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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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Rolls Out Long-Awaited/Feared Subscription Plan — Apple has finally announced its subscription plan for its apps sold through its iTunes store: As previous reports have indicated, it both allows app developers to set up recurring payment plans for iPad/iPhone/iPod apps …
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The Register, TeleRead and MediaPost
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 and MacStories
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? — Although the last few days have been packed with rumors pointing to a smaller iPhone with a smaller display, Digitimes is now reporting that Apple's fifth-generation iPhone, due in June, will pack a 4-inch display to go toe-to-toe with Android device's larger displays.
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DigiTimes, Apple Bitch, MacStories, TechEye and MacRumors
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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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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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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Computerworld, TechCrunch Europe, SuperSite for Windows, Mobilized, Neowin.net and InfoWorld
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen Elop
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Internet2Go
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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MacRumors, TUAW, Notebooks.com, SlashGear, Softpedia News, O'Grady's PowerPage, MacNN and Electricpig.co.uk
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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Search Engine Land
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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, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Phone Scoop, AppleInsider, iLounge, IntoMobile, TUAW, RazorianFly, Electronista, BGR, MacDailyNews, PhoneArena and TmoNews
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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Post Tech, MacStories and NBC Bay Area
Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
AT&T airs new iPhone 3GS for $49 commercial — AT&T is airing a new — that's right, new! — commercial for the 2010 iPhone 3GS 8GB highlighting it's recently lowered price of $49. AT&T also has a new logo treatment at the end, which has also been attached to their previous iPhone 4 “anniversary” commercial.
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, BGR, Electronista and 9 to 5 Mac
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC refreshes Android lineup with Incredible S, Desire S and Wildfire S (update: hands-on) — The buttonless wonder we once knew only as “HTC's upcoming flagship device” has today been revealed to be the Incredible S. It's a new 4-incher that emulates the Droid Incredible's successful industrial design …
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MobileCrunch, PC World, Inquirer, The Next Web, eWeek, Gadget Lab, PC World, DailyTech, Electronista, CrunchGear, Smartphones …, BGR, Gizmodo and IntoMobile
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
HTC Revolver: a flagship ‘Honeycomb’ phone for AT&T? — Well, this is certainly curious. If the tipster who sent us the image above is to be believed, you're looking at HTC's new flagship smartphone, the Revolver, which is supposedly headed to AT&T in the third quarter of this year.
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Fortune, The Toybox Blog, t-break and PhoneArena
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
IBM “Jeopardy” Challenge Day One Ends in a Tie — Day one of the three-day battle between the human brain and silicon on the game show “Jeopardy” ended in a tie. — The IBM supercomputer and human player, Brad Rutter, each had $5,000 on the scoreboard, while Ken Jennings …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom — WASHINGTON — Days after Facebook and Twitter added fuel to a revolt in Egypt, the Obama administration plans to announce a new policy on Internet freedom, designed to help people get around barriers in cyberspace while making it harder …
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Switched and Associated Press
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Court confirms: IP addresses aren't people (and P2P lawyers know it) — Wrapping up the last of the United Kingdom's notorious copyright infringement “pay up” letter cases, a UK patent and copyright judge has had a major revelation. Just because some lawyer cites an Internet Protocol (IP) …
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
McKinney: webOS to be integrated with Windows on PCs — HP made kind of a big point out of their plans for webOS beyond the smartphone and tablet during last week's Think Beyond event, but it was rather unclear to us and everybody else sitting in the audience how exactly HP planned to bring webOS to the desktop (and printers).
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The Seattle Times, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Engadget and Liliputing
Ethan Bauley / Data Central:
HP research shows mainstream media drive Twitter ‘trends’ to a surprising degree — Who gets to determine the big topics of conversation on social media? And how do they do it? Looking to find out, HP researchers recently examined how popular subjects get to be listed among the top ‘trending’ topics on Twitter.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay Lands First Mobile Pre-Load Deal With Telefonica's O2 UK Phones — eBay's mobile reach in Europe is about to expand exponentially. The e-commerce giant has just announced it first ever mobile pre-load deal with Telefonica, which will equip most smartphones and feature phones sold …
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results — Blekko and Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that aims to use the latter's community of programmers to improve programming- and tech-related searches on Blekko. — The agreement calls for Stack Overflow's community …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram — Back in late December of last year, we noted a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. As we noted at the time, remarkably, it took them only three months to hit the mark.
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AppAdvice and Fast Company
