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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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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 …
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).
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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 …
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Emily Bryson York / AdAge:
McDonald's to Use Facebook's Upcoming Location Feature
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Now Borders Has A Kindle, Too: Here's The $150 ‘Kobo’ (BGP, AMZN, AAPL) — If black-and-white “e-ink” e-readers have any chance to compete with more sophisticated tablets like Apple's iPad, they had better be cheap. — And that's the best feature of Borders' new Kindle clone: At $150, “Kobo” is by far the cheapest of the bunch.
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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.
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 …
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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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 …
Jared Friedman / The Scribd Blog:
The Future of Reading is Open — Today, Scribd is changing the way you read documents online. Over the next few weeks and months, Scribd will convert our entire content corpus — tens of millions of documents, books and presentations — into native HTML5 web pages so that we can offer the best online reading experience.
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
iPhone and Android Fueling Worldwide Smartphone Growth — Sales of smartphones grew 56.7 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to new figures from IDC, far outpacing the 21.7 percent growth of the overall mobile market. Handset makers Apple and Motorola exhibited the largest growth …
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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.
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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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
FCC outlines new ‘third way’ …
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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.
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.
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.
