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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter — @keithurbahn — So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn. — about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite — According to the Twitter-sphere …
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Media Decoder, GigaOM, @keithurbahn, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Media Maverick, New York Times, NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, @jacksonjk, louisgray.com, @megan, @rklau, @40deuce, @twitterglobalpr, @stevecheney, @jeffjarvis, @keithurbahn, @griffinmcelroy, Mashable!, @qthrul, @gaberivera, Yahoo! News, Gawker and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Preliminary white iPhone 4 teardowns reveal modified lens, proximity sensor — Early teardown images of Apple's white iPhone 4 appear to show a more recessed rear-facing camera lens and a slightly modified proximity sensor. — After a 10-month delay, Apple launched the white iPhone 4 around the world last week.
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MacHackPC, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Electronista and iClarified
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Phil Schiller: White iPhone isn't thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read — Following the news that the white iPhone 4 is slightly thicker than its black variant, 9to5Mac reader Ernesto Barron tweeted Apple Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Phil Schiller to see if the news is really true.
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The Toybox Blog, TechSpot, App Advice, PC Magazine, Neowin.net, @dannysullivan, Electronista, TiPb and iPhone in Canada Blog, Thanks:markgurman
Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc. In iPad Deal With Apple — Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. (AAPL) to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple and lending support to Time's contention …
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CNET News, Electronista and @radamswsj
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Carnival Barker Edition: Show me your iOS licensing certificate! — Apple is doing it wrong, Apple is living on borrowed time! Apple will Fail Again! — This idea, this meme, isn't new. For more than 30 years we've heard a number of versions of the “Apple is doomed” requiem.
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@gaberivera, @lessien and @gfxspeakrsn
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Numbers Feed IPO Outlook — Facebook Inc.'s business is growing faster than it forecast several months ago, raising the stakes for an initial public offering as early as spring of next year, said people who have seen Facebook's recent financial information.
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Friending Facebook Blog, FM Blog, Reuters and @stevecase
Katherine Noyes / PC World:
Shuttleworth: Ubuntu's New ‘Unity’ Puts Users First — