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Amazon.com:
Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web, and Amazon Cloud Player for Android — Buy anywhere, play anywhere and keep all your music in one place — Start with 5 GB of free Cloud Drive storage - upgrade to 20 GB free with purchase of any MP3 album
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Richard Lai / Engadget:
Amazon Cloud Player goes live, streams music on your computer and Android — Oh snap! Look who just ate Apple's and Google's lunch here? Amazon has just pushed out its very own music streaming service, dubbed the Amazon Cloud Player. Existing customers can now upload their MP3 purchases …
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Wall Street Journal, Guardian, VatorNews, Mashable!, Bits, mocoNews, VentureBeat, Fortune, The Next Web, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, @bradstone, Gizmodo, @marcoarment, @fredericl, @bradstone, @amazonmp3, IntoMobile, MacStories, TeleRead and techeblog.com, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:jeremyfranklin
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon Cloud Player Doesn't Work On iOS — But It's Not A Flash Issue — As you may have read by now, earlier tonight, Amazon dropped a bomb on their rivals in the online music space: a fully working cloud storage and playback system. And it's not just working on desktop web browsers, it works on Android devices too.
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MacStories and parislemon
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Legends Of The Fall, Apple Style — This past weekend, we broke the news that iOS 5, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, was likely being released in the fall. This would break the tradition of a summer release. And we also noted that instead of a separate event in the early spring …
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Ars Technica, SAI, eWeek, PC World, MacStories, I4U News, Electronista, L.A. Times Tech Blog, InformationWeek, Gadgetell, LAPTOP Magazine, USA Today and iClarified
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
No iPhone, iPad or Mac hardware coming at WWDC
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VentureBeat, mocoNews, Mobiles DNA, PC World, Examiner, Erictric, TiPb, Gear Live, MediaFile, iPhone Download Blog, Computerworld, Pulse2, CrunchGear, TUAW, DisplayBlog, Fast Company, MobileCrunch, TechCrunch, GigaOM, IntoMobile, Electricpig.co.uk and 901am
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple not yet aligning iPhone 5 part suppliers, handset may miss fiscal 2011
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Electricpig.co.uk, MacDailyNews, TUAW, Digital Trends and CNET News
Marc Hustvedt / Tubefilter:
‘Know Your Meme’ Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal — By now, it's pretty clear there's a real business in the hocking of internet culture. And when it comes to the business of documenting—and merchandising—the latest memes bubbling up from the internet's underbelly and straight …
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Dembot, @scobleizer, Betabeat, GigaOM, USA Today, Geekosystem, WebProNews, paidContent, TechFlash, Xconomy, GeekWire, CNNMoney.com, The Seattle Times, Betabeat, NetworkEffect, TechCrunch, SAI, Pulse2 and PE Hub Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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Ben Huh / Cheezburger Company Blog:
Know How To Pronounce “Meme” — Does “meme” rhyme with “Mimi”?
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Know Your Meme Blog, The Next Web and VentureBeat
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The New York Times Paywall Meters All Google Visits, Not Just Search Visits — The New York Times launched its paywall globally today, and I've been putting the barrier through its paces. Visits from search engines like Google, for convoluted reasons, are limited to five per day.
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Mashable! and Daggle, more at Mediagazer »
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Kindle Subscribers Will Be Able To Access NYTimes.com For Free
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New York Times, Business Wire, paidContent, VentureBeat, TeleRead, Kindle Review, GeekWire, Pulse2, MediaMemo and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
It's Official: Ev Became “Less Involved” At Twitter Months Ago — Today's return of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey to the company he created to once again head up its product efforts raises the question of what will co-founder Evan Williams be doing now. When he handed over the CEO reigns …
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Digital Trends, Pulse2, Silicon Valley Watcher, Epicenter and Betabeat
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Jack Dorsey / @jack:
Today I'm thrilled to get back to work at @Twitter leading product as Executive Chairman. And yes: leading @Square forevermore as CEO. #200%
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Bloomberg, @dickc, Bits, HipMojo.com, TechCrunch, @jason, VentureBeat, Fortune, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, USA Today, @fromedome, @danprimack, Mashable!, ITworld.com, @hunterwalk, GigaOM and mocoNews, Thanks:schandur
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Surprise: RealNetworks CEO Kimball resigns — Bob Kimball has resigned as president and CEO of RealNetworks, a little more than a year after succeeding founder Rob Glaser to oversee an attempted turnaround of the longtime Seattle technology company. — Glaser told GeekWire via phone …
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TechEye, eMoney, RealNetworks.com, Mobile Entertainment, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, Xconomy, mocoNews, Between the Lines Blog and SAI, Thanks:johnhcook
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Color App Hack Lets You Spy On Anyone's Photos Anywhere — For anyone sketched out by the privacy implications of Color, the highly hyped, highly funded, and highly public iOS and Android social media app that launched last week, now would be a good time to ratchet your creep-o-meter up another notch or two.
