Techmeme: Twitter Search is now 3x faster!! (Krishna Gade/Twitter Engineering)

3:15 PM ET, April 6, 2011

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Motorola Xoom A Flop, Just 100,000 Sold So Far — Google's first real answer to the iPad is not exactly blowing the doors off. — According to an estimate from Deutsche Bank, Motorola has only sold 100,000 Xooms thus far. Deutsche Bank got its estimate after looking at the Android developer website …

Discussion: Fortune, BetaNews, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Digital Daily, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Guardian, BGR, I4U News, Between the Lines Blog, Internet2Go, Techland and The Huffington Post

Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:
Motorola Mobility: Xoom, Atrix Both Duds, Pacific Crest Says

Discussion: IntoMobile, PR Newswire, TG Daily, Gadget Lab, PC World, SlashGear, mocoNews, DailyTech, FierceWireless, CrunchGear, SocialTimes.com and Technologizer

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

LinkedIn's Answer to Facebook's Open Graph — Professional social network LinkedIn has opened up access to a new developer platform today that should bring LinkedIn content, buttons, Twitter-esque “profile summaries” and more to websites throughout the Web. — The platform, though, isn't just for developers.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET News, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog and Black Web 2.0

Adam Nash / The LinkedIn Blog:

The New LinkedIn Platform: Help Build the Professional Web — Today, we are very happy to announce that we are opening up full access to LinkedIn's new platform for building the professional web. — In October, LinkedIn announced early access to a new Javascript platform to help make integrating LinkedIn faster and more powerful.

Discussion: Mashable!, The Next Web and WebProNews

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

Suppliers delivered 2.4M-2.6M iPad 2 units to Apple in March - report — Perhaps offering an indication of how many iPad 2 units were sold at launch, a new report claims Apple received between 2.4 million and 2.6 million of the hot-selling device from suppliers in the month of March.

Discussion: BGR

DigiTimes:

Cover lens supply key for Apple to reach 2Q11 iPad 2 shipment goal, say sources — A sufficient supply of cover lenses for touch panel modules will be the key for Apple and other vendors to reach their shipment goals for tablet PCs in second-quarter 2011, according to sources at upstream touch panel suppliers.

Discussion: PC Magazine, MacRumors, Techie Buzz, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, PadGadget, I4U News, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, TiPb, TUAW, MacHackPC, MacDailyNews, MacStories and PhoneArena

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

DISH Wins Bankruptcy Auction, Buys Blockbuster Assets For $228M In Cash — DISH Network this morning announced that it was selected as the winning bidder in the bankruptcy court auction for substantially all of the assets of Blockbuster, which went belly up in September 2010.

Discussion: Reuters, PR Newswire, PC World, Bloomberg, BetaNews, VatorNews, The Digital Home, BGR, MacDailyNews, TheStreet.com, Consumer Reports News, Deal Journal, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, Techland and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

So Why Did Dish Really Buy Blockbuster? — Dish Network said Wednesday that it it will pay around $320 million to buy embattled movie rental chain Blockbuster out of bankruptcy proceedings which have led to significant store closings and layoffs over the past year.

Discussion: Technologizer, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Reuters, Epicenter, DSLreports, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, DealBook, mocoNews, Telecompetitor and MediaMemo

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Google boots Grooveshark from Android Market — WASHINGTON—Google yesterday removed Grooveshark's music app from the Android Market, a move that comes after some of the top music labels have accused the service of violating copyright law, sources said. — “We remove apps from Android Market …

Discussion: AndroidGuys, Reuters, Androinica, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, Techie Buzz, PlagiarismToday, PhoneArena, Electronista, Droid Life, Download Squad, FierceMobileContent, IntoMobile, The Next Web and Android Phone Fans

Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Grooveshark Not Sure Why Google Banned App From Android Market, RIAA Complaint Likely Reason

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Wins Patent for All-New Hybrid DisplayPort/USB 3.0 Connector — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of eight newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In our second granted patent report of the day we have a real surprise.

Discussion: BetaNews, I4U News, lalawag, iPhone Download Blog, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, iPhone Buzz, iClarified, Appletell, IntoMobile and TUAW

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple expanding Thunderbolt team for new devices equipped with high-speed ports

Discussion: TG Daily, OS X Daily, Geek.com, X-bit labs, Ubergizmo and Gadget Lab

Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:
USB 3.0, Thunderbolt Possible in Future iOS 30-Pin Connectors

Discussion: Business Wire, AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, Engadget, BGR and The Next Web

Richard Barley / The TweetDeck Blog:

Testing The Future - Introducing TweetDeck Web Beta — As Whitney Houston sang, “We believe that web apps are our future”... (well, near enough...). And today we're launching a beta of a web app that you're going to really love*. — Since its launch in December last year …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, SAI, NewsGrange, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Techie Buzz and WinRumors, Thanks:keithdsouza

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Apple throws Microsoft's Mac Office a MobileMe curveball — Microsoft next week will release the first service pack for its Office for Mac 2011 suite, with new features including calendar syncing between Apple's Sync Services and Microsoft's Outlook for Mac.

