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Robin Wauters / MobileCrunch:
Sprint officially kicks off sales of the HTC EVO 4G — “History will be made across the nation as anxious customers get their hands on America's first 3G/4G wireless phone, HTC EVO 4G, packed with industry-leading features.” — A little over the top right there, but anyway …
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Matt Mastracci / grack.com:
HTC EVO 4G: Nice Hardware, Horrible Sprint Software — As you might know, I've been poking around in the guts of the HTC EVO with some other developers during the last few weeks of early EVO ownership looking to get access to root. It turned out to be fairly easy - a few hours into the investigation and we had access to root.
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Electronista, Ubergizmo, Android Phone Fans, Android Central, Android Police, Phone Arena, Boy Genius Report, Unwired View and BlogsDNA
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Qik Video Launches On HTC EVO 4G, Premium Features Free For A Month
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ReadWriteWeb, Qik Blog, Boy Genius Report, Engadget, dailywireless.org, FierceMobileContent, DailyTech, ZDNet, SlashGear and Gizmodo, Thanks:swanny
Jason Calacanis / VentureBeat:
Five things Facebook can do to rebuild trust — [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an email sent by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to his personal mailing list from the D8 digital entrepreneurship conference outside Los Angeles, after watching Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg's onstage interview.
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Shel Israel / Global Neighbourhoods:
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Step Down — First off, my congratulations. The company—and team—you have created are very likely to be remembered as the most important—and successful—new company of this decade. — You have taken Facebook from fraternity row at a few elite campuses to everywhere.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
IPad 3G Shortage Spurs AT&T Discussions About Its New Data Plan — Since AT&T announced this week that it would eliminate its unlimited monthly data plans beginning Monday, June 7, some customers have been scrambling to get an iPad 3G with the hopes of signing up for the unlimited plan, which would be grandfathered in.
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
AT&T: No iPhone-iPad tethering — We have some bad news for the clever geeks who were hoping to take advantage of the newly announced iPhone tethering capability in the U.S. to provide an Internet connection for their iPad, avoiding paying for an iPad-specific data plan. Looks like that won't be happening.
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App Advice, GMSV, Liliputing, Techland, Engadget, SlashGear, iPhone Buzz, Boy Genius Report, PadGadget, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacStories, Gizmodo and EverythingiCafe, Thanks:steverubel
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Unveils A New HTML5/Web Standards Showcase — Safari Required — Under fire for its App Store not being more open, recently, Apple's response has been that there is a portion of its devices that is totally open: the web. If developers don't like some of the App Store's restrictions, they should make a web app, Apple reasons.
David Feng / techblog86:
China Blocks Foursquare; Too Many People Checking Into Tian'anmen — The Chinese censors are a sight to behold. As in how fast they react. It's an open secret that while Twitter is probably chock-full of “the wrong people” (to the censors), the censors themselves are there, too.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Isn't Negotiating A Search Deal, It's Negotiating A Sale To Microsoft (AOL, MSFT, YHOO, GOOG) — AOL, which currently outsources search to Google, began negotiating a new search deal last week, CEO Tim Armstrong said yesterday at the D8 Conference out in California. — Tim is just being coy.
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Search Engine Land, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, Future Tense and D8 Conference
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish:
AT&T Apologizies — I just spoke with Lori (she's a Sr. VP) - she sincerely apologized for what happened and offered to do anything she could to keep me as a customer (it's amazing that even at her level, she doesn't know anything about the iPhone 4G (or she's under an NDA - who knows)) …
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
AT&T apologizes to the guy they threatened to C&D for e-mailing their CEO
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Yahoo! News, Tech Eye, eWeek, Engadget, Maximum PC, PC World, Gadgetell, Switched, So Long, and Thanks …, the Econsultancy blog, TiPb, Lockergnome Blog Network, CrunchGear and The Tech Herald …
Preston Gralla / Computerworld:
Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft is “number five” in the mobile race — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to know full well just how far behind his company is in the mobile market. At the All Things Digital D8 conference this morning, he admitted that Microsoft is number 5 in the mobile race …
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John Paczkowski / D8 Conference:
D8 Video: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Google
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Screenshot Hints At YouTube “Live Stream” Option — YouTube has been dabbling with its own live streams for almost two years now. It's live streamed presidential speeches, healthcare debates, cricket matches, and a U2 concert. But so far it's stayed away from opening up live streaming to the general YouTube populace.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP says it's in the smartphone market, after all — HP CEO Mark Hurd certainly caused a few sad faces yesterday when he told investors and analysts that HP “didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business,” and now the company is trying to walk that back a little — rest easy, folks …
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The Next Web, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Tech Eye, Erictric, PreCentral.net, PhoneDog.com, Mobile Entertainment, MobileCrunch, Boy Genius Report, FierceWireless, MacNN, Gizmodo, EverythingPre and MediaPost Raw, Thanks:hpnews
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
A Facebook privacy scanner that can adjust your settings for you — Not quite satisfied with Facebook's new streamlined privacy controls? — Redwood City-based ReputationDefender has launched a more visual alternative to the social network's tools. It's a bookmarklet that you can drag …
Financial Times:
Google to hand over intercepted data — Google will begin handing over to European regulators the rogue data it intercepted from private WiFi internet connections within the next two days, in an effort to defuse growing controversy over its latest privacy blunder.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Is this the first ever Facebook-oriented political attack ad? [Updated] — It seems the issue of Facebook privacy has gained enough currency to earn itself a place in a TV attack ad in the race for California attorney general — almost certainly the first Facebook-oriented TV ad in U.S. politics.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's supply of Mac minis dwindle ahead of new models — Supply of Apple's existing Mac mini lineup has become increasingly constrained over the past two weeks as the company prepares to introduce refreshed models that may serve as a harbinger for some new I/O technology on the Mac.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Yelp and OpenTable Join Forces — On Thursday evening, Yelp.com, the user-generated review Web site, and OpenTable.com, the restaurant reservations site, announced an integration that will allow Yelp users to make a restaurant reservation directly from a Yelp.com review page.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The End of Malware? — How Android, Chrome, and the iPad are shielding us from dastardly programs. One day in April, David Green, the president of a party supply firm in Oklahoma, needed to authorize a bank transfer. Green's company has a policy about online banking: Never do it on a Windows machine.
Robert Scoble / TechCrunch:
Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos — Editor's note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He's one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 friends on Foursquare.
