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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple Targets Searchers For ‘Dell Streak’, ‘HP Slate’ With Google Ads For The iPad — In a move that suggests a tad of insecurity on Apple's behalf, the iPad maker is apparently buying Google AdWords ads targeting potential buyers of the Dell Streak, the Android-powered micro-tablet or netpad …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay and MegaUpload Escape Domain Seizure by US — In the final days of last month, US authorities targeted several sites they claimed were connected to the streaming of movies and TV shows. ‘Operation In Our Sites’ culminated in the apparent shutting down of 9 sites - TVShack.net …
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Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Geohot Jailbreaks Apple iPhone 4 ! — After months of silence, Geohot has finally published a new blog post in which he talks about iPhone 4 jailbreak situation, limera1n, and Pwned4life exploit which he recently talked about at the Nuit Du Hack conference in Paris.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
More App Store hackery may be afoot — Last weekend there were reports that iTunes and the App Store had been hacked. However, it turned out that a developer had used other users' iTunes accounts to buy his apps repeatedly, quickly moving the apps up the App Store sales ranking.
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, iPhone Download Blog, App Advice, Erictric, The Next Web and Techie Buzz, Thanks:atul
Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric:
Fring Overwhelmed by Video Calling, Temporarily Suspends Access to Skype — Yesterday, Erictric reported that Apple approved a Fring update that allows 2-way video calling to other mobile platforms over 3G. Apparently, the improved application has become a huge success …
Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Access Hulu from Outside the U.S. Without a Proxy Server — We've featured one or two ways to watch Hulu from outside the US, but one user over at Reddit has discovered another method, no outside proxy server required. All you need is a Firefox add-on and a few blocked ports. More »
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Microsoft Mining The App Store To Find iOS Developers & Win Them Over — It's been reported many times that Microsoft and even Google are doing everything in their power to win over developers to their respective mobile platforms. Yet, these were often just rumors and the fact …
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Lawsuit Advances Claiming AT&T iPhone Monopoly — A lawsuit alleging that Apple and AT&T secretly formed monopoly with their exclusive iPhone agreement has received class-action status, meaning the plaintiffs now represent everybody who's bought an iPhone in the United States.
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Phone Arena, App Advice, Erictric, IntoMobile, Gizmodo Australia, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo, Phones Review and Engadget
Zachary Sniderman / Mashable!:
Google's Long History of Social Media Attempts [INFOGRAPHIC] — Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what's the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook's grip on person-to-person networking.
Jim Wolf / Reuters:
HP in potential $3.4 billion U.S. Navy network deal — (Reuters) - HP Enterprise Services, a unit of HP (HPQ.N), has won a deal for continued U.S. Navy information technology support worth up to $3.4 billion if all options are exercised, the U.S. Defense Department said Thursday.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Turning the Page on the Page Turn — On Thursday a tidbit of news circulated around the Web that Microsoft had filed a patent in late 2009 hoping to lay claim to the look and feel of page turns on a touchscreen device. — The patent states that when “one or more pages are displayed on a touch display” …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Changes Tweet Storage Strategy, Confirms Realtime Analytics Product — An interesting post just went up on the Twitter Engineering blog. Usually, that blog contains posts that are more interesting to developers working on Twitter's platform. And this post is that as well, but it also states two much larger things.
