Techmeme: Sprint makes EVO View 4G tablet official: 1.5GHz, WiMAX, 7-inch screen, and a stylus to boot (Vlad Savov/Engadget)

3:10 PM ET, March 22, 2011

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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:

Now Open: Amazon Appstore Launches With 3,800 Apps for Android — Amazon has officially launched the Android Appstore, a potential iTunes equivalent for Android. — The company-whose roots are in e-commerce and not mobile-aspires to merchandise and sell apps better than Google does on its own platform.

Discussion: Inquirer, Bits, GeekWire, Android Community, The Next Web, BlogsDNA, Marketing Pilgrim, Amazon.com, ZDNet, Download Squad, Consumer Reports …, The Huffington Post, Webware.com, dailywireless.org, Fast Company, paidContent and SlashGear

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Android App Store Launches: Test Drive Apps Directly From Your Browser — This morning Amazon is officially launching its Android App Store — a storefront for apps that will compete directly with Google's official Android Market. We first broke the news about the impending App Store …

Discussion: LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Trends, SAI, Pocket-lint, Internet2Go, Xconomy, Guardian, VatorNews, Gadgets DNA, Geek.com, mobiputing, PhoneArena, Geekosystem, OStatic blogs and Techland

Rahsheen / Black Web 2.0:
Amazon Appstore Launches with Daily Paid Apps for Free

Discussion: IntoMobile, Engadget and SAI

Apple:

iPad 2 Arrives in 25 More Countries This Friday — Available in Hong Kong, Korea & Singapore in April — Apple® today announced that iPad® 2, the second-generation of its third post-PC device, will go on sale in 25 additional countries this Friday, March 25. iPad 2 will be available …

Joanna Stern / Engadget:

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and new Galaxy Tab 10.1 hands-on: thinner than the iPad 2, dual-core power, TouchWiz 4.0 — You know who took the iPad 2 launch pretty seriously? Samsung, that's who. Just as we had heard, the company's executives were impressed by Apple's ability to slim down its tablet and …

Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Samsung Introduces 8.9- and 10.1-Inch Galaxy Tabs Coming This Summer

Discussion: Crave, Inquirer, Computerworld and Engadget

Bloomberg:

Apple's Jobs Must Answer Questions in ITunes Antitrust Suit — A federal magistrate judge ordered Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs to answer questions in an antitrust dispute alleging the company operated a music-downloading monopoly. — Lawyers for consumers who filed …

Discussion: Edible Apple, PC World, Reuters, Hillicon Valley, MacRumors, Geek.com, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Pulse2, PR Newswire and RazorianFly

John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:

Steve Jobs To Undergo 2 Hours “Limited Questioning” on 2004 Apple/RealNetworks DRM Spat — Despite being on medical leave, Steve Jobs has been ordered by a US Magistrate to answer questions in court about the iTunes music store and Apple's supposedly monopolistic behavior, Bloomberg reports.

Sinead Carew / Reuters:

Verizon Wireless CEO says no interest in Sprint deal — (Reuters) - The chief executive of Verizon Wireless said he has no interest in buying Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) even as the company stands to lose its top position in the U.S. wireless market because of a merger between AT&T Inc (T.N) and T-Mobile USA.

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Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Sparks Fly Over AT&T-T-Mobile Deal As Wireless CEOs Trade Jabs

Discussion: BGR, Wall Street Journal and Mobilized

Arn / MacRumors Page 2:

iPad 2: Wife Says No, but Apple Says Yes — Apple is paying close attention to all iPad 2 returns during the first few weeks to make sure there are no major production defects. This policy has led to an amusing story that we thought was entertaining enough to share.

Discussion: WebProNews, Macworld UK and Geek.com

The Mozilla Blog:

Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast, Sleek and Customizable Browsing Experience to More Than 400 Million Users Worldwide — Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times' paywall to come tumbling down — The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported. And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.

