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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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Pulse2, BGR and Electronista
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!, PadGadget, CrunchGear, PetaPixel, TUAW, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
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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GeekWire, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Pulse2, VG247, Mashable!, The Register, Softpedia News, thinq_, TechFlash and IndustryGamers
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
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.
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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Pulse2, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, @dondodge, Engadget, Dice Blog Network and InfoWorld
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Cake Health Wants To Be The ‘Mint For Health Insurance’ (Beta Invites) — If you're like me, terms like “out of network” and “deductible” are cringe-inducing. Not just because they generally involve me forking over money for healthcare, but also because navigating the waters of health insurance …
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.
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
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Lockitron Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone — Ever wish you could just call your keys? Well the Ycombinator-backed Lockitron aims to replace physical keys entirely by letting you control your door lock with your phone. The Lockitron web app and hardware package are as of today available …
Discussion:
App Advice and Electronista
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges — Dropbox, the wildly popular online storage system, deceived users about the security and encryption of its services, putting it at a competitive advantage, according to an FTC complaint filed Thursday by a prominent security researcher.
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Electronista, Pulse2, GottaBeMobile, ZDNet, Gizmodo and @csoghoian
