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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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Technologizer, TUAW, MacStories, Macworld, MacRumors, GigaOM, Geohot, MacNN, iClarified 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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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
What's on Osama bin Laden's Hard Drive? Hopefully a Lot.
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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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Search Engine Land, L.A. Times Tech Blog and SAI
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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Shiny Objects, CNET News, GeekWire, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, MacRumors and Electronista
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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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App Advice, MacNN, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR and I4U News
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, NetworkEffect 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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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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Ars Technica, PlagiarismToday, TechEye, @kevinmarks and I4U News
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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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
Gloria Sin / ZDNet:
American Airlines to offer in-flight streaming to personal devices — Flying on American Airlines just got a little more comfortable for passengers like me, who have a hard time sleeping thanks to those flickering LCD screens embedded into the back of seats on most aircrafts.
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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
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
Amazon Announces Its Gilt And Vente Privée Killer, MyHabit.com — The private sales market is really heating up. Amazon has just announced MyHabit.com, a private sales site that's going to compete directly with the likes of Gilt Groupe and RueLaLa, which is soon to be owned by eBay.
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Business Wire, Techland and TechCrunch
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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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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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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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, MacNN and iLounge
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, Electronista, Geek.com and SlashGear
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, MobileWhack, Android Phone Fans, GottaBeMobile, MobileBurn.com, NewsGrange, Android News, Rumours …, Gizmodo, Lifehacker and WebProNews
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Kleiner Perkins invests in LegalZoom — IPO on the horizon? — Legal document website LegalZoom has attracted the attention of two big venture firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners. — The Glendale, Calif. company recently announced that it has added Kleiner Perkins …
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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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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PC World, GigaOM and ReadWriteWeb
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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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola ATRIX 4G HSUPA update begins rolling out — Motorola on Tuesday finally announced that the HSUPA-enabling ATRIX 4G update thousands of users have been clamoring for has finally begun rolling out to devices. Software update v4.1.83 for the ATRIX 4G includes several updates …
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