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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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App Advice, Mediactive, TUAW, MacRumors, ReadWriteWeb, Pardon the Disruption, Mashable!, Engadget, MacStories and @codinghorror, 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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Technologizer, TiPb and TeleRead
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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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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TechCrunch, Mark Evans Tech, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Switched, Stowe Boyd, Changing Way, Adotas, toni.org and Teds Take, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:fredericl
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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Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, TechFlash, WinRumors, The Windows Blog, Engadget and Neowin.net
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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VentureBeat, The Digital Reader, Digital Trends, CrunchGear, ReadWriteWeb, TeleRead, Electronista, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile, ThinkMobile, Inquirer, Softpedia News, SlashGear and SAI
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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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SAI, Technologizer, VentureBeat, Electronista, AppleInsider, PC World, Examiner, MobileWhack, techblog.dallasnews.com, The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Thoughts from the Sidelines, PhoneNews.com, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Pocket-lint, Know Your Cell, jd/adobe, Phones Review, Liliputing and Engadget
Arn / MacRumors:
Could the iPad 2 Be Getting Light Peak? — After reading the report that Apple is planning to introduce its new Light Peak-based high speed interconnect technology “soon”, it struck us that Light Peak could help explain some particularly incongruous rumors we've been hearing about the iPad 2 over the past few months.
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PadGadget, GigaOM, Electronista, SlashGear, TiPb, Faster Forward, Hardware 2.0 Blog, thinq_, Softpedia News, everythingiCafe and CNET News
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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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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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TechRadar.com, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacRumors, T3.com News, Electronista, Apple Bitch, everythingiCafe, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews and MacStories, Thanks:markgurman
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding — European streaming music startup Spotify is in the process of closing a very large financing, say multiple sources. DST, the venture firm that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, is said to be leading the deal, which values Spotify at around $1 billion.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, ITProPortal, SAI, paidContent, thinq_, Music Ally, ArcticStartup Posts, Mobile Entertainment and Electricpig.co.uk, more at Mediagazer »
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Why I don't care very much about tablets anymore — I've realized recently that I'm just not very excited about tablets—anybody's tablets, no matter the OS or maker. I first realized I felt this way when I was only mildly disappointed (as opposed to heartbroken) to find myself too sick …
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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BetaNews, Ars Technica, CNET News, The Windows Blog, WinRumors, LiveSide.net, Network World, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, MSDN Blogs, WPCentral.com and WMPoweruser.com
