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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Ad-Supported Kindle Is Amazon's Best Seller — Amazon's cheapest Kindle, the one supported by advertising and special offers, it its best-selling Kindle, if you can trust Amazon's best-selling Kindles list. — This tells us: — 1) People don't hate advertising as much as some Internet wonks think they do.
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Kindle Review, Pulse2, BGR and Electronista
Electronista:
iPhone ‘5G’ case shows edge-to-edge screen, moved flash — Supposed iPhone 5G case tips up in China — A very early instance of a 2011 iPhone case has shown up in a listing at Asian trading site AliBaba. Guangdong-based Kulcase is selling what it claims is a crystal case for an “iPhone 5G.”
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9 to 5 Mac, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Gadgets DNA, Gizmodo, App Advice, MacRumors, Tools, everythingiCafe, MacStories, Apple Bitch and iClarified
Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Just how many people are using the iPad 2 camera? (Answer: Not many) — So remember back when the iPad first launched, and everyone had a good old a moan about the the lack of a camera? Yeah, here's Flickr's current daily average user stats for Apple's devices with cameras.
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SAI, App Advice, Mashable!, I4U News, PadGadget, CrunchGear, PetaPixel, TUAW, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
The Bestsellers: Fortune Article ‘Inside Apple’ Beats Out Full-Length Books — Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of a surprise: “Inside Apple—From Steve Jobs Down to the Janitor …
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TechCrunch and @jlanzone
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Six Reasons Why Chromebooks Are a Bad Idea — Not everyone thinks Google's attempt to reinvent the computer will work. — When it took the wraps off its stripped down, nothing-but-the-browser Chromebooks this week Google was attempting its own iPad moment.
Michael Geist Blog:
Forget the iPod Tax, Canadian Copyright Collective Demanding Memory Card Tax — During the most recent election campaign, there was no shortage of debate over the so-called iPod Tax, a proposed levy on iPods and similar devices to compensate for copies of sound recordings.
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Slashdot
Bloomberg:
Amazon Server Said to Be Used in Sony Attack — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month's attack against Sony Corp. (6758)'s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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Technologizer, PC Magazine, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Destructoid, The Register, VG247, Neowin.net, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Pulse2, thinq_, TechFlash and IndustryGamers
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Programming Error Invalidates U.S. Green Card Lottery Results — The U.S. State Department just announced that it has invalidated the results of this year's Green Card lottery (officially the 2012 Diversity Lottery), which gives a set number of randomly drawn winners a permanent residency card to live and work in the United States.
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Computerworld and Slashdot, Thanks:fredericl
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Dell video teases upcoming ‘ultrathin’ laptop — Dell has released some revealing multimedia as it prepares to announce a new 15.6-inch ultrathin laptop later this month. — As CNET reported earlier, the new ultrathin will be the first in a line of laptops designed in the spirit of the company's discontinued Adamo brand.
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Close To A Big Search Deal With Baidu, Says Chinese Press — Microsoft is close to announcing a partnership with Chinese search company Baidu, according to rumors in the Chinese press, via Bill Bishop on Twitter. — It looks like Baidu is taking over the paid ads on Bing China …
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LiveSide.net and WinRumors
Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Keynote and session videos from Google I/O now live — With Google I/O 2011 just two days behind us, we wanted to thank the nearly 1 million developers who joined us at Moscone Center, attended I/O Extended events and watched online via I/O Live from 161 countries around the world.
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SlashGear, Softpedia News, Gadgetell, Ubergizmo, Pulse2, @dondodge, Engadget, Dice Blog Network and InfoWorld
Steve Delahoyde / UnBeige:
Yale Opens Museum and Library Collections Online (Really, Really Open) — All other universities take note, particularly of the Ivy League variety: Yale is getting it done and making things happen. Last year you might recall, we reported on their School of Architecture getting ultra-serious …
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Pulse2, Yale Daily News and New York Times
