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Niraj Sheth / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon, Google Developing iPad Rival — Verizon Wireless is working with Google Inc. on a tablet computer, the carrier's chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said Tuesday, as the company endeavors to catch up with iPad host AT&T Inc. in devices that connect to wireless networks.
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Bloomberg:
Verizon in Talks With Google About an iPad Rival — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile carrier, is in talks with Google Inc. to develop a tablet computer that would rival Apple Inc.'s iPad. — The computer will run on Google's Android operating system, Marquett Smith …
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Matthew Miller / ZDNet:
Will HTC make the rumored Verizon Android tablet?
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Early adopters, rejoice: AT&T begins rolling back upgrade eligibility dates for the next iPhone — Okay, I've got big news. Really - you're going to want to sit down for this one. Ready? Apple.. is going to release a new iPhone this year. Probably next month. — Why is your jaw not dropping?
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
How Much are iPhone 3GS Owners Going to Pay For the Next iPhone? — When the iPhone 3GS went on sale last June, AT&T told folks who'd bought subsidized iPhone 3Gs a year previously that they didn't qualify to buy a 3GS at the full subsidy. Seemed reasonable enough to me.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Lost Another 4th Generation iPhone? New Photos of Prototype iPhone Including Teardown — We're not sure why Apple is having such a hard time holding on to these next generation iPhones, but a Vietnamese forum Taoviet.vn has posted more photos (cached) of the previously leaked 4th generation iPhone.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Mozilla CEO John Lilly to Step Down and Head to Greylock (Plus Departure Email!) — John Lilly, the well-regarded CEO of Mozilla, is preparing to give up his post at the open-source software nonprofit foundation, which is also a for-profit start-up.
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Mozilla CEO John Lilly speaks about his future and the future of Firefox
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand — Important TechCrunch50 Message: At the bottom — Rights: Please do not post on the web (it's dead) — Last Wednesday, 10AM, Las Vegas. — The South Point Hotel and Casino, a couple of miles off the strip. The
Matthew Glotzbach / Google Enterprise Blog:
Upgrade here — This week Microsoft will take its Office 2010 suite out of beta. If you're considering upgrading Office with Office, we'd encourage you to consider an alternative: upgrading Office with Google Docs. If you choose this path, upgrade means what it's supposed to mean …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis To Speak At TechCrunch Disrupt, And He Wants To Buy You A Ticket — We have parted ways with our long time TechCrunch50 business partner, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis. Sometimes, having more than one bull in the china shop can get a little messy.
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New York Times:
Facebook Executive Answers Reader Questions — Last week we asked readers to submit questions about Facebook and its approach to privacy, which Elliot Schrage, vice president for public policy at the company, had agreed to answer. — We sifted through roughly 300 questions left by readers …
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Michelle Chen / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Maps for Android Gets Biking Directions, Navigation Shortcut, Sharing, and More — Starting today, Google Maps for mobile has a few new ways to help you and your friends quickly get to where you're going whether you're on 4 wheels or 2 (or maybe even 3).
Gmail Blog:
Drag images into messages — Recently, we launched a feature that allows you to drag an attachment from your computer right onto Gmail. — I've always been a fan of the inserting image lab, so I naturally wondered if it would be possible to combine the two.
Justin Jed / Bing:
Updated Bing App For Windows Phone — We're happy to announce two new features to the Bing app for Windows phones. The first is a redesign to the home page. We changed the navigation to give people faster access to common searches, such as Movies and Traffic.
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private — How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it? — A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street …
Johnathan Nightingale / Mozilla Security Blog:
Plugin Check for Everyone — It's been a few months since I wrote about the work our plugin check team has been doing, but there are a couple of pretty excellent pieces of news I'd like to share, most notably: the Mozilla plugin check now works for users of other browsers as well. — Plugin Check: A Refresher
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Amazon Spying On Your Ebook Highlighting — There have already been plenty of questions over who “owns” the ebooks you've bought, with stories of remotely deactivated books and remotely deactivated features — neither of which happens when you have a real physical book.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Android market share over iPhone not as impressive as it looks — When news broke on Monday that Android had taken over the second spot from Apple's iPhone OS, I thought the Internet was going to blow itself to pieces. But there is more to the numbers than a simple boost in Android sales and Apple agrees.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Service for Private Google Searches Shuts Down — A service that allowed users to search Google without having their queries tracked has shut down after Google changed the site that the service was using to get results, the service said Tuesday. — But Google said the site was never intended …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Makes Ad Inroads — Facebook Inc. is catching up to rivals Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in selling display ads. — In the first quarter, Facebook pulled ahead of Yahoo for the first time and delivered more banner ads to its U.S. users than any other Web publisher, according to market-research firm comScore Inc.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things — There's a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” A variation is “a volvo is a porsche designed by committee.” Some of the best product advice I've ever heard goes something like “damn what the users want, charge towards your dream.”
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AMD claims it has gained on Intel as its chips are used in 109 new laptops — Advanced Micro Devices is announcing today that it has had a great season for getting its new chips into the latest personal computers, from desktops to laptops. The company's newest Turion line of microprocessors …
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Telecoms' Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality: Target Video Gamers And Stoke Fear Of Chinese Censorship — Net neutrality, a guiding principle for preserving a free and fair Internet, means that Internet service providers are not allowed to discriminate based on content for its customers.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Blippy Swipes Back At Swipely With API Announcement — Today, a new service named Swipely launched with $8.5 million in funding to make everyday purchases more social. This, of course, is a direct competitor to Blippy, the controversial service which lets you share purchases (and purchase prices).
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Hearing on Gizmodo iPhone warrant scheduled — Chief deputy district attorney Stephen Wagstaffe, shown in his office in Redwood City, Calif., says the reasons given to search a Gizmodo editor's home should remain under seal. — A judge in Silicon Valley will hear arguments later this week …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Is Google Getting Back Into The Gaming Business? — Google has tended to stay away from the gaming world for the most part. The search giant did have Lively, a browser-based virtual world that could be embedded into other websites, but that was deadpooled in 2008.
