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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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Tim Schiesser / Tech From 10:
The Android Test Market...?
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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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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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Technologizer, Android Phone Fans, BGR, Electricpig.co.uk, VentureBeat and Electronista
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
Lions Gate Finalizing Netflix Deal to Stream All Seasons of “Mad Men” — Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which produces the hit television series “Mad Men,” has finalized a deal with Netflix Inc. to stream all seven seasons of the critically-acclaimed show about a 1960s advertising agency, according to people close to the situation.
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Laurie Segall / CNNMoney.com:
Bloomberg opens NYC data to entrepreneurs — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — New York City's government agencies are sitting on a deep reservoir of data — a geeky treasure trove of information on topics ranging from crime reports, building complaints and traffic stats to public health.
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NYConvergence.com, Inc.com, ProgrammableWeb and SiliconANGLE
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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Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
How Microsoft learned ABCs of D.C. — My first day of work at Microsoft, 15 years ago, I wore a DOJ baseball cap that a friend had given me when she heard I was going to work in Redmond, Wash. “DOJ” stood for Department of Justice, which is where my friend worked.
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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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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Sulzberger: $40 Million Estimate For Paywall Cost Is ‘Vastly Wrong’ — Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) spent $40 million or more to build the digital paywall that went live late last month. Not so, insists Arthur Sulzberger …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
In-Game Ad Startup Kiip Raises $4 Million From Hummer Winblad, Others — Kiip, the in-game ads startup founded by teen entrepreneur Brian Wong, as well as Amadeus Demarzi and Courtney Guertin has just announced a $4 million Series A round. The round was lead by Omniture investor Hummer Winblad …
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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Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Nokia announces Symbian smartphone event for April 12 — It looks like Nokia is planning a little get together in London next Tuesday. That is, at least according to the invite posted at Mad For Tech — and verified ourselves, after a quick call to the company (it seems …
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MobileCrunch, BGR, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, MobileWhack and Electronista
Pamela Parker / Search Engine Land:
Google Shuts Down Position Preference For AdWords Bidding — Google has announced it will be retiring AdWords position preference, which automatically sets bids to achieve a certain position on the page, in early May. — The company is seeking to dissuade advertisers from putting an emphasis on the position of their ads.
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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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Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
USB 3.0, Thunderbolt Possible in Future iOS 30-Pin Connectors — For those of you wondering how Apple is planning on supporting next-generation high-speed data port technology for future (and current) iPads, Pods and Phones, you might have your answer. Patently Apple has unearthed …
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
One-Third Of Teens Plan To Buy An iPhone Soon — Teenagers are fickle, but one thing never seems to change. — They love Apple products. — More than one-third plan on buying an iPhone in the next six months, and 20% are planning to buy a tablet — which probably means iPad.
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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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