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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Apple to release iOS 4.3.2 in the next two weeks — We've just been told by one of our Apple ninjas that the company is working on another iOS 4.3.x release: iOS 4.3.2. It's said to include a few enhancements, address security issues, and it will also fix several bugs that have affected users.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Facebook Open Sources its Servers and Data Centers — Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it has shared its software code.
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Between the Lines Blog, SAI, Data Center Knowledge, The Next Web and NBC Bay Area
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@facebook:
Tune in to @facebooklive today at 10 am PDT for the launch from FB HQ of a new technology initiative: http://ow.ly/4vlzf
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ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook, TechCrunch, Mashable! and @harrymccracken
Jonathan Heiliger / Facebook:
Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project — A small team of Facebook engineers spent the past two years tackling a big challenge: how to scale our computing infrastructure in the most efficient and economical way possible. — Working out of an electronics lab …
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GigaOM, @atul, NewsGrange, TechCrunch and WebProNews
Gartner:
Gartner Says Android to Command Nearly Half of Worldwide Smartphone Operating System Market by Year-End 2012 — Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011, a 57.7 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner Inc. By the end of 2011, Android will move to become …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Windows Phone 7 Will Overtake iOS by 2015, Says Gartner — By 2012, nearly 50 percent of the global smartphone market will run Google's Android OS, which by then will be the world's most popular mobile operating system, according to Gartner. Apple's iOS will be the second most popular with 18.9 percent share.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google begins tablet version of Chrome OS — A Google mock-up from last year of a Chrome OS tablet is coming to fruition. — Details in Google's source code reveal that company programmers have begun building a tablet version of Chrome OS, its browser-based operating system.
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Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, SAI, PC World, PC Magazine, Techland, Fast Company, Liliputing, TechSpot, Engadget, Consumer Reports News, Electronista and thechromesource
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Android Chief Andy Rubin: Nothing's Changed (Except The Deals They Don't Talk About...) — Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek published an article titled Do Not Anger the Alpha Android, in which it detailed the decreasing level of openness and increasing restrictions Google is placing …
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SlashGear, @markmilian and Daring Fireball
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Andy Rubin / Android Developers Blog:
I think I'm having a Gene Amdahl moment — [This post is by Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering —Tim Bray] — Recently, there's been a lot of misinformation in the press about Android and Google's role in supporting the ecosystem. I'm writing in the spirit of transparency and in an attempt to set the record straight.
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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Founders Now Take the Money and Maintain Control — In a small office in San Francisco, electronic music blared as several programmers loomed over two computers. David Morin, the founder of Path, a social network start-up, gave the signal and the company's site and iPhone application went live.
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Don Dodge on The Next … and Betabeat
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon Forced to Let Rivals Use Networks For Data — AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless must let smaller competitors use their networks for mobile Internet service under rules approved today by a divided Federal Communications Commission. — The agency voted 3-2 with Democrats approving …
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mocoNews, Verizon and IntoMobile
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
FCC to vote on mandatory wireless-data roaming
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Executives In A Heated Battle Over Opening More Retail Stores — An internal battle is raging at Microsoft over whether and how fast the company should open more retail stores. — According to sources close to the company, CEO Steve Ballmer and COO Kevin Turner are both hot …
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TechFlash, VentureBeat, MacRumors, The Business Insider, GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple and Electronista
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Said To Have High Level Mole At Twitter, Makes Massive Counteroffers To Retain Employees — Google may have paid as much as $150 million in stock grants to retain key product employees Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan, say multiple sources. Both were offered the chief product role …
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SAI, PC World, Fortune, Yahoo! News and Electronista
Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore:
Apple Pushing Eastward, Has Plans For Moscow Store — Top executives of Apple's retail team visited Moscow (Russia) last month to finalize a decision on leasing space inside the trade gallery of the historic and reconstructed Hotel Moskva, just steps away from Red Square …
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The Atlantic Online, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, CrunchGear, TUAW and Gearlog
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Dell Plans to Spend A Billion Dollars to Build 10 New Data Centers — Dell is announcing a big push around cloud computing services today, and is promising to spend $1 billion in an effort to build 10 new data centers around the world between now and 2013 as key aspect of it.
