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8:30 PM ET, April 20, 2010

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John Herrman / Gizmodo:

Why Apple Couldn't Get the Lost iPhone Back — It's such an obvious question: Why couldn't Apple track this phone down? As it turns out, they may have had two chances to get it back - and blown them both. The timeline of the night goes something like this: On March 18th …

Discussion: Webomatica

Gizmodo:

The Next iPhone, Dissected — We took apart the next iPhone. — There are a number of interesting facts gained from the dissection, the most important of which is more concrete confirmation (as if we needed any more) that this phone is from Apple. There are three separate places …

Discussion: Engadget, EverythingiCafe and MobileCrunch

Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:

Apple Didn't Leak the iPhone—and Why That Matters — A controlled leak? The lost iPhone planted by Apple? You have no idea how Apple PR works—and how, like it or not, Gizmodo finally beat them at their own game. — The only way the iPhone 4 was a controlled leak is if Apple …

Discussion: Boing Boing and EverythingiCafe

Ian Betteridge / Technovia:

Has Gizmodo broken the law with its iPhone story? — I am not a lawyer. But I do play one on the weekends. — More importantly, over the years I've become intimately familiar with the law as it affects journalists on both sides of the pond. I've covered cases like the “trade secrets” …

Discussion: Technologizer

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.

Edible Apple:

Engadget had option to purchase “lost” iPhone 4G, advised not to by legal counsel — This Gizmodo/iPhone 4G story sure has some legs, don't it? — While Gizmodo is reaping all of the pageview rewards for its expose on Apple's upcoming iPhone, it appears that Engadget was offered …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and EverythingiCafe

Foster Kamer / Runnin' Scared:
Gizmodo's iPhone Scoop: The Nick Denton Interview

Discussion: BetaNews and Oddly Together

Bloomberg:
Apple Gets IPhone Prototype Back After Lawyer Sends Letter, Gizmodo Says

Discussion: Chicago Sun Times, Life On My Mobile and Digits

Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Record March Quarter Revenue and Profit iPhone Sales More Than Double — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2010 second quarter ended March 27, 2010. The Company posted revenue of $13.50 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 per diluted share.

AppleInsider:
Apple profits rise over 89% on sales of 2.94M Macs, 8.75M iPhones

Discussion: Apple, TechCrunch, Hardware 2.0, paidContent, Computerworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Gizmodo

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 …

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 …

Agence France Presse:

Ten nations call on Google to better defend privacy — SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Officials from 10 nations have banded together to demand that Internet giant Google better defend people's privacy. — “While we hear corporations such as Google pay lip service to privacy, we don't always …

Discussion: Venture Chronicles

Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:

Google Buys Stealth Hardware Startup Agnilux — Lots of talk this week about Apple's 4G iPhone, after Gizmodo found a prototype left behind at a local watering hole. The device is believed to use an internally-designed application processor, just like Apple used with its recently-released iPad.

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, GigaOM, The Next Web, Mashable! and Network World

Business Wire:

Yahoo! Reports First Quarter 2010 Results — Display Advertising Grew 20% Year Over Year Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) today reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. Revenues were $1,597 million for the first quarter of 2010, a 1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2009.

Discussion: The Register, Reuters, VentureBeat, BoomTown, Rob Hof's Blog, TechCrunch, paidContent, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land and The Next Web

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Yahoo earnings get boost from Microsoft search deal; Bartz upbeat on display ads

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 …

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Beyond Street View: Google Photographers Begin Going Inside Businesses

Discussion: VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Search Engine Land

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: Gadget Lab, CNET News, Digital Trends, Nieman Journalism Lab, GeekSugar, DVICE, Android Phone Fans, bub.blicio.us, EuroDroid, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, TiPb, eSarcasm, Download Squad, Techie Buzz, Epicenter, Electricpig.co.uk and Android Central

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Google Launches ‘Government Request Tool’ To Show Censorship Requests — Google is, for good or ill when it comes to your personal information, a strong advocate for public access to as much data as possible. Google is acting on that today by launching a new tool that shows the number content removal …

Discussion: Fast Company, VatorNews, The Official Google Blog, Network World, bizjournals and Technology Liberation Front

David Drummond / Washington Post:
Our challenge: Keeping the Internet open

Discussion: Threat Level, The Register, Freedom to Tinker, Erictric, Wall Street Journal, Tech Daily Dose, Post Tech, Guardian, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and Silicon Alley Insider

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: Gadget Lab, The Register, Gizmodo, Maximum PC, Techland, Obsessable, I4U News, T3.com News, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, Electronista and Neowin.net

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 with your friends via the microblogging network.

Discussion: Technologizer and NBC Bay Area, Thanks:atul

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

90% of Content on Google Buzz is Bots, Report Finds — Less than 10 weeks after launching, Google Buzz seems so far to have fallen short of capturing the hearts and minds of the social web. A new report from social media analytics service PostRank has found that 90% of the content published …

Discussion: PostRank Blog, Search Engine Journal, Mashable!, Techie Buzz and Maximum PC

Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:

Firefox starts reining in Flash, Silverlight, QuickTime — Download Mozilla Firefox 3.6.4 public beta for Windows from Fileforum now. — Starting today, an ambitious project from the Mozilla Foundation called “Lorentz” makes its first public, experimental debut, with the release of a public beta of Firefox 3.6.4.

Discussion: The Download Blog

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Hitler Is Very Upset That Constantin Film Is Taking Down Hitler Parodies — For my money, memes on the Internet don't get any better than the Hitler one. You know, the one in which you take some current event (the more mundane, the better) and shove it into the scene from the German film Downfall …

Discussion: Open Video Alliance, Guardian, Scripting News and Mashable!

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