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Richard Ziade / Readability Blog:
An Open Letter to Apple — Dear Apple: It's your friends from Readability. Remember us? You put our technology into your Safari browser last year. We're writing this open letter because - well - we're a little upset right now.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Register, New York Times, TUAW, mocoNews, AppleInsider, SlashGear, techno.blog, Stage Two, Pardon the Disruption, Daring Fireball, App Advice, MacRumors, rc3.org, Alan Quatermain, ReadWriteWeb, Mediactive, MacStories, Mashable!, Engadget, @codinghorror and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:arpitnext
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Smacks Readability In The Face With Subscription Rules; All SaaS In Trouble — We've already been over (and over and over and over and over) Apple's new iOS subscription rules. And the initial backlash has seemingly cooled down as everyone has moved on to the next hot topic of the hour.
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Examiner, TiPb, TeleRead, Technologizer and Online Dating Insider
Chris Leydon / TinyGrab Blog:
TinyGrab & Apple's App Stores
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App Advice, TUAW and Cult of Mac
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter — SAN FRANCISCO — Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started posting his clips on Facebook …
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Mark Evans Tech, Global Nerdy, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Switched, Stowe Boyd, WebProNews, Adotas, Changing Way, toni.org and Teds Take, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:fredericl
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Matt Mullenweg:
Blogging Drift — The New York Times has a pretty prominent article today called Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. The title was probably written by an editor, not the author, because as soon as the article gets past the two token teenagers who tumble and Facebook instead of blogging …
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Trends in the Living Networks, TechCrunch and Daily Patricia, more at Mediagazer »
Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:
Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 — Every year about this time, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, holds an intimate gathering to discuss the company's vision for the future: just Craig, a handful of Microsoft thinkers and select media convening …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Early Look: Avatar Kinect — I'm over in Redmond today for a series of discussions and demos featuring Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, and other executives from the company. — One of the first topics of discussions: Natural user interfaces …
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The Microsoft Blog, WinRumors, The Next Web and GeekSmack
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom will ship without Flash support on February 24th, expects it in ‘Spring 2011’? — Verizon's webpage dedicated to the Xoom has just gone up and one of our eagle-eyed readers has already spotted a disquieting bit of small print: “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011.”
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Daring Fireball, Electronista, PC World, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, Gadgetell, The Toybox Blog, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, PhoneNews.com, Techie Buzz, techblog.dallasnews.com, AppleInsider, Thoughts from the Sidelines, SAI, Examiner, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, MobileWhack, Droid Life, SlashGear, Know Your Cell, Techland, Linux.com, The Next Web, Phones Review, Liliputing, jd/adobe and Engadget
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Mobile Flash: Always Exciting, Always Not Quite Here Yet
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SAI, Engadget, IntoMobile and GottaBeMobile
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft on the verge of finalizing Windows 8 Milestone 2 build … Microsoft is on the verge of finishing its second Milestone build of Windows 8, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant has compiled a number of Milestone 2 builds recently ready for the final M2 build …
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All about Microsoft Blog, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Electronista, Windows 8 News, Neowin.net, WinRumors and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:blogsdna
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPad 2 incoming: iPad sold out/on sale at some European retailers — The second-generation iPad is approaching and will most likely hit sometime next month. Usually, a good hint at an upcoming refresh for an Apple product is when the respective item becomes sold out or on sale at some retailers.
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Examiner, TechRadar.com, App Advice, Neowin.net, TiPb, mocoNews, Apple Bitch, App Advice, Softpedia News, Geek.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista, everythingiCafe, MacDailyNews, MacStories and T3.com News, Thanks:markgurman
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Facebook chat in Hotmail now available everywhere — Today, Facebook chat is available to Hotmail customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available. — When we first announced the ability to chat with Facebook friends from Hotmail, we were only able to offer this to customers in six regions.
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Digital Trends, ReadWriteWeb, LiveSide.net, All Facebook, Windows 8 Beta, The Next Web, WinRumors, GeekSmack, Download Squad, MarketingVOX and WebProNews
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Kno Student Tablet Start-Up in Talks to Sell Off Tablet Part of Its Business — Kno-the much-funded and high-profile Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making tablet computers focused at students-is considering selling off the entire hardware part of the business and is in talks …
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Electronista, The Digital Reader, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, TeleRead, Liliputing, Digital Trends, CrunchGear, ThinkMobile, Inquirer, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, SAI, Personanondata and SlashGear
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Kno looking to sell off ambitious tablet hardware business, focus on software instead
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Stage Two
Greg Tito / The Escapist:
PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend — Famed rapper and PS3 hacker Geohot asked for donations on Friday to fund his defense against Sony and got all he needed by Monday. — Geohot, aka George Hotz, firmly believes that he has done nothing wrong.
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Ars Technica, geohot got sued, GamePolitics News, Redmond Pie, Edge Online and Kotaku Australia
Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Says CEO Wei Quits After Probe Finds Fraud Committed by Suppliers — Alibaba.com Ltd., operator of China's biggest electronic-commerce website, said Chief Executive Officer David Wei resigned after a company probe found more than 2,000 subscribers engaged in fraudulent sales.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
BGR: New MacBooks will have bigger Trackpad, OS on SSD, half pound lighter — Some interesting MacBook Pro possibilities coming out of BGR this afternoon. Here are the Cliff's Notes: — The trackpads will be bigger than before. Looking down at my MacBook Pro, I'm not sure that's possible …
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BGR, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MobileWhack, MacGazette.net, iClarified, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Is The iPad 2 “Mystery Port” For Light Peak? We Doubt It. — Light Peak is likely on its way to Apple's 2011 Mac line up, and might debut in Thursday's MacBook Pro refresh... but what about Apple's iOS products? MacRumors postulates that Light Peak is also coming to the iPad 2.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Could the iPad 2 Be Getting Light Peak?
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Phones Review, Hardware 2.0 Blog, SlashGear, TiPb, PadGadget, GigaOM, everythingiCafe, Softpedia News, Electronista, Faster Forward and thinq_
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft starts rolling out a pre-'NoDo' update for Windows Phone 7 — On February 21, Microsoft officials told Windows Phone 7 (WP7) users that the company had started rolling out the first update for Windows Phone 7. — Before you copy-and-paste-happy WP7 fans begin salivating …
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LiveSide.net, The Register, WinRumors, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, ThinkMobile, Engadget, The Windows Blog, BetaNews, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, MSDN Blogs, WPCentral.com, IntoMobile and WMPoweruser.com
James Kanter / New York Times:
Google Trying to Avoid Antitrust Fight in Europe — BRUSSELS — At the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the hottest ticket in recent years has invariably been an invitation to Google's lavish private party, and 2011 was no exception. — Eric E. Schmidt …
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