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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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Andrew Harris / Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Privacy Meeting Sought by Illinois Attorney General Madigan
Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Apple iPhone's Location Data Collection to be Investigated in South Korea
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Ars Technica, Computerworld, AppleInsider, TUAW, Yahoo! News, PC Magazine, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac and ITProPortal
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, PC Magazine, Engadget, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, Digital Trends, Business Wire, BoomTown, PC World, GigaOM, IntoNow, paidContent, NBC Bay Area, Yodel Anecdotal, Mashable!, SAI, @dannysullivan, The Next Web, Pulse2, Lost Remote, IntoMobile and Social Markets, more at Mediagazer »
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches ‘Send’ Button For More Selective Sharing, Announces 50 Million ‘Groups’ — Facebook's increasingly ubiquitous ‘Like’ button is getting a new friend: the Send button. Click on a webpage that has the Send button integrated, and you'll be prompted to share …
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NetworkEffect, GigaOM, All Facebook, WebProNews, Facebook Developers, Mashable! and The Next Web
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Elliot Lynde / Facebook Blog:
Sharing with Small Groups — It's always been easy to share with all your friends on Facebook, but until we introduced Groups last October, there wasn't a simple way to share with just a few people. Much of what we share in our daily lives is only meaningful to smaller groups of people, like our family, roommates, or co-workers.
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NewsGrange, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Inside Facebook and The Next Web
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Netflix Earnings Up 88 Percent, Adds 3.6 Million Subscribers — Netflix just released its first quarter earnings. Earnings per share were $1.11, up 88 percent (3 cents above the consensus estimate of $1.08). Revenues came in at $719 million. And Netflix added 3.3 million U.S. subscribers …
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SAI, Between the Lines Blog, paidContent, Tech Trader Daily, Media Money …, PR Newswire, @dougw, Engadget HD, The Tech Trade and MarketBeat
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Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Netflix Now Officially Bigger Than Comcast — Netflix continued to post impressive quarterly financial numbers, ending the first quarter 2011 as the largest subscription video service in North America. — In the first quarter, Netflix added 3.6 million subscribers, ending the period with more than 23.6 million subscribers in total.
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CNET News, MediaMemo, SAI, Electronista and @pkafka
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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VatorNews, paidContent, TechCrunch, Silicon Forest, Mixergy and Startups Open Sourced
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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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Ars Technica, Gartner, Macworld, Engadget, mocoNews, BetaNews, Daring Fireball, Technologizer, WebProNews, @dannysullivan, dailywireless.org, ITworld.com, eHomeUpgrade, IntoMobile, VatorNews and techeblog.com
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Rachel King / The Toybox Blog:
Barnes & Noble treats Nook Color to Froyo; unveils Nook Apps
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Open Source Blog, PC Magazine, New York Times, CNET News, Mike Cane's xBlog, Geek.com, CrunchGear, Electronista, VentureBeat, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, GigaOM, The Business Insider, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, Liliputing, eWeek, paidContent, San Francisco Chronicle, Tech Trader Daily, ReadWriteWeb, MobileBurn.com, App Advice, The Next Web and @carnage4life, more at Mediagazer »
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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Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile, TUAW, Computerworld and TG Daily
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Catharine Smith / The Huffington Post:
Michael Dell: Tablets' Rapid Rise A Big Surprise
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GigaOM, CNET News, GottaBeMobile, TechSpot, eWeek, PC Magazine, Business Wire and Electronista
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Oracle Co-President Safra Catz Adds CFO Duties as Jeff Epstein Leaves — Software giant Oracle said that co-President Safra Catz will take over as chief financial officer following the resignation of Jeff Epstein, who had reported directly to Catz. This will be her second stint as Oracle's CFO.
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Between the Lines Blog, SAI, Tech Trader Daily and Oracle
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Possible iPhone 5 pictures revealed — Gadget enthusiast blog M.I.C. Gadget has posted images of what it claims may be Apple's next iPhone. The site itself seems skeptical as to the authenticity of the images — and we are as well — but they reveal what appears to be a thinner iPhone model …
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M.I.C. Gadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneDog.com, iLounge, MacNN, Apple Bitch, The Next Web, GeekSugar, iThinkDifferent, PhoneDog.com, MacStories, GottaBeMobile, OS X Daily, everythingiCafe, Edible Apple and MacHackPC
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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CNET News, CrunchGear, Wall Street Journal, ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Bloomberg, GeekWire, Crave, Ars Technica, The Tech Trade, ZDNet, PSFK, PC World, Electronista, CNNMoney.com, TechSpot, Product Reviews, Games blog, TechEye, Digital Trends, techblog.dallasnews.com, Fudzilla, Agence France Presse and WebProNews, Thanks:c_davies
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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TechFlash and TechCrunch, Thanks:toddbishop
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 …
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AT&T, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear and Engadget
Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Exclusive: Lenovo 7-inch Honeycomb tablet coming later this year — Sure, we know all about Lenovo's ThinkPad Tablet (or Think Slate) now, but it appears there's yet another Honeycomb tablet in store from the Chinese computer manufacturer. Included in the rather hefty PowerPoint deck we got …
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PC Magazine, Engadget, CNET News, IntoMobile, ITworld.com, DailyTech and Liliputing
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.
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 and IntoMobile
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 World, RightScale Blog, Webmonkey, GigaOM, PC Magazine and InfoQ, Thanks:donmacaskill
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon Web Services outage: ‘Detailed post mortem’ coming
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GeekWire, THINK IT Services and MSDN Blogs
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.
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CNET News, GigaOM and Electronista
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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