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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
How the iPad gobbles up netbook sales — Also getting cannibalized: iPod touches, eReaders, desktop PCs and handheld videogames — There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty. — The subject of her report …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ (Exclusive Screenshots) — Adobe's much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs …
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: 'I'm CEO ... b****!' — (Fortune) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is known as a precocious visionary, but as a college-age CEO he was as rebellious and irreverent as the next kid. In his forthcoming book The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company …
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Mark Zuckerberg: The temptation of Facebook's CEO
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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
New U.S. Push to Regulate Internet Access — WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has decided to reregulate Internet lines to protect net neutrality, siding with consumer groups and Internet companies worried that Internet providers have too much power.
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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
A spring metamorphosis — Google's new look — Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Scoop: Apple Is Pushing A Secret “VIP” Ad Program For iPhone Apps — For anyone still wondering whether Apple plans to give its new iAds a competitive advantage over other mobile ad networks on the iPhone and iPad, just take a look at the slide above. It was attached to an email sent …
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BBC:
‘Historic’ day as first non-latin web addresses go live — Arab nations are leading a “historic” charge to make the world wide web live up to its name. — Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters.
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Facebook patches security hole that exposed users' instant messages — Amid reports of a security breach that permitted some users to see other users' instant messages and pending friend requests, Facebook said Wednesday it had disabled its chat service. — The incident, caused by a software bug …
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Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Facebook Privacy Flaws Faulted in Consumer Complaint to U.S. Regulators
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Motorola hints at owning mobile OS, acquires Azingo — Motorola's Co-Chief Executive Officer Greg Brown recently told Bloomberg that his company was ready to make acquisitions to return to growth and it looks like we might have spotted their first deal. — According to a LinkedIn profile …
ZDNet:
Smartbooks have been delayed by Flash issues, says ARM — Smartbooks have failed to materialise due to delays in Flash optimisation, a lower-than-expected uptake of Linux on netbooks, and the sudden emergence of tablets, ARM's marketing chief has said. — ARM dominates the mobile phone …
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Launches New Ad Blitz — Campaign Promoting Site as One-Stop Web Destination Makes a Jab at Google — On the heels of a disappointing ad campaign, Yahoo is hoping to increase traffic to its home page and win back share in the Internet-search market with a new ad blitz that takes a shot at larger rival Google.
Arn / MacRumors:
Next iPhone to Record 1280x720 HD Video? — One of the many new features provided to developers in iPhone OS 4 are new APIs that give developers full access to Video capture data. This could open the door to some interesting apps including Video Capture/Editing and more robust Augmented Reality apps …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint HTC EVO pre-orders start this month at The Shack — HTC's EVO 4G super-speced handset seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. That situation looks set to change soon based on the pic above nabbed off The Shack's internal website showing a big “coming soon” …
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Booyah Hits 2 Million, Stealing Foursquare's Thunder — Just a quick update on yesterday's post on Booyah: — While we were busy trying to guess the number of jellybeans in Foursquare's jar, Booyah was quietly, but swiftly, amassing new users. Guess what, it just hit the 2 million mark.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Intel Will Be a Mobile Loser — Intel, as it's wont to do, overnight made a splashy unveiling of a new family of processors: the Atom Z6xx series, whose chips are much more powerful than current versions but consume less power. Why the hoopla? Apparently these chips, which run at over 1.5 GHz …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Exclusive: Gmail Ditched By Major University — IT executives at the school say Google's commitment to privacy and security doesn't meet their standards. — In a blow to Google's efforts to establish itself as a major player in enterprise software, a leading public university has ended …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint gets super serious about the prepaid mobile market — Some huge news this evening in the world of prepaid mobiles as Sprint has announced its new strategies for Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile. With some 60 million Americans using prepaid mobiles, Sprint feels the time is right to make an all-out assault on the market.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Clearwire May Dump WiMAX — Clearwire said today it's changed the terms of an agreement it had with Intel, one of its largest investors, that could lead the way for Clearwire to dump WiMAX and switch to LTE. On its first-quarter financial results call today, an executive with Clearwire …
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
On Formspring, an E-Vite to Insults and Crude Queries — It is the online version of the bathroom wall in school, the place to scrawl raw, anonymous gossip. — Formspring.me, a relatively new social networking site, has become a magnet for comments, many of them nasty and sexual, among the Facebook generation.
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Milestone gets Android 2.1 update in UK, available to download now — The saga of the Milestone's firmware update to Android 2.1 is finally over for one more territory. The United Kingdom is today awaking to the news that Motorola has made the freshest Eclair available to its loyal British users …
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Staska / Unwired View:
Apple wants to embed cardiac sensors into an iPhone case to identify you — Adding biometric to sensors to electronic devices for user identification, is not a new thing. — Sometimes they are fingerprint readers, face or iris recognition sensors, voice recognition software, etc …
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