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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac:
Indie iOS Devs Under Legal Fire For Offering In-App Purchases [Breaking] — The lead developer behind the popular Mac dock replacement DragThing and the fantastic iOS scientific calculator app pCalc is about to be sued for patent infringement because his software uses Apple's own in-app purchasing mechanism.
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SAI, GigaOM, App Advice, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Electronista, PadGadget, TeleRead, SlashGear, iClarified and The Next Web
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Lodsys Threatens to Sue App Store Developers Over In-App Purchases and Upgrade Links — Yesterday, we received word from Rob Gloess of Computer LogicX, the company behind the Mix & Mash and Mix & Mash LITE applications for iOS, that he had received legal documents threatening a patent lawsuit …
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Macworld, mocoNews, MacStories, TiPb, TUAW, iLounge, Techland, TidBITS, iPhone Download Blog, Cult of Mac and Evolver.fm
Chris Rawson / TUAW:
Samsung announces 2560 x 1600 display, could pave the way for iPad 3 — Samsung will demonstrate an all-new 10.1-inch display at the SID Display Week 2011 International Symposium next week. Samsung's new display will have a 2560 x 1600 resolution, far in excess of anything on the tablet market today.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, App Advice, LAPTOP Magazine, MacStories, Engadget, Business Wire, Business Wire, Gizmodo, TechSpot, iPad News Hub, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, eHomeUpgrade, Apple Bitch, Laptops and Desktops Blog, netbooknews.com, iClarified, Edible Apple, Fudzilla, Android Phone Fans, SAI, CrunchGear, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo Australia and iLounge
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook, You're Going To Need A Better Answer For Your Slimeball Stunt — At this point, I think it's pretty clear what Facebook's strategy for this whole Burson-Marsteller caught-with-their-pants-down situation is going to be: say as little as possible and move on. And it will work.
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
The PR Hacks Behind Facebook's Google Smear
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Gartner and Tech News, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How Facebook Enables The Google Social “Scraping” It's Upset About
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Naked Security, Search Engine Roundtable, SEO Book.com, Epicenter, InfoWorld, Nicke's shared items …, VentureBeat, Mashable! and Search Engine Land, Thanks:sidharthdassani
Paul Reynolds / Consumer Reports News:
Will Amazon make a tablet? ‘Stay tuned,’ says Jeff Bezos — Asked today about the possibility of Amazon launching a multipurpose tablet device, the company's president and CEO Jeff Bezos said to “stay tuned” on the company's plans. In an interview at Consumer Reports' offices …
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PC Magazine, The Toybox Blog, TechFlash, Android and Me, AppleInsider, Android Phone Fans, TeleRead, AndroidGuys, TechSpot, Mobilized, Kindle Review, T3.com News, DialToSave, Crave, I4U News, SocialTimes.com, Electronista, Google Watch, Reuters, Pocket-lint, Mobile Entertainment, Electricpig.co.uk, Know Your Cell, PhoneArena, App Advice, CrunchGear, Techland, Gadget Lab, Geekosystem, Pulse2, SlashGear, Engadget, Phones Review, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Gizmodo and The Digital Reader
John Cook / GeekWire:
A Twitter crime thriller, and why laptop tracking could save you some heartache — I got hooked tonight on an amazing Twitter drama, watching in real time as Sean Power live Tweeted about his attempts to recover his stolen laptop from a guy in a bar in New York City.
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Betabeat, Gizmodo, @seanpower and TechCrunch
Ben Brooks / The Brooks Review:
The Ballmer Days Are Over — Disclaimer: I own Microsoft stock. Yes, this is not pro-Microsoft but I feel the need to be very open about this. — He's employee number 30 and has been with Microsoft since mid-1980. In 2000, after nearly 20 years of service, Microsoft promoted Steve Ballmer to Chief Executive Officer.
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John Boudreau / Seattle Times:
Young Chinese developers hit jackpot via App Store — Lu Miao speaks very little English. He's never traveled outside Asia. He's not a software engineer. But in a few short months, he became the founder of a successful software company selling apps in the U.S. and Europe.
Kellex / Droid Life:
DROIDX2 Launching May 26th with Dual-core Processor, qHD Screen and Gingerbread — The Motorola DROIDX2 was rumored to originally be scheduled to release today, but with the push back of the DROID Charge, we were wondering if it hadn't been pushed back as well. According to Verizon, that is definitely the case.
