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Mike Jazayeri / Chromium Blog:
A New Approach to Printing — When we demonstrated Google Chrome OS last Fall, a few folks asked us how it would handle printing. Today we wanted to give developers a little more insight into our approach for printing from Chrome OS and other web-connected platforms.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google's Plan To Give Chrome OS (And All Web-Enabled Devices) Universal Printer Support — Google's Chrome OS is due to come out some time this year, and there are still plenty of questions about how people are going to use a computer that's based entirely in the browser.
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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 …
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Google Investor Relations:
Google Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. — “Google performed very well in the first quarter, with 23% year over year revenue growth driven by strength across all major verticals …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google: Android Market Now Serving 38,000 Apps, Nexus One Is A Profitable Business
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Google Again Posts Big Jumps In Sales And Profits
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Questionable Next-Generation iPhone Rear Shell Images Surface — We have received a set of images purportedly depicting an iPad-inspired rear shell design for the next-generation iPhone. While we have questions about the validity of the images given their claimed origins and other issues …
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Pocket-lint, Distorted-Loop.com, Edible Apple, Electricpig.co.uk, Phones Review, Erictric and SlashGear
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 …
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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ning's Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff — One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal, the company is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks …
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Asher Moses / The Age:
Autism iPhone breakthrough: from tantrums to app-y days — Lisa and Grace Domican use the Grace app. — Few can legitimately boast that an iPhone app changed their life but for 10-year-old Grace Domican, unable to speak due to autism, the touchscreen phone has given her a voice for the first time.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Inside the Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro — With nothing new on the outside, all the newness of the just-announced 15-inch MacBook Pro is on the inside, as iFixit illustrates in its latest teardown. — What is of interest to most, of course, is the Intel Core i5 and i7 processors.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Glympse Brings Real-Time Location Sharing To Facebook — Over the last few months there have been non-stop rumors about Facebook finally launching its location feature (an announcement may well come at f8). But a startup called Glympse has already beaten them to the punch (well, sort of).
Kenneth Li / Financial Times:
Demand Media enlists Goldman for IPO — Demand Media, a closely watched startup that mines online search engine data to generate thousands of videos and web stories a day, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering. — People familiar with the plans say the company could file for an IPO as early as August.
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Marius Oiaga / Softpedia News:
Apple Software Security Inferior to Microsoft's, Says Iconic Hacker — Marc Maiffret — A security expert that build his career on identifying vulnerabilities in Microsoft software now says that the company has come a long way. Marc Maiffret, a former hacker turned legitimate security researcher …
BBC:
Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net — A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal. — The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on computers using …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Developers: how will we all get along with Twitter's annotation feature? — Today at the Twitter Chirp Hack Day I talked with a ton of developers and the new feature they were most interested in. Adam Jackson echoed everyone I've heard today when he tweeted “Twitter Annotations is what I've been wanting FOREVER.”
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Apple's New Guidelines Won't Stop Wired Magazine iPad App, Conde Nast Says — Navigating New Restrictions En Route to the App Store — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast 's Wired magazine app will indeed work on the iPad despite the restrictive new guidelines Apple issued this month, Conde Nast said Thursday evening.
Tim Danton / PC Pro:
Sony announces “division two” VAIO laptops — Sony is to launch a “division two” of VAIO laptops that are made and designed by other manufacturers. — In an exclusive interview with PC Pro, the deputy president of Sony VAIO's Business Group announced a two-tier strategy for the company's laptop division …
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Nick Farrell / Tech Eye:
US joins HP bribery investigation — Details are emerging of HPs latest scandal as the net widens with the US saying it is also investigating the maker of extraordinarily priced printer ink. — The US Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission says it has joined German …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Venture investing off to a slow start for 2010 (MoneyTree report) — Entrepreneurs hoping for a return to the generous venture environment of a few years ago may have a while to wait, according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Oracle Buys Healthcare Software Firm Phase Forward For $685 Million — Enterprise giant Oracle will acquire healthcare software firm Phase Forward for $685 million. Of course, this is small change compared to Oracle's $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which was approved recently.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Twazzup Launches New Twitter Analytics Service and Web-Based Twitter Client — Just about a year ago, Twazzup launched one of the more interesting Twitter search engines and one month ago, it became one of the first services to get access to Twitter's full firehose stream.
Peter Kirn / Create Digital Music:
Apple iPad May Support USB Audio Interfaces Via Camera Accessory Kit — In this bold, new future of computing, we don't need USB or ports, huh? Wait - scratch that - you may have your iPad and your USB, too, after all. Photo (CC) Teo. — Score one for standards.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Canadian wireless carrier claims next-gen iPhone to arrive in June — Apple will stick with its June launch for a new iPhone this year, with the next-generation handset scheduled to be released in just a few months, according to one Canadian wireless provider.
