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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: Apple testing iPhone for T-Mobile USA — That's right, you're looking at photos of an iPhone prototype with T-Mobile USA 3G bands. The actual internal model is N94, and if you remember, the Verizon model is N92 while the standard GSM variant is N90.
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Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac, MacHackPC, MacStories, TiPb, The Cell Phone Junkie, AppleInsider, Electronista, MobileWhack, Life On My Mobile, PhoneArena, TUAW, TmoNews, Gizmodo, iClarified and MacRumors
George Reese / O'Reilly Media:
The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment — So many cloud pundits are piling on to the misfortunes of Amazon Web Services this week as a response to the massive failures in the AWS Virginia region. If you think this week exposed weakness in the cloud, you don't get it …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
White iPhone 4 lands at Best Buy on April 27th — Our sources in Europe have already told us that the white iPhone 4 is launching on Wednesday, April 27, in the Netherlands at least, and now other sources are pointing to a launch on that same day in the United States.
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App Advice, Redmond Pie, TiPb, TUAW, PC World, Electronista, The Loop, everythingiCafe, Phones Review, iHackintosh and Neowin.net
Electronista:
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 leaks, takes second stab at MacBook Air — Lenovo's decision to back out on the ThinkPad X301 may have just been a temporary measure as a pair of Swiss stores have prematurely shown a sequel built more consciously to take on the new MacBook Air.
Matthew Lewis / Reuters:
Wal-Mart tests online grocery delivery in California — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has begun testing an online grocery delivery service in San Jose, California, a company spokesman said on Saturday. — The world's biggest retailer had been rumored to be considering dipping its toe …
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TheStreet.com, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and Slashdot
Sony Global:
Passing of Norio Ohga, Senior Advisor and former President and Chairman, Sony Corporation — Tokyo, Japan — It is with great sadness that Sony Corporation today announced the loss of Norio Ohga, Senior Advisor and former President and Chairman, Sony Corporation. Mr. Ohga passed away at 9:14 AM on April 23, 2011 in Tokyo.
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Reuters, Engadget, Computerworld, BBC, Electronista, Neowin.net, Gizmodo and Associated Press
Levi Pulkkinen / seattlepi.com:
Police: Wireless network hacker targeted Seattle-area businesses — Law officers have moved to seize a Seattle man's car they claim was used in a “wardriving” spree that saw Seattle-area wireless networks hacked and harvested for information. — In filings with the U.S. District Court at Seattle …
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Network World, TechFlash and Fergie's Tech Blog
Amanda Green / Hunch Blog:
Mac vs. PC: A Hunch Rematch — Our latest data project was to analyze how self-described Mac and PC people are different. The infographic below, designed by the talented folks at Column Five Media, breaks it down. Keep reading after the Infographic for more background and analysis …
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PC World, OS X Daily, TUAW, CNN, Column Five Media, PC Magazine, MacNN, msnbc.com and Yahoo! News
Steve Kovach / The Business Insider:
The PlayBook Might Get Access To Hulu After All — Hulu wasted no time in blocking the PlayBook's Flash-enabled browser from viewing videos on Hulu.com. — While it wasn't a huge surprise, it was a bummer for those of us who got a taste of how awesome Hulu looked on the PlayBook.
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Gadgetell, Wall Street Journal, Tools, Ubergizmo and BerryReview.com
Michael Eisen / it is NOT junk:
Amazon's $23,698,655.93 book about flies — A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly - a classic work in developmental biology that we - and most other Drosophila developmental biologists - consult regularly.
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TeleRead, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, The Atlantic Online, Gawker, The Volokh Conspiracy, Joho the Blog and Boing Boing
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Cloud computing market: $241 billion in 2020 — The global cloud computing market will grow from a $40.7 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020, according to Forrester Research. — On the way to all of this growth are a few notable nuggets from the report.
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Digits and Forrester Research
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
The Terrifying Tale Of FarmVille Billionaire Mark Pincus's Alleged Stripper Stalker — In February, Zynga CEO and founder Mark Pincus filed for a restraining order against Vera Svenchina, an amateur filmmaker and former stripper from Russia. — In a declaration to a court in San Francisco …
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Reuters, Mercury News and NBC Bay Area
