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The Official Google Blog:
Add your local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for the United States — Before Google Map Maker—a product that enables people to add to and update the map for locations around the world—only 15 percent of the world's population had detailed online maps of their neighborhoods.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Map Maker Now Open To US Users
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NetworkEffect, Mashable!, GigaOM and CNET News
Agence France Presse:
Samsung vows counter-action over Apple patent suit — SEOUL (AFP) - Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would take counter-action against Apple after the US firm filed suit alleging that the South Korean giant copied its smartphones and tablet computers. — Apple's lawsuit claims Samsung's …
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GigaOM, english.yonhapnews.co.kr, AppleInsider, Yahoo! News, TUAW, Techland, Digital Trends, Electronista and MacDailyNews
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Apple Files Patent Suit Against Samsung Over Galaxy Line of Phones and Tablets — In the latest intellectual property suit to hit the smartphone industry, Apple is suing Samsung, alleging the Galaxy line of phones and tablets infringe on a number of the company's patents and trademarks.
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PC World, SAI, Yahoo! News, louisgray.com, Dow Jones Newswires, Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, Reuters, Apple Outsider, digiday:DAILY, 9 to 5 Mac, Gadgetell, Inquirer, Neowin.net, NBC Bay Area, TechEye, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Engadget, MobileBurn.com, Computerworld, Samsung Hub, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Electricpig.co.uk, Redmond Pie, Mobile Marketing Watch, AppleInsider, Macworld, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Guardian, Techdirt, Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, PC World, PhoneNews.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Erictric, The Register, MobileCrunch, Betabeat, Between the Lines Blog and Penn Olson
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
White iPhone 4 used to demo new multitasking, Spotlight search in ‘test version’ of iOS? (video) — We've just laid eyes on a video from the prolific leaksters over at Tinhte, who claim they not only have a white iPhone 4 from Apple, but it's one with a “test version” of iOS that nobody else has yet seen.
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AppleInsider, App Advice, MacStories, BGR, MacRumors, VentureBeat, BGR, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, Electronista, PhoneArena, Apple Bitch, TiPb, IntoMobile, The Next Web, everythingiCafe and MacHackPC
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
64 GB white iPhone caught in the wild... running prototype iOS 4 with Expose, new folder system, Facebook integration?
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SlashGear, App Advice, Shoutpedia, TUAW and mobiputing, Thanks:markgurman
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook now on sale in the US and Canada, starting at $500 with 16GB of storage — Today is the day in BlackBerry land. The wait for a dual-core device with an up-to-date operating system and that stylized BB logo is now over, and a vast array of stores in the US and Canada are now ready to sell you your PlayBook.
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Reuters, WebProNews, BGR, DailyTech, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Newlaunches.com, PalmAddicts, Reuters, PhoneArena, Softpedia News and Electronista
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Adam Zeis / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Bridge not available on AT&T... AT&T Blocking It Due to Free Tethering via BlackBerry Bridge?! — Much like many others I anxiously awoke this morning eager to try out BlackBerry Bridge on my PlayBook. I fired up BlackBerry App World, scanned the barcode on my device and was shocked …
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Tries to Widen Appeal to More Users — Twitter Inc. is in advanced talks to buy TweetDeck Inc. for around $50 million, people familiar with the matter said. — TweetDeck is one of the add-on programs that help Twitter users view and manage short messages carried by the service, which are known as tweets.
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PC Magazine, Yahoo! News, Hillicon Valley, The Register, Appolicious Advisor, Techland, Mark Evans Tech, The Social, SAI, GigaOM, @twitterglobalpr, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch Europe, memeburn, Mobile Marketing Watch, Marketing Pilgrim, VatorNews, BGR, VentureBeat, digiday:DAILY, MediaMemo, Computerworld, New Media Age, TechCrunch and broadstuff
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Mrinal Desai / TechCrunch:
Five Reasons Why Twitter Will Kill TweetDeck — Editor's note: The following guest post is written by Mrinal Desai, co-founder of CrossLoop and addappt. You can follow him on Twitter. — On reading today's report by the Wall Street Journal that Twitter is in talks to buy TweetDeck …
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Mashable! and @owenthomas
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HBO Go app set to stream its way to iPhones, iPads and Android devices — Are you familiar with the HBO Go online streaming service that lets subscribers catch up on HBO's award-winning and ass-kicking TV content? Well, 'appy news for you, dear reader, for it's about to hit smartphones and tablets early next month.
