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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Making Control Simple — When we started Facebook, we built it around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. When you have control over what you share, you want to share more. When you share more, the world becomes more open and connected.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Rolls Out New Privacy Options — Facebook hosted a press conference today at 1:30 about “making privacy simpler.” — We're covered it live. — To see the changes is in action, go here. — Today's change come after weeks of pressure from hordes of media and privacy watchdog organizations.
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Boy Genius Report:
AT&T confirms to employees new iPhone launching in June — Title says it all, but you didn't really need a confirmation, did you? The phone will be available for purchase in June, not July, and from what we've heard, it won't even be late June.
DigiTimes:
Breaking down the rumors of iPhone 4G: Q&A with Digitimes Research senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — A fan of Apple or not, one cannot deny that over the past few decades, the company has introduced products that have changed the way we go about our everyday lives.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Piper: Apple has ‘little room for surprise’ at WWDC 2010 — Two lost prototype iPhones, presumed to represent the fourth-generation handset that will be be announced by Steve Jobs at the Worldwide Developers Conference, have taken away the element of surprise for Apple, one prominent analyst believes.
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Chris Anderson / Wired:
Wired Magazine's iPad Edition Goes Live — The irony that Wired, a magazine founded to chronicle the digital revolution, has traditionally come to you each month on the smooshed atoms of dead trees is not lost on us. Let's just say the medium is not always the message. — Except that now it is.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Wired's Flash-Free App Lands on the iPad, After All — That Wired magazine app Condé Nast and Adobe have been trying so hard to get into Apple's App Store? It costs five bucks and is available at iTunes now. — I had a brief chance to play with the app yesterday …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
U.S. Is Said to Scrutinize Apple's Online Music Tactics — SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department is examining Apple's tactics in the market for digital music, and its staff members have talked to major music labels and Internet music companies, according to several people briefed on the conversations.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Boom, Indeed: Apple Passes Microsoft In Market Cap — Back in March, Microsoft was over $50 billion ahead of Apple in market cap. That gap was still huge, but it was the closest the two had been in that measurement of value in decades. The trend was clear: I predicted that Apple would pass Microsoft, it was only a matter of when.
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New York Times, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Digital Daily, Boy Genius Report, EverythingiCafe and Electronista, Thanks:gsharma
Mfyall / AdMob Metrics:
April 2010 Mobile Metrics Report — The iPhone and Android ecosystems are growing rapidly, with Gartner estimating the two platforms combined to sell 25% of smartphones worldwide in Q1. At their developer conference last week, Google stated they are activating 100,000 Android devices a day.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Zynga Continues To Expand Beyond Facebook, Forges Major Partnership With Yahoo — If you thought Zynga's recent peace treaty with Facebook meant the end of its efforts to expand its reach beyond the social network, think again. Today, Zynga has announced that it has forged a deal with Yahoo …
Bruce Nussbaum / The Conversation:
Facebook's Culture Problem May Be Fatal — Facebook's imbroglio over privacy reveals what may be a fatal business model. I know because my students at Parsons The New School For Design tell me so. They live on Facebook and they are furious at it. This was the technology platform they were born into …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nexus One starting to show up in third party retail channels, commands big money — If you want to know what Google meant by “more retail availability” for the Nexus One when it talked about spiking its first-party phone store, take a good, hard look at our brave new world here.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook acquires DEMO startup ShareGrove — Facebook has acquired ShareGrove, a small startup focused on creating private spaces for close friends and family to share content. — The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which debuted at the DEMO conference last fall, offered a private real …
Daimaou / Akihabara News:
Sony Develops a “Rollable” OTFT-driven OLED Display that can wrap around a Pencil — Sony Corporation ('Sony') announced today that it developed a super-flexible 80 μm-thick 4.1-in 121 ppi OTFT*1-driven full color OLED display which can be wrapped around a thin cylinder.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
30 percent of netbook shoppers bought an iPad instead, survey says — Nearly one in three buyers who had been considering a netbook waited for, and then bought, an Apple iPad tablet instead, according to a survey of more than a thousand US consumers spread across gender, age, income and location demographics.
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NPD Group:
The NPD Group: Amazon Ties Walmart as Second-Ranked U.S. Music Retailer, Behind Industry-Leader iTunes — Digital music continued to gain on CDs in the first quarter, as iTunes increased its lead in overall U.S. music sales
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
ComScore Is Now Free For Startups — At TechCrunch Disrupt today, web analytics company comScore announced the free availability of its platform for startups. — The company is making Tagging completely free. “Tagging” means putting a comScore tag (i.e. pixel) on a publisher's web page …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Download Record Shattered By Lost Series Finale — Last year, Lost achieved the questionable honor of being the second most-pirated TV-show on BitTorrent. With more than 6 million downloads for a single episode, Lost was only trailing Heroes by a few thousand downloads.
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
First human ‘infected with computer virus’ — A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus. — Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip which was then inserted into his hand.
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Rachael Rettner / LiveScience:
Most People Google Themselves Now — If you've Googled yourself recently, you're not alone. The majority of American adults, 57 percent, now keep tabs on their reputations online, using search engines to track information about their Internet identities, according to a report …
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