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Amazon Web Services:
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region — Now that we have fully restored functionality to all affected services, we would like to share more details with our customers about the events that occurred with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2") …
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Computerworld and SlashGear
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Zee / The Next Web:
Amazon (finally) issues an outright apology. — It's been almost two weeks since Amazon's EC2 and RDS service took a fall sending an enormous number of websites and web apps crumbling to their feet. — One of the biggest criticisms of the whole affair was Amazon's deafly silence.
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Amazon's Cloud Crash Disaster Permanently Destroyed Many Customers' Data — In addition to taking down the sites of dozens of high-profile companies for hours (and, in some cases, days), Amazon's huge EC2 cloud services crash permanently destroyed some data.
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Digital Trends
Google Mobile Blog:
Video Chat on Your Android Phone — Sometimes, the expressions on a person's face can mean much more than what they say. To help you stay in touch with your friends and family, we're launching Google Talk with video and voice chat for Android phones. — You can now video or voice chat …
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GottaBeMobile, Engadget, Android Central, Pocket-lint, T3.com News, iThinkDifferent, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, Gadgetell, I4U News, Compixels, BlogsDNA, Droid Life, SocialTimes.com, AnandTech, This is my next, VentureBeat, GigaOM, TechCrunch, DroidMatters.com, Android Phone Fans, ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, Lifehacker, LaptopMemo, SlashGear, The Next Web, MobileBurn.com, Android Unite, Ausdroid, ZDNet, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, Crave, PalmAddicts, Shelly Palmer Digital Living and NewsGrange
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Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie:
Android 2.3.4 Confirmed Bringing Google Talk Video Calling To Nexus S. OTA Roll-Out In Next Few Weeks
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Engadget and GottaBeMobile
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Hackers Claim to Have PlayStation Users' Card Data — Security researchers said Thursday that they had seen discussions on underground Internet forums indicating that the hackers who infiltrated the Sony PlayStation Network last week may have made off with the credit card numbers of Sony customers.
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Guardian, Fast Company, PlayStation Blog, VentureBeat, Reuters, TechEye, SlashGear, Mashable!, The Next Web, CNET News, Threat Level, InfoWorld, Techland, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PlayStation Blog, GMSV, NewEnterprise and Technologizer
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Hacker Geohot denies involvement in PlayStation Network attack, blames Sony's hubris
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geohot got sued, Gizmodo, Kotaku, ZeroPaid.com, Technologizer, Joystiq, TG Daily, TechSpot, Inquirer, IndustryGamers, VGN365, Edge Online and VG247
Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Results — Redmond, Wash. - Apr. 28, 2011 - Microsoft Corp. today announced third-quarter revenue of $16.43 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2011, a 13% increase from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income …
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New York Times, WinRumors, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, WinBeta, eWeek, Epicenter, SAI, All about Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, The Official Microsoft Blog, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, GeekWire, Neowin.net, Guardian, Computerworld, The Register, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, ITworld.com, The Microsoft Blog, Mini-Microsoft, Between the Lines Blog, VentureBeat and BoomTown
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Final Shoe Drops: Apple Now More Profitable Than Microsoft Too — Just about a year ago, when Apple passed Microsoft in market cap, the Redmond loyalists were out in full force: that means nothing — look at the revenues! When Apple passed Microsoft in revenues last October, it was: who cares — look at the profits!
