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The iPad App Derby Gets Under Way — It can be difficult to write software for a gadget without being able to touch it. But that has not stopped developers from rushing to create applications for the Apple iPad. — For small start-ups and big Internet and media companies alike, the iPad …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Kindle for iPad and tablets makes the scene — It must be getting close to April 3rd because the iPad news is hotting up. Today we get our first glimpse at Amazon's free Kindle app for the iPad. We've also got a Barnes & Noble iPad app on the way, courtesy of a report in the New York Times …
Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Google set to announce China site closure — Google could reveal as early as Monday the closure of its Chinese search engine and its plan for the rest of its China operations, according to a person familiar with the situation. — The US internet giant said on January 12 it was no longer willing …
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Chinese netizens' open letter to the Chinese Government and Google
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Palm keeps pushing, announces Pixi Plus and Pre Plus for AT&T “in the coming months” — Palm may be down, but they're not out just yet. Following the launch of the Pre and Pixi on Sprint last year and their respective Plus editions on Verizon back in January, Palm has just announced …
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Hillcrest Labs Takes On Boxee With Kylo Web Video Browser — Hillcrest Labs has unveiled a new browser application called Kylo that is designed to make it easier for users to navigate web video content on their TV. Like Boxee, Kylo hopes to capitalize on the trend of consumers who are hooking …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel and AMD update desktop CPU lineups — Intel and AMD have both recently updated their desktop processor lineups and will launch several new CPUs including six-core and low- voltage processors, according to sources from motherboard makers. — Intel will soon launch …
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My6sense Intros Attention API for Hyper-Relevant Web — Content is coming at us from every direction in the form of streams, from blogs to tweets to social networks. These streams are combining to become information waterfalls of noise from practically every direction …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
DEMO: InVisage's QuantumFilm enables gorgeous camera phone pictures — InVisage is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
AT&T to soon unveil an Android-powered Dell phone called the “Aero” — Well, that was unexpected. Tacked on to the news of the Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus finding their way to AT&T was a passing mention that AT&T would soon be pulling back the curtains on their second Android-powered phone, the Dell Aero.
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Financial Times:
Skype founders raise $165m for new fund — Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have raised a new venture capital fund for investing in so-called “disruptive” early-stage European technology. — Atomico Ventures, the London-based group established by the pair in 2006 …
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Tim Anderson / The Register:
Windows Phone 7: Microsoft's exercise in self restraint — Thank God for Apple — Mix10 The key difference between Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile is not Silverlight, the Windows Marketplace lock-in, nor the disallowing of native-code applications. — Rather, Windows Phone 7 …
Alice Rawsthorn / New York Times:
Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem — NEW YORK — The French and Italians have nicknamed it the “snail.” The Norwegians have plumped for “pig's tail,” the Germans “monkey's tail,” and the Chinese “little mouse.” The Russians think of it as a dog, and the Finns as a slumbering cat.
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Man Corporations Love and Xenophobes Hate — During my recent trip to India, I flew down to Bangalore for one reason: To meet N.R. Narayana Murthy. Murthy is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO for 21 years of Infosys, the first Indian company to go public on Nasdaq …
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Why Is Every App A Game? The Badgeification Of The Internet — Have you heard of the startup Gravity? It's in the same space as Zaang, a company that we have covered before. — I was researching the application to get some background on it, perhaps to do a comparison piece …
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Microsoft's browser loses market share in Europe — (Reuters) - Microsoft's Internet Explorer has lost market share in major European markets, such as France, Britain and Italy, after the U.S. software firm started to make it easier for European consumers to use competing browsers.
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
DoubleClick Lead Architect Launches Search Retargeting Platform — Ad retargeting typically conjures up images of display ads, but one seasoned ad executive has developed a retargeting platform based on search. — Magnetic Founder Josh Shatkin-Margolis will launch Monday a retargeting platform …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Why Google Made BitTorrent a Success — BitTorrent has emerged as the dominant filesharing protocol in recent years. Hundreds of millions of computers have a BitTorrent client installed and torrent sites are among the most frequently visited websites on the Internet.
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
Could Yap Be The Next Big Speech Recognition Player? — The speech recognition field has quietly gotten a little more crowded. Yap, a Charlotte, N.C.-based startup, today said it has been tapped to power Microsoft's Talk-to-Text mobile application, which Sprint offers to BlackBerry users.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Verizon Wireless set to launch mobile payment service — E-commerce payment system lets users charge $25 a month to Verizon Wireless accounts — Computerworld - Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to charge up to $25 a month in online purchases to their Verizon Wireless accounts.
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