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Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Phishing Site Found on a Sony Server — We know you're not supposed to kick somebody when they're already down... but we just found a live phishing site running on one of Sony's servers. — However, this incident has nothing to do with the Sony PSN hack. — This is the official homepage of Sony Thailand:
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Digital Trends, The Register, msnbc.com, Geek.com, Inquirer, SlashGear, thinq_ and Anti spam and general …
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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Sony, hacked AGAIN. This time its not its Playstation Network. — Okay, okay. Sony has had a lot to deal with of late, what with its Playstation network being hacked and subsequently being taken offline for quite some time. But we believe that Sony has been hacked yet again, this time its Sony Thailand's website.
Henry Blodget / SAI:
LINKEDIN: The Truth About What It's Worth — LinkedIn's blockbuster IPO has triggered a predictable reaction: Howls of outrage that the valuation is obviously “insane” and that we're right back in a tech bubble again. — Leaving aside the broader bubble question (which I've addressed here), is the former assertion right?
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AllTwitter, @kevinmarks and SAI
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Climbs Past $100 Per Share On Second Day Of Trading — LinkedIn's stock continues to perform well at the start of its second day of trading. After closing on the New York Stock Exchange at $94 per share yesterday afternoon (giving LinkedIn a $9 billion market cap) …
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Internet Evolution, Venture Capital Dispatch and Digital Trends
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
LinkedIn's Founder, Biggest Backers Will Own $2.5 Billion Stake After IPO
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CNNMoney.com and The LinkedIn Blog
Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
LinkedIn's Surge Sets Stage for More Internet I.P.O.'s
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Mark Evans Tech
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
SecondMarket Unseals LinkedIn Pricing Now That It's Public
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FT Tech Hub, Epicenter, Wired In Blog| BNET and Betabeat
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Screenshots of Apple's impressive new Daily Download iPad app, more Apple Store 2.0 news — We've gotten our hands on the internal Apple RetailMe iPads and have been rifling through the interesting new features that debuted for Retail employees on Monday. First is obviously the Daily Download …
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Fortune, MacStories, Softpedia News, I4U News, iClarified and MacDailyNews
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Nokia To Use ST-Ericsson Chips For Windows Phone 8 Handsets — When Nokia debuts its hotly-anticipated new smartphones running on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, at least some of the devices will be powered by silicon from ST-Ericsson, said Carlo Bozotti, the Chief Executive …
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia picks Qualcomm for Windows phone, seeks others
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The End Of Blippy As We Know It — So it turns out that almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases. And also that just adding a social element to a feature isn't enough to make it useful. The lessons of user adoption are sometimes learned the hard way.
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Jay Greene / CNET News:
Scoop: Microsoft closes consumer skunkworks unit — A little more than three years after opening Pioneer Studios, a skunkworks operation to develop consumer electronics and experiences, Microsoft has closed the unit, CNET has learned. — Pioneer was the brainchild of J Allard …
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Digital Trends, DailyTech, InfoWorld, Neowin.net, Engadget, SlashGear, WinRumors, thinq_, TechEye, GeekWire, Electronista, SAI and Gizmodo
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Google Is Serious: You Can Kill Chrome's URL Bar — We wrote about this feature a few months ago and now we are seeing a first implementation of it. The URL bar in Chrome is still active by default, but there is a flag to hide it. Chrome is serious about keeping the URL bar flexible …
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Techland, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Technologizer, The Next Web, Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb and Slashdot
Stephen Chapman / SEO Whistleblower Blog:
Porn, piracy, and personal data: Universities providing more than just education... UPDATE, 5/19/11 2:13PM EST: It appears word is getting around to some of the schools I've linked to in this post, as links are beginning to die off (which is a good thing for the universities taking care of business).
Nick Bilton / Bits:
The Sensors Are Coming! — A microscopic view of a gyroscope sensor created by STMicroelectronics. It is as thin as a piece of paper and can detect the movement of a mobile phone. — If you own a smartphone, you probably know just how smart those little gadgets are.
