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Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Amazon Beats Apple, Google With Launch Of Unlicensed Cloud Music Locker & Player — (UPDATED) Overnight Amazon beat both Google and Apple to market with the launch of a freemium cloud based digital media locker and robust integrated music player that accesses stored tracks across multiple computers and Android devices.
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Reuters, Techdirt, Evolver.fm, Geek.com, Softpedia News and PlagiarismToday
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Amazon's Cloud Locker Really an Innovation? — Amazon has just launched a suite of music products that allow users to store their tracks online and them stream them over the Web or to any Android device courtesy of the Amazon MP3 mobile application. The launch has the tech world abuzz …
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Business Wire, SmoothSpan Blog, TechFlash, ZDNet, Search Engine Land, Forrester Blogs, TechCrunch, Changing Way, dailywireless.org and Download Squad
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon Cloud Player Doesn't Work On iOS — But It's Not A Flash Issue
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PC World, Mashable!, FierceMobileContent, Digital Trends, Venture Capital Dispatch, PadGadget and Geek.com
IDC:
IDC Forecasts Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow by Nearly 50% in 2011 — The worldwide smartphone market is expected to grow 49.2% in 2011 as more consumers and enterprise users turn in their feature phones for smartphones with more advanced features. According to the International Data Corporation …
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TechFlash, Mobilized, AppleInsider, The Seattle Times, Mobile Marketing Watch, GeekWire, Computerworld, Bits, Hardware 2.0 Blog, LiveSide.net, Digital Media Wire, Search Engine Land, PR Newswire, Network World, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, mocoNews, MacRumors, Internet2Go, Smartphones …, LAPTOP Magazine, The Business Insider, 901am, Electronista, All about Microsoft Blog, Reuters, WMPoweruser.com, Mashable!, Cult of Mac, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile and TechSpot
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Don Reisinger / CNET News:
IDC: Android, Windows Phone to rule mobile
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Technologizer, CNNMoney.com, PC World, BGR, TechEye, WinRumors, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, Engadget and Inquirer
Tianyu Wen / The Official Google Blog:
Google Commerce Search 3.0: You won't believe it's online shopping — When we first introduced Google Commerce Search—our search solution for e-commerce websites—our focus was on improving search quality and speed to help online shoppers find what they're looking for.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Commerce Gets Updated With Instant Search, In-Store Availability, Recommendations And More
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Fortune, The Register, PC World and Macworld
The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android, Allowing Users to Take the Power and Customization of Firefox Everywhere — Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intuitive interface …
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GigaOM, Brad's blog, The Register, TechSpot, Mashable!, Know Your Cell, NewsGrange, Erictric, GottaBeMobile, DroidMatters.com, The Download Blog, Droid Life, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, mobiputing, Android Phone Fans and SlashGear, Thanks:arpitnext
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobile Firefox Skips Flash In Favor Of HTML5 — A week after launching the official release of Firefox 4, Mozilla is following up today with Mobile Firefox for Android and Maemo phones (for all twelve of you Maemo fans out there). For Android, the browser is now available on the Android Market,.
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BetaNews, The Register, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, Daring Fireball, ReadWriteWeb and Softpedia News
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Twitter Founder Wants to Make Service More Mainstream — Making Twitter more useful for the average person — that's Jack Dorsey's first challenge as he returns to the company he founded, he said Tuesday. … “We have a lot of mainstream awareness, but mainstream relevancy is still a challenge …
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Fortune, SAI, Marketing Pilgrim and ClickZ
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Q&A: Twitter's Jack Dorsey on Priorities, Products and Getting Punched in the Stomach — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey made news yesterday when he officially came back to his old company as a product boss. — So it would be unfair to expect him to make more news today …
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WebProNews and Andrew Hillman dot com
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
Meg Whitman to join Kleiner Perkins — Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO who got trounced in the race for California governor last November, has a new career plan: Venture capital with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Meg Whitman, who is in Hawaii until Wednesday with her neurosurgeon husband Griff Harsh …
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VentureBeat, eMoney, SAI, TechCrunch, @danprimack and @pkedrosky
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Square Investor Deletes Tweet: “To Do Two Things At Once Is To Do Neither” — Yesterday, Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was also going to take a job at Twitter and become executive chairman in charge of product. — Last night, one of Square's top investors …
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WebProNews
Nokia:
Nokia files second ITC complaint against Apple — Alleges Apple infringes additional Nokia patents in virtually all products — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has filed a further complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple infringes additional Nokia patents …
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AppleInsider, Reuters, ConceivablyTech, Tech Trader Daily, Business Wire, BetaNews, ZDNet, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR, Fast Company, Edible Apple, FOSS Patents, IntoMobile, TiPb, eWeek, TUAW, iClarified, iPhone Download Blog, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Phones Review, Fortune, The Next Web, Internet2Go, TechEye and Engadget
Philg / Philip Greenspun's Weblog:
How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall? — Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code …
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GottaBeMobile and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The New York Times Paywall Meters All Google Visits, Not Just Search Visits
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PC World, Digital Trends, paidContent and Mashable!, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's Samsung LTE Mobile Hotspot goes on sale: $100 on contract — We'd heard March 31st for this thing, but hey — are we about to complain when it goes on sale early? That would be a definitive “no,” and we're happy to report that Samsung's SCH-LC11 Mobile Hotspot with 1x, EV-DO Rev. A …
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BGR, Technologizer, Electronista, SlashPhone, LAPTOP Magazine, GottaBeMobile, Sidecut Reports and Softpedia News
Dave Beckett / Digg Blog:
How Digg is Built — Digg has substantially rebuilt our infrastructure over the last year in what we call “Digg V4”. This blog post gives a high-level view of the systems and technologies involved and how we use them. Read on to find out the secrets of the Digg engineers!
