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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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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Google Will Reveal Mobile Wallet Ambitions on Thursday (And Will Demo More at D9) — At an event on Thursday, Google will unveil a mobile wallet offering that will allow consumers to make payments with their mobile phone. — The company's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will also give …
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IntoMobile, TechCrunch and Gizmodo
Microsoft:
A First Look at the Next Release of Windows Phone — Windows Phone “Mango” connects smartphone users to people, apps and the Internet faster and easier. — Microsoft today provided the first official look at the next release of Windows Phone, code named “Mango.”
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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 …
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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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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Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:
Sarkozy riles Internet CEOs at e-G8 — The opening address at the e-G8 conference in Paris from the French president certainly woke up the assembled digerati. — John Perry Barlow, co-founder of open-internet campaigner Electronic Frontier Foundation, set the tone when he tweeted …
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Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
Sarkozy Says Internet Needs Government Role
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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 adult things needed to keep a company running.
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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Getaround, The AirBnb For Cars, Finally Launches — In the collaborative consumption space with startups like AirBnb and TaskRabbit, Getaround is a car rental market place where you can rent a car by the day, hour or week through a smartphone app. Getaround's all inclusive package …
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
EXPOSED: The Sleazy Tactics Brokerage Firms Are Using To Make Silicon Valley Employees Rich — Employees at hot Silicon Valley companies are once again getting rich selling stock. — This time, they're doing it even without their companies - Facebook, Groupon, Twitter and others - going public.
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.
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 …
AdAge:
More Shoppers Trust the Internet Than TV — In the Game of Shopping, the Web Is the Source for Facts — Shopping is no longer a chore. It's a scavenger hunt where the win is defined as consumers finding deals that feel specially tailored for them or when they feel they've somehow out smarted their fellow shopper.
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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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.
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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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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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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Cray launches XK6 “hybrid” supercomputer, 50 petaflops on tap — Seattle supercomputer maker Cray is joining the hybrid craze with an amazing new machine that combines AMD x86 processors with Nvidia graphics processors. — The Cray XK6 scales up to more than 50 petaflops of processing capability.
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Exclusive: Microsoft loses last Xbox founder, mobile PC visionary — It's the end of an era at Microsoft today. — Otto Berkes, the last of the original Xbox founders still at the company, submitted his resignation this afternoon. — Berkes went on to lead development of a new category …
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Jesse Hicks / Engadget:
Entourage shuts down Edge content store, devices reportedly discontinued — It seems natural selection has finally caught up with the Entourage Edge. When we first reviewed the combination touchscreen/E Ink “dualbook,” we wondered whether its neither-fish-nor-fowl design would catch on — especially priced at $500.
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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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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Tests User Page Recommendations — Facebook has begun testing a new feature that enables users to recommend pages to their friends as they're browsing around the site. — While page administrators could always suggest their own content to friends, Facebook never asked users to promote other pages before.
