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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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AppleInsider, The Apple Core Blog, eWeek, TidBITS, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Shiny Objects, LAPTOP Magazine, Computerworld, Dice Blog Network, BetaNews, CNET News, CIOInsight, TechEye, TUAW, PC World, WebProNews, MacDailyNews, DailyTech, Redmond Pie, @jason, MacHackPC, Pulse2, Apple Bitch, Digital Trends, TiPb, The Next Web, The Loop, Techland, The Tech Report, SAI, Gadget Lab, Geek.com, MacStories, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, everythingiCafe and The Toybox Blog
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Apple iMac hands-on, with dual 30-inch displays! (video) — One Thunderbolt port on your new MacBook Pro? Pah. The new 27-inch iMac has twice that many — two. When we got ours out of the box we just had to do the natural thing: fire up as many pixels as possible.
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TUAW and techeblog.com
Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple updates iMacs with Sandy Bridge processors, Thunderbolt port, FaceTime HD camera and more
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This is my next, Engadget, Computerworld, MacStories, MacRumors, Ars Technica, PC World, GigaOM, TUAW, Inquirer, PC Magazine, CrunchGear, Electronista, Fast Company, The Tech Trade and Softpedia News
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of computer data — The assault force of Navy SEALs snatched a trove of computer drives and disks during their weekend raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, yielding what a U.S. official called “the mother lode of intelligence.”
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NewEnterprise, Yahoo! News, eWeek, Computerworld, Geek.com, WebProNews, Boing Boing, Techland, Pulse2, Gizmodo and Danger Room
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born
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The Daily What and MediaMemo, more at Mediagazer »
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Computerworld, Bing, @gartenberg, SAI, The Next Web, MobileTechWorld, InfoWorld, Techland, Between the Lines Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Gadget Lab, All about Microsoft Blog, CNET News, MobileBurn.com, Mobilized, Engadget, SAI, Search Engine Land, GMSV, ITworld.com, mocoNews, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, LiveSide.net, @sarahintampa, @lessien, MobileCrunch, WMPoweruser.com, Deal Journal, Neowin.net, @blackberry4biz, WinRumors, BerryReview.com, Pulse2 and MarketingVOX
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Bing Becomes Default Search & Maps on BlackBerry Phones, Deeply Integrated in OS — This morning at the BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida, RIM President and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis was joined by RIM's industry partners to talk about and demonstrate the company's products and solutions in action.
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PC World, Computerworld, SAI, The Toybox Blog and IntoMobile
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, MediaMemo, I4U News, bijan sabet, Stowe Boyd, MarketingVOX, Electronista, @dougw and Digital Trends, more at Mediagazer »
Henry Blodget / Yahoo! Finance:
Apple Will Become A Trillion-Dollar Company, Says Altucher — $1,000 A Share — Apple recently blew past Microsoft, Cisco, and other companies to become the most valuable tech company in the world. — But that's just the beginning, says investor James Altucher of Formula Capital.
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9 to 5 Mac and BGR
Lee Spears / Bloomberg:
Renren Seeks Twice Facebook Valuation in Social-Media IPO — Renren Inc., China's biggest social- networking website by page views, is seeking a valuation more than double that of Facebook Inc. as it aims to raise as much as $743.4 million in a U.S. initial public offering today.
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TechCrunch, Pulse2 and Wall Street Journal
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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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SAI, Between the Lines Blog, Fast Company, thinq_, I4U News and Inquirer
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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The Seattle Times, PC Magazine, Shiny Objects, GeekWire, LAPTOP Magazine, Crave, CNET News, Ubergizmo, CrunchGear, msnbc.com, Techie Buzz, BGR, TechSpot, The Toybox Blog, Geek.com, SAI, PC World, SlashGear, DisplayBlog, GigaOM, Techland, TomsTechBlog.com, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, Between the Lines Blog, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, VentureBeat and ITProPortal
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
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
EA Acquires Firemint to Bulk Up Mobile Gaming Talent — Electronic Arts is acquiring Firemint, the independent mobile development studio in Melbourne, Australia, known for such hits as Flight Control and Real Racing. — The game company is characterizing the acquisition as bringing …
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Guardian, Business Wire, Shiny Objects, VentureBeat, Inside Mobile Apps, iPhone in Canada Blog, Touch Arcade, Macworld, TechCrunch, TUAW, Kotaku, MacStories, IntoMobile and Pulse2
Music Ally:
RIAA figures reveal US music revenues for 2010 — Music subscription services had 1.5 million paying users in the US last year, up from 1.2 million in 2009. That's according to new figures from the RIAA, which says revenues for these services still fell from $213 million in 2009 to $201 million in 2010.
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VatorNews
Mark Milian / CNN:
Game developer braces for fight with Apple over name — Apple plans to release AirDrop, a file-transfer utility, in its new Mac operating system. A mobile game with that name already exists. — (CNN) — When Christiaan Rendle first heard Apple promoting software called AirDrop …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Adapteva Pitches A Supercomputer For Your Phone — The brains inside your smartphone are getting more power with the latest application processors having two processing cores to help speed up the delivery of web site load times and mobile gameplay. That's pretty awesome, but Adapteva …
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PC World, Digits, Electronista, SlashGear and Geek.com
Patrick Moor / Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice and Sprint integration is live — It's official, the Google Voice integration with Sprint is now live! — As we mentioned when we first announced the integration, there are two ways to bring Google Voice to your Sprint mobile phone: — Option 1: Keep your Sprint number …
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AndroidGuys, NewsGrange, Gizmodo, MobileBurn.com and Android Phone Fans
Zee / The Next Web:
Rackspace to Shut Down Slicehost — In a letter to its customers, Rackspace VP of Product Mark Interrante has announced that Slicehost, the IT hosting company Rackspace acquired in 2008 will be shut down. — Interrante gives the complexities of managing “two brands, two control panels …
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GigaOM
Josh Jacobson / Xobni Blog:
Introducing the Xobni Gadget Store. Kick your email up a notch with Evernote, Yammer, Salesforce, Chatter, Dropbox, JIRA, WebEx and more. — Today marks a major milestone for Xobni—and for our customers. You may already have been following the progress of our Xobni Gadget platform …
Bloomberg:
Justice Department to Extend Review of T-Mobile Bid by AT&T — The U.S. Justice Department extended its review of the proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA Inc. by AT&T Inc. (T), asking the companies for more information, two people familiar with the situation said.
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Reuters, DSLreports, TmoNews, Electronista, Hillicon Valley and FierceWireless
Business Wire:
XYDO Launches Web's First Social Network for News — Each Day, Over 1.1M XYDO Contributors Curate Tens of Thousands of Articles Across Over 1K User-Created Subjects — PARK CITY, Utah—(BUSINESS WIRE)—XYDO today announced the public launch of its new social network …
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ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, @fredericl, @alexia, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan and @xydoapp, more at Mediagazer »
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Facebook Responds To Julian Assange's ‘Spying Machine’ Allegations — It's possible that Julian Assange has been watching too much of the Onion News Network while cooling his heels in Britain. The ONN recently satirically reported about how the “CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the U.S. government millions of dollars.”
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CNET News, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, Tom's Guide, ITProPortal, Inquirer and The Next Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Stipple Opens The Kimono To Reveal A Product Tagging Platform With Massive Potential — When we first covered Stipple in September of last year, it seemed like a really cool idea: tag people in images no matter where they reside on the web — not just on Flickr or Facebook.
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NetworkEffect and Social Markets
