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3:25 PM ET, April 15, 2010

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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ning's Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff  —  One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal, the company is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Will Have An Official Android App
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Twitter Makes Itself More Useful
Erica Ho / Lifehacker:
Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachment Uploads, Deeper Calendar Integration  —  Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload.  Gmail has also increased their support …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile
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Adam de Boor / Gmail Blog:
Drag and drop attachments onto messages  —  I'm always looking for ways to save time.  Suppose I want to attach some files to an email, and I already have a folder open containing those files.  —  I used to have to click “Attach a file,” find the photos, click them, etc.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Thanks:kitson
Oana Florescu / Gmail Blog:
Insert a calendar invitation
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Droid Incredible officially official for Verizon, April 29 for $200 (updated with a live shot!)  —  Though some information leaked out of Verizon's pipes yesterday, HTC just got really real with the Droid Incredible at the 99% Conference in New York today.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Opera Mini iPhone App Downloaded 1 Million Times On First Day In App Store  —  On its first day of availability on the App Store since it was - surprisingly, to many - approved by Apple, Opera Mini for iPhone (iTunes link) was downloaded one million times.  —  Opera this morning announced …
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Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Toshiba U.S. PC sales surge, slates coming  —  (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp's personal computer sales in the United States jumped 50 percent in the first quarter, and the company said it was preparing to roll out tablet-style computing devices later this year to compete with Apple Inc's iPad.
Viacom:
VIACOM RELEASES ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS  —  Today, nine additional exhibits filed with our opening brief are being released to the public for the first time after Google dropped its objections.  Newly public are excerpts from the deposition of Google CEO Eric Schmidt as well as documents …
Discussion: Media Maverick
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:   Viacom Releases More Unsealed Documents In Google Case
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Congress outlaws all Caller ID spoofing (VoIP too)  —  The House has passed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010” (PDF), which does exactly what its name would lead you to believe.  —  Under the bill, it becomes illegal “to cause any caller ID service to transmit misleading …
Laura McGann / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police  —  This week cartoonist Mark Fiore made Internet and journalism history as the first online-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize.  Fiore took home the editorial cartooning prize …
Paul Shadwell RTFM:
A letter to Steve Jobs  —  In a fit of frustration after yesterday's announcement from Apple of the 1 month further delay in the international release of the iPad, I wrote the email below to Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of Apple.  —  You see, I had been waiting patiently waiting for the iPad to appear here in Switzerland.
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Steve Jobs Replies To Email: “Are You Nuts?”
Discussion: App Advice, Neowin.net and TiPb
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
Intel Says Its Light Peak Optical Cables May Succeed USB  —  Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as potentially succeeding USB 3.0, a change that in several years could mean the disappearance of a port used almost universally in gadgets today.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft releases the final Silverlight 4 bits  —  The release-to-the-web (RTW) version of Silverlight 4 is available for free download, as of April 15, as Microsoft officials said it would be earlier this week.  —  One important caveat for developers, as acknowledged on the Silverlight download site:
Discussion: eWeek, Method and Pete Brown's Blog
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Hands-on with the WebStation Android Tablet  —  Expectations are a very dangerous thing indeed.  As a user, if you expect a new device to do something — however unrealistic that expectation may be — you are bound to be disappointed when you find that it doesn't.
BBC:
Porn virus publishes web history of victims on the net  —  A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal.  —  The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on computers using …
Paul Graham:
Organic Startup Ideas  —  The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you?  —  There are two types of startup ideas: those that grow organically out of your own life, and those that you decide, from afar …
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
RIAA/MPAA Want Government-Mandated Spyware That Deletes ‘Infringing’ Content Automatically  —  The RIAA and MPAA have submitted a plan to the Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement.  It's basically a plan that they want the government to enact, and it's terrifying.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
iPad online use approaches Android, BlackBerry  —  Tiny usage share — just 3 out of every 10,000 online devices — but closes in on well-established mobile rivals  —  Computerworld - In its first 10 days, Apple's iPad has captured almost as much online usage share as the BlackBerry …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
At Startup Incubator Bootup Labs, a Scandal Brews  —  Updated: Bootup Labs, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based startup incubator, has been caught in the middle of a firestorm in the last day, after one of the entrepreneurs who was accepted into the group's Y Combinator-style program wrote …
 
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable Strike Wi-Fi Pact
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Promoting for dollars is new Twitter app
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Dodgeball Cofounder Joins Foursquare As Head Of Product
Discussion: everydayUX and TechCrunch
Ilya Vedrashko / Hill Holliday:
Apple iAd Team Visits Hill Holliday, Shares Details
Discussion: MacRumors and TiPb
Owen Fletcher / Computerworld:
Intel execs give lukewarm predictions for tablets
Ben Patterson / Yahoo! News:
Boxee hints at streaming video apps for iPhone, iPad
Discussion: App Advice and Engadget
Michael Rose / TUAW:
Israel blocks iPad imports over Wi-Fi concerns
Discussion: Haaretz, Macworld, TG Daily and CNET News
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details On Imeem Founders Next Startup: Picplz (Updated)
Subrahmanyam KVJ / VentureBeat:
Why platforms like iPhone and Twitter are becoming control freaks
Thanks:sub8u
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
27-Inch iMac Firmware Updates Address High Processor Usage …
Gopal Shah / Google Enterprise Blog:
Q1'10 spam & virus trends from Postini
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Did Google Just Kill Ogg Theora?
Discussion: BetaNews
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Amazon Goes Pro With Bit.Ly
Ty McMahan / Digits:
You've Heard Of Foursquare. How About This Start-Up?
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Sam Wolfson / The Guardian:
A look at the rise of celebrity-hosted interview podcasts, whose long running times mean guests delve into deep and personal topics, resembling therapy sessions

 
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