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Doug Bowman / Twitter Blog:
So a bar walks into an app... Last month, we released an update to Twitter for iPhone and iPad containing a number of features that made finding friends and sharing information on Twitter even easier. The iPhone app also contained a new feature we wanted to test named the QuickBar.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Kills The #Dickbar
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@dickc, BGR, NBC Bay Area, Techie Buzz, Betabeat and SAI
Mark Milian / CNN:
Google making app that would identify people's faces — Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
He Said/She Said Between Google & CNN On Face Recognition Story — This morning I read the CNN story that said Google was finally going to incorporate facial recognition technology into its Goggles app or another mobile application. I then wrote an opinion piece that argued Google was courting …
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Fast Company, CNN, @jonfingas and @markmilian
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
April Fools 2011: The Big List — Yes, folks, that's right. That special, special time of year is upon us. It's April Fools 2011! We take April Fools pretty seriously around here, so we'll be constantly updating this post with the best April Fools jokes and pranks the World Wide Interwebernets has to offer.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Play Him Off, Flugelhorn Feline: YouTube Time Travels To 1911
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YouTube Blog, Mashable!, The Huffington Post, Mashable!, @hunterwalk and Tecca
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search Index
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@joshuatopolsky, @cdixon, @vwadhwa, @mathewi, Google Maps Mania and Domain Name News
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
CHART OF THE DAY: How Many Users Does Twitter REALLY Have? — How many people use Twitter? Many fewer than Twitter would lead you to believe. — According to its “about” page, Twitter has 175 million registered users. But “registered users” is a funny term. What it really means is the number of accounts.
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry Touch (Monaco / Monza) hands-on! — Part of RIM's upcoming 2011 BlackBerry lineup we leaked in January contained the company's latest evolution of a full touchscreen device, the BlackBerry Monaco / Monza. Both names are codenames that signify different carriers the phone will land on …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Now Has 250 Million Mobile Users (And A New Unified Mobile Website To Match) — For years now, Facebook has offered quite a few ways to access the site from mobile devices, and they've proven immensely popular. In February 2010 the site had 100 million mobile users per month …
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Lee Byron / Facebook:
One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones
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Ubergizmo, Mobile Entertainment, iClarified and GigaOM
Zach Epstein / BGR:
HTC ThunderBolt outselling iPhone 4 at Verizon Wireless stores, analyst claims — BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk says HTC's latest beastly smartphone for Verizon Wireless is going toe to toe with the iPhone 4, and is even outselling Apple's iPhone at many Verizon Wireless store locations.
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IntoMobile, GottaBeMobile, MobileWhack, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life and Examiner
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Massive SQL injection attack making the rounds—694K URLs so far — Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in databases, with the result that pages served …
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Security Labs, TG Daily, Dancho Danchev's Blog, Download Squad, The Register, Neowin.net, Security Labs and Help Net Security
Bloomberg:
Amazon.com Said to Be Considering Mobile-Payment Service for Smartphones — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is considering the introduction of a service that would let consumers pay for goods in brick-and-mortar stores using their mobile phones, according to two people with knowledge of the project.
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Mobile Entertainment, Electronista, SlashGear and Crave
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring multi-camera iPhone systems for 3D picture taking — Apple has toyed with the idea of adding two or more rear-facing cameras and sensors to a device like an iPhone, allowing pictures to be taken and displayed in 3D. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week revealed …
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Mobile Entertainment, Neowin.net, Electricpig.co.uk, App Advice, TiPb, The Next Web, MacStories and SlashGear
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut — Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a number of ambitious websites, most notably Data.gov, that were dedicated to offering public and government data to the outside world. The stated intention was to foster transparency …
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@usdatagov, @timberners_lee, FlowingData, Hillicon Valley, James Fee GIS Blog and techPresident
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hollywood Rolls Out $30 Rentals. Smart. — Would you pay $30 to rent a movie? — Hollywood thinks you may. Four of the big studios are rolling out a “premium VOD” offering, where renters at home can pay extra to see films that were just in theaters but aren't yet out on DVD.
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Peter Cartwright / Netbooknews:
Eee Pad Transformer coming soon to BestBuy for $400 (Update: dock spotted for $150) — Update: BestBuy has pulled the Eee Pad Transformer product page but NewEgg has both the 16GB and 32GB models up priced at $399.99 and $499.99 respectively. Both out of stock. J&R.com has the docking station which is priced at $149.
TechCrunch:
Facebook Terminated Corporate Development Employee Over Insider Trading Scandal — Facebook corporate development manager Michael Brown (pictured left in happier days) recently and abruptly left Facebook, and the company then hired a senior Google employee to replace him.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Patent Shows that Apple is Bringing “Spaces” to the iPad — In an Apple Discussions forum on Spaces for iPad, Robb Manning stating back in 2010 that having “the ability to touch one button and switch spaces to where I have safari up to do some research would be awesome.” Well, today we move closer to that reality.
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TUAW, OS X Daily and MacStories
Jay Greene / CNET News:
Why Microsoft is taking on Google in Europe — At first, it's a bit jarring to see Washington-based Microsoft press its unfair competition claims against California-based Google in Belgium. But Microsoft picked Europe as the latest venue in its fight with Google for the simple reason …
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Infothought and BetaNews
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James Kanter / New York Times:
Google Plays Down Microsoft's Antitrust Complaint in Europe
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Inquirer, TechEye, BGR, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, The Microsoft Blog and Brave New World
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Samsung and Visa Team up to Bring NFC to London 2012 Olympics — NFC-enabled mobile payments are coming to the London 2012 Olympics, thanks to a new partnership between Samsung and Visa, both sponsors of the upcoming Games. In addition, Samsung will launch a specially branded …
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The Register, Engadget, Computerworld, Ubergizmo, Near Field Communications …, Digital Trends and CNET News
Evelyn Rusli / New York Times:
Bessemer Venture Partners Closes $1.6 Billion Fund — These days, owning a slice of Facebook or Groupon — two of the most popular and valuable companies on the Web — is worth at least some bragging rights in Silicon Valley. — But at least one firm has attracted significant capital by avoiding the frenzy.
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VentureBeat and SAI
Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support — At Google, we're striving to make the whole web fast. As part of that effort, we're launching a new web-based tool in Google Labs, Page Speed Online, which analyzes the performance of web pages and gives specific suggestions for making them faster.
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