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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
Apple sues Samsung: a complete lawsuit analysis — Apple sued Samsung yesterday, the latest in a long line of IP lawsuits against Android device manufacturers. (See: Apple v. HTC, Apple v. Motorola, Microsoft v. Motorola, Microsoft v. Barnes & Noble.) The case is remarkable for several reasons …
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9 to 5 Mac, Nilay Patel, PC Magazine, GeekSmack, Daring Fireball, lalawag and MacStories
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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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PC Magazine, BetaNews, BGR, The Register, SAI, SlashGear, english.yonhapnews.co.kr, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider, Reuters, GigaOM, Yahoo! News, iPhone Buzz, Techland and TUAW
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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google's ‘Map Maker’ Now Lets You Edit Google Maps In The United States
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PC Magazine and TechSpot
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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Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, iFixit, PC World, Mobilized, Macworld, Digits, Reuters, LAPTOP Magazine, LaptopMemo, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, DailyTech, WebProNews and PhoneArena
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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 …
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CNET News, SlashGear, Crave, ZDNet, Gadget Lab, Voice on the Web, Phone Scoop, SAI, Techland and MobileCrunch
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SAY Media Acquires Dogster (And Has More Acquisitions In The Works) — Just six months after its creation, SAY Media is already going to the dogs: it's acquired Dogster, a web community for dog-owners that draws around 2 million unique visitors a month. It's a move that sounds confusing at first …
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Dan Anderson / T-Mobile Blog:
Bobsled by T-Mobile: Providing Free, One-Touch Calling Within Facebook — Have you ever been chatting with a friend on Facebook only to realize it would be nice to actually hear the person's voice? You're not alone. A recent survey found that 88% of Facebook users want voice chat capabilities within the site.
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TechCrunch, Technologizer, All Facebook, letsbobsled.com, Yahoo! News, PC Magazine, SAI, Mobilized, Engadget, Bits, BGR, GeekWire, mocoNews, CNET News, Light Reading, Neowin.net, dailywireless.org, Electronista, Android News, Rumours …, IntoMobile, LaptopMemo and Social Markets, Thanks:tmobile
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Look Out Skype! T-Mobile Powers Facebook VoIP
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VentureBeat and The Next Web, Thanks:kevinctofel
Jacques Hebert / YouTube Blog:
Mmm mmm good - YouTube videos now served in WebM — If you travel abroad frequently, you know that charging your electronic devices is not always an easy task. Power adapters for cellphones and computers don't always fit into local power outlets, meaning you have to pack converters.
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NewsGrange and GigaOM
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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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
That iOS 5 video? Here's why it's fake.
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App Advice and MacRumors
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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CNET News, App Advice, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, PC World, Inside Mobile Apps, www.pocketgamer.biz, Touch Arcade, Appolicious Advisor and iLounge
Aatekah Mir / Digits:
A Look at iPad Users: Apple Still Trouncing Android — Google Inc.'s Android might be the most popular smartphone platform, but if you add other mobile devices like tablets to the mix, Apple Inc.'s iOS beats Android in the U.S. by a wide margin — 59% to be exact.
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Daring Fireball, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac and MobileBurn.com
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's First-Quarter Earnings: The Revenue Growth Drought Continues Due to Search Fall-Off — Yahoo announced its first-quarter earnings today, showing a continued worrisome revenue growth stall that its CEO Carol Bartz still has not fixed. — Yahoo reported revenues of $1.06 billion …
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CNNMoney.com, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Digits, paidContent, MarketingVOX, @dannysullivan and CNBC
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Review of Apple's unit numbers released in legal filing prior to earnings — Thanks to Nilay Patel at This is My Next for posting the complaint filed on April 15th against Samsung, Apple which revealed some potentially material data about its performance in the last quarter (which won't be public until the 20th).
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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Fortune, SAI, TiPb, @ldignan, Daring Fireball and MacStories
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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Venture Capital Dispatch, broadstuff, Inc.com and Deal Journal
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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CNET News, Gizmodo, TiPb, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, Insanely Great Mac, FierceMobileContent, PC Magazine, Unwired View, The Toybox Blog and GigaOM
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Kobo Closes Book on $50 Million Round to Fuel International Growth — Kobo has raised $50 million in capital to go head to head against Amazon, Apple, Google and others. — The e-book company will need all the cash it can get. — All three of its major competitors have deep pockets …
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Digits, GeekWire and paidContent
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple ends MobileMe and iWork $30 rebate programs ahead of rumored refreshes — A source within Apple has provided us with an internal memo announcing the end of Apple's long-running rebate programs for both the MobileMe service and Apple's iWork productivity suite of applications.
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Ars Technica, Apple Bitch, GigaOM and Digital Trends, Thanks:formulatech
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Rovio To Launch Angry Birds Free with Magic, Requires NFC To Unlock Levels — Finnish app developers Rovio is to introduce a new title to its Angry Birds franchise, launching Angry Birds Magic, a new game that will launch on Nokia smartphones which run the latest Symbian Anna update …
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Nokia Conversations, GigaOM, SAI, Fast Company, Phones Review, Ubergizmo and WebProNews
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy S Gingerbread update pulled ‘by Google,’ needs a little more work — Come on, this is Samsung we're talking about here — you didn't think a software update from Korea's leading smartphone maker would go without a hitch, did you? The Gingerbread build that made its way out …
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forum.vodafone.co.uk, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, Electronista, Android Police, Android Phone Fans and MobileTechWorld
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
HTML5 Calendar Data Sharing Standard Released as 1.0 by W3C — This morning, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the 1.0 version of its Calendar API spec, the technical standard by which it recommends applications and calendars use to share event data.
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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Computerworld, MediaPost, Mashable!, IntoMobile, The Register, GMSV, Softpedia News, Yahoo! News, TechnoBuffalo, Appolicious Advisor and Techland
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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Ars Technica, TorrentFreak, Android Community, Softpedia News and Epicenter
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Facebook rolls out new security features, answers Sophos letter — Facebook announced new security and privacy features for its site Tuesday. The site has added more resources for its Family Safety Center and a more complete rollout of its social reporting tool, which lets users report bad behavior to Facebook friends they trust.
