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Approved — Opera Mini App approved for the App Store — Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera Mini will be available as a free download within 24 hours, depending on market.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Surprise, Surprise: Opera Mini iPhone App Gets Apple's Stamp Of Approval — Good news for Opera (and its legions of fans around the world): the company has just announced that its mobile browser Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant (updated with video) — It's finally official: Microsoft Pink — the product of Redmond's acquisition of Danger — has just been unveiled as a pair of handsets sourced from Sharp (which made most of Danger's Sidekicks) known as the Kin One and Kin Two.
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Microsoft Ushers in the Next Generation of the Social Phone With KIN, a New Windows Phone — Microsoft, Sharp, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone unveil KIN, a new Windows Phone designed for broadcasting and sharing everyday moments. — Microsoft Corp. today announced KIN …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Five surprising things about Microsoft's Kin — It's official: Microsoft's Pink project is no longer a mystery (or even a partial mystery). The details are out, and the name of the phones, targeted at the teen/twenty-something market, is Kin. — There have been plenty of rumors.
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.
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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:
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video — Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we've learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said.
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 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Source: Twitter's Ad Platform Launches Tonight — Twitter's long awaited new advertising platform launches tonight, we've heard from a source briefed on the project. The model? It's very much like Tweetup product that launched just last night - think Google Adwords for Twitter searches and hashtags …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Google CEO Disses Blogging — Eric Schmidt runs the biggest single blog network in the world, which makes it all the more bizarre that the Google CEO was insulting bloggers at a newspaper conference today. Was it something we said, Eric? Here's what Schmidt told the American Society …
Kimbal Musk / OneRiot Blog:
Monetizing the Realtime Web - Insights and Challenges after 6 Months — People love to interact in realtime. Last year saw the burst of Twitter into the mainstream and the phenomenal growth of Facebook. People love to interact in realtime, whether it is with each other or with content.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Week two: Apple stores still finding it tough to keep iPad in stock — Consumers looking for one of Apple's more affordable iPad models may still have trouble finding one at the company's nation retail chain, where the device continues to sell out during its second full week of availability.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Eric Schmidt on Google's “mobile first” attitude, weaknesses — Google chief executive Eric Schmidt talked on-stage about the company's future this evening at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. In addition to fielding some general questions about Google's plans, its strengths …
Brad Cooper / Smashing Magazine:
The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites — If you want to “go big” visually with a website, delivering complex interaction and a rich experience across a wide range of browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? Nope. Given the widespread adoption and advancements of modern browsers …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Plans To Expand Cloud Computing Services — When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amazon's hugely popular AWS, which includes S3 (storage) and EC2 (processing). Google has its own web computing service — namely …
Louis Gerbarg / /dev/why!:
Its all about the framework... There are a lot of posts right now about Flash and iPhone. It is pretty heated, a lot of people have very real amounts of time and money tied up in this. I am an iPhone developer, so I am not going to reveal anything covered under NDA, but the text …
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
South Korea Imposes Midnight Gaming Curfew — Video game addiction is a serious problem in Korea, where kids are prone to staying up all night long to play. So the government is disabling internet connections for six hours per night for underage gamers. — The ban won't affect most internet uses …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
YC's NewsTilt Aims To Help Journalists Create A Business Model For Content — The business and content models behind news have been changing dramatically over the past few years; with the mechanisms by which journalists interact with their audiences constantly transforming along the way.
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Jessie / The Official Netflix Blog:
Netflix Now Available on the Wii™ Console — Jessie Becker here from Marketing and we're thrilled to let you know that we are now shipping instant streaming discs for the Wii to ALL members who want one today! If you didn't reserve a disc already, click here and we will ship …
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Serkan Toto / TechCrunch:
China's Tencent Invests $300 Million In Russian Facebook And Zynga Backer DST — Today is a big day in Asia's Internet industry. Earlier today, Korea's NHN said it will buy major Japanese portal Livedoor, and now Tencent, China's largest Internet company, has announced [PDF] …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Apple Closing Off the iPhone to Rival Ad Networks? — Is Apple, which just launched its own ad network, crippling competitors that want to sell ads on its iPhones and iPads? — That's how some competitors are interpreting a clause in the developer agreement Apple released last week …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
NASDAQ and CEA announce Smartphone Index — The NASDAQ isn't exactly our usual beat here at Engadget, but it's not every day that a consumer electronics market segment gets elevated to the status of having its own index, which is what the stock exchange has now done with a little help from the Consumer Electronics Association.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet — Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley isn't just any Internet analyst. She was covering the sector when the brokerage firm was the lead underwriter for Netscape Communications' initial public offering in 1995, was dubbed the …
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