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Apple Sells One Million iPads — Apple® today announced that it sold its one millionth iPad™ on Friday, just 28 days after its introduction on April 3. iPad users have already downloaded over 12 million apps from the App Store and over 1.5 million ebooks from the new iBookstore.
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
An antitrust app — After years of being the little guy who used Washington to fend off Goliaths like Microsoft, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is about to learn what life is like when the shoe's on the other foot. — According to a person familiar with the matter, the Department of Justice …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter ‘Embed This Tweet’ Feature Coming Tomorrow, Here's What It Looks Like — Twitter hints that you'll be able to embed a Tweet the same way you can embed a YouTube video, starting tomorrow. — In a blog post called “Tweets are the new quotes,” Twitter acknowledges that news organizations …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet Google's Secret Time Machine Investment — Google Ventures, the search giant's VC arm, is celebrating its one-year anniversary with some show and tell: The previously secretive investment group now has a website that discloses who works there, and what they're investing in.
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VatorNews, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Mass High Tech, PE Hub Blog and Xconomy, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Invests in Mobile Payments Startup Corduro — Google is investing in mobile payments startup through Corduro through Google Ventures. It looks like its site has just gone up, and is still pretty much a placeholder with a lot of dummy text.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hi, Seattle — On June 11, 2005 TechCrunch was born. Over the last five years the blog has grown from a simple hobby to a fast growing small business with twenty or so employees and one heck of a team of writers, engineers, sales people, event specialists and a burgeoning video team.
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TechFlash, Seattle 2.0, Silicon Alley Insider, Xconomy and The Seattle Times, Thanks:web2n
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chrome again beats Firefox in browser gain race — Grabs almost all the share that Internet Explorer loses — Computerworld - Chrome was the only browser to gain significant usage share last month, and again trounced rival open-source Firefox. — By the end of April …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How to Jailbreak the iPad — The long-awaited iPad/iPhone jailbreak has finally arrived, allowing anyone with an iPhone, iPod Touch or even the brand-new Apple iPad running the newest versions of the iPhone Operating System the ability to unlock their device and install unapproved, third-party applications.
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MacRumors, Hardware 2.0, Gadget Lab, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, ithinkdifferent and The Register
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Matt Mullenweg:
Twitter API — I think the opportunity has passed for the Twitter API to become a lingua franca for the real-time web. WordPress.com, Tumblr, Typepad, SocialCast, and Status.net all added support for the API in a way to make it as easy as possible for Twitter client developers — all they had to do was change the endpoint.
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Dropbox for iPad Available — Dropbox has just updated its official iPhone client to include support for the iPad. It's available for free here. Check out the screenshots after the break, and expect a review later today. The new version takes advantage of the iPad's portrait …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Gates: Microsoft still likes tablets; pen-based computing isn't dead — Say this for Bill Gates: He stands behind his favorite trends, even when they haven't turned out to be much in the way of trends. — Appearing with Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway lieutenant Charlie Munger …
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
FCC Chairman Genachowski expected to leave broadband services deregulated — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has indicated he wants to keep broadband services deregulated, according to sources, even as a federal court decision has exposed weaknesses in the agency's ability …
Max Chafkin / Inc.com:
The Oracle of Silicon Valley — “Can I jump in here?” — Tim O'Reilly tentatively lifts a finger and then lurches toward a microphone, brushing past a line of besuited men and women that includes Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco; Vivek Kundra, the White House chief information officer …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Songwriters: piracy “dwarfs bank robbery,” FBI must act — The Songwriters Guild of America has a message for the government: start prosecuting file-sharers, both criminally and civilly, because file-sharing is much worse than bank robbery. — “There are numerous economic crimes of much lesser magnitude …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Aigo's surprisingly sexy 7-inch N700 tablet packs Android 2.1 and Tegra 2 — Go 'head Aigo! Get down with your bad self. Quite frankly, we never anticipated Aigo / Patriot to come through with a me-too tablet that actually made us take a second glance, but darn if this one isn't quite the looker.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
ABC iPad App Update With 3G Video Streaming Already On Its Way (DIS, AAPL) — Good news, iPad 3G owners: ABC's iPad app will support 3G video streaming in a new update to the app, according to a person familiar with the matter. — The app has already been submitted to Apple …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
EXCLUSIVE: Sony atracTable to take on Microsoft Surface from June — Sony is about to take on the? Microsoft Surface?with a new offering of their own that is due out in June. — The atracTable, first seen and demoed at Vision 2009 in Stuttgart last year, will be released at the beginning of June according to the company behind it.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Close Encounters of the Regulatory Kind: Google-AdMob Brace for the Worst — While executives at both AdMob and Google are pulling out all the stops to convince federal government regulators otherwise, multiple sources close to the situation said that the pair now expect the Federal Trade Commission …
Leslie Grandy / mocoNews:
Why Google's Open Handset Alliance Has Been A Disappointment — Leslie Grandy is a consultant who blogs at The Consumer Matters. Previously, she was an executive at T-Mobile, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and RealNetworks. — When Google (NSDQ: GOOG) formed the Open Handset Alliance back in November 2007 …
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Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Draft Web-Ad Privacy Safeguards — Advertisers and Internet companies have been scrambling to head off regulation they say will hamper growth of online advertising. The pressure is expected to build Tuesday as lawmakers prepare to announce proposed privacy legislation.
IEBlog:
Follow Up on HTML5 Video in IE9 — Our recent post generated many comments and questions. The discussion of intellectual property rights is complex and invites many different points of view. This is a good opportunity to talk through the certainty and uncertainty relative to our goals for IE9 from Microsoft's point of view.
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CNET News, The Register, ZDNet Australia, Geek In Disguise, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, Softpedia News, Electronista, Cathode Tan, eWeek, TUAW, Fast Company and Guardian
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Very Personal Computing — The center of financial gravity in the computing world—the Center of Money—has shifted. No longer directed at the PC, the money pump now gushes full blast at the smartphones market. One of my colleagues, Bob Ackerman, calls smartphones the very personal computers.
