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Apple:
Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store — Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc. This is the same innovative digital subscription billing service …
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Is Apple Getting Too Greedy? Demands 30% Cut of In-App Subscriptions — After a lot of confusion earlier this year, Apple today finally clarified its rules for in-app subscriptions for magazines, newspapers, video and music. The rules are very straightforward: Publishers can continue …
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GigaOM and MacStories
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple's new App Store rules affect Amazon's Kindle — Amazon must remove link to Web e-bookstore from app, offer in-app purchases so Apple can take its 30% cut — Computerworld - Apple today unveiled the details of its App Store subscription plan, and confirmed that it will demand …
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SlashGear and @dsilverman
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions — Apple's new subscription plan has a compliance deadline. June 30, according to a memo sent to publishers earlier this year. “For existing apps already in the App Store, we are providing a grace period to bring your app into compliance with this guideline,” it reads.
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AppleInsider, AppAdvice, MacStories and MacRumors
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What Apple's new subscription policy means for news: new rules, new incentives, new complaints
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GigaOM
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple's Big Subscription Bet: Brilliant, Brazen, Or Batsh*t Crazy?
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paidContent, TUAW and PadGadget
Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg:
Nokia's Elop Only Put Microsoft Plan for Board Vote — Nokia Oyj executives put only the Microsoft Corp. option for vote at a board meeting on Feb. 10 after having studied three plans, Executive Vice President Mary McDowell said in an interview. — “We had presented three scenarios …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to Verizon — BARCELONA, Spain—Verizon Communications Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone would love to see a third player in the mobile OS market, but Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be it. — Melone said during an interview …
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SAI, Engadget, DailyTech, PhoneArena and PreCentral.net
Nokia Plan B:
An open letter to Nokia shareholders and institutional investors — We are a group of nine young Nokia shareholders. All of us have worked with Nokia in different capacities in the past. We plan to challenge the company's strategy and partnership with Microsoft in the next Annual General Meeting scheduled for May 3, 2011.
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Daring Fireball, Digital Trends, Computerworld, TechCrunch Europe, TechEye, SiliconANGLE, Mobilized, InfoWorld, Geek.com and thinq_
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Google's Schmidt: We Would Have Loved to Have Nokia Adopt Android
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen Elop
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Internet2Go
BBC:
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg answers mobile rumours — Facebook will help phone manufacturers achieve “deep integration” of its services — Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has responded to rumors that the company is planning to launch its own mobile phone.
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PC World and NBC Bay Area
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC Salsa and Chacha bring the dedicated Facebook button to Android (update: eyes-on) — Yes folks, the leaks were for real, HTC really is bringing out a pair of new handsets adorned with a dedicated, delicately illustrated Facebook key front and (almost) center.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook SIMs, HTC/INQ Phones — Facebook's Phone Project Lingers, But It's None Of Those
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Engadget and pocketnow.com
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
HTC's One-Button Facebook Phones Headed to AT&T
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NBC Bay Area, PC World and Seattle Times
DigiTimes:
Apple to expand iPhone screen size to 4-inches — Apple reportedly will change the screen size of iPhone to 4-inch for its fifth generation iPhone to compete with the Google Android platform in the 4- to 7-inch smartphone market, according to upstream component suppliers.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 to pack 4-inch display, A5 processor?
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Datamation, internetnews.com, Digital Trends, DigiTimes and iPhone Download Blog
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Is Microsoft Zune about to be Kinned? — Over the past few days, more and more Microsoft watchers are noticing that Microsoft execs seem to be making a deliberate effort to avoid using the Z (Zune) word. That avoidance has set off a wave of speculation. — Some pundits claiming …
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LiveSide.net, SlashGear, I'm Just Being Manan and WinExtra
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AppleInsider:
Apple customer survey sparks hope for brawnier MacBook Airs with built-in 3G — Apple, a company notorious for relying on its own in-house research rather than the feedback of its customers, began reaching out to select MacBook Air owners this week in a new survey that could help define future versions …
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TUAW, The Loop, MacRumors, Notebooks.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Engadget and Softpedia News
Josh / Social Apples:
Apple cripples iBooks for jailbreakers — I just recently updated my iPhone to 4.2.1 thanks to the greenpois0n jailbreak. Yes, I jailbreak... and I'm proud of it. There are many benefits to jailbreaking your iPhone like SBSettings, Activator, Infinifolders, etc. The real reason I jailbreak: because I can.
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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, TUAW, MacRumors, The Register, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, thinq_, The Next Web, The Loop and Black Web 2.0
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC launches 1.5GHz, 7-inch Android 2.4 Flyer into the tablet wars (update: hands-on video!) — Boy oh boy, HTC is entering the tablet arena with quite a bang. The company has just taken the wraps off its brand new 7-inch Flyer Android tablet, which touts a 1.5GHz single-core CPU …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Deutsche Telekom rolling out NFC payments with T-Mobile USA, other markets this year; NFC iPhone along for the ride? — At its press conference at Mobile World Congress today, Deutsche Telekom — the German parent of T-Mobile subsidiaries around the world — mentioned that it'll start launching …
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Bits, CNET News, Phone Scoop, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, iLounge, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, PhoneArena, BGR, RazorianFly, IntoMobile, TmoNews, TUAW and Electronista
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Now The Most Valuable Tech Company By $100 Billion; Google Closing In On Microsoft — It's hard to believe that it wasn't even a year ago when I wrote the following post: What Happens When Apple Passes Microsoft In Value? Yes, When. It's even harder to believe just how many people thought …
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The Apple Core Blog and Post Tech
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Web of Frenemies — Facebook Inc.'s growing ambitions are redrawing battle lines in Silicon Valley. — As the seven-year-old company ramps up its hiring and adds new features to its social network, it is disrupting the businesses of established companies like Yahoo Inc …
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MediaPost and Search Engine Land
