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Myriam Joire / Engadget:
Windows Phone adds multitasking, deeper OS integration, and sensor access to dev platform — We knew it was coming, and today at MIX 11, Microsoft showed off its developer platform for the next version of Windows Phone, which developers will be able to get their hands on for free in May.
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Skype Journal, Bloomberg, Branded3, Microsoft, Ars Technica, The Windows Blog, Engadget, WinRumors, Redmond Pie, VentureBeat, The Register, MacHackPC, All about Microsoft Blog, Gizmodo, Datamation and eWeek
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore confirms: Skype coming to Windows Phone 7 ‘this fall’ — You heard right — Skype just went from “nowhere near” Windows Phone 7, to “on the roadmap,” to “definitely coming this fall.” That last tidbit is courtesy of Microsoft's own Joe Belfiore, stating that …
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Windows Phone Thoughts.com, GottaBeMobile, ReadWriteWeb, mobiputing, Gadgetell and Know Your Cell
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft Offers Mea Culpa for Slow Windows Phone Updates, Promises “Mango” Update This Fall
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft benchmarks Windows Phone browser against iPhone 4 and Android, wins
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VentureBeat, Redmond Pie, LiveSide.net, Geek.com, IntoMobile, MSDN Blogs, www.thehostingnews.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Next Web, The Microsoft Blog and mocoNews, Thanks:fxshaw
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
PlayBook: A Tablet With a Case Of Codependency — Now entering the tablet wars: the BlackBerry PlayBook, a contender from Research In Motion, maker of the iconic smartphone. — Unlike most tablets aiming to take on the iPad juggernaut, the PlayBook, which I've been testing for five days …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook review — The words “play” and “book” are a bit of an odd choice for RIM's latest attempt at consumer relevance, a tablet that, at its core, runs one of the most hardcore and industry-friendly operating systems known to man. The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook.
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CrackBerry.com blogs, DailyTech, Marco.org, SlashGear, DisplayBlog and The Loop
David Pogue / New York Times:
A BlackBerry Tablet, but Where Are the Apps?
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This is my next Podcast, AnandTech, USA Today, Electronista and AppleInsider
Bloomberg:
Apple Is Said to Ready White IPhone After 10-Month Wait — Apple Inc. will begin selling a white model of the iPhone 4 in the next few weeks after a 10- month delay, according to three people familiar with the plans. — The new version will be available from AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless …
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MacHackPC, Crave, 9 to 5 Mac, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Phones Review, SlashPhone, GottaBeMobile, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Mobilized, MacStories, FM Blog, Neowin.net, TiPb, iPhone Alley, Electronista, PhoneArena, PhoneNews.com, GeekSugar and mocoNews
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
REVEALED: The Real History Of Twitter — “Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way.” - The New York Times, October 30, 2010 — How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded.
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The Awl, StartupMuse, @tolles, @ev, Fast Company and @taylorbuley
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview With Twitter's Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass
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AllTwitter, VentureBeat, Pulse2, @jason, NewsGrange, Gawker and NetworkEffect
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
In The Post-Client Era, Did Tweetbot Just Swipe Twitter's iPhone Crown? — Don't focus on making new Twitter clients. — The message has been very clear — well, moderately clear — for weeks now. If you're a third-party looking to develop in the Twitter ecosystem, you should focus on data or niche experiences.
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NewsGrange, Softpedia News, MacStories and GigaOM
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Shawn Blanc:
Tweetbot's Got Personality
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TiPb, @danielha, 9 to 5 Mac, Daring Fireball, @tapbots, @fredericl, @kurafire, @gartenberg, @ethank and The Next Web
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser — Apple Inc. has added a do-not-track privacy tool to a test version of its latest Web browser for keeping customers' online activities from being monitored by marketers. — The tool is included within the latest test release of Lion …
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Inquirer, MacStories, ReadWriteWeb, ClickZ, CNET News, paidContent, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AppleInsider, MacNN, TUAW, MacRumors and iClarified
Mark Milian / CNN:
Leading app maker said to be planning Twitter competitor — (CNN) — UberMedia, which owns several popular applications that interface with Twitter, is outlining plans to build a social network that could compete with that popular microblogging platform, said three people who were briefed on the plans.
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VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, TG Daily, Computerworld, PC World, SAI, Mashable!, Techland, BetaNews, Network World, Stowe Boyd, The Atlantic Online, IntoMobile, VatorNews, GMSV, WebProNews, The Next Web, Pulse2 and AllTwitter
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Eran Feigenbaum / Google Enterprise Blog:
The truth about Google Apps and FISMA — In a breathless blog post, Microsoft recently suggested we intentionally misled the U.S. government over our compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft claims we filed a separate FISMA application for Google Apps …
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BGR, The Microsoft Blog, PC Magazine, PC World, SAI, The Next Web, @akovacs, WinRumors and ReadWriteEnterprise
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Blog fight: Google calls Microsoft ‘irresponsible’ for calling Google ‘misleading’
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Techie Buzz, SAI, NBC Bay Area and MediaPost
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Revenge of the iPad? PC market tanks in first quarter — New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter — the first year-over-year quarterly decline since the end of the Great Recession.
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Business Wire, Electronista, PC World, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, DisplayBlog, The Seattle Times and CNET News, Thanks:johnhcook
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore? — Microsoft is today showing off pieces of the next version of Windows (we're all calling it Windows 8 ) but I'm wondering if anyone cares anymore about Windows in the tech enthusiast space. — Why do I say that?
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Evidence points toward Apple releasing HDTV this year - report — Apple could launch an Internet-connected high-definition television set by the end of 2011, entering the lucrative $100 billion LCD TV market, a new report claims. — Analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities …
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Softpedia News, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, Gearlog, Neowin.net, Geek.com, PadGadget, WebProNews, Electronista, Crave and NBC Bay Area
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Spotify Halves Free In Europe Ahead Of U.S. Launch — Spotify, which had previously slimmed the amount of music users could play for free, is now making a further, bigger curtailment that's aimed at wringing more paid subscriptions... - Free listening hours will be halved from 20 hours per month to 10 hours.
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Music Ally, ReadWriteWeb, Telegraph, Spotify, Electricpig.co.uk, The Next Web, Media Maverick and Electronista
Chadwick Matlin / Fortune:
The ruthless Rose — Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, says he won't spend Milk Inc.'s VC money keeping bad products on life support. — FORTUNE — A month ago, Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, built something creepy. He had been nursing an idea that would test …
