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ChangeWave Research:
ChangeWave Survey Results: AT&T iPhone 4 Owners vs. Verizon iPhone 4 Owners — A new ChangeWave survey of 4,068 consumers has taken a close up look at key comparisons between Verizon iPhone 4 owners and AT&T iPhone 4 owners - including customer satisfaction and dropped call rates.
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PC World, Mobilized, PC Magazine, glgroup.com, VentureBeat, BGR, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Technologizer, Digital Trends, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, Edible Apple, BetaNews, TiPb, TUAW, Consumer Reports News, Between the Lines Blog, IntoMobile, Mashable!, App Advice, PhoneDog.com, iClarified, I4U News, Techland, mocoNews, DisplayBlog, Gear Live, Softpedia News, Geekosystem, The Huffington Post, Phones Review and Ars Technica
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Restructuring: Engineers, Not Managers, In Charge — Jonathan Rosenberg said his resignation from Google yesterday was precipitated by Larry Page's return as CEO, but unrelated to Page's effort to restore the urgency of innovation and nimbleness that was once the company's hallmark.
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Tech and China, Daily Patricia, Bloomberg, SAI, CIOInsight, Adotas, eWeek and Marketing Pilgrim
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Google's new cloud-based Android Music app leaks out — Wondering what Google's answer to Amazon's cloud music player for Android will look like? Then it would seem you now have your answer —the Tech From 10 website somehow managed to receive a developer version of the Android Market …
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SAI and FierceMobileContent
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John Casasanta / tap tap tap:
Camera+ hits 2 million sales / Revealing details about upgrade numbers and in-app purchase sales — Fresh off the heals of the Camera+ 2.2 release including our killer feature, Clarity, I'm happy to announce that this weekend we've sold our 2 millionth copy of Camera+.
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Inside Mobile Apps, GigaOM and MacStories
Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Motorola Mobility: Xoom, Atrix Both Duds, Pacific Crest Says — Xoom: No boom, just gloom. — Motorola Mobility (MMI) isn't seeing much love for its current cornerstone smart phone and tablet products, Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette asserts in a research note this morning.
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VentureBeat, BGR, Android Phone Fans and Electronista
Sarah Shearman / Marketing Magazine:
Twitter to offer brands Facebook-style pages — Twitter is considering creating Facebook-style branded pages as part of its drive to increase its revenue from advertising. — Twitter: considering Facebook-style branded pages — Branded pages, through which advertisers could deliver tailored messages …
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NBC Bay Area, Digital Trends, Techie Buzz, PC Magazine, Mashable!, Fast Company, The Blog Herald, The Next Web, SAI and AllTwitter
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter to Offer Brand Pages Like Facebook's, Report Says
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GigaOM, Jon Burg's Future Visions and Gizmodo
Sebastian Moss / PlayStation LifeStyle:
Anonymous Gets Serious, Attacks Sony Employees [Updated] — Infamous hacking group, Anonymous, began a series of attacks against Sony earlier today, bringing down several Sony sites and the PlayStation Network. However, a radical offshoot of the main group believe that the attacks aren't enough …
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msnbc.com, VentureBeat, PC World, PC Magazine, Techland and Kotaku Australia
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Accidentally Shows Users Someone Else's Timeline, Disables #NewTwitter To Fix — Twitter has been acting mightly strange for the past hour or so, with people reporting seeing random chunks of other users tweets in their timelines, including retweets while using the Twitter web client and browsing.
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PC Magazine, Mashable, @rsarver, MobileWhack, Pocket-lint, Betabeat, Neowin.net, @mat and @support
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Decline, plateau, decline: New data on The Daily suggests a social media decline and a tough road ahead — While the news industry looks at smartphone and tablet apps as a chance to build more engaged readers — and maybe even get people to pay! — for those of us who watch the business, apps are frustratingly opaque.
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IntoMobile, I4U News, Epicenter, MacStories, Betabeat and mediabistro.com, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Obama and Zuckerberg to Field Questions From Users at Facebook Live Town Hall — President Barack Obama, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will answer questions from users as part of a Facebook Live townhall to be held at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, FM Blog, Bits, Pulse2, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Hillicon Valley, Geekosystem, Digits and SFGate
The Silverlight Blog:
Standards-based web, plug-ins, and Silverlight — As we drive toward MIX, we wanted to share our thoughts on the role of plug-ins in general, and Silverlight in particular, in the context of HTML5 and the future of the web. As we have been more vocal about our commitment to and investment …
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ZDNet, TechSpot, The Next Web, The Register, Microsoft News, Softpedia News, InfoQ and Tim Anderson's ITWriting
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Brix, a New Google Docs App — Google Docs code includes references to a new application code-named Brix. The files created using this application are called “Brix documents”, so Brix can't be a photo editor or a video editor. — Here's an icon that could be used for Brix documents: it shows some Lego bricks.
