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10:00 AM ET, April 29, 2011

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Arik Hesseldahl / All Things Digital:
Amazon Details Last Week's Cloud Failure, and Apologizes  —  Amazon has released a detailed account of its terrible, horrible, no good very bad week, during which portions of its Amazon Web Services crashed in the US, and brought the operations of numerous other companies down with it.
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Amazon's Cloud Crash Disaster Permanently Destroyed Many Customers' Data
Discussion: 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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Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie:
Android 2.3.4 Confirmed Bringing Google Talk Video Calling To Nexus S. OTA Roll-Out In Next Few Weeks
Discussion: GottaBeMobile and GigaOM
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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Reuters:
Sony faces global legal action over data theft
Discussion: Games blog and I4U News
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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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:
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.
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 …
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Techmeme Becomes Jobmeme Too
Discussion: @eldon
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Why Can't Anyone Make A Popular Tablet?  —  I've been thinking a lot about the popularity of tablets and the problems manufacturers face coming up against the iPad.  The devices that we see here at CG are all pretty amazing - even the Playbook was a cool, if flawed, device - but no one device seems to be able to grab any traction.
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Instagram Spawns a Photo Ecosystem  —  Instagram, the social-meets-photos app for the iPhone that transforms plain cellphone pictures into vintage-looking works of art, has attracted millions of users.  In recent months, it has also begun to draw entrepreneurs who are eager to capitalize on its growing popularity.
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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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:   PayPal Acquisition Hints at Company's Approach to the Mobile Wallet
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 …
Discussion: PhoneArena
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Google sued over Android data location collection  —  Two Michigan women are suing Google over location data collected by Android devices, a week after Apple was named in a lawsuit citing privacy violations with the iPhone logging similar data.  —  The $50 million lawsuit against Google seeks …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @arrington
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Daniel Ek / @eldsjal:   No it ain't true. Media these days are funny. Soon I'll be reading that Spotify is launching a space rocket.
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 …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Square To Beef Up Card Reader Security This Summer (And VeriFone Wasn't So Wrong, After All)  —  Yesterday was a big day for hot mobile payments startup Square.  The company announced that it received a strategic investment from Visa, giving the company a big stamp approval.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Grew 20% In Q1 2011, Fueled By Smartphone Boom  —  According to research firm IDC, the global mobile phone market ballooned in the first quarter of this year, growing 19.8 percent year-over-year, mostly due to the meteoric rise of smartphone shipments, especially in emerging markets.
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
EXCLUSIVE Q&A: Arrington Says The Real Conflict Of Interest In Tech Reporting Has Nothing To Do With Money  —  Yesterday, AOL's top tech reporter, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, announced that he was once again “actively investing” in startups and venture capital funds.
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Intel SSD 720, 710 and 520 Series leak out, Larsen Creek and Paint Creek bring up rear guard
Discussion: TechSpot, PC World and Softpedia News
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Shazam gives Android users unlimited tagging in 2011, Shazam Friends
Discussion: Softpedia News
Bill Slawski / SEO by the Sea:
A Hint of What Google's Social Network Might Look Like?
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Redbox will offer $2 per day videogame rentals nationwide in June
Discussion: VentureBeat and Seattle Times
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
DSLReports says member information stolen
Discussion: ZDNet
Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
Tumblr Apologizes to Danah Boyd, Restores Her Original Username
Discussion: danah boyd
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