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DigiTimes:
Apple not yet released production roadmap for iPhone 5, say touch panel makers — Apple has not yet released a production roadmap for iPhone 5 as shipment volumes of iPhone 4 have continued to mount and related suppliers are not yet ready to shift their production lines for new products …
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VentureBeat, TechEye, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, AppleInsider, MacRumors, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, Fonehome, Softpedia News, MacHackPC, MacStories, Phones Review, DisplayBlog, Electronista and everythingiCafe
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay (three cool new apps that use it to change how we view TV) — I still remember when Dave Winer showed me RSS and what it did. It changed my life and continues to, even after we switched much of our reading behavior to Twitter …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, MacStories, PSFK, GottaBeMobile and building43, Thanks:om
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
VodPod Founders Launch Showyou, A Flipboard-Like Social Video App For iOS
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9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, The Social, NetworkEffect, Mashable!, mobiputing, Xconomy and GottaBeMobile
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Apple announces Final Cut Pro X, rebuilt from ground up with 64-bit support (update: $299 in June) — Apple's just announced Final Cut Pro X at NAB, and Chief Architect of Video Applications Randy Ubillos is demonstrating a beta release as we speak. The “rebuilt from ground up” …
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PC World, PC World, The Loop, The Loop, Photography Bay, Macgasm, TUAW, Appletell, CrunchGear, Crave, BGR, MacRumors, MacStories, GeekSmack, VentureBeat, MacRumors, PC Magazine, MacHackPC, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Macworld, The Tech Herald … and MacDailyNews
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Henry Blodget / SAI:
THE FACEBOOK LAWSUIT: Here's What Happens Next — And Who Is Likely To Pay — Last night, we wrote about the amended lawsuit that Paul Ceglia has filed against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook claiming that Ceglia owned 50% of the “project” that became Facebook back in 2004.
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Yahoo! News, PC World, Inquirer, Slate, RCR Unplugged, paidContent, Pulse2, The Huffington Post, Gizmodo Australia and TechCrunch
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs Hid iPad Development From Eric Schmidt — Steve Jobs was so furious when he saw Android's “pinch to zoom” features during a trip to Google headquarters, he hid Apple's iPad development from Google CEO Eric Schmidt — even though Schmidt was on the board of directors at the time.
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iLounge, Nilay Patel, IntoMobile, GMSV and Fortune
Agam Shah / PC World:
Intel to Open up Thunderbolt Development This Quarter — Intel on Tuesday said that developer kits for Thunderbolt will be available this quarter, which could lead to the quick availability of a wider range of products based on the interconnect technology. — Thunderbolt was first announced …
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MacRumors, Yahoo! News, The Toybox Blog, TUAW, TechSpot, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear and iClarified
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Nintendo cutting Wii price to $150 on May 15th? — Nintendo's miniature white monolith has sold like gangbusters for long enough that we're wary it'll ever get cheap, but a trusted source tells us a price cut is indeed headed our way — and that the Nintendo Wii will cost just $150 starting May 15th.
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VentureBeat, PC World, Digital Trends, CNET News, The Toybox Blog, Techland, CrunchGear, Geek.com, VG247, Electronista, GoNintendo, GamesIndustry.biz and Kotaku
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Apple Survived '80s Thanks To One Piece of Software, Says Guy Kawasaki — SAN FRANCISCO, AD:TECH CONFERENCE: The survival of Apple beyond the 1980s is thanks to one piece of software, says Guy Kawasaki, best-selling author and Apple's former chief evangelist.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Jive Bets On Big Data With Acquisition Of Software Startup Proximal Labs — Jive Software, the maker of an all-in-one social enterprise software, has acquired data mining software company Proximal Labs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Proximal Labs is a software company …
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GigaOM, alarm:clock, NewEnterprise, ReadWriteWeb, Proximal Labs, Social Markets, SiliconANGLE and silicontap.com
Mark Milian / CNN:
Leading app maker said to be planning Twitter competitor — (CNN) — UberMedia, which owns several popular applications that interface with Twitter, is outlining plans to build a social network that could compete with that popular microblogging platform, said three people who were briefed on the plans.
