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Krista Pappas / Bing:
Bing Welcomes KAYAK — Since the launch of Bing, our goal has been to create a new and different search experience focused on helping you make faster, more informed decisions. We set out to do this by delivering great results, organizing the results in more visual and useful …
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ReadWriteWeb, KAYAK, CNET News, SAI, SlashGear, MarketingVOX, LiveSide.net, eMoney, USA Today, The Next Web and WebProNews
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Brennon Slattery / PC World:
Will Microsoft Beat Google in the Travel Search Wars? — As Google continues to slog it out with the Justice Department over its pending acquisition of travel search company ITA Software, Microsoft continues to improve Bing's travel functionality. In doing so, Microsoft is sending …
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Search Engine Watch, Tnooz, Search Engine Land, paidContent and Xconomy
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Samsung Chief Calls Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘Inadequate’ — The “inadequate” Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. Photo: Charlie Sorrel — Samsung's mobile VP Lee Don-Joo has taken a look at the iPad 2 and decided that his own Galaxy Tab 10.1 isn't up to scratch.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung finds parts of Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘inadequate’ compared to iPad 2, reconsiders pricing
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Conan Roasts iPad 2: You'll Buy It No Matter What We Say [Video] — With every new Apple product launch, there's now an expectation that we're going to get a video made by Apple to help explain the product. You know the ones. They feature Apple executives (though, oddly, never CEO Steve Jobs) …
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AppleInsider, CNET News, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, Pocket-lint, The Toybox Blog, Phones Review, PhoneArena, Phones Review and FierceWireless
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
It's Apple's ‘post-PC’ world — we're all just living in it
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GigaOM, ZDNet, O'Reilly Radar, Daring Fireball, TUAW, I, Cringely, Fortune and Sample the Web
Darren Murph / Engadget:
AT&T Mobile Hotspot for iPhone 4 limited to just three WiFi devices (update: it's an iOS 4.3 thing) — Say it ain't so! According to this here slide, which details a bit of insidery AT&T information about the impending release of iOS 4.3, Ma Bell's iPhone 4 will have its Personal Hotspot restricted to use with just three devices.
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MacRumors, The Toybox Blog, App Advice, Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com, IntoMobile, MacStories, Electronista, TiPb and TUAW
Bloomberg:
Apple Negotiating Unlimited Usage of Music Downloads — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is in talks with record companies to give iTunes customers easier access to music they've purchased across multiple devices, said three people with knowledge of the plans. — Apple is negotiating …
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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Buys Outside.In, Less Than $10 Million — AOL will announce today that it has acquired “hyper-local” blog aggregator startup Outside.In, an industry source tells us. — We don't know if AOL will announce how much it is paying for the company — probably not — but we're told that it is less than $10 million.
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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Just How Bad Is the iPad 2 Camera? — It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone, and despite many hopes, both cameras in the iPad 2 are about as rudimentary as you could get without having to load a roll of film in there.
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Fonehome, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile and NBC Bay Area
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
This Man Is Putting Millions In Startups' Pockets — And Scaring VCs To Death — AngelList is turning Silicon Valley upside down. It's basically Match.com for startups and business angels, and startups are raising millions from angels on the site almost every day, leaving VCs to scramble for dealflow and paying higher valuations.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Developers: why you should build for Android tablets — OK, maybe Steve Jobs' reality distortion field is wearing off a bit and I might feel differently in a week when I get my iPad 2, but after playing with my Motorola Xoom a lot more tonight and seeing just what “no apps” looks like, I got something to say to developers:
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IntoMobile, ThinkMobile and GottaBeMobile
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google issues Android anti-fragmentation tool — Google has made good on a promise to release technology it hopes will curtail Android's fragmentation problem, a complication for programmers who want their software to run on a diversity of devices. — Yesterday, the company released a …
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
The best Web security against hackers and spammers: advanced math! — If you don't want spam-bots or bad guys breaking into your site, make them do calculus. That's the approach the folks at a Croatia's RuÄ'er Boškovi Institute are taking. Before you can log …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
CBS Acquires TV Guide For Online Video Clicker, Jim Lanzone Named President Of CBS Interactive — CBS has acquired Clicker, a TV Guide for internet programming, according to a release just issued by the companies. Clicker's CEO Jim Lanzone has been named President of CBS Interactive.
Zach Epstein / BGR:
RBC: 185 million tablets sold by end of 2014, Android to dominate long-term — In a note to investors on Thursday, RBC Capital Markets General Manager Mike Abramsky reiterates the firm's belief that the tablet market is poised to explode over the coming years.
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Kellex / Droid Life:
WiFi-only Motorola XOOM Headed to Sam's Club, Possibly Priced at $539 — Been a lot of talk about a wifi-only Motorola XOOM lately and thanks to our friends at Sam's Club, we think it may be closer than anyone imagined and with a better-than-previously-advertised price tag.
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Technologizer, Between the Lines Blog, Ubergizmo, Pulse2, Android Community, PhoneArena, Techland, Gearlog, Yahoo! News, GottaBeMobile and Geek.com
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Bessemer Said to Be Raising $1.2 Billion to $1.5 Billion for Venture Fund — Bessemer Venture Partners, a century-old investment firm in Larchmont, New York, is aiming to raise as much as $1.5 billion for a fund to back technology startups, said two people familiar with knowledge of the deal.
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VatorNews, Mass High Tech, Venture Capital Dispatch and Xconomy
Roger Capriotti / The Windows Blog:
Counting Down Internet Explorer 6 Usage Share — On this day a year ago, Aten Design Group hosted a funeral for IE6 in Denver, Colorado. We heard about it and sent flowers. While the funeral gave a strong indication of the desire to rid the world of IE6, the browser still has a presence.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
MacBook Pro review (early 2011) — Apple might say we're in the post-PC era, but hey — turns out they still make Macs in Cupertino, and the new MacBook Pro is actually one of the more aggressive refreshes in the machine's history. Not only has it been less than a year since the last MacBook Pro spec bump …
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AppleInsider and MacStories
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AOL Tim Armstrong: After HuffPo deal closes ‘no way around’ layoffs — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Huffington Post chief Arianna Huffington have finalized their integration plans and layoffs are on tap as the acquisition nears the finish line. — The news isn't unexpected.
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David Zax / Fast Company:
The Echo Nest Makes Pandora Look Like a Transistor Radio — More cowbell! Everyone from Christopher Walken enthusiasts to major record labels to Columbia University is excited about The Echo Nest. The many uses, frivolous and non-, of Echo Nest's massive 30-million-song dataset.
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Dave Kansas / MarketBeat:
RIMM's Chief Marketing Officer Departing on Eve of PlayBook Launch … Research in Motion is having a tumultuous week in the stock market, capped by the surprise news that Chief Marketing Office Keith Pardy is leaving the company for personal reasons. — As The Wall Street Journal notes …
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BGR, Wall Street Journal, Tech Trader Daily, MacDailyNews and Ubergizmo
Matt Asay / The Register:
From messiah to pariah: The death of open source on mobile — $0.99 beats free almost every time — Open...and Shut Open source has gone from pariah to messiah in the past decade, but it has yet to find a place at the mobile table, and risks being rendered obsolete.
