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AppleInsider:
Apple in advanced discussions to adopt AMD chips — Intel has served as Apple's sole source for the microprocessors used in its notebook and desktop personal computers since the company began its transition away from PowerPC in 2006, but that may soon change given the company's recent talks …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App — The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.” … Mark Fiore, who won the prize …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Steve Jobs Says Apple Made a Mistake in Rejecting Pulitzer Winner's App — Apple's chief executive apparently believes that his company made a mistake when it rejected an iPhone app from a cartoonist who is now a Pulitzer prize winner. — An Apple spokeswoman did not comment Friday afternoon …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
It's Not the Control, It's the Secrecy — Craig Hockenberry, back in July 2009: … Inexplicable App Store rejections seem to be less common this year than last, but uncertainty remains the core problem. Consider the Mark Fiore political cartoon app in the news this week.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell's 7-inch and 10-inch Streak tablets leaked! — We'd heard through the grapevine that the engineers at Round Rock were working on a number of slates to fill the Streak lineup, but man, we didn't see this coming... at least not yet. A couple of images along with an internal Dell announcement landed …
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Boy Genius Report:
AT&T blocks employees vacations in June for iPhone launch — Same story as last year and the year before, but we've confirmed with multiple AT&T sources that the carrier has now put a block on employees taking vacations in June. The only time AT&T does a straight block like this is for iPhone launches.
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Electronista:
RIM chief: no market for tablets, touch-only phones — RIM's co-chief Mike Lazaridis downplayed many of Apple's efforts today in a keynote at the TD Newcrest technology conference in Toronto. The executive was concerned that there wasn't necessarily a market for tablets like the iPad …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Can Yahoo Still Nab Foursquare for $125 Million or Will VCs Prevail? The Race for the Hot Mobile Start-Up Nears Its End. — You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile social network Foursquare is an F.
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Pandu Nayak / The Official Google Blog:
Search with fewer keystrokes and better spelling — We spend a lot of time thinking about search results, but we also spend a lot of time thinking about search queries. Today we're announcing three enhancements to help you input your searches more quickly and easily: more localized Google Suggest …
Wall Street Journal:
Tech Sector in Hiring Drive — Google, Intel Add Workers as Profits Snap Back; Start-Ups Also Fight for Talent — The technology industry, an engine of innovation and U.S. prosperity for more than half a century, is accelerating its recovery from the recession with surging earnings …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Introduces us to a New iTunes “Concert Ticket +” System — There's no missing the point that Apple wants to enter the electronic concert and event ticket business via a new application and system simply called “Concert Ticket +.” The system that is laid out in this extraordinarily detailed patent …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
More Details Emerge About the iPad's Connectivity Issues — According to Dow Jones, some colleges have banned the iPad from their networks. Princeton and Cornell, for example, are seeing major networking and connectivity issues that mirror the problems many users are seeing with their iPads at home.
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Andreas Constantinou / VisionMobile :: blog:
Is Android Evil? — You thought Android was open? The Android governance model consists of an elaborate set of control points that allows Google to bundle its own services and control the exact software and hardware make-up on every handset. All this while touting the openness rhetoric …
Jason Rosenthal / Ning Blog:
An Update from Ning — As many of you know, we made a decision yesterday to focus 100% of the company on enhancing the features and services we offer to paying Ning Creators. The tens of thousands of you who already use our paid service represent over 75% of our traffic …
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Those iPhone 4 case shots? Fake! — Yesterday evening, we posted a handful of images that were going around the Internets, purportedly showing the back of the next-gen iPhone (iPhone 4, iPhone HD, whatever you want to call it.) We spent more than half of the post decrying them as fakes — and it looks like we were right.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Twitter reveals details of new “Annotated Tweets” feature — One of the most exciting announcements at Twitter's Chirp conference this week was “Annotated Tweets”. Now the company has revealed more details in a message to developers. — The easiest way to think of annotations is as …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Ideas for Twitter's new Annotations — from obvious to intriguing
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Paul Kapustka / Sidecut Reports:
Verizon's Lynch: LTE Going Live in Q4 — Verizon chief technical officer Dick Lynch is an excited guy, and why not: Thursday he helped announce the groundbreaking for a new Long Term Evolution (LTE) Innovation center in the Boston area, while also confirming that the company is still on track …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Calif. cities dominate Apple's top 10 markets — Shocker! The San Francisco Bay Area is the biggest U.S. market for Apple products, according to the results of a survey conducted by research firm Experian Simmons. The study found that 32.3 percent of adult residents of the region own …
Stanislav Datskovskiy / Loper OS:
Non-Apple's Mistake … The howls of protest coming from iPhone and iPad developers are loud and shrill, and are sure to grow louder and shriller as their Golden Cage grows smaller and smaller, as I'm certain it will. — The Golden Cage is indeed a cage, and a strong one. Yet it has no door.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Office 2010 releases to manufacturing, availability as soon as May 1 — The first volume licensing arrangements for Microsoft Office 2010 will be made through company partners on May 1, almost two weeks earlier than expected. This news today from the company's Office Engineering team …
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Microsoft pulls part of Kin campaign after ‘sexting’ complaints — Microsoft is saying no to “sexting.” — As part of the launch of its new, mostly kid-oriented Kin phones, Microsoft posted a video depicting young people rocking out at a music club — including a scene of a young man peeling off …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm's SVP of software and services takes off, others (including CFO) given cash to stick around — No one really knows exactly what's going on inside the walls of Palm HQ this week — whether the company will sink or swim is perhaps a bigger question right now than it has been since its rebirth last year …
Rob Lewis / Techvibes:
Tynt raises $8 Million for Copy and Paste — Calgary's Tynt Multimedia Inc. announced today the closing of $8 Million of additional venture capital financing. The financing will be used to introduce new products, expand sales and marketing, particularly in the US, Europe and Asia/Pacific, and to drive multiple new partnerships.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
YouTube Launches Twitter-Like Channel Bulletins — YouTube has launched a new feature that allows channel owners to send text messages and links to videos to the front page of their subscribers' YouTube accounts. It's a cool, if logical, feature to offer and one that could make visiting YouTube a lot more fun.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft adds repair shop to Windows — Microsoft's Fix it Center, now in beta, consists of both an online service and downloadable software. It's designed to bring some of the diagnostic capabilities built into Windows 7 to older PCs. — Microsoft is testing a new “Fix it Center” …
