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Steven Levy:
The Little Red (Face)Book — When I spoke at Facebook about In The Plex recently, rumors were swirling that the social networking giant was about to enter China, supposedly in a partnership with the search engine Baidu. So I made sure that my talk to a dining hall full of FB'ers included …
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.
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Gizmodo, Network World, Apple Bitch, Electronista, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, TUAW and iClarified
Chris Kohler / GameLife:
Sony Details PlayStation Network Revival, ‘Welcome Back’ Gift — Sony will turn on most features of the PlayStation Network within a week and offer its customers a selection of free downloads, it said early Sunday morning. — The PlayStation maker's online service for its PlayStation 3 …
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Digital Trends, Reuters, Engadget, PlayStation Blog, Gizmodo, NewEnterprise, PC Magazine, CNN, Gadgetell, PC World, SlashGear, New York Times, Kotaku, Reuters, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, IndustryGamers, Siliconera, Engadget and Bloomberg
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony executive Kaz Hirai apologizes for PlayStation Network outage
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CNET News, Guardian, SAI, Computerworld and Wall Street Journal
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday — Come Monday, AT&T will begin restricting more than 16 million broadband users based on the amount of data they use in a month. The No. 2 carrier's entry into the broadband-cap club means that a majority of U.S. broadband users …
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
The Future of Advertising will be Integrated — Banner Ads. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. They were very effective back then, with the original ad garnering a 78% click-through rate (CTR)! I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down.
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 …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intuit's GoPayment Cuts Transaction Fees, Pricing Now More In Line With Square — Inuit's GoPayment reader, which competes directly with Square, is about to become more attractive to small businesses today. The company has made the decision dropped the transaction fee ($0.15 per transaction) …
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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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
FCC opens floor for public comment on AT&T / T-Mobile deal — Since the world's engineers haven't yet come up with a way to read minds over the internet (or at all, last we checked), we're not sure what you think about the proposed marriage of T-Mobile to AT&T. We're pretty sure …
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Android Community and Android Phone Fans
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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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TeleRead, PC Magazine, Gadgetell, AppleInsider, MacHackPC, Electronista and MacRumors
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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MacHackPC, Compixels, Neowin.net, WinRumors, Microsoft News, Softpedia News and MSwin.me, Thanks:mrseb
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 …
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@dannysullivan, @pkafka and @whitehouse, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Village Voice Admits To Spamming Reddit, Begs Forgiveness — The power of a social news site comes principally from its community, so when users feel like their service is being manipulated, they take it very personally. — Two weeks ago a rag tag team of anonymous Redditors discovered …
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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.
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Gizmodo, MacRumors and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:miketrose