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MacRumors, Bloomberg, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews, Redmond Pie, BGR, Network World, Daring Fireball, SlashGear and SAI
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Complete Guide To Watching And Tracking The Royal Wedding Online — For any of you caught up in the frenzy over the royal wedding between England's Prince William and Kate Middleton, we've collected a comprehensive list of where to watch the festivities online, where to find photos …
Arn / MacRumors:
White iPhone 4 Slightly Thicker Than Black iPhone 4 [Updated] — Earlier today, a MacRumors reader notified us that the white iPhone 4 is ever so slightly thicker than the black iPhone 4. It's a small difference, but enough that the white iPhone 4 wouldn't fit in his Incase slider case:
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Crave, TechEye, PhoneArena, Gadget Lab, TiPb, Daring Fireball, MacStories, Softpedia News, Ryan Cash, iPhone in Canada Blog, MobileWhack, AppleInsider, PC World, iPhone Alley, SlashGear, @alexia, everythingiCafe, TUAW, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, iClarified, GottaBeMobile, RazorianFly, The Next Web, eWeek, parislemon, Gizmodo and Electronista
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Billboards suck. Promote your company's jobs on Techmeme! — As you might have noticed, a hiring boom is underway in tech, leading to ballooning salaries, aggressive recruiting tactics, and finally, billboards. [1, 2] Yes, billboards along Bay Area highways now pitch jobs to the small fraction …
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@dannysullivan, @softlayer, @randyholloway, @marshallk, @mrinaldesai and @parcinc
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Spotify Lands Major Studio Deals, Prepares To Launch Movie Service — Spotify continues to negotiate with Facebook over its long promised U.S. launch. But that isn't the only thing the music streaming service has been up to. They've negotiated a number of deals with major movie studios …
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@arrington, parislemon, Apple Bitch, Gizmodo and Electronista
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Gore, Ex-Apple Engineers Team Up to Blow Up the Book — Former Apple engineers Kimon Tsinteris (left) and Mike Matas teamed up with Al Gore to create a new publishing platform called Push Pop Press. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — What do you do after working for Apple …
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9 to 5 Mac, FM Blog, Podcasting News, The Huffington Post, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, RazorianFly, GigaOM, Daring Fireball and TeleRead
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Logitech Makes a Measly $5M From Google TV — Logitech had a rough fourth fiscal quarter, with sales in Europe far below expectations, and the company's Google TV business not exactly helping to turn things around. Logitech's Revue Google TV set-top box and periphery devices …
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Mashable!, SAI, Electronista and Engadget
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay's PayPal Buys Mobile Payments Startup Fig Card — In its second acquisition in two weeks, eBay's PayPal unit has bought mobile payments startup FigCard. Terms of the acquisition, which was announced on the PayPal blog, were not disclosed. — Boston-based Fig Card allows merchants …
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SAI, The PayPal Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM and ReadWriteWeb
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
What 44 Billion Mobile App Downloads by 2016 Means — Think the mobile app economy is a passing fad? You might want to think again. ABI Research reported Thursday that an estimated 44 billion mobile applications will be downloaded within the next five years.
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, Dave Morin and Local Media Watch
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Intel SSD 720, 710 and 520 Series leak out, Larsen Creek and Paint Creek bring up rear guard — Remember Intel's Larsen Creek SSD? It's not alone. By the end of the year, it looks like Intel expects to ship five new solid state storage series in total — some of them even speedier than its current SSD 510 Series flagship.
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TechSpot, PC World, Softpedia News, The Tech Report and Fudzilla
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle-But I Still Have Some Questions for Your Boss, Arianna — Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn't really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers?
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memeburn, Mixed Media, SAI, CNET News, @learmonth, @furrier, SiliconANGLE, @karaswisher, Silicon Valley Watcher and Stowe Boyd, more at Mediagazer »
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
EXCLUSIVE Q&A: Arrington Says The Real Conflict Of Interest In Tech Reporting Has Nothing To Do With Money
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BoomTown and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Greg Lamm / TechFlash:
Amazon to take away 1,249 jobs in S.C. over sales tax beef — The Alliance for Main Street Fairness criticized the tax deal. — Amazon.com has been on a hiring binge, and its need to open more fulfillment centers across the U.S. has been a big factor. But the Seattle ecommerce giant …
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The State, ReveNews and Associated Press
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Cable Company iPad Apps Are Killing It — Today's Time Warner Cable earnings call revealed that its iPad app was downloaded 360,000 times during its first month of availability. Cablevision revealed that it saw 50,000 downloads in the first five days of app availability, and when contacted by GigaOM …
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PhoneArena
Kellex / Droid Life:
Motorola DROID 3 Parts Show Up at Supplier, Targa Name Listed? (Updated) — An apparent OEM parts re-seller has posted up what appear to be DROID3 screen and top half kits, which we've taken and compared to the few D3 pics that are in the wild. Yep, I'd say these are definitely the same thing …
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Gizmodo, Softpedia News, BGR, PC World, Android Phone Fans and PhoneArena
Bloomberg:
Samsung Broadens Patent Dispute Against Apple With U.S. Suit — Samsung Electronics Co., the second-largest maker of mobile phones, broadened its patent- infringement dispute with Apple Inc. (AAPL) by suing the iPhone creator in the U.S. a week after making claims in Asia and Europe.
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FOSS Patents, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Electronista, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, TUAW, The Next Web and MacRumors
