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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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T3.com News, MacHackPC, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, GottaBeMobile, SAI, Liliputing, Ubergizmo, Android Police and Gizmodo
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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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@becomingwilliam and @timoreilly
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Tech bubbles, tides, and earthquakes - What you should know — Are we in a tech bubble? Yes. When will it burst? I have no idea, and neither does anyone else. Mike Arrington, founder of Techcrunch, has a great story today “We're In A Terrible Blubble”. It is insightful and entertaining.
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@scobleizer and @hblodget, Thanks:dondodge
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Fred Wilson / A VC:
The Word Bubble — In all the posts over the past year …
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AdExchanger.com, @dondodge and @mathewi
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We're In The Middle Of A Terrible Blubble!
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Howard Lindzon
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.
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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The Next Web
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
Amazon Hints at Android Strategy With Latest App Promotion — Amazon is rolling out a new promotion on Monday that reveals how it could package together its various efforts in the wireless industry. — The first promotion kicking off at midnight will give customers who buy an Android device …
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PhoneArena and Electronista
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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Boing Boing, ZeroPaid.com, TorrentFreak and TeleRead
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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brian s hall
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 …
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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Wi-Fi Networking News and Gawker
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.
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix to Become Largest Subscription Entertainment Business in U.S. … Netflix is poised to become the largest subscription entertainment business in the U.S. when it reports quarterly earnings on Monday. — Analysts are figuring that Netflix will have added around 3.7 million subscribers to its ranks …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 confirmed, faster-charging integrated battery detailed — Yesterday's speculation has turned into today's fact. The ultraslim Lenovo ThinkPad X1 is most definitely real, coming soon, and just so happens to be packing some fancy new battery technology as well.
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Crave, LAPTOP Magazine, Electronista, Gizmodo, Engadget and Electronista
