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Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
IPhone Stored Location in Test Even if Disabled — Apple Inc.'s iPhone is collecting and storing location information even when location services are turned off, according to a test conducted by The Wall Street Journal. — The location data appear to be collected using cellphone towers …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs on iOS Location Issue: 'We Don't Track Anyone' — There has obviously been a lot of discussion about last week's disclosure that iOS devices are maintaining an easily-accessible database tracking the movements of users dating back to the introduction of iOS 4 a year ago.
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Exclusive: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet with Honeycomb and an optional stylus to hit this summer — Ready for one awesome Easter present? Well, it appears that Lenovo's having a rough time keeping a lid on its new products this weekend, and we just got a hold of a juicy PowerPoint that reveals …
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Don MacAskill / SmugMug's Don MacAskill:
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse — tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn't go down because we spread across availability zones and designed for failure to begin with, among other things.
Thanks:donmacaskill
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Dell Looks Beyond PC Business — Michael Dell doesn't want to talk about personal computers anymore. — As Dell Inc.'s chief executive works to turn around the once high-flying PC maker, he has bet on diversifying away from the company's best-known product.
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Computerworld, PC World, SlashGear, The Huffington Post, TechEye and Fudzilla
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nintendo confirms Wii replacement in 2012; Preview at E3 2011 — Nintendo has announced [pdf link] it will release its next games console, the successor to the Wii, in 2012, with the first preview of the new hardware at E3 2011 in early June. Confirmed in a new investor note, the unnamed console …
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Ars Technica, CNET News, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Bloomberg, CrunchGear, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, TechEye, Digital Trends, CNNMoney.com, The Tech Trade, PSFK, Games blog, Crave, Gadgetell, Product Reviews, Electronista, Agence France Presse, The Next Web, Fudzilla and TechSpot, Thanks:c_davies
Rachel King / The Toybox Blog:
Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps — Just as promised, Barnes & Noble rolled out a major update for the Nook Color on Monday, which has the 7-inch slate looking even more like a tablet than an e-book reader now. — There's no need to hack the Nook Color …
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GigaOM, eWeek, VentureBeat, ZDNet, App Advice, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, San Francisco Chronicle, Mobilized, New York Times, Mike Cane's xBlog, CNET News, LAPTOP Magazine, Engadget, Technologizer, PR Newswire, SAI, @carnage4life, MobileBurn.com, Liliputing, Electronista and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google, a Giant in Mobile Search, Seeks New Ways to Make It Pay — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In early 2008, in the early days of the iPhone era, Google engineers began noticing something unusual in the search engine's logs. Owners of these new phones were doing a huge number of Web searches.
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brian s hall and Beyond Search
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AT&T starts selling ‘cell tower in a suitcase’ — NEW YORK - For the first time, AT&T is selling small, portable cellular antennas that will allow corporate and government customers to provide their own wireless coverage in remote or disaster-struck areas. — Usually, cellphone companies …
Carolyn Thompson / Associated Press:
Innocent Man Accused Of Child Pornography After Neighbor Pirates His WiFi … BUFFALO, N.Y. — Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of “pedophile!” and “pornographer!” stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure …
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BlawgIT, Network World, GottaBeMobile, @kevinmarks, Wi-Fi Networking News, Associated Press, Gawker and Slashdot
Richard H. Thaler / New York Times:
Show Us the Data. (It's Ours, After All.) — “NO one knows what I like better than I do.” — This statement may seem self-evident, but the revolution in information technology has created a growing list of exceptions. Your grocery store knows what you like to eat and can probably …
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blogs.chron.com, @becomingwilliam and @timoreilly
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Storify Collects Strands of News on the Social Web — SAN FRANCISCO — News events as varied as the commercial jet landing in the Hudson River and the uprisings in Egypt have demonstrated that people armed with cellphones — not professional reporters — are often the first source of breaking news …
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ReadWriteWeb and Lost Remote, more at Mediagazer »
Robert Lee Hotz / Wall Street Journal:
The Really Smart Phone — Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views. — ‘Phones can know,’ says an MIT researcher. 'People can get this god's-eye view of human behavior.'
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Betabeat, IntoMobile and brian s hall
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Alleged Windows 8 App Store screenshot is fake: third-party app “Appmarts” — Origins of the alleged screenshots of the “Windows 8 App Store” has finally been unearthed. — It turns out they are of a third-party Chinese application downloader and manager available today called Appmarts.
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Compixels, Microsoft News, SlashGear, Neowin.net and WMPoweruser.com
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Yes Facebook Developers, There Will Be An f8 This Year — The Facebook Like button celebrated its 1st anniversary this week, on April 21st. It's ubiquity makes it hard to believe that it was a little over a year ago when Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the third annual f8 Developers Conference …
William Grimes / New York Times:
Max Mathews, Pioneer in Making Computer Music, Dies at 84 — Max Mathews, often called the father of computer music, died on Thursday in San Francisco. He was 84. — The cause was pneumonia, his son Vernon said. — Mr. Mathews wrote the first program to make it possible for a computer to synthesize sound and play it back.
Frank Michlick / Domain Name News:
RightHaven.com Taken Down for Invalid Whois — Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant's domain name.
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WebProNews, ZeroPaid.com, Boing Boing, TorrentFreak and TeleRead
