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Adobe shows off Android tablets running Flash and Air — While Adobe does not have any Apple products on the show floor at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, the company is showing off prototypes of upcoming Android-based tablets. The Google Android Tablet, even in a pre-release form …
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Max / Zendomax:
Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Review! [Web 2.0 Expo] — Today, I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco as soon as it was open (as I blogged about it several hours before). Upon walking around the exhibit floor, I quickly found Adobe. — Oddly, they were displaying …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft Kin One and Two review — Make no mistake: the Kin One and Two are coming into the world as the black sheep of the phone industry, and Microsoft would have it no other way. Straddling the fence somewhere between a dedicated smartphone and high-spec featurephone …
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Dan Nystedt / PC World:
Microsoft Kin Phones to Go on Sale Thursday at Verizon
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JR Raphael / PC World:
Google Editions: Bringing E-Books to Your Browser — JR Raphael, PC World — Google wants to bring your digital book reader into the cloud. — The company has just announced plans to launch its own digital bookstore, a Web-based effort called Google Editions.
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Google's E-Book Store: Five Burning Questions — Google reminded us this week that the company's e-book retail platform, Google Editions , will launch sometime in the next two months, as expected . Google Editions will be device agnostic, (similar to how Amazon allows Kindle books to be read …
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Google to Launch Digital Books by Early Summer
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Hot new features uncovered in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 — Here's the thing... We just installed the newly released iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 and found quite a few changes. There are a lot of minor things like how the background of the multitasking interface matches the background in the iPad's browser …
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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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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel launches chip for smartphones, tablets — Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals—unlike the PC market where it dominates. — Previously known by the code name “Moorestown,” …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel's next Atom chips are powerful, but not power hungry — In a bid to move beyond the PC, Intel is announcing a new generation of its Atom microprocessors today that can become the brains of smartphones and tablet computers with high performance and long battery lives.
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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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Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections — “Connections.” It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes. — Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created.
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson X10 family to get Android 2.1 in ‘Q4 2010’ — The Xperia X10, one of the big mindshare-grabbing devices of the smartphone world, made us wait a cool six months between its November announcement and wide retail availability in April. One of the secret hopes while all that waiting …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Launches Android App & Mobile API, Gives iPad Cloud Sync Apple Should Have Built — Dropbox's effortless file sharing service is going mobile in a big way: the service has just launched its official Android application, a native iPad app (which comes in addition to a previously …
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The Dropbox Blog, Macsimum News, MobileCrunch, CNET News, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint, ReadWriteWeb and PC World
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Know Your Rights: H.264, patent licensing, and you — Know Your Rights is Engadget's technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
EFF fights Facebook bid to outlaw one-stop social apps — Opposes power play against aggregator site — A civil liberties watchdog has challenged Facebook's legal claims that an unauthorized third-party site that helps users login automatically violates criminal laws.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Ellen pokes fun at Apple... and then apologizes — After watching this video, we've come to one conclusion: Apple needs to learn how to take a joke. — Link
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook's Paul Buchheit justifies increasing openness, less privacy — Facebook's Paul Buchheit, the Gmail creator who coined Google's “Don't be evil” slogan and later came to the social network through its FriendFeed acquisition, said he's found immense value in removing most privacy restrictions to his profile.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fending Off Microsoft, Google Invests In TV Ad Startup Invidi (GOOG, MSFT) — As part of a renewed effort to get into TV advertising, Google is investing in a startup called Invidi Technologies, a source with knowledge of the deal tells us. — Together, Google and Invidi will sell ads on satellite provider EchoStar's DISH Network.
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.
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