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5:00 PM ET, May 2, 2011

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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 …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
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 …
Peter Kafka / All Things Digital:
Bin Laden Web Traffic Big But Not Historic  —  No debate that Osama bin Laden's death is one of the biggest news stories in years.  —  Except on the Web, where all of our tweeting and reading and live-streaming isn't generating nearly as much traffic as other big events of the last decade.
Discussion: Softpedia News and ITworld.com
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Just Had Its CNN Moment
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.
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Ricardo Bilton / The Toybox Blog:
IPhone location bug fix coming within next two weeks
Discussion: FreakGeeks
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 …
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 …
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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
Electronista:
Sony says PSN passwords had been put through crypto hash  —  Sony has once again commented on the longest PlayStation Network outage to date, assuring users their passwords were protected, if not encrypted.  The method used instead was called a cryptographic hash function and Sony has provided …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Sony suffers another major security breach
Discussion: BBC, Bloomberg and VentureBeat
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 …
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:   All Time Inc. iPad Magazine Apps Now Free for Print Subscribers
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: All Facebook, Pulse2 and SAI
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.
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 …
Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T to Take On Groupon With $10 Promotion for Daily Deal Site  —  AT&T Inc. (T), aiming to tap the billion- dollar market for online coupons dominated by Groupon Inc., will introduce its own discount site within the coming weeks in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth.
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.
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.
Sean Milliken / MissionFish:
Exciting News - MissionFish acquired by eBay  —  We're taking the next step in expanding our impact.  — Today I am pleased to announce that MissionFish has been acquired by eBay from the Points of Light Institute.  This is a big step in the evolution of MissionFish …
Discussion: eBay Ink, TechCrunch and WebProNews
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple now world's second-largest buyer of accelerometers, gyroscopes, microphones  —  The multitude of sensors found in devices like the iPhone 4, iPad and iPod touch have made Apple the second-largest buyer of microelectromechanical sensors, with the company positioned to overtake market leader Samsung.
 
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Abhiram Nandakumar / Reuters:
Nortel gets court nods for Google's “stalking horse”
Discussion: Electronista
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Boingo IPO to Test the Strength of Wireless Boom
Discussion: Renaissance Capital
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Ex-Gaia Online CEO joins VC firm
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Google's Eric Schmidt Pours $1.5 Million Into An Online Ad Startup
Discussion: Globes Online
John Boudreau / Seattle Times:
Despite friction in China, Google digs in
Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Brightcove Streaming 700 Million Videos A Month; Granted Broad Patent For Online Video
Discussion: GigaOM, Thanks:beet_tv
 Earlier Items: 
Semil Shah / TechCrunch:
The P2P Evolution  —  Many years ago, after graduating college …
Discussion: GigaOM
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
How to Find Love on Facebook
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
The Scandal Of Toothless Social Media Representatives Ends... Now
Richard Bejtlich / TaoSecurity:
Early Review of Ghost in the Wires
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Preliminary white iPhone 4 teardowns reveal modified lens, proximity sensor
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming
 
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