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Phil Wahba / Reuters:
Amazon faces backlash over “music locker” service — (Reuters) - A new Amazon.com Inc service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry that could ignite a legal battle. — Amazon's Cloud Drive …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon's Cloud Service Is A) Legal B) Illegal? C) Probably Here To Stay — Amazon doesn't have paperwork from the music industry approving its new cloud music service. Does it need it? — “Not at all!” says the e-commerce giant. — “Maybe?” Says the music industry.
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, Mobilized and CenterNetworks
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Amazon's cloud risks war with labels, studios
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TechCrunch, Epicenter, ITworld.com, CNET News, Examiner, PC World, PadGadget and Digital Trends
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Amazon Beats Apple, Google With Launch Of Unlicensed Cloud Music Locker & Player
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Music Ally, GigaOM, Examiner, Evolver.fm, Geek.com, Wired In Blog| BNET, Softpedia News, Forrester Blogs, PlagiarismToday, Business Wire, Techdirt and blogs.chron.com
Evan Williams / Evhead:
An Obvious Next Step — I'm a very lucky guy. Over the past twelve years, I've had the good fortune to work on two huge projects that happened to be the right idea at the right time. These ideas attracted brilliant, idealistic people to do the incredibly hard work of making them work for millions of other people across the globe.
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Lisa Banks / cio.com.au:
Apple iPad will fail in the enterprise: Dell — Closed view, high price and complexity of iPad unappealing to CIOs, Dell claims — Despite the iPad's long lead in the enterprise market, Apple's tablet PC performer will not last long according to an increasingly bullish Dell.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Dell's desperation shows, says the iPad will fail in the enterprise — Dell has spoken. They say that Apple doesn't have a hope of succeeding in the enterprise market with its iPad. — Andy Lark, Dell's global head of marketing for large enterprises and public organisations …
Eric Chu / Android Developers Blog:
In-app Billing Launched on Android Market — [This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty] — Today, we're pleased to announce the launch of Android Market In-app Billing to developers and users. As an Android developer, you will now be able to publish apps …
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Let There Be Monetization: Android's In App Billing Is Out to Consumers
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DroidMatters.com, The Next Web and Know Your Cell
Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald:
Tablets might be a flash in the pan: Microsoft global chief strategy officer — Asher Moses — As virtually the entire consumer electronics industry throws its weight behind tablet computers, Microsoft's global chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie said today that he did not know whether …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Is Said to Plan Mobile Payments in Next Windows Phone — Microsoft Corp. plans to include mobile-payment features in the next version of its Windows Phone operating system, part of an effort to narrow Google Inc.'s lead in smartphone software, two people familiar with the plans said.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Gmail To Roll Out Ads That Learn From Your Inbox — Gmail is in the process of rolling out a new ad system that could prove to be quite powerful: ads that learn what you're interested in based on your email habits. The feature first showed up in my Gmail account earlier this afternoon …
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft begins distributing Windows 8 to OEMs via Connect — Microsoft has begun to distribute early copies of Windows 8 to key OEM partners, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant is distributing build 7971.0.110324-1900 via the company's Connect external testing system.
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing. — For those of us who live in parts of the world where high speed Internet is still a luxury, there's a massive amount of jealousy that happens when we see huge numbers. In a thread over on Reddit where members of Google's Chrome team …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copyright troll Righthaven's epic blunder: a lawsuit targeting Ars — Not content with just suing sources, small out-of-state nonprofits, bloggers who get 20 hits per day, and other massive copyright pirates, newspaper litigation firm Righthaven this week trained its guns on Ars Technica.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The 6 Verbs For The Next 20 Years Of The Connected World — Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly gave the first keynote of the day. His topic? The six trends he believes are most important for the connected world we live in going forward.
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VentureBeat, Socialmedia.biz and down the avenue
Joel Falconer / The Next Web:
Despite reports, Amazon's rumored tablet won't be called the Scratchpad — Speculation started flying around the web today that domains registered by Amazon last week suggested a name for the company's rumored tablet project: the Scratchpad. — Despite some reports suggesting that Amazon's …
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Fusible.com, Fortune, SlashGear, SAI and Electronista
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, Business Wire and Andrew Hillman dot com
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Twitter Founder Wants to Make Service More Mainstream
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Bloomberg:
Google Tests Fate in China as Mapping Application Deadline Looms — Google Inc.'s defiance of China's censorship rules resulted in the world's most popular search engine being pulled out of the country 12 months ago. This year, the dispute may be spilling over to Gmail and maps.
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Inquirer, The Next Web and Bloomberg
Nathaniel Popper / Los Angeles Times:
Meet Edward Zuckerberg, the high-tech dentist (and Mark's father) — Edward Zuckerberg, who taught his son programming on the family's Atari 800, runs a dental office with Internet TV, iPods for patients and an implant fabrication machine. And he uses a little marketing tool called Facebook.
Electronista:
Android 3.0 catalog still stalled below 100 apps — A follow-up check by Second Gear developer Justin Williams has revealed Android 3.0's app catalog to have made little progress in the month since launch. About 14 core apps are still truly native, while a total of 50 include both the native apps …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Survey: Apple poised for gains in China — Nokia may be most vulnerable as Chinese cellphone owners upgrade to smartphones — There's good news for Apple (AAPL) in the results of an Alphawise/Morgan Stanley survey released Tuesday. — The survey, conducted among a sample …
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Digital Daily, TUAW and Electronista
Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Snake Escapes the Bronx Zoo and Appears on Twitter — @BronxZoosCobra's Twitter stream. — Last Friday, as New Yorkers droned through their morning commute, employees of the Bronx Zoo discovered something rather disturbing: An adolescent Egyptian cobra had gone missing from an exhibit enclosure at the zoo.
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