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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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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
HTC May Buy Palm to Fight Apple — Moribund Palm is up for sale, says Bloomberg. Who is in the short list of potential bidders? It's not Google, but close enough: HTC. And it makes total sense, because buying Palm could save HTC's ass in the Apple lawsuit. — Bloomberg says that Lenovo may want to buy it too.
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 …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Steve Jobs Replies to Mail, Apple Is Dropping Support for the iPhone 2G — He did it again, and with his usual style we've gotten used to. Steve Jobs has replied to a customer mail regarding the future support for the iPhone 2G (do you even remember it?) and clearly said:
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ReadWriteWeb, Electricpig.co.uk, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, SlashPhone, Gizmodo, Erictric, EverythingiCafe, Phone Scoop, Go Rumors, Edible Apple, TiPb, Pulse2, TUAW and Phones Review
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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Macworld, White African, Download Squad, Adobe Featured Blogs, The Next Web, Tech Eye, Neowin.net, BoomTown and 9 to 5 Mac
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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The Adobe - Apple Flame War — The short version: — Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise.
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/dev/why!, Macworld, BaltTech, Apple Gazette, pocketnow.com, Edible Apple, iLounge, Softpedia News, Slate and Tom Hume
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Innerdaemon / Sharing the truth one thread at a time:
Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself
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Silicon Alley Insider, Made by Many, BoomTown, Phones Review, Scott Rafer's Blog, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Fortune
Addy Dugdale / Fast Company:
Google Buys U.K. Start-Up Plink, a Shazam for Art — Google has just announced it's buying up Plink, a nifty little U.K. start-up that calls itself a visual search engine developer. The plan is to apply its algorithms to Google's visual search platform, Goggles.
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Mark / PlinkArt Blog:
Plink is joining Google! — We have some very exciting news - Plink has just been acquired by Google. — We started Plink to bring the power of visual search to everyone, and we're delighted to be taking a big step towards that goal today. Google has already shown that it's serious …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Docs Gets More Realtime; Adds Google Drawings To The Mix — Slowly but surely, Google keeps trying to chip away at Microsoft's core Office productivity suite with Google Docs, its free online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software. Today, Google Drawing is being added …
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Jonathan Rochelle / Docs Blog:
A new Google Docs — They say a house is only as good as its foundation, and we believe the same holds true for web applications like Google Docs. With our old foundation, we could continue delivering most features you wanted quickly, but over time it became clear that some just weren't possible.
Reuters:
Google CEO says Apple helped AdMob deal — * FTC reportedly gearing to challenge acquisition — Apple's (AAPL.O) plunge into the advertising market announced this past week gave Google (GOOG.O) a big boost in arguing for regulators to approve its acquisition of mobile advertising leader AdMob, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Sunday.
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Google CEO: ‘Journalism will triumph’
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News, TechFlash, Smart Mobs and The Snitch
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.
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Zee / The Next Web:
Twitter Officially Responds To Developers. Tries To Calm Fears.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, MediaMemo, Telegraph, Regular Geek, Feld Thoughts, The Blog Herald and steve's blog, Thanks:zee
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 …
Mark Pothier / Boston Globe:
Please do not change your password — You were right: It's a waste of your time. A study says much computer security advice is not worth following. — To continue reading this story, enter your password now. If you do not have a password, please create one.
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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