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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: Apple testing iPhone for T-Mobile USA — That's right, you're looking at photos of an iPhone prototype with T-Mobile USA 3G bands. The actual internal model is N94, and if you remember, the Verizon model is N92 while the standard GSM variant is N90.
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9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, MacRumors, PhoneArena, MobileWhack, TUAW, The Cell Phone Junkie, TiPb, TmoNews and iClarified
George Reese / O'Reilly Media:
The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment — So many cloud pundits are piling on to the misfortunes of Amazon Web Services this week as a response to the massive failures in the AWS Virginia region. If you think this week exposed weakness in the cloud, you don't get it …
Matthew Lewis / Reuters:
Wal-Mart tests online grocery delivery in California — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has begun testing an online grocery delivery service in San Jose, California, a company spokesman said on Saturday. — The world's biggest retailer had been rumored to be considering dipping its toe …
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Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, Associated Press and Slashdot
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhone 4 lands at Best Buy on April 27th — Our sources in Europe have already told us that the white iPhone 4 is launching on Wednesday, April 27, in the Netherlands at least, and now other sources are pointing to a launch on that same day in the United States.
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PC World, Redmond Pie, TUAW, TiPb, everythingiCafe, Electronista, The Loop, iHackintosh, Phones Review, Neowin.net, PC Magazine and GottaBeMobile
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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PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Gawker, TeleRead, The Atlantic Online, TDW Geeks, Joho the Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy and Boing Boing
Amanda Green / Hunch Blog:
Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch — Our latest data project was to analyze how self-described Mac and PC people are different. The infographic below, designed by the talented folks at Column Five Media, breaks it down. Keep reading after the Infographic for more background and analysis …
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PC World, CNN, TUAW, PC Magazine, MacNN, Column Five Media, msnbc.com and Yahoo! News
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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PC Magazine, ITProPortal, thinq_, ITworld.com, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, The Digital Home, Neowin.net, BGR, Eurogamer, Fudzilla, Destructoid, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Softpedia News and Slashdot
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Cloud computing market: $241 billion in 2020 — The global cloud computing market will grow from a $40.7 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020, according to Forrester Research. — On the way to all of this growth are a few notable nuggets from the report.
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Digits and Forrester Research
Steve Kovach / The Business Insider:
The PlayBook Might Get Access To Hulu After All — Hulu wasted no time in blocking the PlayBook's Flash-enabled browser from viewing videos on Hulu.com. — While it wasn't a huge surprise, it was a bummer for those of us who got a taste of how awesome Hulu looked on the PlayBook.
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Wall Street Journal, BlackBerryandBeyond.com, Gadgetell, Tools, BerryReview.com and Ubergizmo
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, This is my next Podcast and Apple Bitch
