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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Exclusive: Third attack against Sony planned — A group of hackers says it is planning another wave of cyberattacks against Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network breach. — An observer of the Internet Relay Chat channel used by the hackers told CNET today …
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Reuters, Ars Technica, PC World, International Business Times, NewEnterprise, Between the Lines Blog, Internet Evolution, Geek.com, Gadgetell, thinq_, DailyTech, Fast Company, WebProNews, IndustryGamers, Edge Online, TechEye, Techland, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Black Web 2.0, VG247, Bloomberg, Electronista, @ia, The Consumerist and Eurogamer
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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
A Letter from Howard Stringer — Please see below for a letter from Howard Stringer:
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Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, PC Magazine, Bloomberg, Geek.com, TechSpot, I4U News, Digits, Gadgetell, Techland, Wall Street Journal, PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Digital Trends, Massively, Inquirer, Edge Online, ForeverGeek, Electronista, Guardian, USA Today, The Next Web, Hardware 2.0 Blog, VentureBeat, Gamasutra, Electricpig.co.uk, Destructoid, Joystiq and Pocket-lint
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Sony offers free Debix identify theft protection for PSN and Qriocity hack victims in US
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Digital Trends, PR Newswire, PlayStation Blog, Neowin.net, CNET News, IndustryGamers, thinq_, SlashGear, Sony Insider, VG247 and CrunchGear
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Sony in ‘final stages of internal testing’ to bring Playstation Network back online
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PlayStation Blog, Mashable!, Bits, Neowin.net, Netcraft, Edge Online, Reuters, VentureBeat, GamePolitics News, gameinformer.com, The Register, Joystiq, Kotaku and VG247, Thanks:logicalmoron
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Wolf! — Ed Bott, ZDNet, three days ago: “Coming Soon to a Mac Near You: Serious Malware”: … Tony Bradley, PCWorld, December 2010: “Apple No Longer Flying Under the Security Radar”: … Nick Farrell, The Inquirer, September 2009: “Hackers Target Macs”:
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Fortune and Walt Mosspuppet
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Why malware for Macs is on its way — Oh, the rationalizations …
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Neowin.net and blog.chron.com
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
IDC says smartphones grew 79.7%, Apple takes #2 spot behind Nokia — Apple outpaced the smartphone industry's average growth of 79.7 percent in the first calendar quarter of 2011 to edge out RIM as the second largest producer of smartphones behind Nokia. — Apple sold 18.7 million iPhones …
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Inquirer, GigaOM, Internet2Go, IDC, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, SAI, Fortune, Engadget, Reuters, Electronista, Business Wire, IntoMobile, DailyTech, BetaNews, TUAW, Bloomberg, paidContent, Mashable!, everythingiCafe, My Nokia Blog, ITProPortal, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld and Mobilized
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Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple now #2 smartphone maker globally, ranked 35th on the Fortune 500 list
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TechFlash, AppleInsider, Expletive Inserted, iLounge and Neowin.net
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Move from Intel to ARM Processors in Future Laptops? — SemiAccurate claims to have heard that Apple will be transitioning from Intel processors to ARM processors in the not too distant future. — The short story is that Apple is moving the laptop line, and presumably desktops too, to ARM based chips as soon as possible.
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VentureBeat, The Apple Core Blog, Computerworld, The Tech Trade, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, SemiAccurate, SAI, CNET News, The Next Web, AppleInsider, TG Daily, thinq_, BGR, O'Grady's PowerPage, msnbc.com, The Register, SlashGear, MacStories, Techland, PalmAddicts, Geek.com, iClarified, Apple Bitch, 9 to 5 Mac, Pocket-lint, eHomeUpgrade and bit-tech.net
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
Game developer David Braben creates a USB stick PC for $25 — David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite. — Over his career his studio has brought us …
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SAI, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, TechSpot, Softpedia News, Liliputing, TechEye, DailyTech, BBC, TeleRead, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Slashdot, Edge Online, SlashGear, Neowin.net, Kotaku and Mike Cane's xBlog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AOL Launches “Incredibly Easy” Video Chat Service Internally; We Launch It Externally — Earlier today, AOL's Head of AIM Products Jason Shellen sent an email to the entire company urging people not to share its contents with people outside of the company. Even though we're a part of AOL, we didn't get that email.
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MediaPost, VentureBeat, Electronista and @qthrul
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Researchers Say WSJ's WikiLeaks Copycat Is Full Of Holes — The Wall Street Journal wants a WikiLeaks of its own: a conduit for sources to securely submit large caches of data to the site's reporters. But some security researchers say the Journal has yet to learn a basic rule of digital whistleblowing …
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Techdirt, Fast Company, Gawker and Mixed Media, more at Mediagazer »
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Rising Costs Leave Facebook Developers in the Lurch — Small Developers Move to Other Markets As Ad Prices and Revenue Splits Make Environment Tougher — As Facebook heads toward 700 million users, one thing seems clear: the gold rush for Facebook app developers is over.