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Nokia Conversations
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Exclusive: A First Look at AT&T's LTE Network — Yesterday, I took a tour of AT&T's Foundry space in Plano, Texas. I interviewed Jon Summers, SVP of application and service infrastructure at AT&T, with other reporters, to try to understand the shift AT&T is making in how it approaches buying goods …
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BGR, O'Grady's PowerPage, TiPb, AppleInsider, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, iClarified, Electronista and MacNN, Thanks:gigastacey
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Patent Reveals Aperture Coming to Touch Display Devices — A number of patents have surfaced over the last two years concerning light pens and apps moving to touch screens. While one of the first detailed patents surfaced in 2009 in relation to business forms, we've since seen …
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TUAW, everythingiCafe, PadGadget, App Advice and MacStories
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Wal-Mart to carry TouchPad, 32GB set at $599 [exclusive] — HP's distribution advantage over some other tablet manufacturers is hard to deny. They have massive inroads with traditional electronics retailers like Best Buy and Amazon, their own online store, and a good relationship …
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Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile, netbooknews.com, The Tech Report, CrunchGear, Engadget and Electronista
Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
Apple Denies Amazon's Claim That ‘App Store’ Is Generic Term — Apple Inc., suing Amazon.com Inc. for trademark infringement, denied the retailer's claims that “app store” is a generic term and that the words together stand for a store for application programs.
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TechCrunch, MobileBurn.com, PhoneArena and Mobile Entertainment
Business Week:
Apple Alumni Don't Fall Far from the Tree — A wave of star engineers has left to start mobile app companies — After selling mobile ad startup Quattro Wireless to Apple (AAPL) in late 2009, Lars Albright took a job helping the iPhone maker work with its community of mobile app developers.
Amy Lee / The Huffington Post:
Bing Director Stefan Weitz: ‘Traditional Search Is Failing’ … Most people think about search as a simple series of actions: type in a phrase, cross your fingers it brings up what you need, and then click around a page of blue links till you get what you were looking for.
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Technologizer, WinRumors, T3.com News and The Digital Home
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Facebook to use Microsoft's PhotoDNA technology to combat child pornography — Facebook will be the first company outside of Microsoft to roll out the Redmond company's PhotoDNA technology — a move that the companies are describing as a big step in the fight against child pornography …
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ITworld.com, Softpedia News, TechNet Blogs, PC Magazine, Gawker, The Microsoft Blog, Pulse2, Digital Life, The Next Web and WinExtra
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
HTML5: It's Last Call for Comments — After more than 3 years of development and discussion by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Group on the subject, the draft specifications document for HTML version 5 will now be moved into Last Call status after a 63 to 2 vote, with 3 abstentions.
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Webmonkey and Burningbird, Thanks:marshallk
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
New Zealand Libraries Considering Shutting Off Public Internet Access To Avoid Three Strikes Law — We already saw just how confused about the basics New Zealand politicians were before rushing through a poorly thought-out, US-driven copyright law change that put in place a “three strikes” provision.
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New Zealand Herald and TorrentFreak
Slate Magazine:
Map to Nowhere — The FCC has now failed twice at producing good broadband data. Time to give someone else a try. — Why is it so incredibly difficult to figure out how much of the nation has access to affordable broadband? For the past 15 years, the Federal Communications Commission …
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David Chen / /Film:
‘Neuromancer’ Goes Into Pre-Production — After years in development, Vincenzo Natali's Neuromancer is finally moving forward. According to a press release, the film has secured sales from distributors at Cannes and visual effects work has already begun. Filming will begin in 2012 …
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Jacket Copy, I4U News and Digital Trends
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Updated: Liberty Media Offers $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble; Would Buy 70 Percent — Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a serious suitor—and they don't come much more serious than John Malone.
