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HP to Acquire Palm for $1.2 Billion — Combination will accelerate HP's growth within the more than $100 billion connected mobile device market — HP and Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase Palm …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
HP On Palm Acquisition: “Our Intent Is To Double Down On WebOS” — As you may have heard, HP has just announced the acquisition of Palm for $1.2 billion. It's a massive move that HP hopes will reshape the mobile industry. I got a chance to talk with Brian Humphries …
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Tinic Uro / kaourantin.net:
H.264 hardware decoding in Mac OS X — ArsTechnica recently asked Adobe if we would use the recently added video acceleration API in Mac OS X 10.6.3. The answer was yes and today we are making it available as a beta version (it was also a feature included in the release candidates builds …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Adobe's Flash Player ‘Gala’ OS X preview tested: results may vary — Gala1 — Flash 101 — 2.40GHz Core i5, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256MB2 — 2.66GHz Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512MB2 — So we just put a few minutes aside to put Adobe's new “Gala” build of Flash 10.1 through …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Flash Player ‘Gala’ brings hardware decoding support to Mac OS X
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Jon Stewart Rips Into Apple Over Lost iPhone Debacle. That's Going To Leave A Mark. — Over the last two weeks countless blog posts and articles have been written about the Gizmodo/iPhone leak and the subsequent police investigation. Few have been as scathing toward Apple as a segment that aired on tonight's Daily Show.
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Google Mobile Blog:
The New Image Search for Android and iPhone — When you do an image search, we find that it is typical that you will look through many pages of search results. So in the redesign of Google Image Search for mobile, available today for iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
BREAKING NEWS: Siri bought by Apple — Back in February I said that if you miss Siri you will miss the future of the Web. — Well, Apple did not miss the future of the Web. — According to FTC Apple just purchased Siri. — If previous acquisitions by Apple are an indicator …
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Ori Amiga / The Windows Blog:
Messenger across the web — As Jeff and Piero mentioned yesterday, the newest version of Messenger (beta coming soon) is designed to be the most meaningful way to stay in touch with the people who matter most, keeping you connected with your friends and what they're doing across the web.
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Preview of the new Windows Live Messenger
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Fortress Apple — The company needs to open up. … From the magazine issue dated May 3, 2010 — Apple's new iPad is more than just a gorgeous consumer electronics device. It's also a kind of challenge to the Internet itself—or at least to the conventional wisdom of what the Internet is supposed to be all about.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance — AT&T's own Ralph de la Vega mentioned as early as November of 2008 that you'd be able to tether your iPhone to your computer and use it as a modem “soon,” but here we are some ten months after the initial announcement …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New iPhone Could Hit Stores During Apple's Developer Conference — Apple could put its next-generation iPhone on sale during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), sources familiar with the situation have told us. That date could be June 7, the likely date of the WWDC keynote.
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Dan Moren / Macworld:
Apple drops Mac category from annual design awards
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Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:
Why I like Kin — Recently, Microsoft unveiled a new mobile platform and two new devices built for it. It's called Kin and it's targeted at a younger demographic with a focus on social communication. It's also been one of the most controversial releases I've ever seen.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
LG Innotek to supply 5MP camera for Apple's fourth-gen iPhone - report — LG Innotek will serve as the supplier of 5-megapixel camera sensors for Apple's next-generation iPhone due to ship this spring, according to a report out of the Far East. — The Chosun reported Wednesday …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Hacker Identified: You Decide If We Press Charges — Remember that hacking incident we had back in January? TechCrunch.com was defaced twice over a two day period and was redirecting for part of that time to a third party site. — We got through the event and mostly put it behind us.
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Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Why We Prefer Founding CEOs … When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm, the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit.
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Barbara Kiviat / The Curious Capitalist:
The missing legal link in the Gizmodo-iPhone case — Last month a software engineer at Apple accidentally left his iPhone in a bar. A fellow patron picked up the phone and asked the people in the bar around him if it belonged to any of them. It didn't. He took the phone home and the next day noticed that the phone looked odd.
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