Discussion: eWeek, Macworld and PC World

Pat Fox / Office For Mac:
Coming Soon: Office for Mac 2011 SP1

Discussion: Ars Technica, The Download Blog, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, The Loop, Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, iClarified, WinRumors and iPodNN

Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:

A keyboard-less webOS phone - the Stingray? [Exclusive] — The enterprising tipster who sent us the image of a Verizon Pre 3 has one more device to show you: the above device that by all appearances is a webOS device without a keyboard. Our best guess is that it has a screen resolution of 480x800.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Fast Company, PC World, GigaOM, PhoneDog.com, Technologizer, Gizmodo, Engadget, Softpedia News, Gadgetell, SlashGear, Fonehome, MobileWhack, CrunchGear, BGR, Electronista, IntoMobile and Know Your Cell

Krishna Gade / Twitter Engineering:

Twitter Search is now 3x faster!! — In the spring of 2010, the search team at Twitter started to rewrite our search engine in order to serve our ever-growing traffic, improve the end-user latency and availability of our service, and enable rapid development of new search features.

Discussion: TechSpot

Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:

Microsoft and Toyota Team Up to Bring the Internet to Your Car — Microsoft and Toyota just announced a new partnership today that aims to create a platform for Toyota's next-generation telematics services on top of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.

Discussion: GeekWire, CNET News, Microsoft, Mobilized, All about Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, The Official Microsoft Blog, TechNet Blogs and PC Magazine

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:

Apple orders 12 petabytes of storage for iTunes video content - report — Apple has reportedly ordered as much as 12 petabytes, or 12,000 terabytes, of additional storage for hosting video content on its iTunes Store. — Apple placed the order with Isilon Systems for videos on iTunes, according to StorageNewsletter.com.

Discussion: CNET News, NewEnterprise, 9 to 5 Mac, The Apple Core Blog, MacRumors, StorageNewsletter.com, TiPb, MacDailyNews, MacNN, iClarified and MacStories

John O'Farrell / ben's blog:

Andreessen Horowitz has a new $200mm Co-Investment Fund — This is a guest post by John O'Farrell, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz — Today, we are delighted to announce the creation of a co-investment fund for our Fund II. Andreessen Horowitz now has $1.2 billion under management.

Discussion: TechCrunch and silicontap.com

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Funny: Search For “Tilt” On Google Via iPhone Or Android — Go to your iPhone or Android phone and search for the word [tilt] using Google. The search results displayed will all results at a slight tilt to the right. Our understanding from Google is that this is an April Fools joke that's still running.

Discussion: @googlemobile

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.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Variety, Guardian, Reuters, CNET News, PC World, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Digital Trends, fierceonlinevideo.com … and Fast Company, more at Mediagazer »

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Mono for Android Ships, Now .NET Developers Can Build Android Apps — Novell has announced the general availability of Mono for Android today, the solution that lets developers use Windows technologies like C# and .NET to build Android applications. We previously reported on Mono …

Discussion: eWeek, All about Microsoft Blog, Android Phone Fans, TechSpot, CNET News, SocialTimes.com, Mono for Android and InfoWorld

Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Apple's New “iAd Gallery” App Violates Apple's App Guidelines And Probably Should Have Been Rejected — Apple's new “iAd Gallery” iPhone app, which shows off the iAds that its advertisers have purchased, is theoretically in violation of Apple's own App Store guidelines, which the company published last year.

Discussion: CNET News, GigaOM, The inneractive Blog, SlashGear, MacStories, IntoMobile, PC Magazine and Phones Review

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft creates new consumer channels group to be headed by Chris Capossela — A week after Microsoft Senior Vice President of Central Marketing Mich Matthews announced plans to leave, Microsoft announced her replacement will be former Office marketing chief Chris Capossela.

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog, PC World, Digital Trends, NewEnterprise, CNET News, Microsoft, SAI, VentureBeat, GeekWire, TechFlash, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Reuters and WinRumors

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

YouTube's New Search Options Format — YouTube has a new interface for related searches and advanced search options. Now you can select multiple filters from a category and combine related searches. For example, you can find long-form HD videos that are available in the WebM format.

Discussion: Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land and Mashable!

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 …

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog, Open Source Blog, Techland, Hardware 2.0 Blog, TechEye and TechSpot

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