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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Why I Started PandoDaily — Several months ago I became obsessed with a colony of trees in Utah called Pando Trees. Measuring 43 hectares and weighing 6,000 tons, they're pretty impressive above ground. But what really matters is what is happening below. The interconnected root system is the oldest living organism in the world.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sarah Lacy's PandoDaily launches with $2.5 million in funding — Sarah Lacy, an author and veteran journalist (most recently with TechCrunch) is launching PandoDaily, a daily technology news blog focused on startups and the startup ecosystem. The name for the site comes from a colony of trees in Utah called, Pando Trees.
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Tech Industry Buys Itself a Mouthpiece — How did Silicon Valleys bigwigs react when their favorite trade publication adopted strict new conflicts of interest policies? They banded together to pay someone else to cover them. — Former TechCrunch reporter Sarah Lacy today launched PandoDaily …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Google calls Murdoch's piracy allegations ‘nonsense’ — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is talking nonsense, according to Google. — Murdoch, a Twitter user for only the past several weeks, used the service to unleash a barrage of accusations Saturday night against President Barrack Obama and Google.
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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Wikipedia's anti-SOPA blackout will go ahead on Wednesday — Wikipedia is planning an online “blackout” on Wednesday, in protest against proposed US legislation intended to stem web piracy. — The free, user-written encyclopaedia is one of the world's top five most popular websites …
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Twitter's Dick Costolo calls Wikipedia's SOPA blackout ‘foolish’
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
A TV Debate on Antipiracy
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Dan Lyons / The Daily Beast:
Even Woz Thinks the Android Bests the iPhone — Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak still loves his iPhone, but says in some ways, Android has leapt ahead. Wow. — Apple CEO Steve Jobs hated the Android smartphone operating system so much that he vowed he would spend his last dying breath …
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Log into Gmail on a PC via Your Smartphone — Google recently introduced a fun (and more secure) way to log into your Google account from a public terminal without entering your password into the PC, and instead using your smartphone and a QR code. — The method is similar to how Google sets …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Samsung and Apple looking at new waterproof smartphone tech — A new technology that could save your phone from getting water damaged could be included the next wave of smartphones about to be made by Samsung and Apple. — Called HZO, the technology creates a nano-scale film barrier …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May? — According to multiple sources, the long anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May. — That means that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month, given the review by the Securities …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Wintel tablet PCs may be priced from US$599-899 — Wintel-based tablet PCs may see their prices go as high as US$599-899 due to Intel and Microsoft both being unwilling to drop their related hardware and software quotes, and as a result, it could push consumers from wanting to purchase the devices …
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Electronista:
91% of business pros use iPads for work, 83% loyal to Apple — IDG finds iPad replacing PCs at work — Nearly every business pro with an iPad is using it primarily to get work done, IDG determined in a study on Monday. About 91 percent worldwide who have iPads use it for work first …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Why the video pros are moving away from Apple — Six months after the launch of Final Cut Pro X (FCPX), Apple's major overhaul to its professional video editing software Final Cut Pro, video pros find themselves increasingly looking at other software options.
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Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:
Surface 2.0 now shipping — I spent a lot of time with Surface 2.0 last week and from this morning onwards, other can begin to have the same pleasure - the SUR 40 is now shipping and available through Samsung channel and reseller partners. Samsung announced the news this morning …
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John P. Mello Jr. / PC World:
Maker of Steve Jobs Action Figure Kills Project — The maker of a controversial Steve Jobs action figure is stopping production and sale of the 12-inch doll following threats of legal action by Apple and Jobs' family. — “Though we still believe that we have not overstepped any legal boundaries …
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Charlie Kindel / cek.log:
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android — The fragmentation of Android is very real and very problematic for end users, developers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, and Google. However fragmentation does not mean Android is going to “die” or “fail” as some seem to think.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Launches Promo Platform For Artists — For many independent artists obscurity is a bigger problem than piracy, but it's a problem that The Pirate Bay hopes to solve. — Today the largest torrent site on the Internet rolled out a new promotion platform for filmmakers, musicians, writers and all other artists alike.
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France Lamy / Google LatLong:
World Bank and Google join forces to empower mapping communities around the world — Today the World Bank and Google announced a collaborative agreement aimed at improving disaster preparedness and development efforts in countries around the world. — Under this agreement …
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Reuters:
Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday — (Reuters) - A hacker who goes by the name of ‘Yama Tough’ threatened Saturday to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce As EVP Of Emerging Markets — CRM and cloud giant Salesforce has announced a key hire today—former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. Kundra has joined the company as executive vice president of emerging markets.
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Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
As demand for e-books soars, libraries struggle to stock their virtual shelves — Kindles, Nooks and iPads can do many amazing things, but they can't bump you ahead in line at the Reston Regional Library. In fact, if you want to borrow a book, it may be quicker to put down your sleek new device and head into the stacks.
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Nanette Asimov / San Francisco Chronicle:
Viruses stole City College of S.F. data for years — Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called “an infestation” of computer viruses with origins …
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Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
AWS offers free Windows on EC2 (kind of) — Amazon will let customers run free micro-instances of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 on its EC2 service starting now, according to a new post to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog. — Such try-before-you-buy tactics have helped Amazon win converts …
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Yonhap News Agency:
Pantech in patent talks with Microsoft over smartphone — Pantech Co., South Korea's No. 3 handset maker, said Monday it is in talks with Microsoft Corp. over whether to pay royalties to the U.S. firm for its patent for Android smartphones. — Microsoft has been requesting Android handset makers …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast is the fastest broadband provider in the U.S. — Comcast, the Philadelphia-based cable company, was the fastest broadband service provider in the U.S. during 2011, according to Ookla, a broadband speed test company. Comcast recently announced that it had completed the upgrade …
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Bloomberg:
Samsung May Sell First Overseas Bonds Since 1997 to Finance Chip Factories — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest maker of computer memory chips, plans to issue its first overseas bonds since 1997 to expand production of processors used in mobile devices including Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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