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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Google Nexus One Gone From Verizon Lineup — Many Nexus One fans have been watching the Google Nexus One web site to see when the dreaded “coming soon” to Verizon message would go away and the phone would be available for order. That may not ever happen as a check today shows the Google Nexus …
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Verizon Doesn't Plan to Distribute Google's Nexus Phone — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, retreated from plans to offer service for Google Inc.'s Nexus One phone, saying it will focus on other Android-powered handsets instead. — Until this morning …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Wi-Fi Sync: wirelessly sync the iPhone with iTunes... in your dreams (video) — Hey iPhone, welcome to 2007. Following Opera's script in building grassroots hysteria to goad Apple into approving a contentious app, developer Greg Hughes is teasing a video of his Wi-Fi Sync app to the peoples of planet internet.
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MacRumors, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, mobiputing, Electricpig.co.uk, greg hughes, TiPb, TechLeash, SlashGear, MacStories and EverythingiCafe
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
RIM announces the BlackBerry Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G — So check it out... RIM's huge BlackBerry hullabaloo, Wireless Enterprise Symposium, or “WES”, officially kicks off tomorrow in sunny Orlando, but that didn't stop the Waterloo folks from busting out two — count 'em, two — hot new smartphones prior to all of the festivities.
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BetaNews, Engadget, Fast Company, IntoMobile, Computerworld, GigaOM, SlashPhone, Mashable!, Between the Lines, Phones Review and Electronista
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Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
New BlackBerry Pearl Features 3G, 802.11n Wi-Fi
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Research in Motion, Engadget, Between the Lines, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Gearlog and Electronista
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sprint gets BlackBerry Bold 9650: $200 on contract, ships May 23
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TheStreet.com, Sprint, Digital Daily, GMSV, Pocket-lint, Research in Motion, Phone Arena, PhoneNews.com and The Huffington Post
Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Open Graph: The Definitive Guide For Publishers, Users and Competitors — Facebook just shook the tech world by announcing several major initiatives that collectively constitute an aggressive move to weave the social net on top of the existing Web.The rumors were that the leading social network …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Video Ad Startup FreeWheel Raises $16.8M From Turner, Disney And Others — Video advertising company FreeWheel has raised $16.8 million in funding from Disney's Steamboat Ventures, and existing investors, including Turner Broadcasting System, Battery Ventures, and Foundation Capital.
Reuters:
Pirates rewrite script for Apple's China iPad launch — (Reuters) - Just three weeks after the global launch, bootleg versions of Apple Inc's hot-selling iPad tablet PCs have begun showing up on the shelves of online and real-world shops in piracy-prone China.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Motorola Dumping Google's Built-In Location Feature For Skyhook On Android Phones (MOT, GOOG) — A nice win for Boston-based mobile location company Skyhook Wireless: Motorola will build Skyhook's location service into “much” of its Google Android-based phone lineup worldwide, replacing Google's built-in location service.
DigiTimes:
Nook outnumbers Kindle in March, says Digitimes Research — Manufacturers' e-book reader shipments to Barnes & Noble surpassed those to Amazon in March 2010, as demand for nook was picking up, according to Digitimes Research. — Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo cited figures …
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Spammers Paying Others to Solve Captchas — MUMBAI, India — Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America's playbook: they are outsourcing. — Sophisticated spammers are paying people in India, Bangladesh …
Ashvin Kumar / The Blippy Blog:
Blippy Issues, Resolutions, Plan — It has been a rocky weekend for Blippy. The weekend began with a front page article in the New York Times announcing our Series A financing. The elation didn't last long. A few hours later, reports surfaced about the discovery of credit card numbers within Google's cached search results.
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TechCrunch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Venture Capital Dispatch, Guardian, the Econsultancy blog and ReadWriteWeb
Electronista:
Nokia N8 already reviewed, panned as poor iPhone rival — The Nokia N8 has already been given an early review that calls it a poor rival to Android and the iPhone. Symbian^3 is said to have “little change in functionality,” and the phone itself as seen as offering little new that Nokia or other companies haven't done before.
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IntoMobile, Engadget, Unwired View, MobileCrunch, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, T3.com News, Electronic Pulp, Phones Review and SlashPhone
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Rhapsody Adds Offline Listening To Its iPhone App — Newly independent Rhapsody is giving its iPhone app some bragging rights with an update that lets subscribers listen to tracks even when they're not online. Users will now be able to download their Rhapsody playlists to their phones …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel prepares to launch more Atom processors — Intel is preparing to launch more Atom-based processors for netbooks soon including models that support DDR3 memory and dual-cores, according to sources from notebook players. — Intel launched its second-generation Atom N450 and N470 processors …
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Engadget, I4U News, The Tech Report, Electronic Pulp, SlashGear, dailywireless.org and Netbooked
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple-part-owned Imagination teams with MIPS in blow to ARM, — Following rumours last week that Apple may (or may not) be plotting an ARM takeover, we read yet more cafuffle from the processor and graphics industry, this time involving a move by Apple-part-owned company, Imagination, to take a shot at ARM.
Investor's Business Daily:
Google's Q1 Market Share Fell to 31% in China — Due to the quit in Mainland China, the world's largest Internet search service provider Google Inc. (GOOG) saw its share of the mainland search engine market fall to 31% in the first quarter of 2010 from 35.6% in the fourth quarter of the prior year …
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Yahoo to be pre-loaded onto “tens of millions” of Samsung phones — App stores are no substitute for what the mobile industry calls “on deck” placement, in which an application is pre-loaded onto a phone's home screen, or a top-level menu. — On-deck placement costs lots of money …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
The Wall Street Journal Partners with Foursquare — Foursquare's bread-and-butter is the partnerships that seed the location-based social network with curated content. Now, that includes editorial tips and badges from the renowned business publication The Wall Street Journal.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
RIM melds BlackBerry with PBX handsets — Research in Motion's latest version of its mobile voice system (MVS) allows you to morph your BlackBerry into your corporate handset. — In a nutshell, MVS does for the corporate PBX what BlackBerry Enterprise Server does for email.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter Taking Down Tweets Over Bogus DMCA Claims — You may recall the controversy over Google reacting too aggressively in pulling down music blog posts (or entire blogs) based on DMCA takedown notices. Eventually, Google revamped its DMCA policy to better handle the situation, though there have still been some complaints.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Google To Eliminate Agency Search Fees, Launches ‘Certified’ Program — Part of the Search Giant's Charm Offensive As It Seeks Bigger Ad Budgets — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google will announce Monday it is eliminating the fees it has long charged agencies to tap into its search ad auction system …
Laura Mortkowitz / Washington Post:
More colleges, professors shutting down laptops and other digital distractions — As a culture, we're at an odd crossroads regarding personal computers. For years, educators have been clamoring to put technology in the hands of young students through partnerships with big tech companies …
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