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SAI, The Atlantic Online, IntoMobile, Mashable!, The Next Web and AllTwitter
Levi Pulkkinen / seattlepi.com:
Feds charge Microsoft employee accused of bilking company — Federal prosecutors in Seattle have filed wire fraud charges against a Microsoft employee accused of stealing more than $515,000 from the company. — Arrested Tuesday morning, Robert D. Curry stands accused of stealing …
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Inquirer, The Register, Electronista, The Raw Feed and GeekWire
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft struck by HTML5 commitment phobia — Silverlight, I wish I could quit you — Back during the era of certainty, the time of proprietary source code and software product roadmaps, Microsoft was a company you could bank on. — Microsoft would announce a new version of Windows or Office …
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Todd Haselton / BGR:
Lenovo planning 23-inch tablet for 2011 launch — While most manufacturers are trying to find the sweet spot for tablets in the 7-inch to 10-inch range, Lenovo's thinking bigger. The firm's senior marketing specialist, Wiliam Cai, said that his company is working on a new 23-inch tablet designed …
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Engadget, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, MacDailyNews, Electronista, PC Magazine, GottaBeMobile, Techland and Gizmodo
BBC:
Microsoft launches StreetView rival in Europe — Microsoft is taking pictures in conjunction with mapping partner Navteq — Microsoft is launching its own version of Google's StreetView - dubbed Streetside - across Europe. — Cars fitted with cameras have begun taking pictures around London …
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Screenwerk, Inquirer, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Neowin.net, The Register, Telegraph, Daily Mail and blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Kyocera Echo review — It's not exactly difficult to put into words what the Kyocera Echo is — it's a dual-screened Android phone, after all — but it's a wee bit more challenging to wrap your head around who exactly it's for. The hardcore gaming contingent already has Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play …
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The Digital Solution, BGR, USA Today, LAPTOP Magazine, DailyTech, LaptopMag.com and DisplayBlog
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sweeet!: Sugar Gets $15 Million More in New Funding From IVP and Sequoia — Sassy women-focused content site, Sugar Inc., has raised another $15 million in late-stage venture funding from new investor Institutional Venture Partners, as well as its original one, Sequoia Capital.
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, paidContent and SAI
Wall Street Journal:
Rebels Hijack Gadhafi's Phone Network — A team led by a Libyan-American telecom executive has helped rebels hijack Col. Moammar Gadhafi's cellphone network and re-establish their own communications. The new network, first plotted on an airplane napkin and assembled with the help of oil-rich Arab nations …
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Yahoo! News, Techland, thinq_, PhoneArena, @shervin, The Register, Gizmodo, dailywireless.org, textually.org and AOL News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: The Bleak Financial Numbers From The MySpace Sale Pitch Book — Back in 2008 MySpace was on a roll. They racked up $900 million in revenue and the company was still growing. But a year later top execs started to bail (the smart ones went early). Within two months cofounder and CEO Chris DeWolfe was gone.
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PC Magazine, Screenwerk, Music Ally, Guardian, hypebot, VentureBeat, The Huffington Post, Pulse2, SAI and PE Hub Blog
Ellen Messmer / Network World:
Hacker ‘handshake’ hole found in common firewalls — NSS Labs tested Cisco, Check Point, Fortinet, Juniper, the Palo Alto Networks, and SonicWall firewalls — Some of the most commonly-used firewalls are subject to a hacker exploit that lets an attacker trick a firewall and get into an internal network as a trusted IP connection.
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
RIM's Mike Lazaridis halts BBC interview when pressed on India — In a recent BBC interview, Research In Motion's CEO Mike Lazaridis was not digging a line of questioning posed about India. RIM's co-chief, who is usually calm, cool, and collected, became agitated when pressed …
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BBC, CrackBerry.com blogs, CrunchGear and The Loop
Mark Watkins / ReadWriteWeb:
2011: The Year the Check-in Died — Early last year, “checking in” was the cool new craze. No visit to your favorite tech news site could be had without getting buried in an avalanche of articles about Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, BriteKite or a myriad other startups.
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Betabeat, @cdixon, SAI, Mark Evans Tech, StartupMuse, @furrier, All About Symbian and All Points Blog
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson sets up its own channel in Android Market, relegates ‘My apps’ link to a menu item — Open up Android Market on your Android device today and (most of) you will see a familiar set of three headings — Apps, Games and My apps — bidding you welcome.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
New Zealand Government Rushes Through Controversial Anti-Piracy Law — In a surprise development, during the next few hours New Zealand's government is to rush through legislation that will target Internet users who share copyrighted material online without rightsholder permission.
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National Business Review, PlagiarismToday, Boing Boing, Stuff.co.nz and Slashdot
Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:
Intuit Aims to Spur Growth With Mobile Software, Acquisitions — Intuit Inc. is boosting sales of its financial-management and tax-preparation programs with online and mobile versions, helping make up for a slowdown in desktop software, Chief Executive Officer Brad Smith said.
