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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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AppleInsider, Techdirt, Guardian, 9 to 5 Mac, SAI, Nilay Patel, MacRumors, PC Magazine, FOSS Patents 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 …
iFixit:
Blackberry PlayBook Teardown — Step 1 — Blackberry PlayBook Teardown Blackberry's new PlayBook has hit the market with a name containing both entertainment and literary promise. Such a bold name instills in us feelings similar to those felt by preteen girls minutes before a Justin Bieber concert.
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Gizmodo, Engadget, Ubergizmo, CrunchGear 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 …
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Gadgetwise, ReadWriteWeb, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, CNET News, Gadgetell, Engadget, ZDNet, WebProNews, Phone Scoop, Voice on the Web, GottaBeMobile, SAI, Techland and MobileCrunch
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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InfoWorld, CrunchGear, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, Gadget Lab, PC World, Reuters, IntoMobile, Macworld, Digits, WebProNews and Mobilized
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digits, eWeek, Epicenter, Search Engine Land, MediaPost, Ars Technica, Techie Buzz, Techland, VentureBeat and The Atlantic Online
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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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BetaNews, PC Magazine and TechSpot
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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PC World, DSLreports, letsbobsled.com, Technologizer, SAI, All Facebook, Social Media & Technology, Yahoo! News, Daily Patricia, Engadget, PC Magazine, Mobilized, Bits, Light Reading, BGR, CNET News, IntoMobile, Social Markets, LaptopMemo, Neowin.net, GeekWire, mocoNews, Electronista and dailywireless.org, Thanks:tmobile
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Look Out Skype! T-Mobile Powers Facebook VoIP
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Friending Facebook Blog, TechCrunch, Enterprise Irregulars, VentureBeat and The Next Web, Thanks:kevinctofel
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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's First-Quarter Earnings: The Revenue Growth Drought Continues Due to MicroHoo 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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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Q1 Mixed: Display Up, Search Down, Revenues $1.06 Billion
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The Register, BoomTown and Between the Lines Blog
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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GigaOM, NewsGrange, Electronista 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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VentureBeat, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, www.pocketgamer.biz, Touch Arcade and App Advice
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Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Mobile Apps:
Apple Appears to be Cracking Down on Incentivized Installs
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, MacNN, everythingiCafe and NetworkEffect, Thanks:eldon
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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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Electricpig.co.uk, TiPb, @ldignan and SAI
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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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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt Just Got A Huge Salary Hike — When Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google, he earned a salary of $1 per year, just like the two cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. — But according to a recent Google SEC filing, that changed on April 4 when Page took over.
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mocoNews and @swiftstories
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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9 to 5 Mac, Ars Technica, SlashGear, MacStories, BGR, Gizmodo, Bits, Redmond Pie, Electricpig.co.uk, Techland, Know Your Cell, MobileCrunch, Shoutpedia, TiPb, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Yahoo! News, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneArena, TUAW, mobiputing, CNET News, eWeek and Electronista
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Music Gaming Startup JamLegend Acqhired By Zynga — Earlier today we wrote about music games startup JamLegend joining the deadpool. JamLegend aimed to compete against biggies Rock Band and Guitar Hero and was shut down today after three years so the team could “move on to new ventures.”
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Inside Social Games
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.
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Social Media & Technology
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Launches New Safety and Security Tools
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Facebook Blog, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Mashable!, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, All Facebook and WebProNews
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, TiPb, App Advice, FierceMobileContent, PC Magazine, Unwired View, GigaOM and TUAW
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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MacRumors, Apple Bitch, GigaOM, Ars Technica and Digital Trends, Thanks:formulatech
