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Joshua Topolsky / This is my next Podcast:
Is this what the iPhone 5 will look like? — There's no shortage of rumors swirling about the iPhone 5 right now, but we've got some enlightening information (and an image) that might help paint a better picture of what Apple's next play in the mobile market could be.
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SAI, AppleInsider, Engadget, VentureBeat, Gadgetell, IntoMobile, Digital Trends, MacHackPC, PhoneArena, TiPb, Electricpig.co.uk, Redmond Pie, Edible Apple, Apple Bitch, Neowin.net, MacRumors, iClarified, Electronista, Appolicious Advisor, GottaBeMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web and MacStories
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Mickeypapillon / The Cell Phone Junkie:
iPhone 5 will be CDMA + GSM, iPhone 6 to include LTE with Qualcomm MDM9615 — During its earnings call this week, Apple CFO Tim Cook answered questions about the future of LTE in the Cupertino company's devices. Cook said: … So looking at the next generation of hardware …
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CNET News, Redmond Pie, MacRumors, TiPb and Apple Bitch
Gadget Lab:
Why You Should Care About the iPhone Location-Tracking Issue — An unencrypted file stored in iPhones and iPads records a user's location data. An open source application was used to plot the location data from an iPhone belonging to a Wired.com reporter.
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Live in The Future …, Thanks:mj_isaac
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location Data
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Gear Live, Live in The Future …, Techland, Gizmodo Australia, TechCrunch and Redmond Pie, Thanks:bxchen
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
The Terrifying Tale Of FarmVille Billionaire Mark Pincus's Alleged Stripper Stalker — In February, Zynga CEO and founder Mark Pincus filed for a restraining order against Vera Svenchina, an amateur filmmaker and former stripper from Russia. — In a declaration to a court in San Francisco …
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Mercury News, Reuters and NBC Bay Area
Scott Lowe / IGN:
Project Cafe: The Tech Behind Nintendo's Next Console — New pricing, hardware, design, and release information uncovered. — More details of Nintendo's forthcoming console, codenamed Project Cafe aka Wii 2, have been revealed to IGN, including the system's estimated pricing, release …
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ITworld.com, thinq_, ITProPortal, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, The Digital Home, Neowin.net, BGR, Eurogamer, Fudzilla, SlashGear, Destructoid, Digital Trends, Softpedia News and Slashdot
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony confirms external attack brought down PlayStation Network — Sony acknowledged today that its PlayStation Network online entertainment service was brought down by an external intrusion, according to a blog post this evening. — The network has 70 million registered users …
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PC World, Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, Neowin.net, VG247, Joystiq, USA Today and CrunchGear
John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Universal iPhone Unlocking Service CutYourSim Goes Dark... And Apple Might Be Behind It [Exclusive] — A unique service offering to unlock any GSM iPhone, no jailbreaks required, has suddenly shut down, leaving many customers awaiting refunds. Increased scrutiny from Apple may very well be responsible …
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Redmond Pie, TUAW, BGR, SlashGear, MacStories, MacRumors and iClarified, Thanks:cultofmac
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows 7 at 18 Months — 18 months ago to this day was when we launched Windows 7 and with that we've hit another important milestone: we are pleased to announce that Windows 7 has sold more than 350 million licenses. The momentum we've seen and continue to see with Windows 7 is incredible.
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Digital Trends, PC World, Redmond Pie, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, The Next Web, CrunchGear, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, GeekWire, The Microsoft Blog, WinBeta, Electronista, Seattle Times, Neowin.net, @inafried and WinRumors
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft: 350 million licenses of Windows 7 sold in 18 months
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PC World and All about Microsoft Blog
Sean Garrett / Twitter Blog:
The Tweets of San Francisco — The city where we have started and grown will remain our future home. Twitter is staying in San Francisco and has signed a lease to move our headquarters to Market Square, a historic building in San Francisco's Central Market neighborhood that is being managed …
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Neowin.net, Bits, @mayoredlee, Social Markets, AllTwitter, PC World, NetworkEffect, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, SAI, CNET News, @rowghani, @dannysullivan, VatorNews, TechCrunch and Xconomy
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Mark Dochtermann / YouTube Blog:
An update on Google Video - Finding an easier way to migrate Google Video content to YouTube — Last week we sent an email to Google Video users letting them know we would be ending playbacks of Google Videos on April 29 and providing instructions on how to download videos currently hosted on the platform.
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gHacks Technology News, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, CenterNetworks, @enf and Slashdot
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Firefox 4 Hits 100 Million Downloads After A Month — Mozilla released its new Firefox 4 exactly a month ago today and within a day it had more than twice as many downloads as Internet Explorer 9 after its launch. Some where around midnight tonight the browser build will hit 100 million downloads …
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Royal Pingdom and Softpedia News
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Conde Nast Taps Brakes on Efforts to Build iPad Editions for All its Magazines — Company Still Committed, but Why Rush for More iPad Editions Before Pubs Can Find Big Audiences? — Conde Nast is tapping the brakes on its drive to deliver iPad editions of all its magazines …
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PadGadget, MacNN, CrunchGear, TUAW, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iLounge, SAI, Betabeat and Poynter, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:natives
Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Foursquare Seeks New Fund Raising — In the latest sign of the Internet gold rush, location-based service Foursquare Labs Inc. is looking to raise fresh funds at a price that would value the three-year-old start-up at as much as $500 million, people familiar with the matter said.
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VentureBeat, @semilshah and About Foursquare
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Foursquare Seeks New Round At $500 Million Valuation
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Voices on All Things Digital
Michael Eisen / it is NOT junk:
Amazon's $23,698,655.93 book about flies — A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly - a classic work in developmental biology that we - and most other Drosophila developmental biologists - consult regularly.
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Boing Boing
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Exclusive: White iPhone 4 lands at Vodafone UK — Well, would you have a gander at that? That, friends, is Apple's long-awaited, hardly-forgotten white iPhone 4, and so far as we can tell, this is actually the real deal. We've seen retailers making space for the elusive handset over the past few months …
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PhoneArena, App Advice, MacRumors, iClarified, PC World, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TiPb, MobileWhack, MacStories, PC Magazine, TDW Geeks, BGR, Electronista, CNET News, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile, DisplayBlog, Redmond Pie and everythingiCafe
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhone 4 to land April 27th in Europe - sources
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iHackintosh, Phones Review, Neowin.net, TUAW, MacNN, MacRumors and iLounge, Thanks:markgurman
