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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone 4G: proof — Well what do you know about this? With all those rumors flying around that the iPhone 4G we'd spotted was no more than a Japanese knock-off of an Apple product, it was starting to look like this thing was too good to be true. That is until one of the Engadget editors spotted …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
2006 Apple Patent for Ceramic Enclosures — In my research regarding Engadget's purported photos of a next-gen iPhone, the factor that pushed me over the edge to believe that it's authentic is the glass back. I know the trend for Apple of late has been toward unibody aluminum enclosures …
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Meebo's XAuth could turn social sharing into a big business — For Web publishers, “share and share alike” is a nightmare, not a dream. Picking which social sharing services to show a user, from networks like Facebook and MySpace to discussion sites like Reddit and Digg to bookmarking services …
David Gelles / Financial Times:
Facebook to unveil “like” button for the web — Facebook is planning to unveil this week a content-sharing button that other websites can embed on their pages, according to marketers briefed on the plans. — The announcement will be one of several that come at F8, Facebook's annual conference which begins Wednesday in San Francisco.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook's New Like Button Will Power A Behavioral Ad Network — The new Facebook like button that was rumored to be launched at this year's f8 will power a new enhanced behavioral ad network according to the Financial Times. As FT states, “data from these interactions would be used to target …
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Boy Genius Report:
HTC Droid Incredible for Verizon Wireless review — Is it a coincidence Verizon Wireless has consecutively had the last two most-anticipated Android handsets? With the Motorola DROID seemingly feeling like old news (Google even basically castrated it themselves with a promise of an unbranded …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Adobe CEO: Flash coming to Android, WebOS and BlackBerry ‘smartphones and tablets’ in 2H 2010 — This week Adobe released version 5 of its Creative Suite software compilation. CEO Shantanu Narayen has naturally hit the interview trail to promote his company's wares, but the biggest news from him is actually a delay of sorts.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Groupon Grabs $135 Million From DST and Battery-Valuation Above $1 Billion for Social Buying Site — Groupon, the social buying site that has become one of the hotter start-ups of late, has gotten a giant round of funding from the same Russian investors who backed social networking powerhouse Facebook and game phenom Zynga.
Davidw / Joho the Blog:
Volcano 1, Internet 0.01 — In a time of international crisis, the Internet failed almost utterly. At least in my limited experience. — Here are the things that I could not do over the Internet when, just as we were about to go through passport control for our trip to New York, the Barcelona Airport closed:
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Two Billion Laptops? It May Not Be Enough — ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD is a nonprofit group that thinks big. Since 2007, it has sold inexpensive but rugged laptop computers to the governments of less-developed countries. The goal is to equip each of the two billion children in the developing world with his or her own computer.
Doree Shafrir / New York Magazine:
Tweet Tweet Boom Boom — A new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the city is trying to overthrow old media and build a better New York—with the help of their iPhones. Are they dreaming? Definitely. But in a good way. — On any given day in New York City, there are usually close to a dozen …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why the Library of Congress cares about archiving our tweets — “Happiness is knowing yourself, loving yourself, and being yourself, F**** anyone who doesn't get you” — “Surprising. Obama did not claim Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh as dependents even though their income totally dependent on him.”
Fox News:
7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls — A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers.
