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8:10 AM ET, April 14, 2011

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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
PlayBook: A Tablet With a Case Of Codependency  —  Now entering the tablet wars: the BlackBerry PlayBook, a contender from Research In Motion, maker of the iconic smartphone.  —  Unlike most tablets aiming to take on the iPad juggernaut, the PlayBook, which I've been testing for five days …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook review  —  The words “play” and “book” are a bit of an odd choice for RIM's latest attempt at consumer relevance, a tablet that, at its core, runs one of the most hardcore and industry-friendly operating systems known to man.  The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook.
David Pogue / New York Times:
A BlackBerry Tablet, but Where Are the Apps?  —  Listen, I'll be straight with you.  I realize that tablets are crazy hot right now, that 2011 is the Year of the iPad Clone and that every company and its brother is rushing one to market.  But I'm sorry.  I'm not going to review every …
Myriam Joire / Engadget:
Windows Phone adds multitasking, deeper OS integration, and sensor access to dev platform  —  We knew it was coming, and today at MIX 11, Microsoft showed off its developer platform for the next version of Windows Phone, which developers will be able to get their hands on for free in May.
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft Offers Mea Culpa for Slow Windows Phone Updates, Promises “Mango” Update This Fall
Bloomberg:
Apple Is Said to Ready Sale of White IPhone After 10-Month Wait  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) will begin selling a white model of the iPhone 4 in the next few weeks after a 10- month delay, according to three people familiar with the plans.  —  The new version will be available from AT&T Inc …
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
REVEALED: The Real History Of Twitter  —  “Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way.”  - The New York Times, October 30, 2010  —  How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded.
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Evan Williams / @ev:   It's true that @Noah never got enough credit for his early role at Twitter. Also, he came up with the name, which was brilliant.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
In The Post-Client Era, Did Tweetbot Just Swipe Twitter's iPhone Crown?  —  Don't focus on making new Twitter clients.  —  The message has been very clear — well, moderately clear — for weeks now.  If you're a third-party looking to develop in the Twitter ecosystem, you should focus on data or niche experiences.
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser  —  Apple Inc. has added a do-not-track privacy tool to a test version of its latest Web browser for keeping customers' online activities from being monitored by marketers.  —  The tool is included within the latest test release of Lion …
Chadwick Matlin / Fortune:
The ruthless Rose  —  Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, says he won't spend Milk Inc.'s VC money keeping bad products on life support.  —  FORTUNE — A month ago, Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, built something creepy.  He had been nursing an idea that would test …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Revenge of the iPad?  PC market tanks in first quarter  —  New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter — the first year-over-year quarterly decline since the end of the Great Recession.
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IDC:
Global PC Market Contracts in the First Quarter, But Swaths of Growth Remain, According to IDC
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore?  —  Microsoft is today showing off pieces of the next version of Windows (we're all calling it Windows 8 ) but I'm wondering if anyone cares anymore about Windows in the tech enthusiast space.  —  Why do I say that?
Devin Mullins / The Official Google Blog:
Beefing up goo.gl with new features  —  Since we launched our URL shortener goo.gl last September, we've been lucky enough to build a thriving and growing community of passionate users who aren't shy about letting us know when something could be better.  We appreciate the feedback …
Dean Praetorius / The Huffington Post:
Bill Gates Was Puzzled By Gmail, Book Reports  —  Many people love the seemingly infinite amount of space Gmail provides.  —  Bill Gates, at least initially, didn't see the need.  —  In his new book In The Plex, Steven Levy details Bill Gates' reaction to Gmail six months after the service first launched.
Discussion: Gizmodo Australia
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Spotify Halves Free In Europe Ahead Of U.S. Launch  —  Spotify, which had previously slimmed the amount of music users could play for free, is now making a further curtailment that's aimed at wringing more paid subscriptions...  - Free listening hours will be halved from 20 hours per month to 10 hours.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Evidence points toward Apple releasing HDTV this year - report  —  Apple could launch an Internet-connected high-definition television set by the end of 2011, entering the lucrative $100 billion LCD TV market, a new report claims.  —  Analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities …
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Android Provides More Eyeballs to Advertisers, While iPhone Offers Most Revenue to App Creators, Study Finds  —  There are many ways of measuring smartphone success and, using almost any metric shows both the iPhone and Android doing pretty darn well.  —  That said, new numbers …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple assembling small team to build ‘the future of cloud services’  —  Apple is building a small team to write software which will lay the groundwork for the company's future Web services, which it has advertised as “the future” of its cloud-based offerings.
Knowledge@Wharton:
Another Tech Bubble?  Separating the Froth from the Facts  —  Back in December, Google made a bid for the social e-commerce company Groupon that valued the company at $6 billion, according to press reports.  By the end of the month, TechCrunch and others were putting a nearly $8 billion value …
 
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
New App To Fix Android's Privacy And Data-Security Holes Coming Soon
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
S.F. draws Twitter, Zynga to tax ‘council’
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Would You Sign My Kindle?  —  SITTING at a table in a Barnes & Noble …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
About That Lawsuit...  The lawsuit filed Tuesday by Jonathan Tasini …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Does the World Really Need Another Twitter?
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Intel-Based Honeycomb Tablets On The Way This Fall?
 Earlier Items: 
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Winners & Losers As Panda Goes Global? eHow, Bing's Ciao.co.uk & More
Discussion: SISTRIX Toolbox and WebProNews
Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Motorola to begin beta testing rugged Android tablet, steps up enterprise efforts
EE Times:
A5: All Apple, part mystery
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Steals Creative Director From Google
Discussion: Pulse2 and The Business Insider
John Cook / GeekWire:
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: ‘We are a confederation of entrepreneurs’
Discussion: eMoney and The Seattle Times
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Preview: webOS 3.0 Beta 1 emulator leak [Exclusive]
 

 
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In its first open call for funding, Press Forward announces support, over two years, of $100,000 each for 100+ newsrooms focused on underserved audiences

Tariq Panja / New York Times:
Sources: FIFA is close to giving Apple the global rights for its 2025 World Cup-style soccer competition in the US, likely for ~25% of FIFA's first $4B estimate

Ian Youngs / BBC:
Huw Edwards, the BBC news anchor who has been off air since July 2023 after reports that he paid a young person for explicit images, resigns on “medical advice”
 
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