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12:45 PM ET, May 5, 2010

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Electronista:
Adobe shows off Android tablets running Flash and Air  —  While Adobe does not have any Apple products on the show floor at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, the company is showing off prototypes of upcoming Android-based tablets.  The Google Android Tablet, even in a pre-release form …
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Max / Zendomax:
Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Review!  [Web 2.0 Expo]  —  Today, I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco as soon as it was open (as I blogged about it several hours before).  Upon walking around the exhibit floor, I quickly found Adobe.  —  Oddly, they were displaying …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Google Gives Its Search Results a Facelift  —  Google is making some very noticeable changes to its familiar search results pages, rolling out the changes gradually on Tuesday and Wednesday.  —  The search giant is adding a new left-handed navigation panel to most results pages …
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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
A spring metamorphosis — Google's new look  —  Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed!  Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search …
Helen Walters / Business Week:   How Google Got its New Look
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Video: Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends' live chats  —  You've got to hand it to Facebook.  They certainly know how to do security — not.  —  Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft Kin One and Two review  —  Make no mistake: the Kin One and Two are coming into the world as the black sheep of the phone industry, and Microsoft would have it no other way.  Straddling the fence somewhere between a dedicated smartphone and high-spec featurephone …
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Dan Nystedt / Macworld:
Microsoft Kin phones to go on sale Thursday at Verizon
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Hot new features uncovered in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3  —  Here's the thing... We just installed the newly released iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 and found quite a few changes.  There are a lot of minor things like how the background of the multitasking interface matches the background in the iPad's browser …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel launches chip for smartphones, tablets  —  Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals—unlike the PC market where it dominates.  —  Previously known by the code name “Moorestown,” …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Intel: Phones with 10 day battery life here by end of year
Discussion: Geek.com and Newlaunches.com
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch: WSJ iPad App Has 64,000 Active Users—And We Keep The Money  —  It's not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp.'s Fabled Subscription Plans a Month Away
Discussion: Company Town and paidContent, Thanks:marcusschuler
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Google's E-Book Store: Five Burning Questions
Discussion: Download Squad, Gear Diary and Guardian
Robert Reich:
Apple Isn't the Problem.  Wall Street's Big Banks are the Problem.  —  Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase …
Discussion: Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac and Gizmodo
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
AT&T dropping more calls than ever  —  Three times as many as Verizon, according to a consumer survey released Tuesday  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: ChangeWave Research  —  AT&T (T) announced in January that it was spending $2 billion this year to improve its much maligned cellular network.
Bill Donahue / Inc.com:
Semper Youngstown Youngstown, Ohio, of all places, is attempting to reinvent itself as a technology center.  —  There are no hotels in Youngstown, Ohio, population 82,000, and there is no real airport, either.  Even before you get there, you have a sense of the place as somehow gutted of commerce.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fending Off Microsoft, Google Invests In TV Ad Startup Invidi (GOOG, MSFT)  —  Update: Invidi just put out a press release confirming the news:  —  INVIDI Technologies Corporation, the leader in advanced addressable advertising solutions for television, announced today it has secured …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Microsoft touts new IE9 test, seeks Web standards  —  Microsoft released a second “platform preview” version of Internet Explorer 9 on Wednesday with faster JavaScript and better Web standards compliance—plus an argument for how future Web technology should develop.
Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections  —  “Connections.”  It's an innocent-sounding word.  But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes.  —  Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson X10 family to get Android 2.1 in ‘Q4 2010’  —  The Xperia X10, one of the big mindshare-grabbing devices of the smartphone world, made us wait a cool six months between its November announcement and wide retail availability in April.  One of the secret hopes while all that waiting …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Launches Android App & Mobile API, Gives iPad Cloud Sync Apple Should Have Built  —  Dropbox's effortless file sharing service is going mobile in a big way: the service has just launched its official Android application, a native iPad app (which comes in addition to a previously …
 
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Clearwire expands 4G but major cities still left out
Discussion: GigaOM
Newsy Blog:
Newsy Raises $2 Million
Discussion: paidContent and TechCrunch
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
Blockbuster Video Launches API to Open the Web, Mobile, Set Top Boxes and More
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Know Your Rights: H.264, patent licensing, and you
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Dan Goodin / The Register:
EFF fights Facebook bid to outlaw one-stop social apps
CNET News:
Media want Gizmodo court records in iPhone probe
Discussion: MacNN and Tech Eye
 Earlier Items: 
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook's Paul Buchheit justifies increasing openness, less privacy
Jeanette Borzo / Digits:
FarmVille Maker Zynga Valued at $4 Billion
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Google Adds App Store for Analytics
Ina Fried / Technology News:
Microsoft hitting ‘unsubscribe’ on newsgroups
Discussion: Ars Technica, The Register and eWeek
 

 
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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”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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