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Apple:
Apple Announces New iMac With Next Generation Quad-Core Processors, Graphics & Thunderbolt I/O Technology — Apple® today updated its signature all-in-one iMac® with next generation quad-core processors, powerful new graphics, groundbreaking high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology and a new FaceTime® HD camera.
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Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple updates iMacs with Sandy Bridge processors, Thunderbolt port, FaceTime HD camera and more — After weeks of rumor mongering and days of dried up channel inventory, Apple on Tuesday finally refreshed its iMac family. The signature aluminum and glass design remained unchanged …
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MacRumors, GigaOM, Ars Technica, The Tech Trade, Inquirer, PC Magazine, Fast Company, This is my next, Engadget, MacStories, Softpedia News, Electronista and TUAW
DigiTimes:
Quanta receives tablet PC orders from Amazon, say upstream sources — Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer has recently received OEM orders from Amazon for its reported tablet PC and the device will also receive full support from Taiwan-based electrophoretic display (EPD) …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Amazon tablet shipping later this year according to new tattle
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CrunchGear and SAI
Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:
Bing meets BlackBerry; Microsoft's baby will be default search engine on RIM devices — Steve Ballmer just took the stage at BlackBerry World 2011 to let all of humanity know that the new default maps and search options on future (and present?) BlackBerry devices would be Bing. Yes, Bing.
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Bing, Between the Lines Blog, Search Engine Land, Mobilized, @gartenberg, CNET News, mocoNews, LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Between the Lines Blog, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TechEye, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, SAI, Engadget, VentureBeat, Pulse2, @lessien, Neowin.net, WMPoweruser.com, Deal Journal, @sarahintampa, WinRumors, Pocket-lint, @blackberry4biz and BerryReview.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Buy TweetDeck For $40 Million - $50 Million — Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, we've heard from a source with knowledge of the deal, and the transaction will be announced in the next few days. The $40 million - $50 million purchase price includes both cash and Twitter stock, says our source.
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Reuters, The Blog Herald, paidContent, Droid Life, Appolicious Advisor, Marketing Pilgrim, FierceMobileContent, App Advice, WebProNews, Black Web 2.0, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllTwitter, TiPb, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Android Phone Fans, SocialTimes.com, MacHackPC, Sysomos Blog, MobileBurn.com, VentureBeat, Digital Trends and @fredericl
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born — Shortly after I posted my piece on feeling curiously un-thrilled about Bin Laden's death, the following quote came across my twitter feed: … I admire the sentiment. But something about it just strikes me as off, like that great Marx quote …
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Cronaca, MediaMemo, @gaberivera, @lizgannes, @shervin and NewsGrange, more at Mediagazer »
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Bin Laden Announcement Has Highest Sustained Tweet Rate Ever, At 3440 Tweets Per Second
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Brian Solis, Emily Bell, TechCrunch, MediaPost, eWeek, Epicenter, AdAge, Poynter and SocialTimes.com, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Gilbert / Joystiq:
Sony Online loses 12,700 credit card account numbers, 24.6 million accounts compromised [update] — Following up on this morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment servers were offline across the board, SOE announced that it has lost 12,700 customer credit card numbers as the result of an attack …
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SOE, NewEnterprise, Wall Street Journal, GameLife, Engadget, Massively, Guardian, TechEye, Bits, ZDNet, BGR and CrunchGear
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Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
Til death do us part: Sony and the credit card companies
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Computerworld and Gearlog
Chris Ziegler / This is my next:
Google plays ball with carriers to kill tethering apps, violates spirit of the ‘open access’ it bid $4.6B to protect — It seems a few American carriers have started working with Google to disable access to tethering apps in the Android Market in recent weeks, ostensibly because they make it easier …
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Geek.com and Ars Technica
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Carriers crack down on Android tethering apps, rain on our mobile hotspot parade
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PC World, SAI, PhoneArena, Operation Android and Gearlog
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
Intel vying for Apple foundry business — SAN JOSE, Calif. - At present, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is making the Apple-designed A4 and A5 processors on a foundry basis for Apple Inc. — That could soon change. As reported, Apple and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) …
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Fast Company, Inquirer, I4U News, X-bit labs, thinq_, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News and TechEye
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Ownership of TV Sets Falls in U.S. — For the first time in 20 years, the number of homes in the United States with television sets has dropped. — The Nielsen Company, which takes TV set ownership into account when it produces ratings, will tell television networks and advertisers …
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Nielsen Wire, Stowe Boyd, Digital Trends, @brianstelter and Company Town, more at Mediagazer »
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Arianna Huffington's Legitimacy Problem — For months, Arianna Huffington's been trying to convince The New York Times and the general public that The Huffington Post is just as legitimate as its mainstream media counterparts. But this week, her journalistic credibility has taken a blow …
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Mediaite and Dan Shapiro
Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
South Korea police say probing Google over private data — (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday they had raided Google Inc's Seoul office on suspicions the Internet search firm's mobile advertising unit AdMob had illegally collected data, the latest setback to its operations in the country.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, Google Just Pushed Chrome Canary For Mac Out Of The Nest — This morning, we noted that Google was getting ready to release an OS X version of the Chrome Canary build. Sure enough, just hours later, here it is. — Canary is the pre-Dev build of Chrome meant for users who enjoy testing …
Electronista:
Samsung takes 200K Galaxy S II pre-orders, passes iPhone 4 — Samsung claimed an at least initial win for the Galaxy S II. The company took over 200,000 pre-orders across all three major Korean carriers between Monday of last week and the launch on Friday. About 160,000 of those were at the country's largest carrier, SK Telecom.
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IntoMobile, Pulse2, Phones Review, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, DroidMatters.com and MobileCrunch
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware — Last week I showed you how malware authors have begun using social engineering to target Google Chrome, with convincing replicas of Chrome's bright-red security screens to trick victims into installing a package of malware.
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InfoWorld, blog.chron.com, Krebs on Security, SC Magazine and The Register, Thanks:edbott
Dan Frosch / New York Times:
Buying Copyrights, Then Patrolling the Web for Infringement — DENVER — When Brian Hill, a 20-year-old blogger from North Carolina, posted on his Web site last December a photograph of an airport security officer conducting a pat-down, a legal battle was the last thing he imagined.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion to Bring iOS-Like Uninstall Process for Mac App Store Apps — As noted by Apple iGuide (via TUAW), the latest developer build of Mac OS X Lion seeded last Friday brings a new iOS-like mechanism for deleting applications installed via the Mac App Store.
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Pulse2, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Guardian, MacNN, TUAW and AppleInsider
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Foxconn has list of requirements for investing in iPhone, iPad production in Brazil — Apple manufacturer Foxconn reportedly has a list of requirements to be met by the Brazilian government before the company agrees to invest $12 billion in facilities that could eventually produce the iPad and iPhone in Brazil.
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BRIC Breaker