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Microsoft Wants to Make Emails More Interactive: Partners with LivingSocial, Netflix, Posterous and Others — Microsoft wants to make emails more interactive and turn them into something akin to small web apps. Today's emails mostly consist of static text or HTML and, for the most part …
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The Windows Blog, Marketing Pilgrim, LiveSide.net, The LinkedIn Blog, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, GeekWire and WinRumors
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst Warns of Global iPademic — With iPad 2 hopefuls still queuing outside Apple stores each morning, more than two weeks after the device's U.S. launch, and international demand causing widespread stock-outs abroad, analysts who follow Apple are scrambling to adjust their iPad sales and earnings-per-share estimates.
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AppleInsider and MacDailyNews
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer slaps $1,200 price tag on dual-screen Iconia-6120 touchbook, lets US and Canada pre-order — Acer's had its fair share of Iconia's land in the past few months, but none are as breathtaking (and potentially world-changing) as the Iconia-6120. Said machine was priced at €1,499 earlier in the year …
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PC World, CrunchGear, Laptops and Desktops Blog, Electronista, LaptopMag.com and The Toybox Blog
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Checking In Off the Couch: GetGlue Adds Sports Check-Ins, Foursquare Integration — The social network GetGlue is rolling out its largest release of the year today, with a redesigned website and iPhone app. That redesign, particularly in the case of the website, will help make it easier …
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GetGlue Blog, Search Engine Land, mocoNews, Mobile Entertainment, Mashable!, IntoMobile, WebProNews, About Foursquare and Widgets Lab
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Netflix Canada announces new bandwidth management settings for capped users — The second bit of news for Canadian Netflixers in less than 24 hours deals with the other pressing issue facing the service in the Great White North: bandwidth caps. While they exist in the U.S. …
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SAI, Digital Trends, The Official Netflix Blog, GigaOM, DailyTech, Light Reading, WebProNews, Skype Journal, DSLreports and ITworld.com
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Benchmark Capital's Stand: We Will Never Do a Seed or Late Stage Fund — Editor's Note: This is part two in an in-depth series exploring the ramifications of the explosion of late stage capital being raised by the Valley's elite venture firms. For part one, go here.
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PE Hub Blog, Thanks:marklavine
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Cheap Beatles Songs = $1 Million Legal Bill — A couple years ago, we learned that you can't take music from the major labels and sell copies of it on your own Web site without a license. Today we learned what happens if you try: a $950,000 penalty. — That's what BlueBeat.com …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft releases Windows ‘Vail’ server to manufacturing — Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Windows Home Server 2011 product, codenamed “Vail,” company officials said on March 29. — TechNet and MSDN subscribers will be able to download the final WHS 2011 bits in early April …
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The Windows Blog, WinRumors, TechNet Blogs and The Next Web
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Official Vimeo for iOS app now available with impressive editing features — Vimeo, one of the first video sharing sites to support HTML5 video alongside YouTube, has finally released its official iOS application. The free Vimeo app lets you upload, manage and watch your Vimeo clips …
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ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors iPhone Blog, AppScout, Tools, GigaOM, Phones Review, IntoMobile, Appletell, Electronista, TUAW, mobiputing, Gizmodo and App Advice
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Special Delivery for All: Message Bus Launches Email Service — The co-founders of Webshots and Twitter's early infrastructure and operations lead have started a new email services company called Message Bus that's already backed with more than $3 million from True Ventures and Polaris Ventures.
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Message Bus and TechCrunch
