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Bloomberg:
Palm Said to Put Itself Up for Sale; Bids May Come This Week — Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company as early as this week, according to three people familiar with the situation. — The company is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Palm for sale tip insiders: HTC, Lenovo, Dell & others in running
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Boldly Empowers the Digital Artist — So I've been playing around with Adobe's lateset version of Photoshop that will be coming out in the next month, CS5, and I have to say that I think it represents a bold, dramatic and fundamental shift in digital art creation.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas — In a previous post, I'd wondered why Adobe didn't spend their time building HTML5 Authoring tools rather than putting so much time/energy/money into their Flash->iPhone Apps exporter tool for Flash CS5. — As it turns out, Adobe does have some …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Photoshop CS5 tries advancing photo frontier
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MacRumors, Digital Photography Review, Technologizer, Macworld, John Nack on Adobe, PC Magazine, Crave and Imaging Insider
Innerdaemon / Sharing the truth one thread at a time:
Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself — In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass. They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Has Steve Jobs gone mad?
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Tech Eye, eSarcasm, Phones Review, AppleInsider, Edible Apple, mocoNews and Download Squad
Zee / The Next Web:
Twitter Officially Responds To Developers. Tries To Calm Fears. — Full message at the bottom of this post. — In Twitter's development talk Google group, API lead Ryan Sarver took some time to try and calm developers fears regarding Twitter's recent moves to acquire certain apps and effectively wipe out others.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Tensions Rise for Twitter and the Outside Developers Tapping In — SAN FRANCISCO — It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. — Twitter made it easy for programmers outside the company to build 70,000 applications that made the microblogging service more usable.
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: I Admit It, The iPad Is A Kindle Killer. I Just Wish It Weren't Going To Kill Reading Too — For one reason or another, I've spent the past few weeks down at the TechCrunch offices. As a result, it's proved almost impossible to avoid iPad fanboy hysteria.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is 2011 like 1994 for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and the Web? — Fact: In 1994 I thought Apple was going to own it all. By 1999 most magazines thought it was dead. — Fact: In 1992 Pointcast shipped. By 1999 it was dead. — Fact: In 1994 Microsoft was beta testing a system called “Blackbird.”
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Overture Founder Launches Tweetup, “Adsense For Twitter” — idealab, the incubator behind the company that invented search engine marketing as we know it today, is launching a new startup that they say is applying some of the same business mechanics to the Twitter stream. The new startup is called Tweetup.
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paidContent, Financial Times, New York Times, GigaOM, BoomTown and John Battelle's Searchblog
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Available — Silverlight 4 will release to Web this week; next wave of developer tools and technologies re-defines simplicity, creates new opportunities for developers. — Kicking off a global launch consisting …
New York Times:
After iPad, Rivals Offer Variations on a Theme — Just as Apple's iPhone shook up a complacent cellphone industry, the company's iPad is provoking PC makers — and non-PC makers — to fight back with new devices. — Google — a search and advertising company — is soon expected to begin selling …
