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1:10 PM ET, May 28, 2010

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap... and a $99 price tag  —  If you thought that Apple's foray into the world of home entertainment died with the last iteration of the Apple TV, you're quite wrong.  A tip we've received — which has been confirmed by a source …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Report: Apple Prepping Cheap, Cloud-Based Apple TV For War With Google  —  The idea of putting iPhone apps on the Apple TV has been something some of us have been thinking about since at least 2008, when the original App Store launched.  When rumors were swirling about Google TV …
Discussion: TUAW
Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Bets Big on Google, Verizon  —  Motorola Inc. has reached a deal with Verizon Wireless to ensure some of its upcoming smartphones will be heavily promoted by the largest U.S. carrier, a big boost as Motorola tries to turn around its struggling handset business.
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Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Motorola Launching Two Droid Phones In July With Verizon  —  It's no secret that the Droid Shadow will be sold exclusively with Verizon Wireless as soon as next month, but the WSJ is reporting that another Motorola smartphone will also be added to Verizon's shelves in July.
Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Motorola: Can it differentiate itself in the Droid mix?
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Google's Latest Launch: Its Own Trading Floor  —  The search giant is hiring Wall Street vets to manage a $26.5 billion pile of cash  —  Last fall, some unusual job listings began cropping up on Google's (GOOG) website.  Amid the requests for programmers and engineers were postings for bond traders and portfolio analysts.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: How Google Invests Its Cash (GOOG)  —  Google (GOOG) has an astounding $26 billion in cash.  Brent Callinicos is the guy responsible for investing it.  —  Brent runs a 30-person trading operation at Google and is developing a more agressive trading strategy by the day …
Jonathan Standing / Reuters:
Hon Hai to raise China wages after spate of suicides  —  TAIPEI - Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry plans to raise workers' salaries by about 20 percent at its Foxconn unit in China, as it struggles to stop a spate of worker suicides and quell rising public anger.
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Google Confirms “Mayday” Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic  —  Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithms in 2009.  This is one of the reasons I recommend that site owners not get too fixated on specific ranking factors.  If you tie construction of your site …
Telegraph:
iPad arrives in London after fans queue overnight at Apple store  —  British technology fans finally got their hands on the Apple iPad today, after many queued overnight to ensure they made their purchase before the limited stocks ran out.  —  The queues began extending down Regent Street …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Increases Support for Self-Publishing in iBookstore  —  While Apple may be struggling to sign up major publishers for international eBook distribution through its iBookstore, the company appears to be making things easier for independent authors without a publisher to have their work included in the store.
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Kindle Review:
You can now self-publish for iBooks - just need a Mac
Discussion: Fast Company
M. Daou / MobileTechWorld:
Microsoft: 30 Million Windows Phone 7 devices will be sold by the end of 2011  —  During yesterday's ReMIX Microsoft showed an interesting slide that didn't go unoticed by me ( you can see it above).  According to IDC predictions 30Million Windows Phone 7 devices will be sold by the end …
Agam Shah / Computerworld:
Intel eyes hardware acceleration for Google's WebM  —  IDG News Service - Intel is considering hardware-based acceleration for Google's new WebM video file format in its Atom-based TV chips if the format gains popularity, an Intel executive said on Thursday.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Lists Top 1,000 Sites On The Web & Then Lets You Advertise On Them  —  The Google AdWords blog announced new features for Google Ad Planner and AdWords content network today.  —  The big news is that Google publicly released a list of the top 1,000 sites by unique users as measured by Ad Planner.
Benjamin Rubenstein / AndroidGuys:
EVO's Qik Video Chat to Cost an Extra $5 a Month... Seriously?  —  According to a source of ours inside Sprint, the EVO 4G's $10 premium cost doesn't seem to cover the Qik video chat capabilities, as previously thought.  As you can see in the screenshot below, the service will be cost a $4.99 premium, payable via PayPal.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft's social-networking lab launches new Twitter viewing tool  —  Microsoft's Future Social Experiences Labs (FUSE) has launched another new project, codenamed “Project Emporia,” that is aimed at social-networking newbies to help them simplify their Twitter browsing/viewing experience.
Ben Grubb / ZDNet Australia:
IE6 used as Facebook blocker: Microsoft  —  Businesses that want to block access to social networking sites such as Facebook are not upgrading to the latest version of Internet Explorer (IE), according to Microsoft's Australian chief security adviser.  —  “[Companies are] happy to stay …
Discussion: Ars Technica
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Geo Services Mismatch Places Up To 40 Percent Of The Time  —  Have you ever tried to check into a place on Foursquare or some other geo service only to find that there are 10 names for the same location?  For instance, Foursquare has tons of different “places” that are all inside Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
Discussion: VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Sony patent shows solar charged e-reader/laptop built from two touchscreens  —  A patent application filed by Sony depicts a folding two-screen device that can be held like a book, or typed on like a laptop.  —  The patent paperwork explicitly states that there are “first and second touchscreens …
Discussion: Go Rumors and CrunchGear
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Nokia N8 video overview: Symbian^3 homescreens, messaging, email, and Flash-capable browser on show  —  It seems like the only question really left about the Nokia N8, albeit the most important one, is just how it'll interface with the user and what the experience of living with it will be like.
Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
Box.net Adopts HTML5; Adds Drag And Drop Functionality Between The Web And Desktop  —  Cloud storage and document sharing startup Box.net is the latest startup to adopt HTML5.  The startup is announcing today that it is incorporating a broad implementation of HTML5 drag and drop functionality …
 
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