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New York Times:
Apple Is Weighing a Cheaper iPhone — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple has been exploring ways to broaden the appeal of the iPhone by making the popular device less expensive and allowing users to control it with voice commands. — But contrary to published reports, Apple is not currently developing …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Not Planning to Launch a Smaller iPhone
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RazorianFly, I4U News and Apple Bitch
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
The photo we were all waiting for...Steve Jobs at dinner with Obama — Earlier we brought you a photo of President Obama talking with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, posted to the official White House Flickr account. — A new photo has been uploaded showing all of Obama's guests at the dinner …
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ReadWriteWeb, SAI, Google Watch, MacRumors Page 2, Gov 2.0, Techie Buzz, @dannysullivan and Reuters
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Obama dines with tech stars of Silicon Valley — President Obama - on his first official trip to the Bay Area that didn't involve political fundraising - held a dinner meeting Thursday to talk job creation and education with a star-studded team of Silicon Valley executives and leaders …
Wall Street Journal:
Regulators Eye Apple Anew — Enforcers Interested in Whether Digital-Subscription Rules Stifle Competition — WASHINGTON—U.S. antitrust enforcers have begun looking at the terms Apple Inc. set this week for media companies who want to sell their content on its popular iPad and other devices …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
FTC, DoJ in “preliminary” investigation of Apple subscriptions
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Edible Apple and AppleInsider
John Fu / Google Chrome Blog:
Faster than a speeding rabbit: speed, sync, and settings — In the spirit of the lunar new year, we're excited to kick off the Year of the Rabbit with a slew of enhancements in the Chrome beta channel. Today's new beta includes a dramatic improvement in JavaScript speed, new password sync features …
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iGeneration Blog, BetaNews, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Softpedia News, Webmonkey, TechSpot, Geek.com, Inquirer, Download Squad, CNET News, Softpedia News, LaptopMemo and ReadWriteWeb
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
‘Year Of The Rabbit’ Begins As Chrome 10 Hops Into Beta With ‘Crankshaft’ JavaScript
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Google Chrome Releases and Softpedia News
Michael Kan / PC World:
Lenovo to Launch LePad Tablet Worldwide in June — Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans on selling its LePad tablet worldwide in June, but will first launch the device in China at the end of March, a company spokesman said on Friday. — The LePad, Lenovo's first tablet computer …
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eWeek, The Toybox Blog, IntoMobile, Techie Buzz, Electronista, Geek.com, TechSpot, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, SlashGear, Softpedia News, SAI, Phones Review and Liliputing
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Gawker's Gulp Moment: Big Redesign Is Driving People Away — About ten days ago, gossip blog Gawker and its sister sites Gizmodo, Lifehacker and others switched over to a drastic redesign which was met with plenty of jeers. People always complain about design changes …
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The Raw Feed and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nokia giving developers free E7 and free WP7 device — Nokia's decision to switch from Symbian to Windows Phone 7 might not have been met with glee from many developers, but the company looks to be addressing its coding community in a decent way. SlashGear has been passed details …
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Digital Daily, The Toybox Blog, Engadget, OStatic blogs, The Nokia Blog, Techie Buzz, WPCentral.com, Electricpig.co.uk, PhoneArena, The Next Web, All About Symbian and ZDNet
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Google Unveils Delicious Bookmark Importer — Google has just rolled out a convenient new tool for importing your Delicious bookmarks to Google Bookmarks. — The simple importer takes your Delicious login credentials (or lets you use a one-click OAuth button) and imports all your bookmarks, preserving labels or tags.
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TechCrunch, @loic, Download Squad and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
San Francisco Wants to Tax Your Stock Options- All of Them. — Few people are aware the San Francisco has had a tax provision in its municipal code since 2004 that requires companies to pay a payroll tax on gains from employee stock options. No one pays it, and San Francisco hasn't enforced it to date …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Zynga Raising $500 Million at $10 Billion Valuation — The fast-growing social gaming company Zynga is close to completing a funding round of $500 million, valuing the company at $10 billion, said multiple sources. — The round includes big institutional investors Morgan Stanley …
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CNET News, Digital Trends, alarm:clock, SAI, Fast Company, @loic, IndustryGamers, GamePolitics News, VentureBeat, SAI, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat
Popular Mechanics:
Confessions of an Apple Store Employee — Apple is famous for its secrecy, with a code of silence that runs from top management all the way down to its retail employees. One Apple Store employee decided to throw protocol to the curb and tell us what it's really like working at the vaunted retail outlets.
