Techmeme: MacBook Pro review (early 2011) (Nilay Patel/Engadget)

7:20 PM ET, March 4, 2011

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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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Brennon Slattery / PC World:
Will Microsoft Beat Google in the Travel Search Wars?

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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

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 …

Discussion: MacStories

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Apple's MacBook Pros ship with active SSD TRIM support in Snow Leopard — New MacBook Pro models are shipping with Mac OS X 10.6.6 (build 10J3210), which supplies TRIM support for bundled Apple Solid State Drives, enabling extended performance of the fast new devices via background maintenance.

Discussion: Electronista

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.

Discussion: MacRumors, The Toybox Blog, App Advice, Gizmodo, MobileWhack, MobileCrunch, PhoneDog.com, TiPb, MacStories, IntoMobile, TUAW, Electronista and everythingiCafe

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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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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David Kravets / Threat Level:

Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site — A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz's website from January of 2009 to the present. — Thursday's decision …

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.

Discussion: Sramana Mitra

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 …

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers — When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup's then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16 million businesses with a reverse-geo-coder …

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 …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, mocoNews, Mobilized, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, IntoMobile, The Tech Trade, MacDailyNews and Ubergizmo

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.

Discussion: Fonehome, IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile and NBC Bay Area

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 …

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.

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 …

Discussion: mocoNews, Android Developers Blog, SlashGear, GigaOM, Pulse2, Download Squad, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, FierceMobileContent, Electronista, Neowin.net and WebProNews

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.

Discussion: Mass High Tech, VatorNews, 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.

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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.

Discussion: Technologizer, Ubergizmo, Between the Lines Blog, Gearlog, Yahoo! News, GottaBeMobile, Geek.com, Pulse2, Android Community, PhoneArena, Techland and Gadgetell

Jesse Emspak / International Business Times:

Libya Blocks Internet Traffic — After slowly returning to the Internet, Libya has gone again. — At about 7 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday Internet traffic coming in and out of Libya dropped to nearly zero, where it remains, according to Google's Transparency Report.

Discussion: Digital Trends, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, CircleID, L.A. Times Tech Blog, NBC Bay Area, VatorNews, BBC, p2pnet, Soaring on a Pig …, @eff and Switched

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Google To Shut Down Gizmo5 On April 3 — Back in November 2009 Google acquired Gizmo5, a powerful VoIP telephony service that allows users to place and receive calls from their computer and mobile phone applications. Today, the company has started informing users that it will be shutting down Gizmo5 service on April 3, 2011.

Discussion: Engadget

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.

Discussion: BoomTown, more at Mediagazer »

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Arianna Huffington: We Won't “Mess with” TechCrunch or Engadget: Tim Armstrong Has Big Plans for Video

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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.

Discussion: eWeek, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, TG Daily and Fonehome

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