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8:10 AM ET, May 10, 2010

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Spotted: Facebook's Check-In Functionality And New “Places” Tab  —  Code doesn't lie.  —  Over the past several weeks, there's been a lot of speculation about Facebook's location functionality.  At least part of that speculation can end now.  We now know what Facebook is planning to launch …
Discussion: Pocket-lint
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Confirms Its Location Product  —  As I said earlier tonight, code doesn't lie.  Facebook has now confirmed their location-based feature, which is apparently due to launch shortly if the code found on their touch.facebook.com site is any indication.  Of course, they only confirmed it so they could clarify something else.
Discussion: Go Rumors
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Use iPad with Magic Mouse [Video]  —  If you have been using your iPad on a desk with the official iPad Keyboard Dock accessory, you might have felt the need of having a mouse to control iPad's screen.  This is because it is more convenient to use a pointing device for interacting with a device …
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Facebook Loses Face: Board Member's Account is Breached  —  Yesterday morning, some of the 2,301 Facebook friends of venture capitalist and Facebook board member Jim Breyer received a message from him, through Facebook.  “Would You Like a Facebook Phone Number?” it asked, presenting a link to “see more details and RSVP.”
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Alliance of Wi-Fi and WiGig Standards in 60 GHz  —  Good news for those of us that like harmony in standards-land: The Wi-Fi Alliance and WiGig Alliances have agreed to cooperate on technology for networking in the 60 GHz band.  This is terrific, and not unexpected.
Jordan Montreuil / DasReviews:
Will Cartridges Come Back?  Is Disc Media Dead?  —  Many old time gamers remember the first battle between Sony and Nintendo.  Sony, still licking its wounds from Nintendo opting not to use its CD based add on for the Super Nintendo, decided to take the prototype and develop their own system.
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Apple to SIM-lock Japanese iPads  —  IDG News Service - Apple appears to have reversed course in Japan on a key feature of its iPad 3G: It won't offer a version capable of being used with different cellular carriers there.  —  All Japanese models will be SIM-locked to Softbank Mobile …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and Bloomberg
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
International iPad pre-orders now underway  —  Live in Canada, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain or Switzerland and want an iPad?  Then break out your credit card and hit up your country's respective online Apple Store, as online pre-orders for the smash-hit tablet that nobody needs …
Japan Today:
Google backed by almost all U.S. publishers on digital bookstore  —  NEW YORK —  U.S. online search giant Google Inc has clinched the support of almost all publishers in the United States for its digital bookstore expected to be launched as early as the end of June, company officials said Sunday.
John R. Quain / New York Times:
Will the Internet Kill Traditional Car Radio?  —  THE Internet's tentacles seem to have no limit, reaching out and strangling CDs, bookstores, newspapers and magazines.  Now it has its sights set on the car radio.  —  Many people are already accustomed to plugging an iPod into the car …
Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster than Your PC  —  A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer.
Discussion: Pocket-lint, Science Daily and Slashdot
Frank Zhang / CrunchGear:
Fujitsu to unveil improved color e-paper screen  —  Fujitsu Laboratories announced today that they will be unveiling a new version of their color electronic paper display at the company's Fujitsu Forum exhibition in Tokyo next week.  The new screen is a supposed to be a third brighter …
Discussion: I4U News, Geek.com and Engadget
MacDailyNews:
Obama: With iPods and iPads, information becomes a distraction; imposes new pressures on democracy  —  Barack Obama lamented Sunday that “with iPads and iPods,” information has become a distraction that is putting new pressures on the U.S.A. and “democracy.”
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Facebook Breached My Privacy, And Other Things That Whiny …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The Incumbent's Curse: HP
Discussion: TG Daily
Joey deVilla / Global Nerdy:
New Programming Jargon  —  Every field comes up with its own jargon …
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Pthurrott / SuperSite Blog:
Sorry, But the iPad is Not ‘Killing’ Netbook Sales
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Official: Google Won't Offer Option To Restore “Classic Google” Look
Discussion: Technologizer
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Weighs in on iPad International Pricing and Taxes
 

 
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