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2:40 PM ET, April 27, 2011

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Apple:
Apple Q&A on Location Data  —  Apple would like to respond to the questions we have recently received about the gathering and use of location information by our devices.  —  1. Why is Apple tracking the location of my iPhone?  —  Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Interview: Apple CEO Steve Jobs on How the iPhone Does and Doesn't Use Location Information  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Wednesday that the iPhone database that people have assumed was their personal information was, in fact, the relevant chunk of a global crowdsourced database that the company uses …
AppleInsider:
Apple issues statement on iOS location controversy, says fix is coming  —  Apple on Wednesday responded to growing concern over a bug in the iOS mobile operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad, informing customers that it is not tracking them and revealing that it will address the issue with a forthcoming software update.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Apple Hints That It Will Release Turn-By-Turn Navigation On The iPhone
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and Engadget
Apple:
White iPhone Arrives Tomorrow  —  Apple® today announced that the white iPhone® 4 will be available beginning tomorrow.  White iPhone 4 models will be available from Apple's online store (www.apple.com), at Apple's retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Apple's Jobs and Schiller On Why Making the White iPhone Was So Darn Tough  —  It turns out that white is a whole lot harder than black, at least when it comes to making iPhones.  —  Although Apple announced plans for both a black and a white iPhone 4 last year, the company was forced …
Discussion: Gizmodo and MacRumors iPhone Blog
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Finally: white iPhone 4 arrives April 28 on AT&T and Verizon
Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious from Yahoo!  —  Today YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen announced they have acquired the Delicious technology from Yahoo!.  They plan to continue the service that users have come to know and love and make the site even easier and more fun to save …
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Richard Nevins / @hornokplease:
Delicious has new owners - @YouTube founders @Chad_Hurley and Steve Chen form new co AVOS & picked it up: http://bit.ly/m3JCRp tip @techmeme
Reuben Kan / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the new Google Docs app for Android  —  Increasingly, people are using mobile phones to access information — from email to web browsing to editing documents.  Part of getting work done on the go is being able to easily access, edit and share content, which is why we're happy to announce the new Google Docs app for Android.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Visa Makes A Strategic Investment In Disruptive Mobile Payments Startup Square  —  There is no doubt that mobile payments company Square is on a roll.  The company just landed a lucrative deal selling its credit card readers in Apple's retail stores and is growing at a fast clip.
Apple:
iPad 2 Arrives in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore & Eight Other Countries This Week  —  Apple® today announced that iPad® 2, the second-generation of its breakthrough post-PC device, will arrive in Japan on Thursday, April 28 and Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and eight additional countries on Friday …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Nokia To Cut 4,000 Jobs Worldwide, Transfer 3,000 Symbian Jobs To Accenture  —  It was inevitable.  Nokia this morning announced plans to ‘align its global workforce and consolidate site operations’.  That means significant layoffs and reorganizations across the board, of course, so here are the details:
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon's LTE network takes the night off, leaves a bunch of Thunderbolt users bewildered  —  Is your fancy new phone lacking that certain extra G that makes it special?  Worry not, it's not just your device, Verizon's entire LTE network seems to be having problems as outages have been reported from across the US.
Groklaw:
Barnes & Noble Charges Microsoft with Misusing Patents to Further an Anticompetive Scheme Against Android  —  Wednesday, April 27 2011 @ 05:55 AM EDT Barnes & Noble has answered [PDF] Microsoft's Complaint [PDF] against it for alleged patent infringement regarding it using Android in its Nook reader.
Discussion: TechFlash, Inquirer and The Next Web
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Josh Estelle / Google Chrome Blog:
Everybody's talking (and translating) with Chrome  —  Today, we're excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today's new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML.  —  Curious about how speech input can be used in real life?  Here's one example: Using Chrome …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Realtime Search Quietly Adds Quora, Gowalla, Others  —  Google Realtime Search is nothing new.  For months it has existed as its own area within the search engine's navigation to search for things happening in realtime.  But up until now, that has meant mainly Twitter (thanks to Google's data deal with that company).
SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Surprise!  Microsoft Has Sold 3 Times As Many Windows 7 Licenses As All Apple Products Combined  —  Apple has been turning in hot quarter after hot quarter, blowing away expectations.  Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, the platform underlying iPhones, iPods, and iPads, seems to be taking over the world.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
RIM Acquires Social Calendaring Application Tungle.Me  —  RIM has picked up another company today—social calendaring application Tungle.Me.  The startup taps into your social graph and simplifies the process of finding and connecting with friends and colleagues.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
CenturyLink acquires Savvis in $2.5 billion deal; Cloud, hosting consolidation continues  —  Data center hosting and cloud computing providers continue to be gobbled up.  —  CenturyLink said Wednesday that it will acquire Savvis, a hosting and cloud computing provider with big established …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Expect Apple to charge for music cloud  —  Don't expect Apple's cloud-music service to come free of charge, at least not forever.  Music industry insiders told me that Apple has indicated it could offer the service free of charge initially but that company will eventually require a fee.
Discussion: PC World and Gizmodo
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Acq-hires Data Organization Startup Daytum  —  Facebook has just made a talent acquisition out of Daytum, a two-person New York-based data collection and organization startup.  Founders Ryan Case and Nicholas Felton will be joining the product design team at Facebook.  —  From the Daytum blog:
Discussion: Daytum and Betabeat
Francis Tan / The Next Web:
80% of Android phones in China will have its default search set to Baidu  —  Yueguo Feng, general manager of Baidu's wireless business unit, announced the company's plans to further edge Google out of China by bringing Baidu search to Google-powered Android devices.
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity  —  Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services.  We are currently working to send a similar message to the one below via email to all of our registered account holders regarding …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Sony defends sluggish PSN leak warnings; Some PSN services back “within a week”
 
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John Cook / GeekWire:
SignalSet lands $6M, looks to quickly switch mobile devices between GSM and CDMA networks
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Facebook Launches Three New Sponsored Stories Types for Pages, Apps, and Websites
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
DirecTV Real Interested In Netflix, Contemplates Launching A Competitor
Discussion: CNET News and ITworld.com
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Google Apps Gets $5 Monthly Plans, Makes Business With 10+ Users Pay
Discussion: SAI and Softpedia News
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google: 50 Percent Of Those Exposed To Mobile Ads Took Action
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
AT&T and T-Mobile USA: the case against a merger
Discussion: Boing Boing
Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:
Netflix: A Subscription Model the Music Business Should Aspire To
Cade Metz / The Register:
Amazon: Some data won't be recovered after cloud outage
Discussion: Slate
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
AOL's Patch Adding 8,000 Bloggers in ‘Full-On Course Correction’
Signal vs. Noise:
Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström
Discussion: Google Watch
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names
Discussion: SAI and VentureBeat
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Mulls Spin-off for Hadoop Software Unit
Discussion: SiliconANGLE and SAI
 

 
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