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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Tests an Interface Optimized for Infinite Scrolling — Alon Laudon spotted a new experimental interface for Google's results pages. The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar …
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It's All Tech, The Next Web, Softpedia News and 9to5Google
PC Pro:
What the police can learn from your smartphone — Where you've been, who you've talked to, who you've been sleeping with - secrets that people wouldn't even share with their closest friends are being spilled into a device that knows you better than any confidant.
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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
10 Years of Apple Stores: the non-celebration — Apple and understatement aren't close relatives. Not that they don't have a right to strut a bit: after all, under its returning co-founder, Apple 2.0 performed the most stunning corporate turn around ever — and shows no sign of slowing down.
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ifoAppleStore, TUAW and MacRumors
Chip Cutter / Associated Press:
Behind the hike: Why Netflix is raising prices — Why is Netflix raising its prices? In part, because the company miscalculated how many people still want to receive DVDs by mail each month, a more expensive service to provide compared to its streamed Internet videos.
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Gizmodo, TeleRead, Felix Salmon and Examiner
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Facebook bans Google+ ad — Ingenuity is surely something to be admired. Commercial ingenuity is something to be revered. — Sometimes, though, it seems that certain tech companies only revere their own ingenuity. That seems to be the case with Facebook, which, as reported …
Kevin Cheng / kev/null:
Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends? — When Google+ launched last week, one of the most discussed features was Circles. In case you haven't read a single blog, Tweet, or Google+ post in the last week (and yet, somehow stumbled into this dark corner of the internet), Circles is Google's way of allowing you to group people.
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A VC, Bradley Horowitz and Marketing Nirvana
Mark Milian / CNN:
U.S. Army may soon equip troops with smartphones — For U.S. Army troops, smartphones could become requisite field gear, along with boots, guns and ammunition. The Army is wrapping up a six-week program to test the viability of using touchscreen phones and tablets in combat.
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Engadget, GeekWire, Electronista, iClarified, PhoneArena and Tools
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Patents in Apple-HTC case filed in 1994 and 1996, long before smartphones existed — Lost in the clamor over Apple Inc.'s preliminary patent victory over rival phone-maker HTC Corp. is that the two patents in question are so old they predate smartphones. — A judge at the U.S. International …
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I4U News, HotHardware.com News, PC World, 9to5Mac and FOSS Patents
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
ITC ruling against HTC may spell trouble for other Android makers
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Gizmodo, developer.android.com, FOSS Patents and PC World
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The supply of Apple's iPad 2 finally catches up with demand — A week after shipping times were cut to 3-5 business days, they shrank again to 1-3 — Apple's (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping up with demand for the iPad 2 from the day the product launched in early March.
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Electronista, PadGadget, iDownloadBlog, MacRumors, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Apple Bitch, TUAW, 9to5Mac and Tools
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Internet Explorer 9 utterly dominates malware-blocking stats — Internet Explorer 9's dual-pronged approach to blocking access to malicious URLs—SmartScreen Filter to block bad URLs, and Application Reputation to detect untrustworthy executables—provides the best socially engineered malware blocking …
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PC World, gHacks Technology News, Neowin.net, nsslabs.com and Inquirer
Charles Arthur / Apps blog:
App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’ — App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents - just as a Mumbai-based company …
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iPhone Hacks, Slashdot and TiPb
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block — After an Italian court ordered all ISPs to block The Pirate Bay in 2008, this year the authorities shifted their focus to making BTjunkie unavailable too. — This week it turned out that not all Internet providers …
Adam Rawnsley / Danger Room:
Pentagon Wants a Social Media Propaganda Machine — You don't need to have 5,000 friends of Facebook to know that social media can have a notorious mix of rumor, gossip and just plain disinformation. The Pentagon is looking to build a tool to sniff out social media propaganda campaigns and spit some counter-spin right back at it.
