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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's Upcoming ‘Reading List’ for Safari to Compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater — Apple is working on a new feature for Safari in Apple's Mac OS X Lion that will bring a different kind of bookmarking functionality to the browser. Apple calls it “Reading List” and is meant to offer users a way to save pages for later reading.
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TUAW, RazorianFly, AppleInsider, MacStories, MacHackPC, VentureBeat, Electronista, @marcoarment and iClarified
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Violet Blue / Pulp Tech Blog:
Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer — It takes “only 30 seconds” to transfer your Delicious bookmarks to its new owner AVOS, though few are aware that Delicious users are signing up to a vastly different set of terms. — Most people are unaware of what they just agreed to.
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@andrewbaron
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Every Single Person Should Take 30 Seconds to Opt-in to the Delicious Data Transfer
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CNN
Mark Milian / CNN:
Delicious founder on site's potential: ‘The time has passed’
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Hack Education, Technology Review and www.thehostingnews.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
When Will Microsoft's Internet Bloodbath End? — “Online Services Division revenue grew 14% year-over-year primarily driven by increases in search revenue.” — That was Microsoft's statement about the Online Services Division in their earnings release yesterday. Growth! Yippee!
Kellex / Droid Life:
Is Wireless Tether About to Get the Android Axe? Carriers Finally Starting to Block it? — If you aren't sure what that picture is saying, let me attempt to break it down for you. After receiving a tip that Verizon may be blocking Wireless Tether from the market, I decided to do a little digging on the variety of devices I own.
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Electronista and Android Phone Fans
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Congress Has Questions for Sony About Attack — A House of Representatives subcommittee sent a letter to Sony on Friday asking for information about the attack on the Sony Playstation Network by hackers last week. The gaming network has 77 million registered users.
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Computerworld, Technologizer, Electronista, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat
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Peter Lloyd / ABC News:
Hackers run up debt for PlayStation user
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Gamasutra, ZeroPaid.com, Chris Pirillo, The Escapist, GamePolitics News and Kotaku
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Will Reveal A Revamped Version Of Google TV Soon — The first version of Google TV may be a dud, but the company is working on the next version and could show it off at its I/O conference next month. — An industry source says the next version of Google TV has a lot more potential than today's version for three main reasons:
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Softpedia News, CNET News, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Electronista, PC World, DailyTech and Technologizer
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Lawsuits Filed Against Twitter, Facebook & MySpace For Confirming That A User No Longer Wanted Text Messages — Ah, class action lawsuits in action. If you want an idea of how the class action lawsuit process is often used for completely ridiculous purposes, just take a look …
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TechCrunch, Chris Pirillo, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear and Hillicon Valley
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey Shares Some Big Square Numbers: 341,688 Readers Shipped, $137M Total Flow — Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey just tweeted a photo of the company's internal dashboard, and, aside from looking very sexy, it's boasting some impressive numbers. Among them: Square has shipped 341,688 …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo CEO's pay package falls 75 pct to $11.9M — SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. cut CEO Carol Bartz's compensation by 75 percent to $11.9 million last year as the Internet company struggled to revive its revenue growth, regulatory documents filed Friday show. — The sharp drop in the value …
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SAI
Todd Haselton / BGR:
Adobe Flash Player 10.2 spills beans on Android 3.1 video acceleration — A recent Adobe Flash Player 10.2 update has spilled the beans on Android 3.1. The update says that Flash Player 10.2 supports “hardware accelerated video,” provided that a user is running the unannounced Android 3.1 operating system.
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Droid Life, SAI, Gizmodo and Engadget
Amy Harmon / New York Times:
Memories Lost to a Whirlwind Alight on Facebook to Be Claimed — The tornado that killed Emily Washburn's grandfather this week also destroyed his Mississippi home, leaving his family with nothing to remember him by — until a picture of him holding the dog he loved surfaced on Facebook …
Jeff Hecht / New Scientist:
Ultrafast fibre optics set new speed record — THINK your broadband internet connection is fast? Two separate research groups have just lapped the field, setting a world record by sending more than 100 terabits of information per second through a single optical fibre.
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GigaOM
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The scorecard on royal wedding internet traffic — The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton generated traffic records as millions upon millions watched the live video on the internet. — Keynote Systems, a mobile and internet cloud monitoring service, said most news web sites held up pretty well.
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Digital Life, Mashable!, Facebook UK, PC Magazine, Latest from Crain's …, Lost Remote and PC World
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Many Mulligans Does Color Get? — WARNING: mixed sports metaphors ahead. — How many do-overs does a startup get before users give up on it for good? As far as I can remember, the answer is zero. I can't think of an example where a startup launched into the wild, flailed badly …
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Telegraph
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Verizon Plans To Put Location-Tracking Warning Sticker on Phones — Verizon tells Congress that it plans to put warning labels on phones (illustration from Verizon letter to Markey and Barton) — Though Apple and Google have become the whipping boys for location privacy …
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Electronista, Phone Scoop, Engadget, VentureBeat, PC World, Techdirt, Techland, ReadWriteWeb, Know Your Cell, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileBurn.com and The Politico
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking
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Al Franken, App Advice, TUAW, RazorianFly and MacRumors
