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Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Windows Phone ‘Mango’ search offers location-specific results, app integration (video) — Windows Phone's latest iteration (codename Mango) is all about keeping it in the hood. We had a chance to sit down with a Windows Phone rep before today's big reveal, and they let us in on a couple …
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Matt Bencke / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Developer News: Beta Mango Tools Available Today — Today Microsoft is showing off many of the new features coming in the next version of Windows Phone, code named Mango. We highlighted a few features like hardware accelerated IE9 with HTML5, increased multitasking capabilities and the addition …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple's iTunes store: 500,000 iOS apps and counting — Less than three years after it opened for business, the App Store hit the half-million mark — Click to enlarge. Source: 148Apps, Chomp and Chillingo — Here's a nice round number likely to be trotted out at the Apple's (AAPL) Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble announces new touch-enabled Nook for $139 (video) — Not to be outdone by Kobo which just unleashed it's latest E Ink reader yesterday the folks at Barnes & Noble are back with the latest update to their line of Nook devices. The “all new” Nook is boast the same Zeforce infrared touch layer …
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
B&N Unleashes A New Nook: Touchscreen E-Ink, 2 Month Battery, $139
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, @reckless and Android and Me
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Little divides Apple, music publishers on cloud deal — Hopes are high in the music sector that Apple will have all the licenses it needs to launch a cloud-music service in time for the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts on June 6. — Negotiations between Apple …
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AppleInsider, MacStories, MacRumors, Edible Apple, App Advice, Geeky-Gadgets, RazorianFly and iPodNN
Rich Trenholm / Crave:
Apple forces Samsung to hand over Galaxy prototypes in legal spat … Apple's legal battle with Samsung has taken a new twist. The California outfit is suing the Korean corporation over alleged copying of Apple products in Samsung's Android range, and a federal court is forcing Samsung …
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9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, 9to5 Google, MacStories, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, Geeky-Gadgets and Electronista
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott — When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976, they couldn't be trusted to run the company. — So, Mike Markkula, Apple's first backer, and the man that guided the company early on, brought in a CEO to do the droll, adult things needed to keep a company running.
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MacStories and iClarified
Bloomberg:
Google to Unveil Mobile-Payment Service — Google Inc. (GOOG) plans to unveil a mobile- payment service May 26 that will be available on phones from Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), three people familiar with the matter said. — The service will let consumers with specially equipped phones that run …
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SAI, Near Field Communications … and The Next Web
Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
Sarkozy Says Internet Needs Government Role — The Internet needs government involvement to reach its full potential of linking people and boosting economic growth, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said. — “Now that the Internet is an integral part of most people's lives …
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Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Sarkozy riles Internet CEOs at e-G8
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Telegraph and The Next Web
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
The Truth About Square — There's lots of talk today on mobile payment processor Square's outstanding results. 500,000 readers shipped, 1 million transactions so far this month, $3 million in transactions per day. — That's impressive. There really is a real need out there for the everyday consumer …
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PC World, Fortune, eWeek, GottaBeMobile and Softpedia News
Naked Security / Sophos:
Sony Music Japan hacked through SQL injection flaw — Another day, another attack on Sony. I reported yesterday on the SQL injection attack exposing user information on SonyMusic.gr and today attackers have found flaws in SonyMusic.co.jp. — The Hacker News sent us a tip this evening documenting …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Hurt Locker Makers Target Record Breaking 24,583 BitTorrent Users — March last year the law firm Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver imported the mass litigation “pay up or else” anti-piracy scheme to the United States. — The initial customers of the lawyers - who are also known as the U.S. Copyright Group …
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PC World, CNET News, TechEye, Pocket-lint and Geek.com
Paul Hontz / The Startup Foundry:
Why two engineers left Apple to build a Flash alternative: The Hype (YC W11) story — Hype is an HTML5 Animation Builder for Mac OS X. It allows you to build interactive sites in HTML5 that rivals Flash. Hype launched last Friday and they are already the top grossing app on the mac app store.
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Why The New York Times replaced its Twitter ‘cyborg’ with people this week — The New York Times is turning off the automatic feed for its main Twitter account this week in an experiment to determine if a human-run, interactive approach will be more effective.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Apple continues to tell support reps: do not help with Mac malware — How is Apple responding to the flood of customer calls about installations of the Mac Defender malware? — According to multiple tech support insiders, the company has doubled down on its policy of denying any help to affected customers.
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ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Hardware 2.0 Blog, eSarcasm, Techland and Naked Security
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
AirPlay for Windows Media Center does exactly what you're thinking it does — This isn't the first time Windows has been invited to the AirPlay party, but Thomas Pleasance's AirPlay for Windows Media Center addin seems to already be one of the smoother combinations we've seen and it's still in beta.
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Thomas Pleasance, Pocket-lint, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, The Digital Lifestyle.com, iClarified and AllNewsMac
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
80% of Mobile Video Views Happen on Apple Devices — Mobile video is still a small part of overall online viewing, but it's a part that Apple dominates, according to a new report by video monetization startup FreeWheel. In its Q1 2011 Video Monetization Report, FreeWheel said the vast majority …
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MediaPost, CNET News, Electronista, Fast Company and WebProNews
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yandex Opens At $35 Per Share With A $11.2B Market Cap (Bigger Than LinkedIn) — After pricing its IPO at $25 per share a few hours before the market opened, the Russian search giant's share price jumped close to 40% immediately after its flotation. — The price per share opened this morning at $35 …
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Laurie Segall / CNN Money:
Twitter acquires TweetDeck — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Twitter has acquired TweetDeck, an application for organizing the display of tweets, for more than $40 million in a mix of cash and stock, according to sources close to the deal. — TweetDeck has been the subject of speculation about deals for months.
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Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
Oh, @#$%, Half Of Facebookers' Walls Have Profanity — Oh, golly! About half of Facebookers' walls have cuss words on them. — That comes from scans of the 30,000-plus Facebook members' walls by Reppler over the past two months. The company found: — 47 percent of users have profanity on their Facebook wall.
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MediaPost and WebProNews
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Lark's Silent Alarm And Sleep Monitoring System Lands At Apple Retail Stores — Lark, a silent waking system that wakes you silently and naturally, is announcing big news today. After launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last Fall, the company is announcing the public availability …
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VentureBeat, Market Wire and FT Tech Hub
Cortney Fielding / GigaOM:
At Dropbox, Over 100 Billion Files Served-And Counting — Once upon a time, in the year 2007, Dropbox consisted of two engineers coding in their boxers out of a shared apartment in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. To co-founder and CEO Drew Houston, launching a successful company …
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Mashable! and Softpedia News
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's Paul Graham: We're Looking For People Like Us — The second day of TechCrunch Disrupt NYC just kicked off with a bang as Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham sat down with world-renowned interviewer and journalist Charlie Rose. The topic of conversation: what is Paul Graham looking …
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Brian Heater / Engadget:
Sony shows off, folds up super flexible organic TFT display — E-reader manufacturers are doing their darnedest to get their devices to behave more like the old fashioned books we've all since abandoned, but we won't be happy until we can roll one up and stuff it in our back pockets, paperback-style.