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The Apple Core Blog and App Advice, Thanks:forbestech
Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg:
Elop Fights Nokia Traditions in Race to Ship Microsoft Phone — Every summer for the last four years while Apple Inc. (AAPL) shipped a new iPhone, Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) managers vacationed at their lake cottages in Finland. — “In mid-July, Nokia House is a ghost town,” said Adam Greenfield …
New York Times:
Facebook Prepares to Add Friends in Washington — Facebook is hoping to do something better and faster than any other technology start-up-turned-Internet superpower. — Befriend Washington. — Facebook has layered its executive, legal, policy and communications ranks with high-powered politicos …
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Soshable and Technology Liberation Front
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Coming to RadioShack Tomorrow? — A MacRumors reader has just sent us the above photo claimed to be of an internal notice from RadioShack announcing that the retailer will begin carrying the iPad 2 at 500 of its locations around the United States as of tomorrow.
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9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, Examiner, TiPb, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Tech Trader Daily, GottaBeMobile, MacDailyNews, Electronista, GeekSmack and PadGadget
Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Twitter's own Top Tweets account retweets adult spam to 1m followers — This time last year, Twitter wrote a somewhat smug blog post trumpeting its success in tackling spam. It had reduced the percentage of tweets that were spammy from a peak of almost 11 per cent in summer 2009 to less than 1 per cent in February 2010, it said.
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F-Secure Antivirus …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
A Virtual Fix for ‘Broken’ Gift-Card Business — Google, Qualcomm, and First Data are moving to replace cumbersome plastic gift cards with digital cards that should be easier to spend, even via mobile phones — Megan Kendrick, an editor in Phoenix, just discovered 12 plastic gift cards stashed …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft releases Windows Thin PC public test build — Microsoft has made available for download, as of March 28, the first Windows Thin PC Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build. — Although the final product will be available only to Software Assurance volume licensees …
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The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, WinRumors, MSDN Blogs and BetaNews
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders — There isn't much information out there about Stripe, a new payments startup cofounded by brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison (last seen selling their startup Auctomatic to Live Current Media for $5 million).
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ReadWriteWeb and @paisano
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
It's official: Sprint says AT&T's T-Mobile deal stinks — We knew that Sprint wasn't happy about AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, based on comments by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse about the deal. But the company today made it official, announcing that it will formally oppose the $39 billion combination.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Amazon courting Apple's iOS developers to port apps to Kindle — Amazon is actively enticing Apple's iOS App Store developers to bring their efforts to the Kindle platform, particularly educational apps, in a strategy that attempts to push ebook readers up into competition with more sophisticated, general purpose tablets.
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App Advice and TG Daily
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Intel doubles capacity, drops price in refresh of popular SSD line — Solid-State Drive 320 series offers up to 30% drop in price; capacities increased by up to triple that of X25-M drives Intel announced today a new line of consumer-class solid-state drives based on its smallest 25 nanometer …
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
AT&T admits to slowing down the Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire — AT&T has admitted that it clipped the wings of its 4G network and is the reason that two recently released phones, the Motorola Atrix 4G and the HTC Inspire 4G, have dismal upload speeds. Carrier reps on Facebook have promised …
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DSLreports, ZDNet, ThinkMobile and Phones Review
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Predicting iPhone sales for dummies — Apple's second fiscal quarter has just ended. Time for analysts to put forward their predictions for the quarter's report (due in about 3 weeks.) If history is a guide, the estimates will range quite widely and accuracy will be determined mostly …
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Fortune, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN, BetaNews, Gadget Lab, The Loop and iPhone Download Blog
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Sina Corp, Large Chinese Portal, Drops Google As Search Provider — Sina Replaces Google Search Engine On Portal from the Wall Street Journal reports Google has just lost a major search syndication deal with one of Chinese largest portals. — In 2007, Sina Corp partnered with Google …
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Agence France Presse, SAI, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg