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ReadWriteWeb
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more — Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely followed and largely tech-oriented Nasdaq 100 Index to reduce the influence of Apple and boost the impact of Microsoft …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Vote Is in and Twitter Gets its Tax Breaks. Now, What about Everyone Else? — We just got word that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 8-to-3 to approve the Mid-Market incentive plan that would give Twitter- and other companies- a six year payroll tax deferral for net …
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VentureBeat, CNET News, San Francisco Chronicle, bizjournals, Associated Press, @rdornhelm and @davidchiu
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Dell Aims To Boost Innovation With Silicon Valley R&D Center — Dell plans to employ as many as 1500 people at a new Dell Silicon Valley Research and Development Center and consolidate its N. California operations. — The company also wants to use the facility to tap into local talent …
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Forbes
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
The Near-Future of Mobile Gaming Is Going to Be Pretty Epic (But Maybe Not on Android) — The light-spraying, shadow-bending dreamscapes carved out of our noir nightmares made possible by the latest version of the Unreal Engine are the reason why we're always looking for what's next in gaming.
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Electronista, SAI, @mrinaldesai, Android Phone Fans, AppleInsider and Kotaku
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter unveils a new homepage, with a focus on interests — Reports around Twitter are telling us that some people are starting to see a new homepage on Twitter.com. In fact, we've now seen a screenshot of it ourselves, so here you go. — Before: — After:
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Search Engine Land, The Huffington Post and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:bradmccarty
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Toyota Pulls Out From Cydia - Struck By Apple's Lightning — We hear from time to time about apps that avoided Apple's approval process by going to Cydia. Those apps can then be sold to jailbroken users. If you're a big company like Toyota, it might not be that simple to do, not to mention naive to even try.
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MobileCrunch, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM and IntoMobile
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
New iAd Targeting Tactic Helps Marketers Hunt for Clues About Consumers — 200 Million iTunes Accounts and Years of History Help Apple Reach People by Digital-Media Habits — Hawking minivans? Try targeting ads to Duran Duran or The Cure fans, likely to be young parents in their 30s or early 40s.
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple Launches Free App To Browse iAds
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SAI, mocoNews, MediaMemo, Gizmodo, GigaOM, Engadget, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, App Advice, everythingiCafe, TUAW, GeekSmack and 9 to 5 Mac
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Introduce New Final Cut Pro on April 12th? — ProVideoCoalition claims to have heard rumors that Apple is planning to use the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet to announce the next version of Final Cut Pro. … The post goes on to talk about other sponsors including Avid …
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AppleInsider, CNET News, PVC | CUT.N.COLOR, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, CrunchGear, Edible Apple, iClarified, Electronista and GeekSmack
David Meyer / ZDNet:
Google loses autocomplete defamation case in Italy — Google has lost a case in Italy over the defamatory nature of autocomplete suggestions, according to a lawyer for the complainant. — On Tuesday, lead counsel Carlo Piana wrote on his blog that the Court of Milan has upheld …
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Pulse2, Techdirt, Search Engine Land, Geekosystem, Softpedia News and piana.eu
Fred A. Bernstein / New York Times:
A Corporate Campus Made to Mirror Facebook — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook, which started out in a dormitory at Harvard, transferred to a rented house in Silicon Valley and now occupies a cluster of office buildings in Palo Alto, Calif., is about to make its biggest move yet …
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Bashing Microsoft ‘like kicking a puppy,’ says Linux Foundation chief — Linux has already defeated Microsoft, Linux Foundation chief says — Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won …
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WinRumors
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Google Chrome to warn of malicious Windows executables — Social engineering put on notice — Google says it's expanding its blacklist of malicious websites to include those that use deceptive claims to push harmful Windows programs. — The addition to Google's Safe Browsing API …
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Chromium Blog, thechromesource and Download Squad
Alyson Shontell / SAI:
Amazon Is The Most Reputable Company In The U.S. — Forbes, with the help of consulting firm Reputation Institute, just released its list of least and most reputable companies. — Amazon ousted last year's winner, Johnson & Johnson, from the top position.
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Forbes, PC World, Neowin.net, TechSpot and WebProNews
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Wozniak: Tablet is the PC for ‘normal people’ — IDG News Service - Tablets are the culmination of what Steve Jobs wanted to create at Apple from the beginning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Monday. — During a keynote session at Storage Networking World in Santa Clara, California …
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CNET News, TechSpot, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista
