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Electronista:
Adobe shows off Android tablets running Flash and Air — While Adobe does not have any Apple products on the show floor at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, the company is showing off prototypes of upcoming Android-based tablets. The Google Android Tablet, even in a pre-release form …
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Max / Zendomax:
Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Review! [Web 2.0 Expo] — Today, I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco as soon as it was open (as I blogged about it several hours before). Upon walking around the exhibit floor, I quickly found Adobe. — Oddly, they were displaying …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Google Gives Its Search Results a Facelift — Google is making some very noticeable changes to its familiar search results pages, rolling out the changes gradually on Tuesday and Wednesday. — The search giant is adding a new left-handed navigation panel to most results pages …
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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
A spring metamorphosis — Google's new look — Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search …
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Video: Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends' live chats — You've got to hand it to Facebook. They certainly know how to do security — not. — Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft Kin One and Two review — Make no mistake: the Kin One and Two are coming into the world as the black sheep of the phone industry, and Microsoft would have it no other way. Straddling the fence somewhere between a dedicated smartphone and high-spec featurephone …
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BetaNews, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, SlashGear, Microsoft, PC Magazine, The Mossberg Solution, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, mocoNews, MobileCrunch, PreCentral.net, pocketnow.com, DailyTech, CNET News, Electronista, jkOnTheRun, Internet2Go, Phones Review, Coolsmartphone News, WMPoweruser.com, TNW Mobile, VentureBeat, LiveSide.net and PalmAddicts
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel launches chip for smartphones, tablets — Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals—unlike the PC market where it dominates. — Previously known by the code name “Moorestown,” …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel's next Atom chips are powerful, but not power hungry
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Intel, TechRadar.com, Gizmodo, blogs.ft.com, IntoMobile, Electricpig, SlashGear, TechSpot and Tech Eye
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Hot new features uncovered in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 — Here's the thing... We just installed the newly released iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 and found quite a few changes. There are a lot of minor things like how the background of the multitasking interface matches the background in the iPad's browser …
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MacRumors, Gadget Lab, EverythingiCafe, Obsessable, Engadget, iPhone Buzz, SlashGear, TiPb, Recombu, Fonehome.co.uk, Pocket-lint, Electricpig.co.uk, Phones Review, PhoneDog.com, Edible Apple, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch: WSJ iPad App Has 64,000 Active Users—And We Keep The Money — It's not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month.
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JR Raphael / PC World:
Google Editions: Bringing E-Books to Your Browser — JR Raphael, PC World — Google wants to bring your digital book reader into the cloud. — The company has just announced plans to launch its own digital bookstore, a Web-based effort called Google Editions.
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Guardian, The Buzz on Ereading, The Register, Softpedia News, Shelly Palmer, Pocket-lint, AppScout, Go Rumors and Wall Street Journal
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Robert Reich:
Apple Isn't the Problem. Wall Street's Big Banks are the Problem. — Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
AT&T dropping more calls than ever — Three times as many as Verizon, according to a consumer survey released Tuesday — Click to enlarge. Source: ChangeWave Research — AT&T (T) announced in January that it was spending $2 billion this year to improve its much maligned cellular network.
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Digital Daily, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, InvestorPlace.com, SlashPhone, Macsimum News and blogs.chron.com
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fending Off Microsoft, Google Invests In TV Ad Startup Invidi (GOOG, MSFT) — Update: Invidi just put out a press release confirming the news: — INVIDI Technologies Corporation, the leader in advanced addressable advertising solutions for television, announced today it has secured …
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NewTeeVee, TechCrunch, paidContent, CNET News, Softpedia News and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections — “Connections.” It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes. — Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Ellen pokes fun at Apple... and then apologizes — After watching this video, we've come to one conclusion: Apple needs to learn how to take a joke. — Link
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BetaNews, CNET News, Digits, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, AppleInsider, Geek.com, Fortune, Digital Daily, Switched, textually.org, Gizmodo, Gearlog and TiPb
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson X10 family to get Android 2.1 in ‘Q4 2010’ — The Xperia X10, one of the big mindshare-grabbing devices of the smartphone world, made us wait a cool six months between its November announcement and wide retail availability in April. One of the secret hopes while all that waiting …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Launches Android App & Mobile API, Gives iPad Cloud Sync Apple Should Have Built — Dropbox's effortless file sharing service is going mobile in a big way: the service has just launched its official Android application, a native iPad app (which comes in addition to a previously …
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Macworld, Fortune, The Dropbox Blog, MobileCrunch, Macsimum News, Pocket-lint, CNET News, Neowin.net and ReadWriteWeb
Chad Berndtson / ChannelWeb:
Skype Promises Super-Cheap Subscriptions, Group Video Chat — Skype Wednesday confirmed new monthly call subscription plans that, according to Skype, bring down the costs of Skype-enabled Internet calls even further. In addition, according to one report, Skype has a long-sought group video chat function …
