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iPad Available in Nine More Countries on May 28 — Apple® today announced that iPad™ will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK on Friday, May 28. Customers can pre-order all iPad models from Apple's online store in all nine countries beginning on Monday, May 10.
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Emily Bryson York / AdAge:
McDonald's to Use Facebook's Upcoming Location Feature — Brands Eager to Build Apps Once Massive Social Network Launches Its Own Foursquare Competitor — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Facebook is preparing to launch location-based status updates for its users.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Are You Ready, Foursquare? Here Comes Facebook. — Okay, Dennis Crowley: Hope you've figured out the whole take-Yahoo's-money-or-not thing. Because here comes Facebook. — The social network is finally ready to start rolling out its location service this month and has linked up with McDonalds …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
That's a problem. — I went to buy Angry Birds on Topherchris' recommendation and got this: — The first two pages of search results for “angry birds”. — The first two are real. Rocket Bird 3D and MY BEST FRIEND are other things (although probably keyword spammers).
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Needs To Fix Its App Store Spam Problem (AAPL) — Even with Apple's ham-fisted control over the App Store, it's still filled with spammy applications, notes Marco Arment, the developer behind the popular “Instapaper” app. — Case in point: Marco wanted to download a popular game called “Angry Birds” (iTunes Link).
David Wang / PC World:
Android Now Running On iPhone 3G — After just a couple more weeks of work, we've made tremendous progress and brought Android to the iPhone 3G. Although this port is slightly more rough than the previous Android on first-generation iPhone port, this marks an important milestone …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Latitude Has 3 Million Active Users, Check-Ins Likely On The Way — “Hey Foursquare and MyTown, suck it.” — Okay, Google's Steve Lee didn't actually say that during the location panel at the Web 2.0 Expo today, but he may as well have. While Foursquare may have just crossed 1 million users …
Ginny Hung / Y! Mobile Blog:
Apple iPad User Analysis — There's no question that the iPad is the latest “it” product, with first-day sales exceeding 300,000 and some analysts projecting as many as 7 million units sold by year's end. Inside Yahoo!, we're just as interested in the iPad phenomenon.
Chuck Hollis / Chuck's Blog:
What iPads Did To My Family — This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. — Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad. I just was too damn curious. Walked into the Apple Store, played with it for 5 minutes, gave them my credit card, and walked out 15 minutes later.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account — Facebook is a big part of millions and millions of peoples' lives, but what happens when you pull the plug? Last night I met a man who walked to the edge of the cliff and nearly deactivated his Facebook account.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Tim O'Reilly: Steve Jobs Is Trying To Build A Fundamental Challenge To The Web — This morning during his keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly took a look at the State of the Internet Operating System — a term he uses to describe the intertwined web services like search, the social graph …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The Relationship Between Facebook and Privacy: It's Really Complicated — The tension between Facebook and its users — and governments, and advocacy groups — over privacy is one of the biggest thorns in the company's side right now, as it tries to balance the demands of the network …
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Jared Newman / PC World:
FCC's Broadband Regulation Push: Pros and Cons — Wounded from a court decision that stopped the government from regulating Internet service providers, the Federal Communications Commission has announced a new way to gain some control over the broadband industry.
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Julius Genachowski / The National Broadband Plan:
The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework
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Steve Cheney / steve's blog:
Apple and Controlling the Platform — It's almost scary how much power Apple seems to have these days. Heck, during the Gizmodo iPhone 4G saga, they apparently even had control over the police! — One thing is sure - Steve Jobs has been pretty serious about keeping power ever since Apple lost the PC vs Mac war.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 — You've waited long enough AT&T customers. So long that the Palm Pre is now the Palm Pre Plus and Palm, well, isn't even Palm anymore. But you just never mind all that, what's important is that AT&T subscribers will finally …
Ian Bogost:
FLASH IS NOT A RIGHT — What Gripes about Apple tell us about Computational Literacy — I've been watching reactions to Apple's controversial decision to prohibit the publication of iPhone applications created in environments other than Apple's own.
Bing / Search Blog:
Shop and Share with Bing — A lot of us don't shop alone. Going to the mall is often a social thing, so why should shopping online be any different? 75% of shoppers seek advice from others even when shopping online and now Bing shoppers can too! In the last announcement we refreshed …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Kindle 2.5 hands on: social networks, passwords, and more — Amazon is preparing to release an updated version of its Kindle firmware that brings more integration with the rest of the world by adding social networking support and the ability to see the most popular highlights in the book you're reading.
Bla1ze / CrackBerry.com blogs:
The BlackBerry Tablet - What We Know And What We Don't — To tablet or not to tablet... that is the question! — Alright, since the issue of the BlackBerry tablet seems to not be going away any time soon, we decided we'd summarize and share what information we know and what information …
Chris Cameron / ReadWriteWeb:
Layar Introduces Layar Stream to Help You Find Popular Nearby AR Content — Amsterdam-based mobile augmented reality developers Layar are announcing today the launch a new service that will make it easy for users to discover the most popular local AR content from their iPhones or Android devices.
Jeff Longo / MacRumors:
WWDC 2010 Sells Out In 8 Days — Apple has updated their WWDC website to indicate that the event has sold out. The event took only 8 days to sell out after being officially announced last week. — WWDC 2010 will take place June 7-11 and is expected to focus intensively on the iPhone OS platform.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Samsung No. 1 Among U.S. Mobile Phone Makers, Apple No.6 — The latest metrics on the U.S. mobile market from comScore, published Thursday, are about what you'd expect. Among mobile network operators, Verizon (VZ) ranked highest with 31.1 percent of the market during the three-month period ending March 2010.
