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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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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, Geohot, MacStories, MacRumors, GigaOM and techeblog.com
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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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
What's on Osama bin Laden's Hard Drive? Hopefully a Lot.
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MediaPost and MarketBeat
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Out of Osama's Death, A Fake Quotation is Born
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MediaMemo, more at Mediagazer »
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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Gizmodo, MediaMemo, Ars Technica, I4U News, Stowe Boyd, MarketingVOX, NewsGrange, Electronista, @dougw, bijan sabet, Consumer Reports News and Digital Trends, more at Mediagazer »
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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
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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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, BGR and I4U News
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
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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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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Reuters, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Dissolves Search Group Internally, Now Called “Knowledge” — Google has eight 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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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, Techland, Casper Star-Tribune, Associated Press and Associated Press
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 …, Gizmodo, NewsGrange, MobileBurn.com and Android Phone Fans
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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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, Guardian, Touch Arcade, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Shiny Objects, TechCrunch, Inside Mobile Apps, Kotaku, MacStories, IntoMobile and Macworld
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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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
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
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 and GigaOM
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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SAI, Friending Facebook Blog, VatorNews, Techie Buzz, Tom's Guide, CNET News, ITProPortal, Pulse2, The Next Web, Inquirer and Disruptors
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 …
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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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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
RIM Demos Core Apps, Android Apps on PlayBook — At this morning's BlackBerry World conference, the audience attending RIM's CEO Mike Lazaridis' keynote address was given a sneak peek at some of the most noticeable “missing” applications on the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer: email, contacts and calendaring.
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LAPTOP Magazine, CrackBerry.com blogs, eHomeUpgrade, Engadget, eWeek, Gizmodo and Electronista