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GigaOM, PC Magazine, App Advice, The Toybox Blog, CNET News, Insanely Great Mac, 9 to 5 Mac, FierceMobileContent, Unwired View, TiPb and O'Grady's PowerPage
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Wal-Mart Paid $300 Million-Plus for Kosmix — According to sources close to the situation, Wal-Mart Stores paid just over $300 million for Kosmix. — The six-year-old Mountain View, Calif.-based company-which has built a social media platform that organizes content by topic …
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Between the Lines Blog, alarm:clock, Fast Company, SAI, FM Blog, @jason and Pulse2, more at Mediagazer »
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Anand Rajaraman / Datawocky:
Retail + Social + Mobile = @WalmartLabs
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Investor Relations, DealBook, Search Engine Land, Boris Mann's Blog, VentureBeat and Walmartstores.com
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
T-Mobile G-Slate review — The tablet wars are building, petty disputes that will soon lead to bloodshed. Products will be launched into battle only to be gunned down straight out of their boxes, crying for their fabricators as bigger, faster, better slates step over the stricken chassis …
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SAI, PC World, This is my next, BGR, SlashGear, DailyTech, Android Community, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and LAPTOP Magazine
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile Officially Announces G-Slate Release For April 20th
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GigaOM, SocialTimes.com, The Next Web and Techie Buzz
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
In Silicon Valley, Investors Are Jockeying Like It's 1999 — MENLO PARK, Calif.—Travis Kalanick is the founder of a start-up that lets people order up a car service from a cellphone. Recently, the 34-year-old found himself in the driver's seat. — Several major venture-capital firms were vying to fund Uber, his fledgling company.
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broadstuff and Deal Journal
Miguel de Icaza:
Dropbox Lack of Security — I am a fan of Dropbox. It is a great tool, a great product, and clearly they have a passionate team over at Dropbox building the product. — Dropbox recently announced an update to its security terms of service in which they announced that they would provide …
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Steve Kovach / Tools:
DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To
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PC World, Pocket-lint and ZDNet
Martin LaMonica / CNET News:
Google plants $100 million in giant wind farm — The Shepherds Flat wind farm is expected to be fully operational in 2012 and supply 235,000 average U.S. homes. — Google today said that it will invest about $100 million in the very large Shepherd's Flat wind project in Oregon …
Bloomberg:
Apple Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit Alleging ITunes Downloading Monopoly — A federal judge was asked by Apple Inc. (AAPL) to dismiss a consumer antitrust lawsuit claiming the company limited choice by linking iPod music downloading to its iTunes music store.
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Digital Trends, Music Ally, iLounge, CNET News, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, Inquirer, BGR and AppleInsider
Paul Geller / Digital Music News:
Get Ready: Grooveshark Promises a Fight to the Finish... The following is an open letter to the music industry from Grooveshark, shared exclusively with Digital Music News. The letter was prompted by the recent removal of the Grooveshark app from the Android Market, though it also addresses broader concerns and challenges.
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Epicenter, Android Community, Softpedia News, Electronista, TorrentFreak, MobileCrunch, Music Ally and Tools
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Nokia launches Ovi Maps 3D beta, challenges Google Earth as your virtual tour guide of choice — Still searching for today's internet time sink? Then look no further than Nokia's just launched beta version of Ovi Maps 3D. Thanks to a little help from Navteq's maps and some software wizardry …
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Nokia Conversations, Inquirer, TechCrunch, SlashGear, ArcticStartup Posts, TUAW and Electronista
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
A Myspace Founder Builds Again, Buying Game Companies — Just days after the online game company MindJolt moved into its Los Angeles headquarters in March 2010, rain started to pour through the ceiling. — Christopher T. DeWolfe, the chief executive, and his small team …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, eMoney, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Pulse2, AdExchanger.com, VentureBeat and @shervin
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Verizon: More breaches but less data lost. Huh?! — Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report for last year is a bit of a head scratcher. It shows that while the number of data breaches from cyber attacks rose, the amount of compromised records lost has fallen.
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Krebs on Security, Network World and The Register
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Launches New Safety and Security Tools — Today, Facebook announced the launch of several new tools aimed at making the social network a safer and more secure experience for everyone involved. Some of the tools, like the redesigned Family Safety Center and social reporting buttons …
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Facebook Blog, Softpedia News, The Next Web, gHacks Technology News and WebProNews
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Apple Reportedly Rejecting Apps with Pay-per-install Campaigns — Apple isn't just tweaking its App Store rankings to include more than download numbers and possibly lessening the impact of incentivized pay-per-install marketing campaigns. It's actually banning apps that use pay-per-install …
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Inside Mobile Apps, iLounge, www.pocketgamer.biz, Appolicious Advisor and mocoNews
