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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple predicted to introduce lower cost iPhone models in June — Apple's next update to the blockbuster iPhone handset is expected by one prominent analyst to have a lower total cost of ownership, and to also include new gesture-based functionality. — Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley maintains …
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Jay Yarow / Velocity:
Apple Stacks The Deck Against Amazon's Kindle App — Read Apple Stacks The Deck Against Amazon's Kindle App — When Apple's iPad goes on sale in a few weeks, its iBookstore will have a distinct user-experience advantage over e-book competitors like Amazon's Kindle App.
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
When It Comes to Content, Amazon's Kindle Won't Be Undersold — On Jan. 27, Steven P. Jobs was still standing on a stage in San Francisco, presenting Apple's new iPad, when the phones started ringing. Senior managers from Amazon.com were calling newspaper, magazine and book publishers trying …
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Carrie-Ann Skinner / Computerworld:
EU orders Google to ditch Street View images after 6 months — PC Advisor - The European Union has ordered Google to delete images captured for its Street View service after six months. — Street View, which was made available in the UK last year, is an add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Cool New Finger Swiping Camera Controls coming to iPhone & iPad — On Feb 25, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals one of the next chapters for Apple's iPhone. Today's patent reveals yet another innovative concept that is designed …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam — Facebook is about to become a quieter, less annoying place for users. The company just announced that it has deprecated “application notifications” and will require apps to use other, less intrusive methods of sending news to users.
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Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
iTunes Prize Winner to Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?” — When Steve Jobs personally called Woodstock, Georgia native Louie Sulcer to tell him he'd won Apple's iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold contest, Sulcer first thought was that he was being pranked.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Ad Plan: Copy Google — What will Twitter's long-awaited ad platform look like? Something like Google's. — That's the general description of Twitter's plan, according to people who have been briefed by the company. — Here are the very broad strokes:
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix — The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it's been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens. Today, the saga comes to an end because Apple has acknowledged the issues and offered their support.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Android vs. Apple: The flyover states — Google phones may outsell iPhones in eight U.S. states. Can you guess which ones? — Click to enlarge. Source: Myxer — Here's a bit of geographical trivia that may have business consequences. — According to a Myxer BoomBox Report released …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Digg Found a Way to Make Money — Social networking behavior — endless repetitive page views, unvetted content — isn't a great fit for traditional forms of online advertising. Early attempts to bring search or brand ads onto sites like MySpace and Facebook had pathetic results compared …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed - This Could Be Very Big — Facebook has been granted a patent on the Newsfeed, “displaying a news feed in a social network environment.” Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook found the patent first and says it could be “one of the most significant social web patents” in a decade.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated)
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Will Park / IntoMobile:
Adobe kills Flash Player 10.1 for Windows Mobile 6.5, smitten with Windows Phone 7 Series — There are a couple certainties when it comes to Adobe's Flash Player 10.1 and the prospects for integrated Flash support on smartphones - Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) won't ever allow native Flash on the iPhone …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway Raising $10 Million Angel Fund To Expand SV Angel — Super-angel Ron Conway, who is one of the most prolific and successful investors in Silicon Valley, is expanding his SV Angel fund to include outside investors (recently he has invested only his own capital in startups).
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Pentagon issues new policy on social networking — WASHINGTON - The Pentagon says everyone from troops in the field to the highest brass and civilian leaders will be allowed to Twitter, blog and use Facebook and other social networking sites on the military's non-classified computer network.
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Palm CEO's Letter to Employees — Palm said on Thursday that its phones aren't selling as well as it had hoped and that revenues for its fiscal year would be “well below” its forecasts. In an internal company-wide email, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein elaborated further about the reasons behind …
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
New YouTube Design Makes Everything A Playlist, Keeps You Watching Forever (GOOG) — YouTube's new design will make the playlist feature part of the standard YouTube experience, the Google (GOOG) video-sharing site announced today. — YouTube already has playlists, in which one video automatically begins when the last one ends.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Twitter phishing hack hits BBC, PCC, Miliband ... and Guardian — An invitation to find out about better sex is spreading virally around Twitter - but only leads to identity theft and malware (updated x2, with video) — Thousands of Twitter users have seen their accounts hijacked …
LeeAnn Prescott / VentureBeat:
OS X share up 29% in past year, slowly chipping away at Microsoft — Web measurement company Quantcast recently began publishing stats on operating system browser share from its sample of quantified publishers. Data shows that in January 2010, Microsoft Windows accounted for 86.8% share …
Brian Caulfield / Velocity:
iPad Rival JooJoo Will Ship March 25 — Startup Fusion Garage said Friday its JooJoo touch-screen tablet computer will ship March 25. — That's later than FusionGarage Chief Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan had originally promised, pitting the upstart's $499 touch-screen tablet against Apple's $499 iPad, also slated to ship this Spring.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Wireless: Industry Growth Drops Below 3%, And Still Sinking — Given the market's intense focus on the smart phone market, you'd think the wireless carriers would be growing like weeds. — But weirdly enough, that's not the case. As Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett pointed …
Bloomberg:
Nokia CEO Stinging From IPhone Aims to Out-Jobs Apple With Apps and Maps — Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Sitting in a meeting room that looks out on a frozen Baltic bay, Nokia Oyj Chief Executive Officer Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo mentions a biography he's reading. It's about Mauno Koivisto …
Kevin Ohannessian / Fast Company:
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO on Motion Controls and the Year of the PlayStation 3 — Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, discusses how Sony is reorganizing, the motion-control competition with Microsoft, and how Sony ignored naysayers and found gaming success.
DigiTimes:
Acer to launch ultra-thin Calpella-based notebook series in 2Q10 — Acer is preparing to launch Intel Calpella platform-based notebooks featuring ultra-thin designs in the second quarter, of which, Wistron will manufacture 13-inch models and Quanta Computer 14- and 15-inch models, according to sources from notebook makers.
