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Kevin Thau / Twitter Blog:
Cloudhopping — Twitter was inspired by SMS and we continue to embrace this simple but ubiquitous technology. In fact, Twitter's 140 character limit was designed specifically to allow for any tweet to be read in its entirety whether you're using a rudimentary mobile phone, or a more sophisticated Internet enabled device.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Blippy users' credit card numbers found on Google — Yesterday was a big day for social-oversharing site Blippy, which lets members automatically post their purchases to the Internet. The company announced $11.2 million in funding and was profiled in The New York Times.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Blippy cofounder responds to credit card leak: “It's a lot less bad than it looks” — Earlier today, VentureBeat broke the news that some members of Blippy, a social-sharing site for shoppers, had their credit card numbers published to Google by Blippy's servers.
Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Lenovo emerges as leading candidate for Palm -sources — Lenovo (0992.HK), the world's No.4 PC brand, has emerged as the leading candidate to buy struggling smartphone maker Palm (PALM.O), after the U.S. firm was rebuffed by other potential Asian buyers, sources said.
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Andrew Parker / Financial Times:
Palm pledges to survive as an independent
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Reuters, Macworld, The Register, I4U News, Digital Trends, Engadget, Dow Jones Newswires, Softpedia News, Digital Daily, ChannelWeb, Techland, FierceWireless, Gadgetell, Electronista, Phone Arena, Mobile Entertainment, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, PreCentral.net, Gearlog, Silicon Alley Insider and Maximum PC
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol — I attended Facebook's F8 conference yesterday (missed the keynote IRL, but you can catch it online) and came away pondering the Open Graph Protocol. — In they keynote Zuck said (as Luke Shepard calls him):
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica, @vanelsas, ReadWriteWeb, Stay N' Alive, The Praized Blog and blogs.ft.com
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Brad Stone / Bits:
When Over-Sharing Leads to Problems — In my story in Friday's New York Times, I wrote about sites that let people share all kinds of personal information with the world, and about how these sites are embraced by users, despite possible privacy concerns. Now the blog VentureBeat …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
For Web's New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Brooks wants the whole Web to know that he spent $41 on an iPad case at an Apple store, $24 eating at an Applebee's, and $6,450 at a Florida plastic surgery clinic for nose work. — Too much information, you say?
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Google Dashes Hopes of Free iPhone Turn-by-Turn GPS — Google has denied the latest rumors that the search giant will bring free turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the Apple iPhone, although the features could come in the future to other (unspecified) mobile platforms.
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Download Squad, Boy Genius Report, Google Watch, Engadget, Fast Company, MacRumors, MacUser, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, DailyTech, Insanely Great Mac, SlashGear, TiPb, Techland, Phones Review, TheAppleBlog, Mashable!, DVICE, Silicon Alley Insider, The Map Room, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, App Advice, Phone Scoop, MacNN, FierceMobileContent, EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, The Loop and The Next Web, Thanks:thepimpofsound
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek Eee Pad to hit channel in July — Asustek Computer chairman Jerry Shen has announced, at a conference in Taiwan, that the company will introduce its tablet PC, the Eee Pad, at Computex 2010, scheduled between June 1-5, and is aiming to launch the device in retail channels …
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Dear Facebook & Google: We Are Not Your Pawns - Enough With The Opt-In! — Over the past few months, both Facebook and Google had followed an alarming trend of opting people into things rather than letting them chose themselves. Fair to say, I've had enough of all that. I don't think I'm alone.
Dan / UNEASYsilence:
CONFIRMED: Fusion Garage SOLD ONLY 64 JooJoo Devices — STUPID STUPID Fusion Garage. When you email your customers use the BCC field rather then the CC field! — This morning, Fusion Garage emailed all their customers asking for their experience using the JooJoo.
Bloomberg:
Apple IPhone Captures 72% of Japan Smartphone Market — Apple Inc.'s iPhone shipments to Japan more than doubled in the past year, capturing 72 percent of the country's smartphone market, a research firm said. — Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July 2008 …
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Digital Daily, AppleInsider, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, Macsimum News, www.pocketgamer.biz, Erictric, EverythingiCafe, Mashable!, iPhone Buzz, MobileCrunch, TUAW, Gearlog, textually.org and Bloomberg
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
A Peek at the Next Kindle and Nook Display — Assuming the next generation Kindle and Nook stick with E Ink as their display provider, this video highlights what'll be new: Animation and nearly double the contrast ratio. — Shipping to OEMs in the second half of this year, it's definitely nice.
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Velocity Micro's Cruz Tablet has Android 2.1 with full Flash support — Some alleged spy shots of a brand-new Android tablet materialized in our inbox this afternoon, and after sending a few e-mails and making a quick phone call, we can confirm they're 100 percent legit …
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Electronista, Android Phone Fans, I4U News, TechSpot, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, Obsessable, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Go Rumors and Ubergizmo
Brad Stone / Bits:
What Danger Do Blippy and Swipely Pose to Amazon? — The social buying site Blippy is part of what one might call the Internet's “Too Much Information Movement,” which I write about in Friday's paper. — The startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., allows people to link their credit cards …
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David Carnoy / CNET News:
B&N delivers meaty Nook update, teases iPad app — Barnes & Noble's new Read in Store feature is part of the Nook's firmware 1.3 update. — When Barnes & Noble launched the Nook e-book reader late last year, the company said that it would offer unique features such as e-book lending …
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CrunchGear, ChannelWeb, Android Central, AndroidGuys, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, jkOnTheRun, dailywireless.org, Techland, Associated Press, Crave and TeleRead
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Barry McPherson / McAfee Security Insights Blog:
An Update on False Positive Remediation — As you know, McAfee on Wednesday released a faulty signature update file (DAT file) that caused problems for a number of our customers. — First off, I want to apologize on behalf of McAfee and say that we're extremely sorry for any impact …
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