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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Dell Lightning: the ultimate Windows Phone 7 device leaks out — Hot damn, people. The mother of all Dell leaks just dropped into our laps, and the absolute highlight has to be the Lightning, a Windows Phone 7 portrait slider. That's right — a portrait slider.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell Thunder explodes Android with 4.1-inch OLED screen, promises Hulu app — It's like Dell's making up for lost time with smartphones: while “Lightning” is the company's answer to Windows Phone extravagance, the Dell Thunder that's leaking out along side does up Android 2.1 with similar aplomb and a 4.1-inch WVGA OLED screen.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Dell Smoke slaps Android in the wild form factor you secretly wanted — Okay, so imagine a Pixi, but awesome. We think you'd end up with something closely resembling the phone that Dell's whipping up with a codename of “Smoke,” running Android Froyo atop a 2.8-inch QVGA display (looks more like WVGA to us, but whatevs).
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Dell Flash to offer Android Froyo in a ‘dramatic’ package
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Dell could be a real smartphone player
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Ian Schafer / AdAge:
Facebook May Not Be Skynet, but It Is Getting Smarter, and That's Bad for Google — Founder Mark Zuckerberg Is About to Tap Consumer Insights a Search Engine Can Only Dream of — Remember the computer network in “The Terminator” that progressively got so smart it became sentient and attempted to annihilate the human race?
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook's ambition — Ambition. — It's the one word that kept coming up in conversations I had around the halls today at Facebook's F8 event. Whenever I heard that word it was clear we were talking about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Compared to last week's weak moves by Twitter …
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Bret Taylor / Facebook Developer Blog:
The Next Evolution of Facebook Platform
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook: We Want to Integrate 200 Credits Payment Options Worldwide
Jennifer Leggio / Social Business:
Has Facebook won the web war against Google?
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Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:
Hulu pushes forward with $9.95 subscription service — Hulu, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24, according to people with knowledge of the plans. — Under the proposal, Hulu would continue to provide …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Why $10 a Month for Hulu Is Too Much. And Too Little. — Is ten bucks a month too much to pay for “Hulu Plus”? Or too little? — Perhaps both. — The Web video site is getting ready to roll out its much discussed subscription offering of $9.95 a month, the Los Angeles Times reports.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Gizmodo and the Prototype iPhone — The Phone — The first question is, how did the phone leave Apple's campus? — Starting a few weeks ago, some number of iPhone engineers who, because of the nature of their work were already familiar with the details of Apple's next-generation iPhone …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Dell Looking Glass tablet leaks: Tegra 2 coming your way in November — We'd already heard that Dell was working on larger tablets, and tonight's huge leak brought us tons of info on the Looking Glass, a seven-inch big brother to the Streak 5 that's due out in November.
Steffen Meschkat / Google LatLong:
The Google Maps search box just got smarter — The Suggest feature for Google Maps helps you find what you want faster and more accurately by showing search suggestions for the most relevant places, businesses and points of interest as you type. We experimentally launched suggest for Google Maps …
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 Now Available — The Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 was first introduced last May as a series of 6 applications that are designed to showcase Windows Touch in Windows 7 and to help people learn touch gestures. It consists of 3 casual games …
Planetbeing / Linux on the iPhone:
Android running on iPhone! — I've been working on this quietly in the background. Sorry about the initial video quality, but YouTube promises that the quality will get better as the video gets processed more. The back part of the version I uploaded to Vimeo was cut off. — I think that says it all, really.
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AppleInsider:
Apple strikes back at Adobe, says Flash is ‘closed and proprietary’ — In a rare public comment, Apple's public relations department responded Wednesday to criticisms from the project manager for Adobe Flash, suggesting his recent criticism of Apple was “backwards.”
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Kakai, Stealthy No More-It's a Kindle for Students and Much More — Founded last May, Kakai is one of the start-ups in Silicon Valley in the deepest of stealth modes, despite a panoply of high-profile players involved. — But, while reports have been sketchy around it being some kind …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Legal spying via the cell phone system — Two researchers say they have found a way to exploit weaknesses in the mobile telecom system to legally spy on people by figuring out the private cell phone number of anyone they want, tracking their whereabouts, and listening to their voice mail.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Apple's Revenue Comes From (AAPL) — Apple's iPhone business, which didn't exist three years ago, now represents a whopping 40% of the company's revenue, and has been the company's biggest revenue generator for three quarters in a row.
Dave Cole / The White House Blog:
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code — As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we're releasing some of the custom code we've developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We're excited to see how developers across …
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Kathleen Kingsbury / Time:
HP vs. Everybody — Be inconspicuous. If there's one tenet of the legendary corporate culture known as the HP Way that CEO Mark Hurd has mastered, that's it. Known as a numbers guy who shirks the limelight, Hurd has practically channeled founding fathers Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Make an Offer to Acquire ARM? — The London Evening Standard reports that there have been rumors in London's financial district that Apple may be interested in acquiring ARM Holdings. ARM's shares shot up today based on the strong financial results from Apple yesterday.
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Google Mobile Blog:
Search by Voice Comes to Google Maps 4.1 for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 phones — We understand that typing on phones isn't as easy or fast as talking into them. As a result, we're big fans of letting you search in Google Maps for mobile in the most natural way possible — with your voice!
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