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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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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 …
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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PC Magazine and Webmonkey, Thanks:donmacaskill
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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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SAI, Associated Press, IntoNow, Social Markets, Mashable!, Yodel Anecdotal, BoomTown and PSFK
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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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
With Update, Barnes & Noble's Nook Color Gets More Tablet-Like
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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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mocoNews, Digital Trends, PC World, CrunchGear, LAPTOP Magazine, PhoneArena, DailyTech, Engadget, Techland, Mashable!, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, PhoneDog.com, T3.com News, Fast Company, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, Fudzilla, MacHackPC, Android Phone Fans, GottaBeMobile, SAI, Android Police, Liliputing, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
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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 …
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 »
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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eWeek, PC Magazine, CNET News, Computerworld, PC World, Wall Street Journal, IntoMobile, Electronista, SlashGear, Fudzilla, Andrew Lark, TechEye and Pocket-lint
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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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
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, msnbc.com, IntoMobile and brian s hall
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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Startups Open Sourced, Wufoo and TechCrunch
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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MediaMemo, hypebot, MacStories and Electronista
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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@dannysullivan, blogs.chron.com, @becomingwilliam and @timoreilly
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, PC World, Reuters and Penn Olson
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
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
PSN down due to “external intrusion,” no news on fix, credit card security — More than 72 hours after it first went down, the PlayStation Network is still offline, annoying millions of loyal PlayStation 3 customers who can't play their games over the network. No Portal 2 co-op, no Mortal Kombat matches, no Home.
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CNET News, GMSV, Geek.com, WebProNews and Techland