Discussion: Techdirt, SAI and euri.ca, more at Mediagazer »

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
A Rule of Thumb: Pricing Should Be Simple

Discussion: SAI and The Equity Kicker

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
NYTimes Paywall Limit To Extend Beyond Google To “All Major Search Engines”

Discussion: SAI, Gizmodo, @dannysullivan and Search Engine Land, more at Mediagazer »

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Sprint makes EVO View 4G tablet official: 1.5GHz, WiMAX, 7-inch screen, and a stylus to boot — Sprint has stopped playing coy about one of the worst-leaked devices in recent memory and has at long last made it official. The EVO View 4G is a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 Android tablet with a 1.5GHz processor …

Discussion: LAPTOP Magazine, eMoney, CNET News, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, dailywireless.org, Liliputing and MobileCrunch

Todd Haselton / BGR:

Sprint's HTC EVO 3D hands-on! — Sprint just announced the HTC EVO 3D, its latest 4G WiMAX smartphone with a 3D-spin, and we had some time to sit down to check out the device first-hand. In one word: Amazing. The EVO 3D's 4.3-inch 3D display is incredible to look at while displaying 3D images and video.

Discussion: Engadget

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

RIM Reveals BlackBerry PlayBook Versions, Pricing (Starts At $499), Retail Partners — In case you were holding out for a BlackBerry PlayBook: good news. Research In Motion this morning announced (expected) plans to make the tablet computer available in more than 20,000 retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada.

Ina Fried / Mobilized:
RIM's Tablet to Go On Sale April 19, Pricing Borrows from the iPad's PlayBook

Discussion: Crave, TechSpot and BlackBerry Cool

Tom Warren / WinRumors:

Windows Phone 7 “NoDo” update now available — Microsoft has started to distribute its first full Windows Phone 7 update. — The company began pushing out “NoDo” to devices on Tuesday after a number of device ROMs leaked to the Internet early. Microsoft's first Windows Phone 7 platform …

Discussion: Hardware 2.0 Blog, WPCentral.com and BlogsDNA, Thanks:tomwarren

Bloomberg:

Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark — Apple Inc. (AAPL) sued Amazon.com Inc., saying the online retailer is improperly using Apple's “App Store” trademark for a mobile software developer program. — Apple, in a complaint filed March 18 in California …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Boom! Professional Social Network LinkedIn Passes 100 Million Members — 2011 has proven to be a monumental year so far for professional social network LinkedIn. The company filed its S-1 for a public offering, released a number of data-focused products and unveiled a social news reader for professionals.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, VatorNews, CNET News, The LinkedIn Blog, The LinkedIn Blog, Mashable!, Between the Lines Blog, SFGate, IR Web Report, NetworkEffect, Adotas, Softpedia News and WebProNews, Thanks:srikardhanakoti

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Sparrow for Mac finally gets general IMAP support, multitouch — Sparrow 1.1 is now available via the Mac App Store, finally bringing promised compatibility with IMAP accounts from MobileMe, Yahoo, and AOL in addition to any general IMAP server. Developers Dominique Leca and Dihn Viêt Hoà …

Discussion: TechCrunch and PC World

Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:

Hands on Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 — Opera Mobile 11 is optimized for tablets. We tried it out on the Motorola Xoom. — Opera announced last week that it would launch two new mobile browsers at CTIA—Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6—but when it came to new and enhanced features, it mostly kept quiet.

Discussion: PC World, Engadget, Opera Press Room, Techie Buzz and BlogsDNA

Chris Dixon / cdixon's posterous:

Dropbox and why you should invest in people — It was reported today that Dropbox will generate $100M in revenue this year. Whether or not those reports are right, it is certainly a great product, beloved by its customers and will almost certainly be wildly successful.

Discussion: SAI, Softpedia News and @drewhouston

Mark Percival / Twitter Engineering:

Improving Browser Security with CSP — If you are using Firefox 4, you now have an extra layer of security when accessing mobile.twitter.com. — Over the past few weeks we've been testing a new security feature for our mobile site. It is called a Content Security Policy, or CSP.

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Open PaaS DotCloud Raises $10M From Benchmark And Trinity, Jerry Yang Joins Board — Second generation platform as a service DotCloud is announcing its $10 million dollar Series A today, after a recent rockstar-filled seed round which included Ron Conway and Chris Sacca.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, VatorNews, GigaOM, Xconomy and PE Hub Blog, Thanks:heidiliz12

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

AOL Begins Culling Content Sites — AOL will begin rolling out its plans to overhaul its panoply of content sites as early as today, a key part of its integration with the Huffington Post, sources familiar with the situation said. — AOL CEO Tim Armstrong will be sending out an internal memo …

Discussion: @nick, @gruber and blogs.forbes.com, more at Mediagazer »

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