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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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AppleInsider, VentureBeat, TUAW, @marcoarment, MacStories, MacHackPC, Electronista and iClarified
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Peter Lloyd / ABC News:
Hackers run up debt for PlayStation user — An Adelaide PlayStation user whose private details were held by the Sony Corporation has had $2,000 of unauthorised charges run up on his credit card in recent days. — It could be the first documented case of fraud in the wake of the theft …
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Gamasutra, ZeroPaid.com, Chris Pirillo, VG247, The Escapist, GamePolitics News and Kotaku
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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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Technologizer, Electronista, PE Hub Blog and VentureBeat
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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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!
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SAI
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, Technologizer and GigaOM
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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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
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
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, PC World, VentureBeat, 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, RazorianFly, TUAW and MacRumors
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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Mashable!, Digital Life, Facebook UK, PC Magazine, Latest from Crain's …, Lost Remote and PC World
Cory Hicks / The Netflix Tech Blog:
Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage — On Thursday, April 21st, Amazon experienced a large outage in AWS US-East which they describe here. This outage was highly publicized because it took down or severely hampered a number of popular websites that depend on AWS for hosting.
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ReadWriteWeb, Ars Technica, The Register, Data Center Knowledge, Mashable!, Network World and InfoQ
Alex Pham / Pop & Hiss:
Price war! Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes — Amazon.com, which is a distant No. 2 to Apple Inc. as a retailer of downloadable music, has upped the ante or, rather, lowered its prices to compete with iTunes. — The Seattle online company is now pricing select top-selling tunes …
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Softpedia News, MacRumors, App Advice, Digital Trends, Electronista, Techland, SlashGear, GeekWire, TechSpot, Engadget, RazorianFly, iLounge, Pulse2, iClarified, Gizmodo and hypebot
Jacob Aron / New Scientist:
That's what she said: Software that tells dirty jokes — Double entendres have been making us laugh since the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, but up until now computers weren't in on the joke. Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, two computer scientists at the University of Washington …
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Popular Science, Techdirt and The Escapist
MIT:
Amar Bose '51 makes stock donation to MIT — Bose Corporation will remain private and independent; dividends will sustain and advance MIT's mission. — Dr. Amar Bose '51 — Dr. Amar Bose '51, Bose Corporation's Founder, has given to MIT the majority of the stock of Bose Corporation in the form of non-voting shares.
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PC Magazine, I4U News and CrunchGear
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
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 …
