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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Did lost iPhone lead to blog bidding war? — There was no bidding war between Gizmodo and Engadget over the now famous misplaced iPhone 4G, Joshua Topolsky, Engadget's editor in chief, told CNET Tuesday. — Engadget management never tendered an offer for the leaked phone …
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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” …
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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.
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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 …
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Corynne / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Everyone Who's Made a Hitler Parody Video, Leave the Room — One the most enduring (and consistently entertaining) Internet memes of the past few years has been remixes of the bunker scene from the German film, The Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich (aka Der Untergang).
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 …
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Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9670 unveiled, CDMA clamshell device! — With rumors and rumors of a clamshell BlackBerry device going back ages, we finally have some confirmation on the phone, and in a big way, too. Not only do we have the first photos ever of this BlackBerry 9670, and not only is it the first …
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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.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Zynga's Mark Pincus: Time for Facebook to choose — Facebook's biggest partner had a suggestion for the adolescent social network: figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. — “Facebook is at a crossroads,” said Zynga CEO Mark Pincus. “They have to decide whether its more important …
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Mike Chambers:
On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications — A little over a week ago Apple released a new draft of their iPhone developer program license which contained the following clause: … Essentially, this has the effect of restricting applications built with a number of technologies, including Unity, Titanium, MonoTouch, and Flash CS5.
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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 …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The f8 Preview: How Facebook Plans to Take Over the Web — Mark Zuckerberg @ SXSW 2008 by Deney Terreio via Flickr — Facebook's third f8 developer conference kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco and online, with the social networking company likely to announce what is essentially a game plan …
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 …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Like BoomTown Said: Partovi Brothers Finally Leave MySpace (Here Are the Internal Memos) — Well-known tech entrepreneurs and twin brothers, Ali and Hadi Partovi (pictured here, right to left) are leaving MySpace, in a high-profile departure for the struggling social networking company.
Ashby Jones / Law Blog:
Our Tech-Savvy Supreme Court — The Supreme Court justices are a bright bunch. But chances are you're not going to see them at next January's CES show or ever watch them on a Web video demonstrating how to create apps for the iPhone. — That much was driven home, it seems …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Riders on the Storm — In 2001, Cass R. Sunstein wrote an essay in The Boston Review called “The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?” Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago who now serves in the Obama administration, raised the possibility that the Internet may be harming the public square.
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Consumer group to call for Google break up — Consumer Watchdog, the Santa Monica group that's proving a perpetual thorn in the side of Google Inc., plans to call on the Justice Department to launch an antitrust action against the search giant and seek remedies including a possible break up.
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 …
