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Nielsen Wire:
U.S. Smartphone Market: Who's the Most Wanted? — Things change quickly in the U.S. smartphone market. — According to The Nielsen Company's monthly surveys of U.S. mobile consumers from July-September 2010, consumers planning on getting a new smartphone had a very clear preference: A third (33%) wanted an Apple iPhone.
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The Seattle Times, Mobile Marketing Watch, LAPTOP Magazine, CNET News, PC Magazine, Inquirer, Digital Trends, Fortune, Between the Lines Blog, VatorNews, Internet2Go, USA Today, TUAW, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, App Advice, Mashable!, brian s hall, PC World, Android Police, OStatic blogs, paidContent, MobileBurn.com, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, GeekWire, iLounge, Electronista, Techie Buzz, dailywireless.org, WMPoweruser.com, MacStories and GottaBeMobile
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Android Passes iPhone as Most Desired Smartphone. Barely
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PC World and 9 to 5 Mac
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Facebook Launches “Social Deals” To Challenge Groupon & LivingSocial — After several months of anticipation Facebook is launching its second deals program: Social Deals. The new effort more closely resembles Groupon-style daily deals, with several twists.
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GigaOM, MarketingVOX, SAI, The Social Customer Manifesto, ReadWriteWeb and Fast Company
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Emily C White / Facebook Blog:
Deals: Better with Friends — A few months ago we launched Check-In Deals, to help you get special offers when you check in at local businesses from your mobile. Today we're going a step further and testing a new feature to help you find fun experiences to share with your favorite people: Deals on Facebook.
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VatorNews, Between the Lines Blog, PC Magazine, Hillicon Valley and Disruptors
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook Is Latest Rival to Groupon and LivingSocial
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, LAPTOP Magazine, SAI, BGR, CNN, Local Onliner, All Facebook, Ars Technica, PC World, Search Engine Watch, The Register, GMSV, Mashable!, Digits, GottaBeMobile, Fast Company and SlashGear
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's ‘iPhone 6’ to employ Sharp's next-gen p-Si LCDs in spring 2012 — Apple has reportedly selected Sharp to create next-generation low-temperature poly-silicon LCD displays, which will allow a thinner and lighter design for the anticipated sixth-generation iPhone in 2012.
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Computerworld, MacRumors, PhoneArena, TG Daily, Gizmodo, Edible Apple, MacHackPC, Apple Bitch, everythingiCafe and CrunchGear
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Finally Goes Hollywood With New Movies on Demand Service — YouTube will imminently launch a movie-on-demand service charging users to stream movies off the world's largest video sharing site, TheWrap has learned. — The new service means a full-bore challenge …
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Engadget, BaltTech, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, Guardian, TechSpot, The Next Web, AppleInsider, ReelSEO Online Video …, Geek.com, Technologizer, paidContent, The Next Web, ITProPortal, Betabeat, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile and SlashGear, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Movies You've Heard Of Coming To YouTube. Will You Rent Them?
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SocialTimes.com, fierceonlinevideo.com … and GigaOM
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Microsoft collects locations of Windows phone users — Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. — Windows Phone 7, supported by manufacturers including Dell, HTC, LG, Nokia, and Samsung …
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Guardian, Fast Company, 9 to 5 Mac, ITProPortal and BGR
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Peter Pachal / PC Magazine:
Microsoft: Windows Phones Do Not Store Location History
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WinRumors, WPCentral.com, Neowin.net and Redmond Pie
Ian Sherr / Digits:
Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely — Internet gamers were frustrated last week when Sony shut down its PlayStation Network. Now, they might have reason to be worried. … On Monday, the Japanese electronics giant said it is keeping its PlayStation Network videogame service …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Social Network Pioneer Friendster To Erase All User Photos, Blogs And More On May 31 — Before MySpace and Facebook, there was Friendster, a pioneering social networking website for consumers. First launched in 2002, Friendster attracted tens of millions of users over the years …
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All Facebook, Digital Trends, Venture Capital Dispatch, Techland, Tj's Daily! and @dondodge
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Battles “Mother of All Backlogs” With $11 Billion in Purchase Commitments — Apple may not have any particular plans for its cash abundance beyond the preservation of capital, but it's not letting the $65.8 billion it had on hand at the end of the first quarter burn a hole in its pocket, either.
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TiPb
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony S1 and S2 dual-screen Honeycomb tablets get official — Sony's hosting a press event in Tokyo today where it just made it's first announcement: a pair of Android 3.0 tablets. The first is the S1 media tablet with a curved top much like a folded magazine and both front- and rear-facing cameras.
