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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Meet ‘Disco’, The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google — It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have. — The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google bought at Domainfest last year for $255K.
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The Domains, WebProNews, SAI, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Engadget and textually.org
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
First Look: With Disco, Google Also Joins The Group Messaging Dance (Care Of Slide) — As we just broke the news on, Google has a secret group messaging project that was built from within their confines: Disco. Slide, which Google bought last year, are the ones responsible for the app.
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LAPTOP Magazine and SAI
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
OS X Lion Already Nearing “Golden Master” — Release Around WWDC? — It has been one month since Apple unveiled a developer preview of their latest operating system, OS X Lion. And while the initial deployment was a bit rocky, Apple appears to have worked through their initial Mac App Store distribution issues.
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Softpedia News, Neowin.net, TUAW, MacStories, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and iClarified
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
It's Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know — A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.
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@digiphile
Fritz Nelson / InformationWeek:
Samsung Galaxy Tablet Not Thinner Than iPad 2, But Who Cares — Samsung took a big shot at Apple at CTIA this week, boasting that its 10-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet is thinner and lighter than the iPad 2. Our photos say otherwise. Regardless, the tablet competition just got hotter.
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AppleInsider, Techie Buzz, The Raw Feed, PC World, GottaBeMobile, Techland and Electricpig.co.uk
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Samsung Hires ‘Actors’ To Pretend To Be Happy Galaxy Tab Testers? — I'm still waiting for Android tablet computers to catch up to the iPad in terms of usefulness, and I'm guessing there's probably still another year or so to go (if the phone market is any predictor).
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SAI, @harrymccracken, @charlesarthur, Daring Fireball, GottaBeMobile, LIVEdigitally, MacDailyNews, Technologizer and Slashdot
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Color Founder Bill Nguyen Explains Why You're All Wrong — It Really IS A $41 Million Idea — Color founder Bill Nguyen feels misunderstood, but he admits it's partly his own fault. — The launch of his stealth startup yesterday was overshadowed by news of the surprisingly huge $41 million investment it received.
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StartupMuse, Daring Fireball, Fast Company, The Digital Letter, Mashable!, broadstuff, The Social, SAI and Geekosystem
Bloomberg:
Kodak Wins a Round in $1 Billion Apple, RIM Patent Dispute — Eastman Kodak Co. (EK) won the latest round in its patent dispute with Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), a victory with the potential to generate more than $1 billion in new licensing revenue for the camera company.
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple Wins U.S. Trade Ruling in Nokia Patent Fight Over Phones
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Network World, Reuters, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iClarified, Tech Trader Daily, Digital Daily, MacStories and IntoMobile
Nitasha Tiku / New York Magazine:
4chan Using Fake OkCupid Profiles to Lure Pathetic Singles to Times Square — 4chan has been known on occasion to pick worthy targets for its “malwebolence.” This is not one of those times. As part of a campaign to launch an “involuntary” flash mob, 4chan users and people on Reddit's 4chan forum …
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Know Your Meme, Urlesque and TechEye
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
THE SEEDY SIDE OF REDDIT: Porn, Racism, And Nazi Memorabilia — Reddit is an amazing creation. — The news aggregator is a great startup success story. It's also a great community site that often bands together in support of worthy causes. It's also a live interview site …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
At Google, Page Seeks to Cut Red Tape — As Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page prepares to reclaim his role as chief executive on April 4, he has already taken steps to assume greater command of the Internet company. — Since Google said in January that longtime CEO Eric Schmidt was stepping aside …
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The Healthcare IT Guy, VentureBeat, Chrome OS Site, Gawker, Mixed Media and SAI
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Betsy Aoki / Bing:
Bing Feature Update: Bing News with Real-Time Twitter feed and Enhanced Entertainment Sharing — Over the past few months, we have been working hard to help customers make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time.
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CNET News, PC World, LiveSide.net, WinRumors, SlashGear, Softpedia News and ReadWriteWeb
John Leyden / The Register:
Spotify splattered with malware-tainted ads — Sounds dodgy — Users of the ad-supported version of Spotify are getting hit by a malware-based attack. — The assault takes advantage of a Java-based exploit to deposit Trojan horse malware or exploit kits on vulnerable Windows machines.
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Naked Security, eWeek, CyberInsecure.com, Netcraft, thinq_, TechCrunch and The Next Web
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Land:
Zuckerberg In Zion: Speaks To Senator Hatch, Students At BYU — You might wonder what in the world could bring the Harvard dropout and under-30 founder of Facebook together with the 77-year-old conservative Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to talk to students and attendees at Brigham Young University earlier today.
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BYU News, @elisabethos, Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Amazon may soon launch film, music locker service — Amazon has spoken with some of the major record companies and Hollywood film studios about creating a digital locker service and could announce the plans as early as next week, sources told CNET. — Sources from both the film …
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Electronista and GigaOM
Eva / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries — Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan …
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Jillian C. York, The Next Web and Slashdot
Molly McHugh / Digital Trends:
Oxford English Dictionary welcomes LOL, OMG, and FYI — We already saw the likes of “bloggable” and “sexting” make it into the Oxford English Dictionaries (OED), and now beloved Web and SMS acronyms “OMG,” “FYI,” and “LOL” will join this lofty lexicon. The phrases have been entered …
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Oxford English Dictionary, PC World, Search Engine Watch, Engadget, Daily Mail, The Wrap, WebProNews and Neowin.net
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
P2P lawyers score a victory; mass subpoenas can proceed — Judges across the country have been hammering mass file-sharing lawsuits in recent months, with one in West Virginia even going so far as to “sever” every such lawsuit filed in that district. But it's not all bad news …
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The BLT, Gearlog and Electronista
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Partners with Seedcamp to Incubate European Social Startups — Today at Facebook HACK: Berlin, Facebook announced that it has partnered with early stage micro seed investment and mentoring program Seedcamp to help European social startups build new social products.
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Seedcamp, Facebook Developer Blog, WebProNews, VatorNews, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, All Facebook, Seedcamp and The Next Web
