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1:50 PM ET, May 2, 2011

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Here's the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden — Yesterday Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual on Twitter) was just a “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains”, specifically Abbottabad, northern Pakistan. — The IT contractor and graduate …

Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Twitter Just Had Its CNN Moment — It's a great time to be working at Twitter. — Remember CNN when the Gulf War started in 1990? Before then, it was watched mostly by obsessive news followers — people in finance and government, political science professors, insomniacs.

Discussion: CNNMoney.com, VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Not-So Private Parts, PC World, CNN, C-Scape, GMSV, WebProNews, Boing Boing, NBC Bay Area, SAI, Mashable!, The Next Web, Gearlog, CNET News, everwas, GeekWire and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter — @keithurbahn — So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn. — about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite — According to the Twitter-sphere …

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google & The Death Of Osama Bin Laden — I remember distinctly how Google reacted during the 9/11 attacks. Miserably, effectively telling people to go away and turn on television news, because its results were so out of date. How things have changed, in so many ways. — Recall Google back on September 11:

Discussion: Softpedia News, Ogle Earth and Mashable!, more at Mediagazer »

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple to fix location tracking bug in iOS 4.3.3; due out soon — One of our Apple sources has just informed us that Apple isn't wasting anytime fixing the infamous location tracking issue in the iPhone and other iOS devices — it's going to be addressed in an update within the next two weeks, possibly sooner, in iOS version 4.3.3.

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Time Inc. in iPad Deal With Apple — Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple and lending support to Time's contention …

Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
All Time Inc. iPad Magazine Apps Now Free for Print Subscribers

Discussion: PC World and Bloggasm

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

RIM announces BlackBerry 7 OS with better browser and BlackBerry Balance, but no legacy support — The BB OS 6.1 update that grew too big for its name has just been made official by RIM as BlackBerry 7. Its ambassador into the wide world of smartphones will be the newly minted BlackBerry Bold Touch …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, PC World, CNET News, mocoNews, SAI, CNET News, TechEye, BGR, SlashGear, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch and Pocket-lint

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

BlackBerry Bold 9900 / 9930 gets official, finally touch and type — After years of waiting from BlackBerry users, the ultimate BlackBerry has finally been made official. We broke the story on the next generation BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930, and we even spent some one-on-one time with it …

Myriam Joire / Engadget:
BlackBerry Bold 9900 hands-on (update: video)

Discussion: BGR and Gizmodo

Mike Gikas / Consumer Reports News:

Apple's White iPhone is not thicker than black version — Wearing black is the time-honored technique for appearing thinner without shrinking an inch. Apparently it works for the iPhone 4, as well. Recently an avalanche of news and tech sites reported that the white iPhone 4 was thicker …

Discussion: Observatory, BGR, The Toybox Blog, MacHackPC, IntoMobile, I4U News and Electronista

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Preliminary white iPhone 4 teardowns reveal modified lens, proximity sensor

Discussion: iPhone Download Blog, SlashGear, I4U News and MacHackPC

Gizmodo:

The New Essential Apps April 2011: iPhone, Android, iPad and Windows Phone — iPhones. iPads. Android. And Windows Phone 7! We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps.

Discussion: SAI, WinRumors and blog.chron.com

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Numbers Feed IPO Outlook — Facebook Inc.'s business is growing faster than it forecast several months ago, raising the stakes for an initial public offering as early as spring of next year, said people who have seen Facebook's recent financial information.

Discussion: VatorNews, All Facebook, SAI, Softpedia News, Reuters, Friending Facebook Blog and FM Blog

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:

Google's Eric Schmidt Pours $1.5 Million Into An Online Ad Startup — Google chairman Eric Schmidt just invested into Eyeview Digital, an Israeli startup that helps advertisers deliver highly personalized video ads, Globes reports via investor Ouriel Ohayon.

Discussion: Globes Online

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

DISH And EchoStar Settle Patent Litigation With TiVo, Agree To Pay $500 Million — DISH Network and EchoStar this morning announced that they've agreed to pay TiVo $500 million to settle all of their ongoing patent litigation with the digital video recorder company.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Reuters, VatorNews, Ars Technica, PR Newswire, The Digital Home, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, dish.client.shareholder.com, paidContent, paidContent, The Tech Trade, WebProNews, Engadget, Electronista and Softpedia News

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

BlackBerry PlayBook to get Video Chat and Facebook apps in May — Who's going to get the very first “tablet-optimized” Facebook app? Why, it's RIM and the PlayBook! The Canadian company has today revealed it's bringing a native Facebook app to its 7-inch, QNX-based slate, which will also be joined by a new Video Chat application.

Discussion: eWeek, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, LAPTOP Magazine, Inside Facebook, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, BGR, BGR, ReadWriteWeb, The Business Insider, Electronista and Pocket-lint

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off — News Corp., which is getting ready to part with MySpace, is now prepping a move for another one of its big Web properties. — The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site …

Discussion: alarm:clock, MediaPost, Digital Trends, IndustryGamers, Gamasutra, The Escapist, Neowin.net, VentureBeat and GamePolitics News, more at Mediagazer »

John Boudreau / Seattle Times:

Despite friction in China, Google digs in — BEIJING — Google may appear to be under siege in China, but a sense of normalcy — Google style — pervades the company's headquarters here. — Googlers, when they are aren't writing codes or working on new advertising strategies …

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim

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