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Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Steve Jobs Authorized Biography Coming in 2012 — First authorized biography on Apple CEO Steve Jobs coming in 2012 — Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a book about his life. — Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that Walter Isaacson's “iSteve: The Book of Jobs” will be published in early 2012.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The man who won Steve Jobs' trust
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Computerworld, Tech Trader Daily, GMSV, BBC, Yahoo! News, Softpedia News, Fast Company, TechEye, Gizmodo Australia and TUAW, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:philiped
Gartner:
Gartner Says Apple iOS to Dominate the Media Tablet Market Through 2015, Owning More Than Half of It for the Next Three Years — Despite mounting competition from other operating systems (OSs), Apple's iOS will continue to own the majority of the worldwide media tablet through 2015 …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Gartner's iPhone, Android predictions radically revised in a year and a half
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Adobe Recasts the iPad as High-Tech Palette for Photoshop (Video) — While there are many applications that aim to bring a piece of Photoshop to the iPad-including some from Adobe itself-the creative software company's latest effort envisions how Apple's tablet can play a supporting role in content creation.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Adobe launches Flex and Flash Builder software for cross-platform mobile apps
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Black Web 2.0 and The Loop
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
These Are the First Three Adobe Photoshop Touch Apps for iPad
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PhoneArena, Thanks:gizmodo
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 adds subscriptions and tablet apps
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PC World, Adobe, Macworld, Geek.com, PadGadget, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, MacRumors, Between the Lines Blog, Macworld, Adobe Blogs, The Loop and The Loop
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone 5 Production Starting In September According To Talks With Key Supplier — Apple's new iPhone 5 should go into production in September says Avian Securities in a note this morning. — This suggests the iPhone won't be on the market until the end of this year, or even early next year possibly, says Avian.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Apple Bitch, MacStories, Electronista, everythingiCafe and iPhone Alley
David Howard / TechNet Blogs:
Google's misleading security claims to the government raise serious questions — Corporate Vice Prsident & Deputy General Counsel — Last Friday afternoon, I learned that a batch of court documents had been unsealed and had revealed one particularly striking development …
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, GeekWire and The Next Web
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Facebook Strikes China Deal With Baidu — Facebook has struck a deal with Baidu, the biggest Chinese search engine, to open a jointly-owned socialnetwork in China, according to reports in the Chinese press, citing inside sources. — These sources said the new venture wouldn't involve Facebook.com …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Hire indicates Apple shift from aluminum to composites? — Kevin Kenney has spent most of the last 14 years building carbon fiber bicycles as the President and CEO at Kestral Bicycles. This month, he became an Senior Composites Engineer at Apple after consulting for the past few years.
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Research In Motion Eyes a Rebound — WATERLOO, Ontario — In a rare interview last week, Mike Lazaridis, one of Research In Motion's two chief executives, was the one asking questions: — “Why is it that people don't appreciate our profits? Why is it that people don't appreciate our growth?
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Bits, VentureBeat, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear and IntoMobile
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education. — Fair warning: This article will piss off a lot of you. — I can say that with confidence because it's about Peter Thiel. And Thiel - the PayPal co-founder, hedge fund manager and venture capitalist …
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Fast Company, SAI, Inc.com and BostInnovation.com
Michael Gartenberg / Macworld:
Why “post PC” doesn't mean “sans PC” — Apple has taken a lot of flak for Steve Jobs's comments at the iPad 2 launch event, which heralded the coming of the post-PC world. — If you mention that statement on Twitter, you'll immediately be confronted by couple of your followers over the fact …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Guardian, I'm Just Being Manan, Stowe Boyd, MacStories and @rawmeet
Chris / cdixon.org:
Google's social strategy — It is widely believed that Facebook presents a significant competitive threat to Google. Google itself seems to believe this - Larry Page recently said that all employees would have their bonuses tied to the success of Google's social strategy.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dear Vic: here's your Google bonus (you gotta waste time to get it)
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
Winklevoss twins must live with Facebook deal — (Reuters) - Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cannot back out of a settlement with social networking giant Facebook over claims that company founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Kiip Is An Entirely New Mobile Ad Model: Real Life Rewards For In-Game Achievements — Kiip, the seven month-old mobile ads startup, is finally coming out of stealth today and revealing an entirely new model for in-game advertising, one that offers users value instead of fighting an uphill battle for their attention.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed, Opening Door to AirPort Express Emulators — Developer James Laird has reverse engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator called Shareport. … Previously, the private key was unknown …
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AppleInsider, Engadget, Gadget Lab, GigaOM, TiPb, SlashGear, SAI, Gizmodo, BGR, MacStories, TechSpot, Ubergizmo and thinq_
Electronista:
George Hotz, Sony quietly settle PS3 jailbreak lawsuit — Sony in a surprise move said that it had already settled its lawsuit against George Hotz, better known as Geohot, over PS3 jailbreaking. The two had quietly reached an “agreement in principle” on March 31.
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PlayStation Blog, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Technologizer, Ars Technica, Engadget, Gamasutra, iClarified, The Next Web, Make, CrunchGear, PlayStation LifeStyle, MacHackPC, Ubergizmo, Edge Online, Kotaku, Joystiq, iThinkDifferent and Neowin.net, Thanks:jonfingas
Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
The Netbook Is Down And Out As Acer And Google Back Away — Ah, the netbook: the pet rock of the PC industry. As recent moves by Acer and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) show, it's high time to bury the netbook as a fad born out of desperation rather than a true evolution of mobile computing.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Your Google Preview: Up, Of Course (But So Is Facebook) — Google announces its Q1 earnings on Thursday. And as usual, search engine marketer Efficient Frontier is providing an informal sneak preview: The company, which helps advertisers buy digital ads, says search engine spending …
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At Your Servers, Efficient Frontier Insights and Search Engine Land
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Can Intel atomize ARM with new tablet chips? — Intel is taking on arch rival ARM today with the launch of new Intel Atom chips for tablet computers. — The Atom is a low-power version of Intel's computer chips, and it is aimed squarely at tablets, netbooks, and smartphones.
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Daniel Bailey / ConceivablyTech:
Google Chrome Gets SPDY - And An Onscreen Keyboard — There has been quite some buzz about the Chrome touch UI lately. Following our initial report from March 20, Cnet recently uncovered more evidence that Chrome (OS) will be getting a touch tablet version and now we are seeing a screenshot (?) of the onscreen keyboard.
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