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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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TidBITS, PC World, This is my next, AppleInsider, The Apple Core Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CrunchGear, FT Tech Hub, 1001 Noisy Cameras, eWeek, MacDailyNews, Dice Blog Network, DailyTech, Redmond Pie, MacHackPC, Computerworld, CIOInsight, LAPTOP Magazine, TiPb, The Next Web, The Loop, TUAW, The Tech Report, Geek.com, BetaNews, MacStories, Softpedia News, Shiny Objects, @jason, TechEye, Uncrate, Apple Bitch, Ars Technica, Inquirer, Pulse2, The Tech Trade, Digital Trends, Techland, WebProNews, SAI, Electronista, Gadget Lab, MacRumors, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, MacNN, 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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Technologizer, TUAW, MacStories, Macworld, MacRumors, GigaOM, Geohot, iClarified, MacNN and BGR
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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Yahoo! News, eWeek, Gizmodo, ITworld.com, Boing Boing, Geek.com, Techland, Pulse2, Danger Room, WebProNews, PC Magazine and Gear Live
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
What's on Osama bin Laden's Hard Drive? Hopefully a Lot. — Can you imagine what evil yet useful informational treasures might be found on Osama bin Laden's computer? — As details about the daring raid on Abbottabad continue to emerge, we're learning more not only about how Navy Seals found …
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MediaPost, PC World and MarketBeat
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Dissolves Search Group Internally, Now Called “Knowledge” — Google has seven major product groups. Advertising, Commerce & Local, Mobile (Android), Social, Chrome, YouTube and Search. Search is, of course, Google's first and most important product. But that group actually no longer exists internally.
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SAI
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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Brian Caulfield / Shiny Objects:
1.2 Million Fewer American Households Own A Television
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Nielsen Wire, Engadget, GigaOM, Mashable! and Telecompetitor
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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App Advice, MacNN, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR and I4U News
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, PC World, Computerworld, MobileTechWorld, All about Microsoft Blog, Fone Arena, Techland, The Next Web, InfoWorld, Between the Lines Blog, reddit.com, MobileBurn.com, Mobilized, @gartenberg, SAI, CNET News, Macworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TUAW, Engadget, Internet Evolution, Pocket-lint, LiveSide.net, @sarahintampa, @lessien, Gadget Lab, MobileCrunch, Deal Journal, Neowin.net, @blackberry4biz, Softpedia News, BerryReview.com, Pulse2, MarketingVOX, ITworld.com, Ars Technica, SAI, WMPoweruser.com, Search Engine Land, WinRumors, mocoNews and TechEye
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook's Infrastructure Czar Jonathan Heiliger Leaves — Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook's vice president of Technical Operations, has been the Palo Alto-based web giant's public face when it comes to all things infrastructure. And today (May 3rd), he announced that he would leave the company at the end of the summer.
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All Facebook and SAI
Cade Metz / The Register:
HP engineering veep spills cloud plans onto LinkedIn — Ruby, Java, open source, [Microsoft Azure] — HP is building a wide range of public cloud services, including Amazon-like “infrastructure clouds” offering instant access to readily scalable processing power, storage …
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SAI
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
IP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says — In the last year various copyright holders have sued well over 100,000 alleged file-sharers in the United States alone. The purpose of these lawsuits is to obtain the personal details of the alleged infringers …
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@kevinmarks, I4U News, Ars Technica, PlagiarismToday and TechEye
Jack Kent / iSuppli:
Revenue for Major Mobile App Stores to Rise 77.7 Percent in 2011 — Combined revenues from the four major mobile application stores run by Apple Inc., Google Inc., Nokia Corp. and Research In Motion Ltd. will leap 77.7 percent in 2011 to $3.8 billion, with the Apple App Store projected to eat …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors and Electronista
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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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VatorNews, Reuters, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Pulse2 and SAI
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, GottaBeMobile, Android News, Rumours …, Android Phone Fans, MobileBurn.com, NewsGrange, Gizmodo and Lifehacker
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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Computerworld, Digits, SlashGear, Electronista and Geek.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings: In Ten Years, “We Will All Have A Gigabit To The Home” — Netflix is blowing the doors off its business, with $3 billion in annualized revenue and a $12 billion market cap driven by the transition to streaming online video. In terms of hours watched …
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GigaOM, SAI and paidContent
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
PC rental store accused of using webcams, keyloggers on customers — Built-in webcams are becoming more and more common in computers these days, and in turn, they are becoming more and more of a liability. A Wyoming couple is now accusing national rent-to-own chain Aaron's Inc. of spying …
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The Not-So Private Parts, Chris Pirillo, Techland, Associated Press and Casper Star-Tribune
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
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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Friending Facebook Blog, SAI, VatorNews, CNET News, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, The Next Web, Tom's Guide, ITProPortal, Inquirer and Disruptors
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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ReadWriteWeb, PC World and GigaOM
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
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Sponsored Stories Ads Have 46% Higher CTR, 18% Lower Cost Per Fan Says TBG Digital Test — Facebook Ads API service provider TBG Digital has revealed that in a 10-day, 3-client, 2 billion impression test, Facebook's new Sponsored Stories ad units received a 46% higher click through rate …
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All Facebook, Thanks:joshconstine
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple No Longer Accepting App Store Reviews for Redeemed Promo Codes — As noted in the forums at our sister site Touch Arcade, Apple has apparently made a change to its App Store app review policies, no longer permitting users who have obtained applications via promo code to leave reviews for them.
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iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN
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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Business Wire, TUAW, Touch Arcade, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inside Mobile Apps, Kotaku, MacStories, IntoMobile, Shiny Objects and Pulse2
Anand Rajaraman / Datawocky:
Goodbye, Kosmix. Hello, @WalmartLabs — Two weeks ago, I announced the exciting news that Kosmix had agreed to be acquired by Walmart, the world's largest retailer. At that point, the deal was signed but subject to customary closing conditions. Today, I'm delighted to announce …
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@jason, @walmartlabs and MarketingVOX