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Inquirer, PC World, Digital Trends, Fortune, msnbc.com, newsfeed.time.com, The Next Web, Gearlog, TUAW, Runnin' Scared, Neowin.net, Gawker, I4U News, Examiner, App Advice, BBC, AppleInsider, RazorianFly, Gizmodo and MacNN
David Pierson / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Father of China's Great Firewall discusses being persona non grata, admits to skirting the censorship he built — The man known as the father of China's so-called Great Firewall is defending his invention, which blocks out hundreds of thousands of foreign websites, and admits to owning software to evade the censorship he helped create.
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GlobalTimes,Special Report, Guardian, China Real Time Report and Friending Facebook Blog
Paul Lamkin / Pocket-lint:
Acer Windows Phone 7 devices coming Autumn 2011 — EXCLUSIVE: September or October release — An Acer spokesperson has confirmed to Pocket-lint that Acer will be joining the Windows Phone 7 party this autumn, with a September or October 2011 launch planned.
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The Toybox Blog, TechSpot, Softpedia News, SlashPhone, Engadget, SlashGear, WinRumors and WPCentral.com
Phil Hornshaw / Appolicious Advisor:
Apple adds copyright infringement to reasons for rejecting apps — The iTunes App Store is a big place, and in such a large and crowded digital space, there are bound to be a few unseemly characters. One such character is intellectual property theft — the plagiarism of another person's creation …
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
BilltoMobile Quietly Emerges As Mobile Payment Powerhouse — A year ago, few people in the U.S. had ever heard of BilltoMobile, a direct carrier billing company with roots in Korea. But the San Jose company is fast emerging as a leader in the mobile payments space with direct billing arrangements …
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eMoney and VentureBeat
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Bird's-Eye View Of iOS And Android As Seen By One Premium Ad Platform — Comparing the iOS and Android platforms is often tricky because the perspective is usually one-sided. But mobile ad platforms tend to have a pretty well-rounded look at the state of things because they're agnostic …
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Medialets and Electronista
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Digital Age Is Slow to Arrive in Rural America — COFFEEVILLE, Ala. — After a couple of days in this part of rural Alabama, it is hard to complain about a dropped iPhone call or a Cee Lo video that takes a few seconds too long to load. — The county administrator cannot get broadband at her house.
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Engadget, Joho the Blog, NTIA, BroadbandBreakfast.com, Co.Design, Computerworld, FlowingData, LAPTOP Magazine, O'Reilly Radar and Hack Education
Tantek / Microformats:
Facebook Adds hCalendar and hCard Microformats to Millions of Events — As of today, Facebook has marked up all events with the hCalendar microformat including marking up their venues with hCard as well. According to a simple Google search, that's millions of public events now with microformats …
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Don Clark / Digits:
Intel's Otellini Named to Obama Jobs Council — Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is not one of the liberal tech leaders who helped President Barack Obama get elected. But he is nevertheless heeding the administration's call. — The White House is announcing that Otellini will be named …
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TechEye, GMSV, VentureBeat and Reuters
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Apple Contemplating Reduction in 15-Minute App Purchase Window — In an apparent response to rising concerns about children buying costly virtual goods in freemium apps, Apple is reportedly discussing the possibility of reducing a 15-minute purchase window for users to buy successive apps …
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www.pocketgamer.biz, W3i Blog and SlashGear
Stephen Lawson / PC World:
House Passes Defunding of Net Neutrality Rules — The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment to its annual government funding bill that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from using any funds to implement the Net neutrality rules it approved last year.
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Inquirer and NewsGrange
