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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:
Q&A: Jobs and Apple Execs on Tracking Down the Facts About iPhones and Location — Although Apple was silent for several days after researchers raised issues about location information being stored on the iPhone, that wasn't because it was ignoring the issue.
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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.
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Apple Hints That It Will Release Turn-By-Turn Navigation On The iPhone
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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 …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Finally: white iPhone 4 arrives April 28 on AT&T and Verizon
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PC World, Inquirer, App Advice and CNET News
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.
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Ross Miller / This is my next:
Google Docs for Android goes native (sort of), new app lets you capture text with camera
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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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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Delicious Finds a New Home at AVOS, YouTube Founders' New Company — Yahoo today announced that it has sold the bookmarking service Delicious to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen. According to Yahoo, the plan is to continue the service and “make the site even easier and more fun to save …
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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.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Barnes & Noble says Microsoft is attacking Android with its patent-infringement claims — Barnes & Noble has filed its response to Microsoft's claim from earlier this year that the Android-based Nook e-reader violates Microsoft patents — complete with allegations around Microsoft's tactics …
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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.
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Network World, Gametime IP, TechFlash and Inquirer
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 …
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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.
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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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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Memo gives full details of Nokia staff cull and closures
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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.
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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 …
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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:
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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).
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Search Engine Watch, Quora, Search Engine Land and Black Web 2.0
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Magnet Systems Lands $12.6 Million Round From Andreessen Horowitz — Alfred Chuang was the A in BEA Systems, the software company that was acquired by Oracle in 2008. His new venture is an outfit called Magnet Systems, which is making a play in the social enterprise space …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
An Update To My Investment Policy — Before TechCrunch I was an occasional angel investor, going back to the mid 1990s. I've made occasional investments since TechCrunch, in companies like Dogster, DanceJam, Seesmic and Daylife. Some people have seen this as a conflict of interest, which it of course is.
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Judge sides with Oracle over patent language — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has largely sided with Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) over how several technical terms will be defined in its patent fight over Google's (GOOG.O) Android software, according to a tentative ruling.
Sean Michael Kerner / Datamation:
Novell Sale to Attachmate Completed — Today is the last day that Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) will exist as a publicly traded company. Trading in Novell's stock will cease at the close of business, as the company is taken private. — Novell is being acquired by privately held Attachmate in a deal that closes today.
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