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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to release Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store - sources — With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this summer, Apple will make the switch to a new kind of digital distribution for its operating system upgrades by releasing the software first through its new Mac App Store, AppleInsider has learned.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Facebook, Google considering Skype deals — (Reuters) - Facebook and Google Inc (GOOG.O) are separately considering a tie-up with Skype after the web video conferencing service delayed its initial public offering, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook And Google Ready To Battle Over Skype
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MG Siegler / parislemon:
On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging — The information in the image above is not surprising at all. But still pathetic. — Imagine that, you write 35 200-word posts featuring the words “Bin Laden” in the headline and they pull in traffic on the day it's one of the most searched terms ever.
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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
Sony's Response to the U.S. House of Representatives — Today, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing in Washington, DC on “The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers.”
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Brandon Watson / The Windows Blog:
All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike — Yesterday, Eric announced that there would be a new update for Windows Phone. You can read his post to see what all is included, but I wanted to focus on a specific issue: phones “updated” using any unofficial mechanisms.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone Location Update: All Users In 1 Week; Android 2.3 Update: 4% Of Users In 5 Months — Earlier today, Apple released the iOS update that resolves the location tracking issues that had the press in a tizzy over for the past couple of weeks. For those keeping score at home …
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Apple has released an iOS 4.3.3 update, fixing location database issues
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice CEO Craig Walker Launches Firespotter, A Google Ventures Funded Incubator — When Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) cofounder and CEO Craig Walker left Google last year, he didn't go far. In fact, he just went across the street to set up a desk at Google Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence.
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NetworkEffect, Bits, @googleventures, @amac and Firespotter
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Just Leaked Their +1 Chrome Extension On National Television — If you haven't seen Google's new “Dear Sophie” video, I highly recommend you check it out. It's brilliant. — And watch closely. — At various points in the video, the Chrome browser in use reveals an unreleased product: a Google +1 extension.
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft attacks Google Apps with “Google Tax” claim — Microsoft is on the Google attack once again this week. — The software giant has created an iceberg info-graphic (see below) that reveals Google's hidden costs. Tom Rizzo, senior director of Microsoft Online Services …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
White iPhone Versus White iPhone — For almost a year, the white iPhone has been as elusive as a double rainbow. Sure, we knew they existed, but few people had seen one. Now this sought-after device is available in stores. But their existence just provokes more questions. — Like, what took Apple so long?
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@dannysullivan, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo Australia, Apple Bitch and MacRumors iPhone Blog
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Begins Sending @ Replies to Users - Not All of Which Are SFW — Twitter has created a new official account called @TwitterSuggests and is using it to send public replies to other Twitter users. What does Twitter want to say to its users? How to use the service, of course, and more specifically whom they should follow.
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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Apple Said to Have Hired the Audio Genius Behind THX — Apple has reportedly hired Tomlinson Holman as its new audio chief, according to a tweet by Leo Laporte Wednesday morning. Laporte said he had it “on good authority” that Holman “is joining Apple to run audio.”
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AppleInsider, SlashGear, WebProNews, CNET News, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, MacStories, Stowe Boyd, TiPb, iPodNN, MacRumors, iLounge, iClarified and TUAW
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp. Revenue, Earnings Miss; MySpace Still Burning Money — A first look at News Corp.'s March quarter earnings: Revenues of $8.26 billion and adjusted earnings of $0.26 per share. Analysts were looking for revenue of $8.42 billion and earnings of $0.27 per share.
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Grouponomics — 18 months ago, Groupon didn't exist. Today, it has over 70 million users in 500-odd different markets, is making more than a billion dollars a year, has dozens if not hundreds of copycat rivals, and is said to be worth as much as $25 billion. What's going on here?
David Kravets / Threat Level:
CNET Accused of Copyright Infringement for Distributing LimeWire — CBS Interactive, the owner of CNET, is being sued for facilitating “massive copyright infringement” for distributing the LimeWire software, a file sharing service a federal judge ruled illegal last year.
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Hollywood Reporter, Ars Technica, Techdirt, TorrentFreak and paidContent
Electronista:
Sprint delays PlayBook launch indefinitely — Sprint has reportedly delayed its PlayBook launch, according to an internal document that was allegedly circulated to dealers. The carrier and RIM initially promised an April 19 launch date for the CDMA variant, however the schedule was later pushed back to May 8.
Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble to release new e-reader, according to securities filing — It's not often that we get word of a new gadget by way of an SEC filing, but Barnes & Noble has broken with tradition with an 8-K report that reveals its intentions to introduce a new e-reader.
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Dow Jones Newswires, AppleInsider, The Digital Reader, CrunchGear, Electronista and TeleRead
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Oracle U-turns on Hudson open source control — Hudson can't have Hudson. But Eclipse can — Oracle is relinquishing control of the Hudson project after a heavy-handed attempt to stay in charge prompted most community members to fork themselves and undermine the project's viability.
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
And the leader in high speed fiber broadband is... Lithuania — Are you an AT&T residential broadband customer in the United States, grumbling over the inauguration of 150GB bandwidth caps for your pokey DSL connection? Or maybe you're a Canadian—bitter over the low ceiling caps imposed …
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John Cook / GeekWire:
CityGrid Media buys social media monitoring service BuzzLabs — The consolidation continues in the social media monitoring space. And now one of Seattle's upstarts is benefiting. BuzzLabs, a 2-year-old startup founded by former Microsoft employees Philip Lee and Dou Shen …
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TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Local Onliner, TechFlash and paidContent
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
100,000 Developers Strong, Mashery Nabs $11 Million To Push The Internet Beyond Websites — “People used to sit at a desk to ‘Internet’. Then they would get up and stop Internetting. Now they Internet wherever, whenever — even when they don't think they are doing it.”
Mike Helmick / Gmail Blog:
Store up to 25,000 contacts — Gmail used to have a limit of 10,000 contacts. For most of us, this was way more than enough, but we heard from some of you who use Gmail to communicate with more than 10,000 people. We want you to be able to store all of your contacts in a single place …
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