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1:55 AM ET, May 1, 2011

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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple preparing to introduce Sandy Bridge iMacs early next week - sources  —  Apple as early as next week will deliver a much-needed refresh to its iMac line of all-in-one desktops, adopting Intel's newest family of Core processors and the latest in personal computing I/O technology, AppleInsider has learned.
Isabel Reynolds / Reuters:
Sony: to resume some PlayStation Network services this week  —  (Reuters) - Sony said it would resume some PlayStation Network services this week and offer some free content to attract users back after a huge security breach that allowed the theft of personal information belonging to 77 million accounts.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologizes for PlayStation Network outage  —  Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologized to gamers around the world today in a press event in the wake of the 10-day outage of the hacked PlayStation Network.  —  Hirai and other Sony executives and apologized …
Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
How Like.com Shut Down A Competitor-And Broke Up Its Funding Round  —  Updated: The tech press is chock full of stories of benevolent companies and entrepreneurs helping each other out—"helping the ecosystem."  This often results in venture funding, which is the outcome of friendly deal-making between investors.
Discussion: K9 Ventures
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Barack Obama Wants You To Watch His Funny YouTube Video  —  The White House Correspondent's Dinner, an annual tradition where the media and political elite meet to roast each other, with mixed results, just finished up.  Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers hosted the event …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
What Safari's “Reading List” in Lion means for Instapaper  —  Mac Rumors reports on a new Safari feature in Lion called Reading List: … I've known about this for a little while (I'm not privy to the Lion betas since I only have the iOS developer membership, but friends have told me), and I'm not worried about it.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's Upcoming ‘Reading List’ for Safari to Compete with Instapaper and ReadItLater
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too  —  We've seen a trifecta of failures and/or screwups over the past couple of weeks, from three of the world's technology giants: Apple was shown to be keeping a log of the location of millions of iPhone users …
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Apple's unique brand of crisis management
Discussion: TUAW
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Opponents: kill AT&T bid for T-Mobile, Qualcomm licenses at same time  —  The Federal Communications Commission has launched the pleading cycle for the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.  The union would make AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier, with over 41 percent of wireless subscriber market share.
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
FCC opens floor for public comment on AT&T / T-Mobile deal
Spencer Ackerman / Wired.com:
Unfollowed: How a (Possible) Social Network Spy Came Undone  —  It started out with a leggy, bikini-clad avatar.  She said she was a missile expert — the “1st Lady of Missiles,” in fact — but sometimes suggested she worked with the CIA.  With multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts …
Michael Geist Blog:
Wikileaks on New Zealand Copyright: US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation  —  This week I published multiple posts Wikileaks cables revelations on the U.S. lobbying pressure on Canadian copyright including attempts to embarrass Canada, joint efforts with lobby groups such as CRIA …
Discussion: Techdirt
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Rumor: Evidence for a Castle in the ‘iCloud’ for Lion  —  French blog Consomac sent us a heads-up that they've done a bit of digging in the current developer preview, searching for further evidence of the suggested Find My Mac feature in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and the fabled iCloud domain name.
Discussion: MacRumors and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:miketrose
Lee Mathews / Geek.com:
Leaked Windows 8 builds reveal Windows Store and its logo  —  While those screenshots of the supposed “Windows App Store” turned out, as expected, to be fakes, there's no doubt Microsoft is working on something along those lines to deliver in Windows 8.  In fact, some of the bits are already …
 
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Wikileaks Cables Show Massive U.S. Effort to Establish Canadian DMCA
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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
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