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

3:35 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 “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.

Sheldon Levine / Sysomos Blog:

How Fast the News Spreads Through Social Media — Unless you have been totally disconnected from any sort of news over the past 12 hours, you've no doubt heard that Osama Bin Laden has been found and killed. Barack Obama, President of the United States, made the announcement late last night …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Bits, CNNMoney.com, GeekSugar and MarketingVOX

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google & The Death Of Osama Bin Laden

Discussion: CNET News, Ogle Earth and Softpedia News, 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.

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: Hardware 2.0 Blog, MacRumors, BGR, The Toybox Blog, Techland, GottaBeMobile, Gadget Lab, Geek.com, TUAW, MacHackPC, iPhone in Canada Blog, IntoMobile, I4U News and Softpedia News

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, SlashGear, SAI, CNET News, TechEye, MobileCrunch, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile and BGR

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: Technologizer, BGR and Gizmodo

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

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, GottaBeMobile and blog.chron.com

Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:

Fired Facebook Acquisitions Exec Lands at Twitter — Mike Brown, the former Facebook corporate development executive who was dismissed for buying its stock on secondary markets, has taken a similar job at Twitter. — Brown, who had helped negotiate many of Facebook's so-called …

Discussion: SAI

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Wikileaks Founder: Facebook is the most appalling spy machine that has ever been invented — Despite awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is still the subject of much media interest. — Russia Today (RT) interviewed Assange …

Discussion: Digital Trends, Network World, rt.com, @mrinaldesai and Mashable!, Thanks:cbm

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

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: PC World, eWeek, BGR, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Inside Facebook, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Electronista, BGR, BGR and The Business Insider

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, Reuters, Gawker, Softpedia News and SAI

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

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Google takes top spot in reputation rankings; Apple, Intel, Amazon close behind — Google ranked highest in corporate reputation, according to a Harris Interactive survey. Among tech companies, Apple, Intel and Amazon also rated highly. — According to the 12th Annual Harris Interactive …

Discussion: SAI, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, CNET News, TechFlash and Electronista

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Preliminary white iPhone 4 teardowns reveal modified lens, proximity sensor — Early teardown images of Apple's white iPhone 4 appear to show a more recessed rear-facing camera lens and a slightly modified proximity sensor. — After a 10-month delay, Apple launched the white iPhone 4 around the world last week.

Discussion: iPhone Download Blog, iPhone Buzz and I4U News

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