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Guardian
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
T-Mobile loses 471,000 contract customers, cites ‘competitive pressures’ — T-Mobile USA saw a spike in contract customer losses as it struggles to compete with other carriers. — The company said Friday that it lost 471,000 net contract customers in the first quarter compared to 318,000 in the fourth quarter and 77,000 a year ago.
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GigaOM, BGR, Mobilized, Business Wire, CNET News, TechEye, Electronista and TmoNews
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
For Silicon Valley Start-Ups, Funding Boom Is Lopsided — Silicon Valley is in the midst of another start-up boom, but the money isn't flowing evenly to all newcomers. — Investors are piling into fast-growing websites like Facebook Inc., as well as makers of smartphone software, social-networking games and other consumer services.
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Venture Capital Dispatch and SAI
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Scammers Swap Google Images for Malware — A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a single tainted digital image may be worth thousands of dollars for computer crooks who are using weaknesses in Google's Image Search to foist malicious software on unsuspecting surfers.
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Unmask Parasites. Blog. and The Mac Security Blog
Nicole Scott / netbooknews.com:
ASUS HQ Makes Official Statement on Transformer Tablet Shortagea — Living in Taipei we've often noticed that marketing people overseas don't really know what's going on with their products, not like the head quarters does anyways. There have been a lot of rumors floating around …
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Analysis: Skype, a better match with Facebook than Google? — (Reuters) - As two Internet powerhouses slug it out to tie the knot with Skype, Facebook looks likely to be a more aggressive suitor than Google, and the world's largest social network may make for a better fit.
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GigaOM and Continuations
Daniel Roth / Fortune:
Introducing the Fortune 500+ Web app — Want to see the full Fortune 1,000? Or figure out how to sell to, meet with, or work for any of the country's biggest companies? Then our new tool is a must have. — The Fortune 500 has always been more than a list. Salespeople plumb it.
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The LinkedIn Blog
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Rolling Out Major Update to Ad Analytics with Audience Funnels and Reach Data — Some Facebook users are now seeing several changes to Facebook's advertising analytics tool in what appears to be the start of the roll-out of a major update. The changes include the addition of data …
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The Next Web
Raj Krishnan / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Flash support in Instant Previews — With Instant Previews, users can see a snapshot of a search result before clicking on it. We've made a number of improvements to the feature since its introduction last November, and if you own a site, one of the most relevant changes for you is that Instant Previews now supports Flash.
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Softpedia News
Chris Crum / WebProNews:
Demand Media Deletes eHow Articles, Edits Others in Quality Clean-up Initiative — It's a big day for Demand Media, with that earnings report and all. It will be very interesting to see how the stock goes. — We had the opportunity to chat with Larry Fitzgibbon, Demand Media's EVP …
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Fast Company, MediaPost, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Betabeat and MarketingVOX, more at Mediagazer »
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Sen. Rockefeller to introduce ‘Do Not Track’ bill — By Cecilia Kang Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va) on Friday said he will introduce a “do not track” bill that would allow consumers to block Web sites and marketers from tracking their activity on the Internet.
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Hillicon Valley and Bloomberg
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Sprint / Google Voice integration has major issues, major lack of support — Have you tried Sprint's new Google Voice integration? We know a lot of our readers have — and many of them have had problems, writing in to us to express their displeasure. We started investigating and found …
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Neowin.net, SocialTimes.com, Android Phone Fans and Electronista
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
CEO: EA will switch from discs to digital — Electronic Arts sees the future of gaming in digital content and wants to lead that market going forward. — “Over the coming years, we will transform EA from a packaged goods company to a fully integrated digital entertainment company.
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eMoney and ITworld.com
Noel Randewich / Reuters:
Analysis: Watch out ARM, here comes Intel — (Reuters) - Intel's latest manufacturing breakthrough sends a clear warning to rival ARM Holdings not to get too complacent with its overwhelming lead in the red-hot mobile arena. — But although hailed by Intel as an unprecedented advance …
Harvey Anderson / hja's blog:
Homeland Security Request to Take Down MafiaaFire Add-on — From time to time, we receive government requests for information, usually market information and occasionally subpoenas. Recently the US Department of Homeland Security contacted Mozilla and requested that we remove the MafiaaFire add-on.
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techPresident, DSLreports, OStatic blogs, TechSpot, ITProPortal, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, TechEye, paidContent, Techdirt, Pulse2 and PC World
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Photos Of Facebook's Huge New 9,000-Employee Campus — Facebook is all grown up. — Employees are cashing out and quitting. — It's taking on startups with half-baked features. — And now, just like the biggies, it's getting it's own huge Silicon Valley campus.
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The Business Insider and @eldon