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Bloomberg, eWeek, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Data Center Knowledge and VentureBeat
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Microsoft launches Bing for iPad app with voice search — Our friends over at Redmond have surprised us pleasantly with the Bing app for iPhone last year. Today, they've launched an iPad version and it looks awesome. It's the same like the iPhone version only, you know, bigger.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
500 Startups plans a fund that's all about designers — People in Silicon Valley like to talk about the importance of design, but now incubator and early-stage investment fund 500 Startups is creating a new fund around that idea. — Enrique Allen, the firm's designer and the founder …
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Inc.com, NetworkEffect, DesignTAXI, SAI, Mashable!, Steve Blank and VatorNews
Susanne Craig / DealBook:
Scarred by the Dot-Com Bust, Reinvented for Social Media — SAN FRANCISCO — Thomas Weisel doesn't have much personal experience with social media. He has never opened a Facebook or Twitter account, and he has resisted buying an iPhone. — But Mr. Weisel knows a lot about overheated markets.
Daniel Miller / Hollywood Reporter:
Google to Open Office in Beverly Hills … Furthering its Southern California expansion, Google has inked a deal with the city of Beverly Hills to open a 13,465-square-foot office for the company's entertainment division in a city-owned property. — The 11-year lease agreement …
Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press:
US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts — WASHINGTON - The government's color-coded warning system is being replaced with a more specific and informative plan that would offer two levels of alerts — elevated and imminent. — According to a draft Homeland Security Department plan obtained …
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Engadget and CrunchGear
Blake Patterson / Touch Arcade:
Atari Brings 100 Retro Titles to iOS in “Atari's Greatest Hits”! [Out Now] — Retro gaming junkies, you may want to sit down for this. In a launch that's sending pixellated shockwaves across the App Store, Atari has just released Atari's Greatest Hits [NZ App Store], a Universal app that brings 100 …
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MacRumors, Technologizer, Engadget, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, iClarified, Ars Technica, App Advice, VG247, Joystiq, PadGadget and TiPb
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's 2010 Compensation Drops 40% to $15.3 Million … NEW YORK - AOL Inc. disclosed on Thursday that chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong's 2010 compensation amounted to $15.3 million. — That was down 40 percent from $25.5 million in 2009 when Time Warner still owned the online firm.
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Samsung's Series 9 Makes a Statement — I am writing these words on an extremely thin and stylish, but very light, laptop made of metal. Despite its slender body, it has a full-size screen and keyboard, good performance and claims strong battery life. Like a tablet, it uses solid-sate memory instead …
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Chad Whitney / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn for Android: Ready for Business — The LinkedIn Mobile team is excited to announce the availability of LinkedIn for Android version 1.0. The app is available in the Google Marketplace or from our website: — Download LinkedIn for Android — Since the launch of our Beta …
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and Mashable!
Ace Weekly:
Color turns S. Limestone into Big Blue Tech Lab — Nearly 500 articles were written about “Color” when the app launched March 24, making even bigger news when it was announced that the company had secured $41 million in investment funding from Sequoia and Bain.
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
webOS 3.0 screenshots: Bing Maps, Music, and more [Exclusive] — While we're sitting around waiting for webOS 3.0 and the HP TouchPad to land in our laps, we couldn't help but wonder about some of the details of that tablet operating system. Well fret not, dear reader …
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Search Engine Land, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo and TiPb
Dan Frommer / The Wire:
ESPN's New iPhone App Streams Full ESPN, Live To Your Phone — Only If You're A Cable Customer — For years, you've been able to get some of ESPN's live programming on your phone, via a watered-down “ESPN Mobile TV” channel on MobiTV. — But via ESPN's new WatchESPN iPhone app …
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