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9:00 AM ET, April 9, 2010

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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler  —  Prior to today's release of the iPhone OS 4 SDK, section 3.3.1 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement read, in its entirety: … In the new version of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement released …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1  —  We're still in the early days of the transition from the PC era to the mobile era.  Right now, Apple is winning.  There are other winners right now too — RIM is still growing, and Android has grown a ton in the past year.
Apple:
Get a sneak peek into the future of iPhone OS  —  On April 8, Apple unveiled plans for the biggest and most exciting iPhone software update yet. iPhone OS 4 will include over 100 new user features for iPhone and iPod touch owners to enjoy.  And for developers, a new software development kit …
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Apple Puts Up Another Barrier for Adobe and Flash
Discussion: VentureBeat and IntoMobile
JR Raphael / PC World:
Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 No Threat to Android
Discussion: The Next Web and Digital Daily
Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPhone OS 4 keynote video now online
Manu Cornet / Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Nested Labels and Message Sneak Peek  —  Labels are more flexible than folders because a given email can have several labels but can't be in several folders at the same time.  A highly requested feature for labels, though, comes from the world of folders: the ability to organize labels hierarchically.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
iPhone OS 4 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer  —  Just a bit more than a year after we first laid eyes on iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is back with the latest big revision of the OS that powers the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. iPhone OS 4 is shipping this summer (iPad in the fall) …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS 4.0 Multitasking First Video  —  Here's what multitasking looks like on iPhone 4.0.  For full details on iPhone OS 4, and multitasking specifically, check out our definitive guides.  [YouTube]
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple Announces iAd Mobile Advertising Platform  —  Today during its iPhone 4.0 developer preview, Steve Jobs announced Apple's much-anticipated mobile advertising platform, iAd.  This has been expected since Apple acquired mobile ad platform Quattro Wireless, after having AdMob snatched away by Google …
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Greg Yardley / yardley.ca:
iPhone 4.0 & iAds advertising
Discussion: paidContent
Kunur Patel / AdAge:   Apple's iAd Not Game-Changing, but Will Move Market
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Clash of the titans: Apple, Google battle for the mobile Web
Discussion: Raph's Website
Matt Sanford / Twitter Blog:
Growing Around the World  —  Hi, my name is Matt Sanford and I'm the lead engineer for Twitter's International team.  I spend a great deal of time thinking about Twitter's users outside of the US.  Twitter's first users were the early employees and their friends, largely based around our offices in San Francisco.
Devin Leonard / Business Week:
Tech Entrepreneur Peter Gabriel Knows What You Want  —  Even if you don't know yourself.  Inside The Filter, Gabriel's recommendation engine for online music and movies  —  Have you ever gone to a Web site to satisfy some late-night craving for a song?  Let's say you were just really in the mood …
Zachary Collins / Icodom:
Twitter to Launch a Major Redesign [SCREENSHOT]  —  Today, while reading through my tweets, I stumbled upon a screenshot of a new design for Twitter.  It doesn't show much, but it's from Doug Bowman who is the current Creative Director at Twitter.  —  This new design will show …
AppleInsider:
Apple's WebKit2 will add Google Chrome-like split processes to Safari  —  A new framework for the WebKit open source Web browser layout engine was revealed Thursday, bringing with it a built-in “split process model” that will keep Web content such as JavaScript, HTML and layout in a separate process …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Internet provider defies digital bill  —  TalkTalk's refusal to cooperate with ‘draconian’ anti-piracy measures reflect growing resistance to the digital economy bill  —  One of the UK's three biggest internet service providers has vowed not to co-operate with measures to combat file-sharing set …
Lawrence Lam / Search Blog:
A New Look for Bing shopping  —  This week we unveiled a few updates to Bing shopping to help you do research and find what you're looking for more quickly.  You'll notice that we've created a list of product categories on the left side of the homepage to help you start your search.
Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
iChatAgent process shows up in iPhone OS 4.0 — video conferencing coming?  —  As expected, Apple didn't introduce any new iPhone hardware today; knowing Steve Jobs & co., they still want to save some surprises when they unveil the 4G iPhone later this summer.  Could one of those surprises be a front-facing camera with iChat support?
Discussion: TiPb, MacRumors and Phones Review
Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:
Complicating Relationships in Media: Apple, NY Times Dealings Raise Questions  —  Recent days have reminded me of the many traits Apple and the New York Times share.  Both are the best at what they do in certain domains.  Each is emphatically elitist, and, in varying ways, self-confident to the point of arrogance.
Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk
BBC:
Facebook and Electoral Commission launch voter push  —  Social networking website Facebook has been brought in to get unregistered voters into the polling booth.  —  In a tie-up with the Electoral Commission, Facebook users who visit the site over the weekend will be asked if they have registered to vote.
Discussion: All Facebook, The Next Web and Reuters
Don Reisinger / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google Earth helps unearth new human species in South Africa  —  Google Earth has helped paleoanthropologists discover a human species that pre-dated our “genus Homo” ancestors, the search giant announced Thursday.  —  According to Google, professor Lee Berger at the University of the Witswatersrand …
Luke Bornheimer / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple rejecting apps with “Pad” in title  —  Apple has started to reject apps with the word “Pad” in the title that do not explicitly use wording such as, “runs on,” “for,” “for use with,” and/or “compatible with.”  Jesse Waites, maker of ContactPad (iTunes link) sent us a shot of an email …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
The Two Things Digg Has Left  —  It's been a really, really long time since we took a look at Digg.  For those of you that are new to CN, Digg was the first site I reviewed when I started CenterNetworks.  I remember attending the Future of Web Apps in San Francisco in late 2006 …
 
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Louis Gray:
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Mark Rollins / MobileWhack.com:
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
World's Largest DVR Records 50 Shows At Once, Saves 13 Years of TV
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Japan's Nikkei Newspaper Restricts Links to Its Web Site
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft media server beams direct to iPad
Discussion: Microsoft
Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Facebook privacy unrest rumbles on
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone Software 4.0 suggests next-gen iPhone will have camera flash
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Employees Cheerlead Top Investor's Bombshell Post, Developers Freak Out
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Out-of-process plugins landing soon in Firefox as a minor update (3.6.4)
Discussion: Mozilla Links and Maximum PC
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple previews Game Center social gaming platform for iPhone OS