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Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering:
Office 2010 Reaches RTM! — I am very excited to share some great news with you. Earlier today we reached the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) milestone for Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010! — RTM is the final engineering milestone of a product release …
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Office 2010 releases to manufacturing, availability as soon as May 1
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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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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 …
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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 …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm's SVP of software and services takes off, others given cash, stock to stick around (updated) — 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 …
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Richard Waters / blogs.ft.com:
What's bugging Google investors? — ‘, Assanka. $(this).parents(’.falconpostactions'), “, ‘Share’, 530)”>Share — Sometimes you just can't please Wall Street. On Friday, the day after it registered a pretty solid advertising rebound, Google's stock plunged by nearly 8 per cent - its worst day in 16 months.
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Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
Cat, Meet iPad. [Video] Update: Now with Dog — Today in technology news: cats — or at least one cat — are apparently very intrigued by the iPad. Eric Rautio's cat, Iggy, is entranced by the iPad apps Noby Noby Boy and Magic Piano [warning: Apple Store links], so much so that he gets into playing them, with his paws.
Electronista:
RIM chief: market unclear for tablets, touch-only phones [U] — (Updated with clearer remarks) 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 …
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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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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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Melissa Korn / Dow Jones Newswires:
Apple's IPad Gets Rejected From Some Colleges, For Now
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Wi-Fi-Only Nook “Lite” Coming Soon, Nook 2 To Follow — We're told that Barnes & Noble will be revealing some new products later this year: Nook 2 ("Project Encore") and a Wi-Fi-only Nook Lite. Meanwhile, a software update that includes a full browser is supposed to hit next week.
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 …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter May Release Some Deleted Usernames Within Weeks — What's happening with all those inactive and deleted usernames that Twitter has? Some of them will continue to be held back for a few more weeks; some likely for much longer, Twitter cofounder Ev Williams said yesterday.
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.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
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 …
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 …
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Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Study: Young adults do care about online privacy — NEW YORK - All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today's tech-savvy generation doesn't care about privacy. — Such an assumption fits happily with declarations …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Online Coupons Know a Lot About You, and They Tell — For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. — A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to mobile phones, is packed with information about the customer who uses it.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Sprout Now Lets You Simultaneously Build Rich Ads In Both HTML5 And Flash — Last week during Apple's iPhone 4.0 Preview, Steve Jobs announced iAd, a product that could help turn the mobile ad industry on its head. The new product lets developers quickly integrate rich …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Ideas for Twitter's new Annotations — from obvious to intriguing — The big game-changer (or alternately, the potential disaster) that came out of Twitter's first big conference this week was Annotations. It's a new way for developers to attach any kind of metadata to tweets.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
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” …
