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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Obama ‘Situation Room’ Photo Is Already Half Way To Becoming Flickr's Most Viewed Pic — If you ever wanted a glimpse of what the Spiderman “With great power comes great responsibility” quote looks like actualized, take a second to digest the above photo of President Obama …
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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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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
The Situation Room Meme: The Shortest Route From Bin Laden to Lulz — The photo of the White House Situation Room during the operation that killed Osama bin Laden stunned the world when it was released. The photo is powerful, and the response to it has been strong.
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
What's on Osama bin Laden's Hard Drive? Hopefully a Lot.
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MediaPost, MarketBeat, PC World, Swampland, Boing Boing and textually.org
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
AT&T Rep: Apple Has Told Us No New iPhone in June or July — While increasing numbers of reports are pointing to a later-than-usual introduction for the fifth-generation iPhone, potentially with an unveiling at Apple's traditional September iPod-focused event, some observers have still …
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The Next Web, Geek.com, I4U News, Apple Bitch, MacStories, SlashGear, ITworld.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Phones Review, thinq_, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, MacHackPC, everythingiCafe and iClarified
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify takes on iTunes with new music downloads store and iPod syncing — Is streaming music service Spotify a direct rival to Apple's iTunes? If it wasn't before, it certainly is now. Today, Spotify is launching its own music downloads store, adding iPod syncing to its desktop client …
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Daniel Ek / Spotify:
Spotify says hello to the iPod — At Spotify it's always been our mission to provide you with the best all-round music experience on the planet. For Spotify Premium subscribers, a huge part of that experience is taking your playlists with you wherever you go.
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mocoNews, New Media Age, Softpedia News, MacStories, Android Phone Fans, Gadget Lab, Lifehacker, TechCrunch Europe, SlashGear and Tech Europe
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, MacHackPC, Technologizer, Geohot, Macworld, MacStories, MacRumors, GigaOM, 1001 Noisy Cameras, MacNN, iClarified and BGR
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
New iMacs get benchmarked, as fast as expected
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Macworld and MacStories
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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Data Center Knowledge, Inside Facebook, SAI, All Facebook and NetworkEffect
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Suddenly, Top Facebook Employees Are Quitting Again
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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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mocoNews, Guardian, CNET News, Shiny Objects, PhoneArena, GeekWire, MacRumors, Electronista, AppleInsider and textually.org
Horace Dediu / asymco:
Windows generates less than a third the profit of iOS + OS X — While a lot of the credit for Apple's success is rightfully assigned to the iOS franchises, the OS X business has more than quadrupled in five years. This has happened without drastic price fluctuations.
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Inquirer, WinRumors, The Next Web and parislemon
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google Takes to TV to Promote Browser — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is once again taking up arms in the browser wars, in the belief that people who use its Chrome Web browser will be more likely to keep using Google search. — The company is taking the battle to mainstream America …
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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Marketing Pilgrim, thechromesource, Softpedia News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Search Engine Land and SAI
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
US DVD sales plummet 20% — Hollywood studios feel impact of rapid shift to online film and TV viewing — DVD sales plunged 20% in the US in the first quarter of 2011, with Hollywood studios blaming the timing of Easter and a glut of blockbuster releases in the same period last year for the $500m …
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Hillicon Valley, parislemon, NPR, Bloomberg and Guardian
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Gigwalk Launches: Wanna Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone? — In the 1990s, peer-to-peer networks were a revelation. They allowed people to pool together tiny parts of their computers, and those pooled together parts could do far more together than the average computer or connection could do on its own.
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
.NET Android and iOS clones stripped by Attachmate — Open source Mono suffers layoffs — The fate of an open-source version of Microsoft's .NET running on iOS and Android is unclear after Novell's new owner Attachmate laid off members of the project, according to reports.
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Sean Michael Kerner, TechEye and Slashdot
Aftab Ahmed / Reuters:
Wireless carriers scale down scope of mobile payment system — (Reuters) - The biggest U.S. wireless carriers, AT&T Inc, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA, are not setting up a separate network for payments on transactions done by phones, the Wall Street Journal said.
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The Register, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, IntoMobile and SocialTimes.com
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo confirms it will cut Wii price to $149 and reduces some games to $19.99 — Trying to revive sales, Nintendo said it will cut the price of its Wii video game console to $149.99 on May 15 and also chopped the prices of some games to $19.99. — The price cut, which was rumored …
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Electronista, Geek.com, USA Today and Crave
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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aa.mediaroom.com, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, SocialTimes.com, FM Blog and Gizmodo
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 and virtualization.info
Nick Clayton / Wall Street Journal:
Social Media Gets Professional — SOCIAL MEDIA: Online networking is transforming the way businesses operate but few understand its true implications — If you want an example of the power of social media, consider this. Starbucks gets 1.8 million visitors to its website every month, Coca Cola some 270,000.
Thanks:joefahrner
Chadwick Matlin / Fortune:
The Ayn Rand-loving, feet-baring, efficiency-obsessed savant behind SCVNGR — Who is Seth Priebatsch? How did his tiny company, based on turning life into a video gaming experience, wind up with a $100 million valuation? — Seth Priebatsch, left — FORTUNE — As I walked through …
Thanks:smalera
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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DSLreports, GigaOM, SAI, Technology Review, Hacking NetFlix, Hillicon Valley and paidContent
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
With a Start-Up Company, a Ride Is Just a Tap of an App Away — Here is yet another thing you can do with a smartphone: summon a car to pick you up with a tap on the screen. — Uber, a start-up based in San Francisco, offers a cellphone application that is aimed at making using a car service quick and painless.
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Uber Blog, Xconomy and VentureBeat
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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Digital Trends, I4U News, @kevinmarks, PlagiarismToday, TechEye and Slashdot
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Latest GPU market numbers spell bad news for NVIDIA — It's Intel's fifth consecutive quarter of producing CPUs with GPUs integrated into the same package (if not on the same die), and, predictably, the shift has not been kind to NVIDIA. The latest numbers from JPR show the increasing bind …
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Engadget, Hardware 2.0 Blog, thinq_, SemiAccurate, TechSpot and The Tech Report
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chris Sacca: The Train Has Left The Station On Early Stage Valuations — Super angel investor Chris Sacca doesn't like all the new competition pushing up valuations in angel deals and seed rounds these days. “It is a train and it is kind of running away,” he says on a panel this morning at the Wired business conference.
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CNNMoney.com and SAI
Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Zynga blocks co-founder's stock sale — Social gaming leader Zynga hasn't even gone public and already it's facing legal problems over its hot stock. — The company is blocking attempts by former executive Andy Trader, who left the company last year, to sell $12.8 million of his private Zynga shares …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Canada still in copyright “hall of shame” according to the US — Sorry, Canada—negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) wasn't enough to show your commitment to “strong” intellectual property rights. If you want out of the American copyright “hall of shame,” …
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