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Wall Street Journal:
Two New IPhones Coming; One May Be Aimed at Verizon — Apple Inc. is developing a new iPhone to debut this summer and also appears to be working on a model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless, say people briefed on the matter. — While Apple has unveiled a new iPhone every June …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
WSJ's Lame Entry in the iPhone Rumors Game — The Wall Street Journal: … Keep in mind there's a big difference between “is” and “appears to be”. And they have no actual details of the next-generation iPhone. Nothing. Not the A4-family CPU system-on-a-chip.
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App Advice, Gizmodo, Electronista, IntoMobile, EverythingiCafe, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Techland and MacRumors
Darren Murph / Engadget:
WSJ: Apple ‘developing new iPhone,’ plus another for Verizon (update: iPhone HD?) — You heard right, folks — according to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is currently “developing a new iPhone to debut this summer,” and as if that weren't enough, it's also “working on another model for US mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless.”
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Rumored iPhone 4 Specs: 960x640 Display, Front Facing Camera, Multitasking — Daring Fireball builds on the WSJ iPhone 4 rumors earlier today by dumping what they know: An almost iPad-level 940 x 640 resolution display, an iPad-esque A4 CPU and a front facing camera. AND, multitasking in iPhone OS 4.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
The State of the Internet Operating System — I've been talking for years about “the internet operating system”, but I realized I've never written an extended post to define what I think it is, where it is going, and the choices we face. This is that missing post.
Marc Benioff / TechCrunch:
Hello, iPad. Hello, Cloud 2. — The first piece of software I ever wrote was on the TRS-80 Model 1. It was called “How To Juggle”, and it had 4K of memory. It was my version of “Hello World”, what every programmer first writes on a new piece of hardware.
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Boy Genius Report:
Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac gets undressed — We've just scored some of the first shots of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, and while they are said to be very early, you can clearly see the progress that has been made in the transition to native Cocoa applications.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Exclusive: Android Froyo to take a serious shot at stemming platform fragmentation — We had a couple people at CTIA last week — people whose words carry weight — tell us off the record that the next major version of Android would take big strides toward stopping the ugly trend toward severe fragmentation …
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internetnews.com, AndroidGuys, InformationWeek, Relevant Results, Android Phone Fans, Android Central, Electronista and Gizmodo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter And The Nine-Month Bounce — I've long suspected that the basic usage pattern for Twitter is that people try it, don't get it or become discouraged because they don't know anyone else on it, but it grows on them eventually until they start using it every day.
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Christopher Heine / ClickZ:
Facebook Killing ‘Become A Fan,’ Embracing ‘Like’ — Facebook is scaling back on the word “Fan” and ramping up usage of “Like” on brand pages. According to a confidential e-mail sent to ad agencies today, the social media site will change the “Become A Fan” button to read “Like” within the next few weeks.
Arn / MacRumors:
Future Apple's iPad OS Upgrade Pricing Policies Revealed as Apple Seeds GM iPad SDK, Firmware and Licensing Agreement — Apple has begun seeding the Golden Master version of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK to developers. This represents the shipping version of the software that developers must use to develop iPad applications.
Grant Gross / PC World:
Lawmakers Ask for FTC Investigation of Google Buzz — Eleven U.S. lawmakers have asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google's launch of its Buzz social-networking product for breaches of consumer privacy. — The representatives — six Democrats and five Republicans …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple's Best Buy distribution changes iPad unit calculus — Apple's iPad lands at Apple stores April 3 and Best Buy's distribution heft will be riding shotgun. The double-barreled distribution channel for the Apple iPad may change the calculus behind Wall Street's unit guessing game.
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Zune HD v4.5 firmware ‘coming soon,’ adds SmartDJ, new codecs, and Marketplace access via AV dock (update: video!) — We know you've been waiting at the edge of your seat for that added codec support and SmartDJ for Zune HD, patient ever since its CES unveiling, and now we're here to assure …
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Chad Whitney / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn for BlackBerry: Anytime, Anywhere — I'm Chad Whitney, the Product Manager responsible for mobile products at LinkedIn. This is my first blog post for LinkedIn, so why not kick things off with a bang? I'm excited to announce the full release of LinkedIn for BlackBerry v1.0.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fake Steve Jobs Blog Likely To Shut Down — It took a year for anyone to figure out that Forbes (now Newsweek) writer Dan Lyons was the guy behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Now, a couple of years later, the blog is still going strong. And it remains very, very funny.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Google, Microsoft to team up on privacy push launching tomorrow — The world's biggest tech heavyweights are set to team up with each other to influence the future of Internet privacy law. Google, Microsoft and a number of other civil liberties groups, think tanks and tech companies …
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Toshiba Unveils Pocket-Sized 1TB Backup Drives — The company's new Windows 7-based Canvio portable hard drives are aimed primarily at consumers but could also be something SMBs and midrange businesses might find useful, since they are inexpensive, easily transportable and capacious.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iTunes 9.1 to Bring eBook Support, Genius Mix Enhancements, Automatic Bitrate Conversion? — MacRumors has received information from a source claiming to have knowledge of a forthcoming iTunes 9.1 update that will presumably be released around the same time as the iPad's U.S. launch this Saturday.
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Maximum PC, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, TUAW, AppleInsider, ithinkdifferent, Gizmodo, TiPb, EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac and iLounge
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Mainstream Commenters Choose Yahoo Logins — When given a choice of login systems, visitors to mainstream media properties such as Slate, Forbes, Newsweek, Discovery, Time and Press Enterprise are most likely to choose Yahoo, according to data collected by commenting system Echo, which helps power such sites.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Teleku Takes On Twilio, Helps Developers Integrate Telephony Services Into Web Apps — Back in fall 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a service that gives web developers an API to easily build web apps with telephony features, like audio playback, voice recording, and more recently, SMS messages.
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Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Yahoo adds Facebook status updates to Mail — Yahoo continues to inject social networking into its services. — Starting later today, Yahoo Mail users will be able to update their Facebook status from their Yahoo Mail inbox. Facebook users will be able to log into their accounts right …
Martin Weil / Washington Post:
Data stolen from firm that handles student loans in Virginia — Personal information on 3.3 million people, many from the Washington region, has been stolen from a firm that guarantees student loans, authorities said. — The theft occurred last weekend at the St. Paul, Minn. …
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
UK Court Rules Against Usenet Indexing Site — Hollywood has been handed a legal victory against U.K.-based Usenet indexing site Newzbin by the England and Wales High Court today. The court found Newzbin to be liable of copyright infringement and ordered it to prevent any further acts …
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Andrew Ramadge / NEWS.com.au:
Quip app security hole shares private photos — iPhone app had serious security hole — THOUSANDS of intimate photos sent between iPhone users have been made public after an embarrassing security flaw. — The Quip app promised to let people send pictures to each other for free …
