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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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VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TUAW, The Independent, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, mocoNews, The Register, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Mashable!, Engadget, App Advice, techno.blog, Alan Quatermain, ReadWriteWeb, rc3.org, MacStories, WebProNews, Daring Fireball, Pardon the Disruption, insideHPC, @codinghorror and MacRumors, Thanks:arpitnext
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement — Apple's new subscription-billing requirement has generated a lot of bad press and debate. The new rule, from the App Store Review Guidelines (developer account required): — In practice, this means that any app that requires content …
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MacNN, MacStories, Online Dating Insider and Washington Post
David Carr / New York Times:
2 Platforms, With 2 Sets of Problems — Digital subscriptions, a grail for the mainstream media that often seemed more like a mirage, took on some firm if not altogether friendly dimensions last week. — Traditional print publishers have spent the past few years cast in the role …
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Guardian, Technology Liberation Front, Mediactive and MacStories, more at Mediagazer »
Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Email Suggests In-App Subscriptions Don't Apply to ‘Software As a Service’? — Apple's announcement last week introducing App Store Subscriptions has generated a lot of controversy across the web. At issue is Apple's policy requiring publishers to also offer all subscriptions through Apple's …
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The Next Web
Chris Leydon / TinyGrab Blog:
TinyGrab & Apple's App Stores — We love Apple, we really do. Let's face it, without them TinyGrab just wouldn't exist and none of us would be reading this right now; for this we're incredibly indebted to them. The homebrew and independent app development community for OS X is wonderful and vibrant.
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Cult of Mac, Examiner, App Advice, TUAW and FierceDeveloper
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows 8 roadmap: A picture is worth a thousand build numbers — Given the very few (and occasionally confusing) leaks around Windows 8, an update as to how things are progressing is always welcome. — In early 2011, a source of mine passed on to me what he claimed was a snapshot of the internal Windows 8 roadmap.
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Softpedia News, Electronista, WinRumors, Neowin.net, iThinkDifferent and PhoneArena
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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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PhoneArena, SlashGear, Windows 8 News, Redmond Pie and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:blogsdna
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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Microsoft Research, Pocket-lint, WinRumors, The Microsoft Blog, The Register, Erictric, Gamasutra, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, All about Microsoft Blog, Mashable!, Gadgetell, MSDN Blogs, Crave, BetaNews, TechFlash, Examiner, Geek.com, CrunchGear, MSDN Blogs, VentureBeat, VG247, The Windows Blog, Engadget and Neowin.net
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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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WinRumors, The Next Web, The Microsoft Blog and GeekSmack
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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Global Nerdy, Twist Image, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, parislemon, WebProNews, Stowe Boyd, Mark Evans Tech, Switched, Changing Way, Adotas, toni.org and Teds Take, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:fredericl
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DigiTimes:
HP to start selling WebOS 3.0-based TouchPad in April — First-tier notebook brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to start selling its WebOS 3.0-based tablet PC, TouchPad in April with shipments to start delivery by the end of March, according to sources from HP's upstream component partners.
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Erictric, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, PreCentral.net, Electronista, ThinkMobile and CrunchGear
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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IntoMobile, Windows 8 Beta, Erictric, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, LiveSide.net, The Next Web, WinRumors, GeekSmack, Download Squad, MarketingVOX, All Facebook and WebProNews
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel lists new Sandy Bridge mobile chips — Intel has updated its price list with new dual-core Sandy Bridge chips—some likely bound for Apple MacBooks and just about every PC vendor on the planet. — On top of the bevy of Core i5 and Core i7 Sandy Bridge chips already listed in Intel's database …
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MacRumors
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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SlashGear, GamePolitics News, geohot got sued, GeekSmack, Covering Web, Destructoid, Redmond Pie and Edge Online
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
“OtherOS” class-action lawsuit: GeoHot, Sony now share same charge
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Groklaw, GamePolitics News, Electronista and Inquirer
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adobe: Flash Coming To Android Tablets “Within A Few Weeks” — Earlier today there was quite a bit of commotion in the tech press over a Verizon ad that stated that Flash wouldn't be making its way to Android tablets until Spring 2011. Which has the potential to be pretty far off …
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Adobe Flash Platform Blog, SlashGear, Techie Buzz, PC World, MacNN, PhoneArena, Erictric, Droid Life, CrunchGear, Know Your Cell, Engadget and jd/adobe
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Mobile Flash: Always Exciting, Always Not Quite Here Yet
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Engadget, SAI, GottaBeMobile, Gadgetell and Daring Fireball
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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BlogsDNA, Geek.com, TiPb, Neowin.net, Examiner, T3.com News, App Advice, AppleInsider, TechRadar.com, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Electronista, MacStories, Apple Bitch, Softpedia News and mocoNews, Thanks:markgurman
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPhone versus iPhone: Ars puts Verizon and AT&T to the test — The Verizon version of the iPhone 4 doesn't need a full review—partially because you've read a bunch already, and partially because there's not a lot to differentiate it from the AT&T iPhone 4.
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The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog
Naked Security / Sophos:
SSDs prove difficult to securely erase — At this week's Usenix FAST 11 conference on File and Storage Technologies in San Jose, California researchers published a paper examining the effectiveness of different secure erasure methodologies on Solid State Disks (SSDs).
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TG Daily and ThinkMobile
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
What Got Buzz at Mobile World Congress? — Now that Mobile World Congress has wrapped, a number of digital analytics firms have parsed the data on social networks and blogs to determine which smartphones, tablets, operating systems and brands received the most buzz - and whether that chatter was positive or negative, in some cases.
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IntoMobile and Mashable!
Tony Smith / Reg Hardware:
Apple iOS dominates Euro smartphone usage — Europeans far less keen on Android than Americans are — How have the great mobile operating systems been faring in the UK and Europe over the past year? Mobile internet access gives us a picture. — The snapshot isn't an unbiased one, mind.
