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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.
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Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Apple iPhone's Location Data Collection to be Investigated in South Korea
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Computerworld, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, ITProPortal, MacNN and iClarified
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Moves Fast — Real Fast — To Scoop Up IntoNow For $20 - $30 Million — This past January, upon seeing a demo of IntoNow, we noted that the media check-in game just changed. Apparently, Yahoo agreed — they've just acquired the company for something in the range of $20 to $30 million, sources with knowledge of the deal tell us.
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GigaOM, SAI, BoomTown, paidContent, The Next Web, ITworld.com, IntoNow, Pulse2, Lost Remote, Adotas, IntoMobile, Social Markets, Mashable!, Yodel Anecdotal and PSFK, more at Mediagazer »
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
SurveyMonkey Buys Online Forms Start-Up Wufoo for $35 Million — SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo. — While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box-makers of Wufoo-were not disclosed …
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TechCrunch, Mixergy, Startups Open Sourced, Pulse2 and silicontap.com
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
With Update, Barnes & Noble's Nook Color Gets More Tablet-Like — Starting on Monday, Barnes & Noble is delivering a promised software update for the Nook Color that will further tilt the device from being a multi-purpose e-reader into a full-fledged Android tablet.
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BetaNews, Daring Fireball, Computerworld, Gartner, VatorNews, eHomeUpgrade, Technologizer, IntoMobile, techeblog.com and PhoneArena
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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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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.
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GigaOM, PC Magazine and Webmonkey, Thanks:donmacaskill
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon Web Services outage: ‘Detailed post mortem’ coming
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Internet Evolution and Joyeur
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 …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo research guru Gary Flake starts stealthy Clipboard — Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company's Live Labs research group, has emerged at the helm of a new Bellevue startup company called Clipboard.
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TechCrunch, Thanks:toddbishop
Catharine Smith / The Huffington Post:
Michael Dell: Tablets' Rapid Rise A Big Surprise … Michael Dell, founder and chief executive of Dell, Inc., recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal to discuss the company's big challenges as it diversifies beyond affordable consumer PCs. — Asked to name the most surprising thing …
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CNET News, eWeek, PC Magazine, Computerworld, PC World, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, SlashGear, The Tech Report, Fudzilla, Andrew Lark, TechEye and Pocket-lint
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Dell Looks Beyond PC Business
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TG Daily, IntoMobile and eWeek
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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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb and Lost Remote, more at Mediagazer »
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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GeekWire, Bloomberg, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, CrunchGear, Wall Street Journal, PC World, CNET News, Ars Technica, WebProNews, techblog.dallasnews.com, Product Reviews, Crave, The Tech Trade, ZDNet, PSFK, Electronista, Agence France Presse, CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, Fudzilla, TechSpot, Games blog, TechEye, Digital Trends, ITProPortal and Gadgetell, Thanks:c_davies
Matt Frost / The WebM Open Media Project Blog:
Introducing the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative — It's been almost a year since Mozilla, Opera, Xiph.Org, Matroska, Google and over 40 other partners launched the WebM Project with the goal of developing a world-class, open source media format for the web.
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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msnbc.com, IntoMobile, Betabeat and brian s hall
Xinhua News Agency:
China's cultural ministry punishes illegal music providers, including Baidu — China's cultural ministry announced Monday that it would hand down punishments for 14 websites that have provided illegal music downloads, including Baidu's “BaiduMP3” service. — An official from the ministry …
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Digital Trends, Fast Company, PC World, Reuters, Electronista and Penn Olson
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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Internet2Go, brian s hall and Beyond Search
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes — RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and Macs — automatically adding album artwork, fixing song names, organizing music libraries by genre, and finding and removing duplicate tracks.
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@donmacaskill, MediaMemo, hypebot, Electronista and MacStories
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Beyond the browser: Microsoft's ‘C3’ next-gen platform for HTML-based applications — Must a traditional Web browser be the primary way to interact with and navigate a Web application? — Microsoft researchers think the answer is no. They are building another option — ‘C3,’ an extensible platform for HTML-based applications.
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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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