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Wall Street Journal:
Google to Launch Digital Books by Early Summer — Google Inc. will begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company representative said Tuesday, setting off a three-way battle between the Internet giant and Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. — Chris Palma, Google's manager …
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Google Chrome Blog:
Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux — Here in Aarhus, Denmark — home of the V8 project, Chrome's JavaScript engine — we've been tuning, testing, and polishing the V8 engine to give Chrome a hefty boost in speed.
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Christian Zibreg / Geek.com:
New Chrome 5 beta: A hefty speed boost, browser sync, built-in Flash plugin, more HTML5 — Google posted a new Chrome beta this morning. The release brought new features and Javascript enhancements resulting in a significant speed boost. The new Chrome beta version number 5..375.29 enables …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch: WSJ iPad App Has 64,000 Active Users—And We Keep The Money — It's not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs' Big New York Times Letdown — Users have jeered the New York Times' main iPad app, but the newspaper is listening to one in particular: We hear Steve Jobs is among the app's most vociferous critics and has been shunning it. — Jobs clearly wanted to make access to the electronic Times …
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Bloomberg:
Apple Developer Policy Is Said to Prompt U.S. Antitrust Complaint by Adobe — U.S. antitrust enforcers are considering an investigation of Apple Inc. following a complaint from Adobe Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Adobe says Apple is stifling competition …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
WSJ: Federal antitrust probe about Apple's iAd service, too
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPod widget and orientation lock coming to OS 4 — Update: It looks like Apple has pulled the update temporarily. — A big new feature has been added to the multi-tasking user interface in iPhone OS 4, and that appears to be a widget interface for the iPod app.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Could ‘Menlo’ signal a change in Microsoft's mobile strategy? — I've been digging for a few months for information about two new Microsoft codenames and have come up with few clues. But I've decided to share what I have been able to surface in the hopes that others who might have additional pieces to share might help fill things in.
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Lili Cheng / TechNet Blogs:
Introducing Spindex - the Latest Exploration From Microsoft's Labs — Last fall, with Ray Ozzie's support and sponsorship, we started FUSE Labs, with the mission to work with Microsoft product and research teams to ideate, develop and deliver new social, real-time and media-rich experiences for home and work.
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Zach Epstein / Know Your Cell:
Torture test: Is AT&T's unlimited iPad 3G plan truly unlimited? — We get acquainted with the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G by hammering AT&T's data network to see if “unlimited” really does mean unlimited … EARLIER: Last week, the drawn-out launch of Apple's first-generation iPad came to a close …
Twitter Media:
Fresh-baked tweets for your posts — Here at Twitter Media, we want to experiment in exactly the same way we're encouraging you to experiment. We want to implement the things we're recommending that you implement. And we want to share tools that we develop—even when they're quite simple.
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Barry Collins / PC Pro:
Intel shows off first Light Peak laptop — Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology, at the company's inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels. — Light Peak is an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions.
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Google Adds App Store for Analytics — Today, Google is giving users even more tools for finding and understanding their web stats. The company has just announced they're opening a full App Gallery for Google Analytics. — Currently, the gallery holds 32 applications, with more on the way.
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Ina Fried / Technology News:
Microsoft hitting ‘unsubscribe’ on newsgroups — Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion forums such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet, and MSDN sites.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
YouTube Developing Self-Serve Rental Model — YouTube engineers are working on a self-service method that will give moviemakers the ability to upload and provide their streaming content for rent, Hunter Walk, who heads product management at YouTube, told MediaPost.
Nielsen Wire:
Facebook and Twitter Post Large Year over Year Gains in Unique Users — Compared to user activity on social networking sites last year, Facebook and Twitter posted gains of 69% and 45% respectively in the U.S. — Globally, the total minutes spent on social networks monthly saw …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
H.264 patents: how much do they really cost? — If you've been following the recent controversy over video formats in HTML5, you know that software patents are a key part of Microsoft's decision to adopt the H.264 standard as the native codec to use with HTML5 video in Internet Explorer 9.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung's Android-powered S-Pad tablet with 7-inch Super AMOLED in August? — Know what's hot like 2001? Tablet computers. Just like that a product category has been reborn and proven viable as a money making machine. Now the scramble is on to fill the void by companies big and small.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Clicker Live Shows You What's Playing On The Web Right Now — Live video is starting to take off on the Web on livevideo sites such as Livestream, Ustream, and Justin.TV. And every network TV website also offers live video from time to time. It's hard to keep up. What is needed is a TV Guide for live video on the Web.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple faces patent infringement lawsuit over iPhone — Apple is being sued for infringing on a patent held by California-based NetAirus Technologies. — Filed in the Central District of California Western Division, NetAirus claims that Apple's iPhone infringes '380 patent.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Court: RapidShare doesn't need to filter user uploads — Yesterday, the online storage locker RapidShare announced that it triumphed in its appeal over copyright holders who demanded that the service take more steps to control online infringement. Because RapidShare does …
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Joshua Brustein / Bits:
Ning Planning to Remain Free for Teachers — Ning, a company that allows users to build their own social networks, says it has signed a letter of intent with a major educational publisher to keep its service free for educators, several weeks after causing an outcry among nonprofit groups …
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
AddThis Toolbox Gets the Facebook “Like” Button — Social sharing widget-maker AddThis is enabling users to integrate the Facebook “Like” button by adding a single line of code to the AddThis Toolbox. — AddThis is now used on 1.2 million websites. It's a familiar catch-all sharing button …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Greylock, Andreessen Horowitz back stealth analytics startup Proferi — Proferi, a still-secretive analytics company founded by Greylock entrepreneur-in-residence and former SAP CTO Christian Gheorghe, has raised $2 million from the venture capital firm and Andreessen Horowitz, according to an SEC filing.
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Goodbye petabytes, hello zettabytes — • Massive figure equal to a million million gigabytes — • Planet's digital content grew by 62% last year — Every man, woman and child on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century. For many people that may sound …