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BetaNews, PC World, Reuters, CrunchGear, App Advice, Japan Real Time, Computerworld, PR Newswire, SONY make.believe, Ars Technica, CNNMoney.com, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, Good E-Reader Blog, The Tech Report, CNET News, Reuters, Shiny Objects, PlayStation LifeStyle, The Register, Mobilized, BGR, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, Edge Online, Android Tapp, Softpedia News, Recombu, AppleInsider, Mike Cane's xBlog, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Agence France Presse
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Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Sony's Android Tablets Are Game, Music, Video and Ebook-Downloading Titans
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Computerworld, Touch Arcade, PC Magazine and Android Police
Richard Barley / The TweetDeck Blog:
The Dark App Rises: New iPhone TweetDeck Is Here — You all enjoyed the trailer, but now the year's biggest blockbuster has arrived at last. iPhone TweetDeck v2.0 is here! — In Hollywood they would call it a “re-imagining” - keep the essence of the original, but bring it bang up to date with a new team …
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GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, App Advice, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch Europe, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, Mashable!, Appletell, Disruptors, The Next Web, MacStories and mobiputing
Lisa M. Krieger / Mercury News:
SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes — If E.T. phones Earth, he'll get a “disconnect” signal. — Lacking the money to pay its operating expenses, Mountain View's SETI Institute has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes …
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@laura_june, Wired.co.uk, PhysOrg.com, Scientific American, GeekWire and The Register
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon.com tries to toss Apple ‘app store’ trademark suit, cites Steve Jobs in its own defense — Amazon.com today responded in court to Apple's lawsuit over the name of its Android Appstore — calling the iPhone maker's claim to the “App Store” trademark baseless, and pointing to a statement …
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MacRumors, CNET News, MacStories, Techland, Evolver.fm, SlashGear and Appolicious Advisor
Arn / MacRumors:
Next MacBook Pro to Get New Case Design — MacRumors has heard reliable confirmation that the next revision of Apple's MacBook Pro line will utilize a new case design for the first time in several years. — The possibility of a new case design was first revealed by iLounge in February …
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PC Magazine, Softpedia News, SlashGear, RazorianFly, O'Grady's PowerPage and Apple Bitch
Eric Chu / Android Developers Blog:
Merchant Sales Reports on Android Market — As part of our ongoing efforts to provide better tools to help you manage your business, we are introducing merchant sales reporting on Android Market. Developers now have convenient access to monthly reports that detail the financial performance …
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eWeek and Inside Mobile Apps
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Yelp Plans to Go Public, Despite Booming Private Market — Yelp Inc., the consumer-reviews website, is declining to seek another round of financing and instead has its sights set on going public, the start-up's chief executive officer, Jeremy Stoppelman, said in an interview.
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Twitter Looks to Rebuild its Mobile Experience, Hints at New Developer Opportunities — After spending much of the last year working to improve overall reliability, Twitter's vice president of engineering says the company intends to put a lot of effort in the coming months into improving its mobile experience.
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SAI and VentureBeat
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
How Google Killed GDrive and Spiked Its Skype Acquisition — This weekend I spent some time reading Steven Levy's “In the Plex,” an account of the history of Google based on Levy's deep embedding within the company (see Kara's video interview with Levy from last week).
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Analyst: 25,000 to 120,000 Xooms sold. Motorola Mobility's survival at risk — Rather than try to out-innovate Apple, he says, it should sue its Android competitors — There's some pretty blunt language in the latest note to clients from Global Equities' Trip Chowdry …
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ReadWriteWeb, Techdirt, BGR, Digital Daily, PC Magazine, ITProPortal, SAI, SlashGear, paidContent:UK and Hardware 2.0 Blog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
PixelFish Finds A Local Deal In Backyard — Eric Schmidt's Second Venture Exit In As Many Weeks — It was only this past December that local business guide Backyard launched, backed by a few big-name early-stage investors. Now, less than five months later, they're exiting and providing a nice, quick return for those investors.
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Local Onliner
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Android Momentum Plateaus, Says New Developer Report — Momentum surrounding the Android mobile platform has reached a plateau, with developers now refocusing their efforts on building apps for Apple devices. This somewhat surprising conclusion is just one of many new trends spotted …
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Computerworld, mocoNews, ZDNet, BetaNews, SAI, Seattle Times, Internet2Go, GigaOM, WinRumors, Appcelerator, PC World, Electronista, CNET News, InfoWorld, The Loop, Apps blog, The Register and WMPoweruser.com
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Square's Keith Rabois: Websites are dead, reinvent for mobile — Keith Rabois, a startup veteran who's now president and chief operating officer at Square, didn't mince words today when he talked about the potential of mobile startups. He said “the website as you know it” is “dead, dying …
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SAI
Om Malik / GigaOM:
State of the Internet: Fiber, Fast Cities and Faster Broadband — The last three months of 2010 were good for broadband, thanks to growing demand for high-speed connections and growing popularity of fiber-based networks in Asia and Europe, according to the State of the Internet Report put together …
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PR Newswire, Thanks:om
