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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Gunning Up (And Lawyering Up) For War Against Facebook With Zynga Live — The relationship between Facebook and its biggest gaming partner, Zynga, are at an all time low, we've heard from multiple sources. The level of stress, says one source, is “intense.”
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Nokia:
Nokia sues Apple in Wisconsin for infringement of Nokia patents — Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging that Apple iPhone and iPad 3G products infringe five important Nokia patents.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Nokia sues Apple again, says the iPad 3G infringes five patents — Looks like settlement negotiations in the various Nokia / Apple patent lawsuits aren't going too well — Espoo's just hit Cupertino with a second federal patent lawsuit, this time alleging the iPad 3G and iPhone infringe five patents related …
Leo Lewis / Times of London:
Rivals are invading its patch, but Nintendo is ready to go to war — Nintendo is preparing to unleash the full force of its development and marketing artillery against Apple after profits tumbled at the Japanese giant for the first time in six years. — The reversal of fortunes …
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia — As Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight duke it out over their plugin-based, HTML-alternative web platforms, Apple is using Gianduia, its new a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Toshiba building world's lightest 13-inch laptop with fast charging SCiB battery? — Toshiba has a long history of making highly desirable ultraportables. Now, if today's rumor pans out, it seem set to bust out another in the form of the world's lightest (less than 1Kg with SSD) 13 incher.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon iPhone chatter is getting harder (than usual) to ignore — Alright, stop us if you've heard this one before — but seriously, we've noticed an uptick on the tip lines here at Engadget in the last couple weeks that's becoming difficult to ignore. It's one thing to say “hey …
Apple:
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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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
CBS Will Have Full Slate of Web Video on the iPad — CBS may have the most aggressive plans to enable viewers to watch web video on the iPad, but so far, that's all they are — plans. The broadcaster has made only a limited number of promotional clips available for viewing on the tablet device …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Report: Facebook Location Coming In A Few Weeks. But Is It Foursquare Or Twitter? — Yesterday, AdAge ran a story that Facebook was preparing to roll out its first true location-based service (beyond its for-fun Presence thing). The story said that the social network was partnering …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome. — I can almost hear Ben Stein saying it right now. “Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?” — It's been almost 25 years since Ferris Bueller took his day off from school. And yet, the legend lives on today thanks to Twitter and Foursquare.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo CMO Steele On Ad Campaign: Word Of Mouth Isn't Enough For Us — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) announced the second phase of its $100 million international ad campaign this week—a series of ads that push Yahoo's services. The slogan: “Your favorite stuff all in one place. Make Yahoo your home page.”
Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Here's How Much Tech Companies Spend On Advertising (YHOO, GOOG, AAPL, MSFT) — Yahoo plans to spend $80 million on the next leg of its big ad campaign. If that sounds like a lot, that's because it is. It's almost double the amount Yahoo spent on advertising last year …
Scott Berinato / Harvard Business Review:
On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence — It could be that Twitter research is popular because Twitter data is free and so accessible. That's okay. Gift horses are just as good for riding. — The best, latest entry in Twitter research is the handiwork of Meeyoung Cha …
Andrew Lyle / Neowin.net:
Microsoft updates Bing Maps imagery to include more bird's eye views — Microsoft has released another huge update for their Bing Maps imagery. Every few months, Bing releases another major update for their Maps application, to include new countries, cities and variations of different angles and levels of zoom.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: AOL Hires Microsoft Exec Alex Gounares as CTO — According to sources close to the situation, AOL has hired Alex Gounares (pictured here) as its CTO. — Gounares's departure was announced internally at Microsoft (MSFT) today, where he is corporate VP of Advertising Research …
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy — The film industry can block outputs on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers from making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said. — Temporarily disabling the outputs will …
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Michael Gartenberg / Engadget:
Entelligence: Meet H/Pre — Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going …
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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AT&T Palm Pre Plus and 3G MicroCell available nationwide on May 16 (update: not quite nationwide) — 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 …
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