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| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Yahoo! Crosses The Line — The patents that Yahoo! is suing Facebook over are a crock of s**t. None of them represent unique and new ideas at the time of the filing. I supect they all can be thrown out over prior art if Facebook takes the time and effort to do that.
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple Said to Be Subpoenaed by U.S. Regulators on Google's Mobile Search — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed Apple Inc. (AAPL) as part of its antitrust probe of Google Inc. (GOOG), seeking information on how the computer maker uses the search engine on the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the matter said.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
FTC Subpoenas Apple in Google Antitrust Probe — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Apple as part of its antitrust inquiry into Google's business practices, according to Bloomberg News. Sources familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg that the agency is particularly interested … | Jun Yang / Bloomberg: |
Samsung to Supply Apple With IPad Screen After LG, Sharp Miss Requirements — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) will supply the touch screen for Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s new iPad after LG Display Co. (034220) and Sharp Corp. (6753) didn't meet the U.S. company's quality requirements, according to an analyst with iSuppli.
| James Trew / Engadget: |
New iPad gets benchmarked: 1GB RAM confirmed, no boost in CPU speed — Not only did some lucky gents in Vietnam get their hands on the new iPad while most people are still refreshing their delivery status page, they were also kind enough to run some benchmark tests.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
The new iPad: Available Friday March 16th at 8am — A friend in retail just sent us some artwork from upcoming Apple Store frontage which confirms Store will open early - 8am -to sell the third generation iPad. Earlier, we'd heard that the Houston store would be opening at 8am on the 16th which stongly hinted at such an opening.| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
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| Peter Pachal / Mashable!: |
Google Confirms It's Working on Chrome for Windows 8 — Google says it's working on a version of Chrome that will run in the Metro environment of Windows 8. The news follows the revelation that Mozilla is building Firefox for Metro as well. — A Google spokesperson told Mashable … | Rdio Blog: |
Introducing: New Rdio — Welcome to new Rdio. We built it for you — it's faster, simpler, and more social. — New Rdio is a visually beautiful and dynamic way to play Rdio's massive catalogue of 15 million songs. New features include the oft requested drag and drop playlist creation …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Camera+ Sees Major Update: Dozens Of Features, New API, Integration With WordPress, Foodspotting & More — Following increasing competition, most recently from SmugMug's nifty Camera Awesome app, everyone's favorite iPhone camera replacement app Camera+ is rolling out a major update today.| Bloomberg: |
Zynga Said to Plan Secondary Offering — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the social-gaming company that held its initial public offering in December, is planning an offering of additional shares, two people familiar with the matter said. — The move is designed to let Zynga (ZNGA) …
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| Andrew Hampp / Billboard.Biz: |
Exclusive: Turntable.FM Signs Licensing Deals With All Four Major Labels — It's Official — Turntable.fm is going legit, with licensing agreements with all four of the major labels now in place. The announcement was made today at South By Southwest by Turntable.fm founder Billy Chasen …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Nice Try: Motorola Demanded a License to Every One of Apple's Patents — Motorola Mobility's request that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads in return for a license to its standards-essential patents, while aggressive, was not the most onerous demand … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google I/O registration opens 7am PDT March 27th, last year it took less than an hour to sell out — Google opens its registration for its annual I/O conference on March 27th this year. Remember, last year tickets sold out in under an hour so set your alarms!
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| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Sources: PayPal to launch Square competitor — PayPal's plans to announce a solution for small businesses at an event this Thursday includes a mobile payment dongle that would compete against Square, Intuit (intu), Verifone and others, according to sources we've talked to who are familiar with PayPal's plans.| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nokia Maps now offers voice directions via the web for iOS and Android — The mobile site for Nokia Maps now supports voice directions on the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — but for now, it only works with walking mode. Using the new feature is pretty simple: you go to m.maps.nokia.com … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
I'm not a “curator” — Curator's Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: — á"¥ means “via” — means “hat tip” — It's completely misguided. — First of all, readers aren't going to learn what those symbols mean.| Carl Franzen / TPM Idea Lab: |
McGraw Hill Thinks New iPad Will Be Ticket To E-Textbook Revolution — McGraw Hill Education, one of Apple's leading partners in its e-textbook initiative announced in January, thinks that the new iPad unveiled on March 7 will lead to a revolution in education materials, but perhaps not for the obvious reasons.
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
Will 4G LTE devices ever roam internationally? — The widespread acceptance of 4G LTE was supposed to unite wireless operators around the globe. But the worldwide spectrum crunch is making international roaming a tough problem to solve. — It's true that today iPad owners …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Spotify family plans ‘definitely coming’ — We just caught up with Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks outside of his “Future of Music” panel here at SXSW, and he told us that Spotify family plans are “definitely coming.” That would fulfill a longstanding request …
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| Frank Langfitt / NPR: |
iPad Workers: Plant Inspected Hours Before Blast … Workers burned during an explosion at an Apple supplier factory in Shanghai are seen at a hospital where they are receiving continued treatment for their injuries. According to the factory, 24 workers were burned in the explosion.
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