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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Amazon's Cloud Crashed Overnight, And Brought Several Other Companies Down Too — The Amazon Web Services status dashboard is reporting an ongoing failure of its EC2 service on its servers based in Northern Virgina. Foursquare, Quora, and Reddit are reported to have been affected.
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Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Amazon EC2 outage calls ‘availability zones’ into question — When multiple zones fail, Amazon's cloud redundancy isn't redundant enough — For cloud customers willing to pony up a little extra cash, Amazon has an enticing proposition: Spread your application across multiple availability zones …
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Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Amazon gets ‘black eye’ from cloud outage — Analysts say downtime hurts Amazon, and cloud computing (see video below) — Computerworld - For a company that's known as the dominant player in the cloud market, Amazon's troubles on Thursday means a black eye for the company and for the cloud in general.
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple to beat Google on cloud music storage: sources — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple floats iPhone ‘4S’ with A5 chip to select developers to prepare for next-gen iPhone — The iPad 2′s A5 processor not only is a speedy, dual-core chip, but also works to provide nine times the gaming performance of its predecessor, A4. So, what's Apple to do for their best-selling gaming phone?
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple location tracker file: Congressman asks Steve Jobs to explain by May 12 — Following widespread attention drawn by a file embedded on Apple iPhones and iPads that keeps a detailed log of the devices' location, Congressman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sent Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs …
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Jay Yarow / Tools:
Apple's iPhone Track-You-Everywhere Data A “Bug,” Or “Oversight,” Says Apple Guru John Gruber
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Verizon Looking Forward To ‘World’ iPhone — During a conference call with analysts this morning to discuss Q1 results, announced this morning, Verizon Communications (VZ) management remarked that the next version of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone will be a “world phone,” capable of working with other carriers' networks.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon activates 2.2 million iPhones in first quarter, 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts — Verizon delivered better-than-expected first quarter results and gave its tally of iPhone activations. The company activated 2.2 million iPhones in the first quarter and 500,000 4G devices, including 260,000 HTC Thunderbolts.
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Microsoft:
Nokia and Microsoft Sign Definitive Agreement Ahead of Schedule — Key contributions to new global mobile ecosystem agreed and significant progress made on engineering of new products. — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement …
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Texas jury finds against Google in Linux patent case, determines damage award of $5,000,000 — A jury in the Eastern District of Texas handed a verdict in favor of Bedrock Computer Technologies LLC, determining that Google infringes a Linux-related patent, that the patent is valid …
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Caroline McCarthy:
Onward, to the Plex. — So I have some big news. — After five incredible years at CNET, I'm moving on. May 6 is my last day; ten days later, I will join Google's New York office as a member of its fledgling Trends & Insights team. I'll be doing a lot of writing, editing …
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Nilay Patel / This is my next:
AT&T files T-Mobile merger documentation with the FCC — the highlights — AT&T formally kicked off the T-Mobile merger process today by filing its first supporting documents with the FCC. At 381 pages, it's a monster — it lays out AT&T's groundwork for the merger, argues …
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
AT&T Files Papers to Take Over T-Mobile USA's Wireless Licenses
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Celebrates the Like Button's 1st Birthday By Showing Off Its Footprint — One year ago today at the f8 conference, Facebook released the Like button, its Open Graph social plugin for showing affinity for content on third-party websites. The company has now tells us that the site …
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John Pletz / Chicago Business:
Groupon hires COO from Google — (Crain's) — Groupon Inc. didn't go far to find its new chief operating officer, hiring Google Inc.'s highest-ranking executive in Chicago, Margo Georgiadis. — Ms. Georgiadis, vice-president of global sales planning and technology for Google …
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
With Backing From Asia, New $100 Million “A-Fund” Targets the Android Ecosystem — Venture capital firm DCM is teaming up with several Asian mobile companies to launch a new $100 million investment fund aimed at companies that focus on creating products and services for Android.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Allows You To Subscribe To Offers In Portland, New York City, San Francisco — It appears that Google's coupon service Offers, is live, starting in in Portland, Oregon. You also have the ability to subscribe to deals in areas within New York City, Oakland and San Francisco.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Google Takes Issue With Roku's YouTube Channel — While Roku doesn't offer an officially sanctioned YouTube channel, many of us have been enjoying that content through a “private” offering created by The Nowhereman. In fact, he's such an exceptional developer, Roku brought him on as an employee (where he's known as Chris).
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Brad Stone / Business Week:
Silicon Valley Cashes Out Selling Private Shares — SecondMarket and its ilk allow investors and employees—including Facebook's—to convert pre-IPO shares into millions. But is it healthy for startups? — Vince Thompson doesn't appear in any accounts of Facebook's early years.
The Dropbox Blog:
Privacy, Security & Your Dropbox — Like many of you, we've been reading the reports about a change we made to our Terms of Service, and more generally about Dropbox's approach to privacy and security. — Everyone who works at Dropbox knows our most important asset is the trust of our users.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents New Peer-to-Peer Sharing Technology that Utilizes Unique Magnetic Compass and Supersonic Tone Methodologies — In late 2009 Patently Apple reported that Apple was working on a new short-range wireless technology that would work with a newly proposed iTunes Kiosk.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
News.me's Social News Aggregator For The iPad Now Live On The App Store — As we reported in February, betaworks and the New York Times are collaborating to launch a socialnews reader for the iPad called News.me. And we heard more details on the app as it readied for launch this week.
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David / TmoNews:
HTC Sensation Arriving June 8th? Google Says Yes — Let's just preface this right away with the idea that the June 8th date we are currently seeing as the rumored release for the HTC Sensation COULD be a Europe launch date. We've been hearing June since the middle of March for the HTC Pyramid, now known as the HTC Sensation.
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Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
ACLU concerned over Michigan State Police extracting data from cellphones — Michigan State Police officers, equipped with forensic cellphone analyzers, have extracted data from cellphones during their police work, and the American Civil Liberties Union wants to know more about it.
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SOM, Network World, ITworld.com and PC Magazine
Meghan J. McDonough / LAPTOP Magazine:
Droid Charge Arriving On Verizon April 28th with Hefty $299 Price Tag — Samsung has announced its first 4G LTE phone for Big Red, the Droid Charge, which will be available Thursday, April 28th. It features a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, an 8-MP rear camera with LED flash …
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