Nathan Brown / Edge Online:
PSN Outage Begins To Hit Retail — Gamer patience begins to wear thin as retailers report increased trade-ins of PS3 consoles for Xbox 360s. — The ongoing PlayStation Network outage is beginning to have an effect on the high street, Edge can reveal. — Our sources indicate a growing trend …
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VentureBeat, Electronista, Fast Company, ITProPortal, SlashGear, HEXUS.channel, The Register, GamePolitics News, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, VG247 and Techland
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple to Advance iPhone with both Text-to-Speech & Speech-to-Text Converters — According to a new Apple patent application that was published this morning by the US Patent and Trademark Office, future iPhone's are likely to provide end users with effective new ways of communicating …
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Mashable!, iPodNN, TUAW and WebProNews
Ariel Schwartz / Fast Company:
Cell Phones Are Killing The Bees: Study — New experiments find that cell phone signals don't just confuse bees, they off them. What does this mean for our food supply? — Do you enjoy eating? Then you may not be too happy if bee populations plunge. That's because out of the 100 crops …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Yahoo! News, DialToSave, Mashable!, FM Blog and The Toybox Blog
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal — Hulu and its network TV owners are close to a new deal that will keep programs from NBC, Fox and ABC on the Web video site. — An agreement to extend the content licenses that owners News Corp., Disney and NBCUniversal signed two years ago …
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Betabeat, WebProNews, GigaOM, Pulse2, Electronista and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
Om Malik / Om.Is.Me:
Skype and Story of My life — I has been nearly six years since I first fell in love with Skype. It was a tiny little company with a buggy software and a few thousand users. I liked it so much that I started forcing my friends to sign up for it. Many of them resisted, but I persisted.
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Cisco braces for biggest layoffs in its history — * Could be biggest layoff in company's 26-year history — Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) is expected to cut thousands of jobs in possibly its worst-ever round of layoffs to meet Chief Executive John Chambers' goal of slashing costs by $1 billion.
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NewEnterprise, VentureBeat and PC Magazine
Kelly Hodgkins / Gizmodo:
Samsung's Foldable Display Will Let You Stuff Giant Tablets in Your Pants — Tiny tablets' major advantage over the 10-inch crowd: They'll fit in your pocket (especially if you're the type of person who wears cargo pants). Samsung's latest foldable, creaseless AMOLED display will let you fold …
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SAI, I4U News, PhysOrg.com, SlashGear, Fast Company, OLED-Info, Samsung Hub and DisplayBlog
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Boston developer wants cut of Winklevoss twins' $65-million Facebook settlement — A Boston software developer has been awarded a day in court to make his case for a cut of the Winklevoss twins' $65-million settlement with Facebook, according to a report. — Developer Wayne Chang has argued …
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All Facebook, GMSV, LAW.com and Pulse2
David Segal / New York Times:
Online Seller Who Bullied Customers Pleads Guilty — The online eyeglasses seller who terrified customers in the hopes of creating buzz about his Web site, and raising its profile in Google searches, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of sending threatening communications, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud.
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PC World, Betabeat, Search Engine Land, Pulse2, Marketing Pilgrim and NYConvergence.com
Jon Boone / Guardian:
Taliban join the Twitter revolution — Tweets about attacks on ‘infidel forces’ give Taliban new weapon in Afghanistan's information war — When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, they eschewed most modern technology, including television and music players. — But in the latest sign …
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VentureBeat, Pulse2, Epicenter, The Daily Caller, CNN, AllTwitter, Mashable!, textually.org, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Yahoo! News and Boing Boing
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Google's Blogger outage makes the case against a cloud-only strategy — The same week that Google made its strongest pitch ever for putting your entire business online, one of its flagship services has failed spectacularly. — Earlier this week, Google rolled out a maintenance release for its Blogger service.
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NetworkEffect and PC World
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Blogger Goes Down, Taking 30 Hours of Posts and Comments With It
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Netcraft, Techland, Pulse2, Softpedia News, Guardian and ReadWriteWeb
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Fantastic Insight Into The Closed Box Google Culture From A Recent Xoogler — Douwe Osinga, a software engineer, recently left Google after seven years. He's written a series of blog posts explaining why he left and also describing what it was like working there, and he dispels some of the many myths about Google.
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Your Marital Status Is Worth $0.01 To Data-Buyers, Your Smartphone Is Worth $0.03 — We often hear about how our personal information is being bought and sold on the Internet on a regular basis. So you probably won't be surprised to get another reminder of that.
Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Cisco phasing out FlipShare: 30 days to save your videos — Many Flip fans are already sporting black arm bands with little red spots in honor of the dying brand, and the New York Times reports there's more bad news coming. Starting May 12th, all videos uploaded to FlipShare will expire 30 days after they've been posted.
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GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista, SlashGear and Gadgetwise
DigiCha:
Have Facebook Executives Used The Media To Ruin Mark Zuckerberg's China Dream? — Brad Stone of BusinessWeek has written a long and glowing profile of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in which Stone reveals that Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg disagree on the wisdom of entering China:
