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12:35 PM ET, April 20, 2010

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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:

A Letter: Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back — Well, how can I explain this? I got some interesting calls today. It was Apple. And they wanted their phone back. — This phone was lost, and then found. But from Apple's perspective, it could have been considered stolen.

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:

How Apple Lost the Next iPhone — The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it's also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone. — The 27-year-old Powell …

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Ten Countries Ask Google to Do More to Protect Privacy — Privacy officials from ten countries Monday sent Google Inc. a letter demanding that the Internet giant build more privacy protections into its services, the latest sign of increasingly international anxiety over Google's power.

Discussion: TechCrunch, BBC, Search Engine Land, Computerworld, Associated Press, Hillicon Valley, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Digits and GigaOM

Mr. Eric Schmidt / priv.gc.ca:

Letter to Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer — The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, and the heads of the data protection authorities in France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom sent the following letter …

Discussion: The Register, Post Tech, CNET News, Tech Daily Dose, Electricpig.co.uk and p2pnet

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Steve Jobs Reiterates: “Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone” — Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on a roll. While he's probably had better days than today, he's lately been shooting off emails left and right in response to customers' concerns. We just were sent what appears to be one such Jobs response …

Discussion: bub.blicio.us, Neowin.net, Google Android Blog, EuroDroid, DVICE, Android Central, Between the Lines, FierceDeveloper, TiPb, Electricpig.co.uk, Techie Buzz, AppScout, Electronista, Silicon Alley Insider and MacStories

Apple:

iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Models Available in US on April 30 — Apple® today announced that the Wi-Fi + 3G models of its magical iPad™ will be delivered to US customers who've pre-ordered on Friday, April 30, and will be available in Apple retail stores the same day starting at 5:00 p.m.

Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com:

Google CEO talks about Chrome OS devices — Aiming to be first successful new platform this millennium — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has talked about the eagerly anticipated Chrome OS devices, insisting that the price point will remain at around £200 to £275 and that he would …

Discussion: Gizmodo, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, SlashGear and Liliputing

John Hanke / The Official Google Blog:

Introducing Google Places — Today the Local Business Center is becoming Google Places. Why? Millions of people use Google every day to find places in the real world, and we want to better connect Place Pages — the way that businesses are being found today — with the tool …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Screenwerk, Understanding Google …, Domain Name Wire, Erictric, Search Engine Journal and the Econsultancy blog

Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
New features, new name for Google Places

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Search Engine Land, Screenwerk, Softpedia News and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:atul

Boy Genius Report:

BlackBerry OS 6.0 screenshots, details! — If you're a BlackBerry fan, there is probably not a single thing you have been looking forward to more than what we have right here — screenshots and full details of RIM's upcoming operating system, OS 6.0. One of our AT&T sources has not only showed us …

Discussion: Engadget, Electronista, CrackBerry.com blogs, Phones Review, infoSync World and Neowin.net

Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:

10 questions to ask before buying iPad — On Friday night, I bought an iPad nearly three months after giving 12 reasons why I wouldn't. An unexpected reason came up: My wife's MacBook Pro died. I reckoned she could temporarily use the tablet (which cost way less than any new Mac laptop) …

Discussion: TUAW, Lockergnome Blog Network and Technology Questions

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

This is What a Tweet Looks Like — Think a tweet is just 140 characters of text? Think again. To developers building tools on top of the Twitter platform, they know tweets contain far more information than just whatever brief, passing thought you felt the urge to share your friends via the microblogging network.

Discussion: dygiscape, Thanks:atul

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

Facebook Shutters Facebook Lite — Facebook just announced via its Facebook profile that the ultra-lightweight version of its website, Facebook Lite, is no more. — The site, which many (including us) called yet another Twitter imitation, had only been live since last September but now redirects to the main Facebook homepage.

Discussion: All Facebook and Mashable!

Charlie White / DVICE:

Ford first to seamlessly integrate Pandora into a car stereo — Pandora Internet radio has just about taken over our musical lives, and now Ford has figured out the best way yet to integrate it into a car. Starting with the 2011 Ford Fiesta, if you have an Android or BlackBerry smartphone …

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Ford Sync Will Soon Let You Control Your Mobile Apps by Voice

Discussion: Fast Company, PR Newswire, Mashable!, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear, Xconomy, Internet2Go, BoomTown, FierceMobileContent, MobileContentToday, The Toybox, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, I4U News, Electronista and Distimo Blog

Jack Neff / AdAge:

Nielsen: Facebook's Ads Work Pretty Well — When Social Ads Collide With Stated Interests, Awareness Goes Up — BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — It pays to have fans on Facebook if you want your ads to work there too, according to the first public study to come out of the collaboration of Nielsen Co. and Facebook.

Discussion: MediaPost, VatorNews, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Jon Burg's Future Visions and paidContent

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Tumblr Raises Another $5 Million From Spark and Union Square. Now It Wants Your Money. — Who wants to bet on a Web company with lots of users but very little revenue? The same people who have bet on it before. Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures have poured another $5 million into Tumblr …

Discussion: alarm:clock, VentureBeat, paidContent and TechCrunch

Clay Dillow / Popular Science:

HP Designjet 3D Printer Now On Sale, Churns Out Solid Plastic Objects From the Desktop — Remember back in January when HP announced it would bring a tabletop 3-D printer to market, at a place and time to be named later? That place and time just became a quite a bit less ambiguous.

Thanks:hpnews

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

As Abbott Flocks From Palm To Twitter, Pass Becomes The First Twitter CTO — Last Friday, news hit that Michael Abbott, Palm's head of software and services, the man in charge of its webOS platform, was leaving the company. The news, which broke via a regulatory filing …

Discussion: FierceMobileContent

John Markoff / New York Times:

Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System — Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a person with direct knowledge of the investigation …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Digital Daily, Wall Street Journal, Macworld, Download Squad, Guardian, ChannelWeb, Associated Press, Telegraph, gHacks technology news, The Register, Fast Company, eWeek, CNET News, Reuters, Ryan Naraine, Silicon Alley Insider and TechSpot

Kevin Conley / vogue.com:

Sheryl Sandberg: What She Saw at The Revolution — Nobody close to Sheryl Sandberg, now the COO of Facebook, is surprised to find her running the company that turned friend into a verb. In her case, it's an action verb. Sheryl remembers birthdays. She texts people seconds before big presentations ("Smile.

Discussion: Post Tech, Thanks:atul

John D. Sutter / CNN:

‘Skinput’ system turns hands into buttons — Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — In Chris Harrison's ideal world, mobile phones would be the size of matchbooks. They'd have full-size keyboards. They'd browse the Web. They'd play videos. — And, most importantly, you'd never have to touch them.

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

HP Slate leaks its way into the wild: ‘meh’ — We've only ever seen the HP Slate in extremely controlled demonstrations and cheesy videos until now, but it looks like the Windows 7 tablet just spent a little bit of time in the wild — Conecti.ca's posted up a full hands-on and mini-review.

Discussion: Maximum PC and CNET News

Kim Heras / The Next Web:

Pocket Life wins race to bring real-time location-based social networking to Facebook — Pocket Life , the geo-location social network created out of Vodafone's Innovation lab in Australia, has released its new Facebook app, bringing real-time geo-location integration to Facebook.

Thanks:kimheras

Reuters:

Third of U.S. teens with phones text 100 times a day — (Reuters) - A third of U.S. teenagers with cell phones send more than 100 texts a day as texting has exploded to become the most popular means of communication for young people, according to new research.

Discussion: DailyTech, IntoMobile, Pew Internet, textually.org, Phones Review, Internet2Go, Tech Daily Dose, The Xplanation, Fast Company and Neowin.net

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Charter Fund Acquires DreamBox In Partnership With Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — DreamBox this morning announced that it has been acquired by a new partnership between Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and the Charter Fund, a non-profit venture capital firm. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Bits, Business Wire and Dreambox Learning

Oliver Chiang / The Firewall:

Facebook Fails Stanford's Privacy Test, Twitter And iPhone Pass — When Facebook changed its privacy settings last December, founder Mark Zuckerberg declared that privacy was no longer a “social norm.” Stanford project WhatApp.org begs to differ. — The new site, which was co-created …

Discussion: All Facebook and Graham Cluley's blog

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