Techmeme: Sony defends sluggish PSN leak warnings; Some PSN services back “within a week” (Chris Davies/SlashGear)

11:00 AM ET, April 27, 2011

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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.

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.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Inquirer, SAI, Hillicon Valley and The Cell Phone Junkie

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:

Apple Hints That It Will Release Turn-By-Turn Navigation On The iPhone — Apple's lengthy response to the whole location tracking scandal includes this nugget: — Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users …

Discussion: MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and Engadget

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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 …

Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Sony defends sluggish PSN leak warnings; Some PSN services back “within a week”

Discussion: PlayStation Blog, Joystiq, Games blog, F-Secure Antivirus …, VG247, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint and GamePolitics News

Fahmida Y. Rashid / eWeek:
Sony PlayStation Network Data Breach Compromises 77 Million User Accounts

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Disruptors, @morrildl, MacHackPC, ZeroPaid.com, Guardian and PC World

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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Cade Metz / The Register:

Amazon: Some data won't be recovered after cloud outage — Post mortem wait — Amazon says that about 0.07 per cent of the EBS storage volumes in the East Region of its infrastructure cloud are not “fully recoverable” following the extended outage that hit the service last Thursday.

Discussion: Fast Company, Computerworld and ZDNet

Slate: Will Amazon's recent server failures slow the rise of cloud computing?

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 …

Discussion: CNET News, BGR, AppleInsider, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, RazorianFly, LiewCF Tech Blog, Pluggd.in, TUAW, MacHackPC, Electronista, TiPb and CrunchGear

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).

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Quora and Black Web 2.0

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.

Discussion: thechromesource

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.

Discussion: All Things Digital, Tungle.me, SAI, Engadget, CloudAve, @sameerpatel and Electronista

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names — Kevin Rose has completed a hefty $1.5 million angel round for his new mobile development lab, which we first reported in March, Milk. Rose went for the more-is-more approach, pulling in a wide-syndicate of Valley elites, including TechCrunch's Michael Arrington.

Discussion: VentureBeat, SAI, @jason and Pulse2

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Expect Apple to charge for music cloud — Apple could offer a cloud music service for free initially, but consumers are eventually going to have to pay for access, sources said. More — Share — 2 HOURS AGO — A back-to-the-future tube amplifier? — ANALYSIS Steve Guttenberg

Discussion: ITProPortal, GottaBeMobile, iPhone Download Blog and PadGadget

Dai Pham / Google Mobile Ads Blog:

Smartphone user study shows mobile movement under way — 71% of smartphone users search because of an ad they've seen either online or offline; 82% of smartphone users notice mobile ads, 74% of smartphone shoppers make a purchase as a result of using their smartphones to help with shopping …

Discussion: GigaOM, broadstuff, SAI, NevilleHobson.com, App Advice and Android Phone Fans

Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google: 50 Percent Of Those Exposed To Mobile Ads Took Action

Discussion: Electronista

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo Mulls Spin-off for Hadoop Software Unit — Yahoo Inc., which generates $6 billion in annual revenue by selling online ads, is considering a new strategy to exploit what analysts say could be another billion-dollar business: Hadoop. — Over the past six years, the Internet pioneer helped …

Discussion: SAI, Softpedia News and ReadWriteWeb

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 …

Discussion: GigaOM, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunch, CenturyLink, Telecompetitor and Dow Jones Newswires

Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:

Google Apps Gets $5 Monthly Plans, Makes Business With 10+ Users Pay — Earlier today, Google announced some changes to its Google Apps accounts. First the bad news: business with more than 10 users now have to sign up for a paid Google Apps for Business account when they sign up for a new account …

Discussion: SAI, Softpedia News, InfoWorld, Google Enterprise Blog, The Register, The Next Web and thechromesource

Signal vs. Noise:

Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström — “Jaiku was not much more than a year old when we were acquired. It was like hitching a ride on a firecracker!” says Jyri Engeström, co-founder of Jaiku. — “I poured my heart and soul into designing the service with our small team,” …

Discussion: @loic

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

AOL's Patch Adding 8,000 Bloggers in ‘Full-On Course Correction’ — Ah, memories. Image via Wikipedia — Arianna Huffington must not be taking that class action lawsuit against her too seriously. Not only is AOL's new content chief not cutting down on the use of unpaid bloggers, she's doubling down — literally.

Discussion: paidContent, Marketing Pilgrim, Street Fight and SAI, more at Mediagazer »

Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:

DirecTV Real Interested In Netflix, Contemplates Launching A Competitor — DirecTV (DTV) hit up some of their customers today with a web survey. A very interesting web survey. As it's nearly all about Netflix (NFLX) - usage patterns, both physical discs and online streaming.

Discussion: DSLreports

John Cook / GeekWire:

SignalSet lands $6M, looks to quickly switch mobile devices between GSM and CDMA networks — No matter what carrier you choose, wireless coverage oftentimes is spotty. But imagine if you could overlay the coverage of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile into one uber-network of sorts?

Discussion: VentureBeat and TechFlash

Glenn Peoples / Billboard.Biz:

Netflix: A Subscription Model the Music Business Should Aspire To — If the record industry wants music subscription services to become mainstream products, it should pay close attention to the factors behind growth at Netflix. In the first quarter of 2011, the online video rental service …

Discussion: blackrimglasses.com

Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:

Facebook Launches Three New Sponsored Stories Types for Pages, Apps, and Websites — Facebook has just launched three new types of Sponsored Stories — the ad unit it launched in January that turns user activity into ads shown to their friends. The new types expand the kinds of user activity …

Discussion: All Facebook and Inside Social Games

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