Mobile Hotspot on webOS devices now free, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus fall to $49.99 and $29.99 — Whoa, we didn't see this one coming: Verizon just slashed the cost of its 3G Mobile Hotspot feature for the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus all the way down to $, effectively giving you a broadband modem …
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Expanding Its Retail Business: Next Stores In Denver And San Diego (MSFT, AAPL) — Microsoft's retail operations, launched last fall, are apparently doing well enough for the company to continue investing in more stores. Microsoft is preparing to open its next two stores in Denver and San Diego …
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TechCrunch:
April Fools 2010: The Definitive List — It's time for April Fools 2010! We're constantly updating this page with new April Fools jokes as we find them. If you spot a good one please leave it in the comments. Thanks! — Google Wave — Google announced Google Wave wave notifications for Google Wave.
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Bits:
F.T.C. Is Said to Have Looked Into Amazon-Google Ties — Last month, John Doerr, one of America's most celebrated venture capitalists, announced that later this year he would step down from the board of Amazon.com, a company that he helped to finance and build.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Tegra 2 “serious issues” delaying Notion Ink, ICD & Compal tablets [Updated] — Bad news if you've been avoiding iPad hype and holding out for a tablet based on NVIDIA's second-gen Tegra chipset. We've just heard from a trusted source that all projects based on the new Tegra chip have been delayed …
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Comcast Rolls Out Broadband Meters Coast to Coast — Comcast cable internet users across the country can now keep track of their data usage to make sure they don't go over their 250GB a month data allowance, thanks to bandwidth meters deployed to customers nationwide Thursday.
Electronista:
iPhone widens edge over BlackBerry in JD Power rankings — Apple's lead in smartphone customer satisfaction has only grown in the past few months, JD Power discovered in its latest Smartphone Customer Satisfaction study. The iPhone's score has remained unchanged since October …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook's New Solution For Unofficial Pages: Community Pages — Want to set up a Facebook Page for “Pillow Fighting” or “Tatoos”? Previously, Facebook would simply shut down the Page or remove publishing permissions from the Page administrator. Now Facebook is suggesting that users create a …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck Gets $5M From VCs — Tiny Speck, an online game company based in San Francisco and Vancouver has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. Accel led this recent round of financing. Accel's Andrew Braccia will join …
Edward Krudy / Reuters:
New website brings crowd sourcing to fashion — (Reuters) - An Internet startup called Fashion Stake launching in coming weeks aims to shake up the fashion industry, just as peer-to-peer file sharing changed the music industry. — Fashion Stake will allow customers to directly fund fashion designers …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
HP and Dell to reduce investment for 10-inch netbook, say sources — Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell have both significantly reduced their investments in the 10-inch netbook segment, with HP reportedly even considering quitting the 10-inch netbook market and turning its focus …
Clay Shirky:
The Collapse of Complex Business Models — I gave a talk in Edinburgh last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn't whether the internet was going to alter their business, it was about the mode and tempo of that alteration.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Apple Stores, Best Buys not the only places to get an iPad on Saturday — It turns out that “select” Apple Specialist locations — independently-owned stores authorized by Apple to sell and service its products — will be getting iPad stock to sell on Saturday.
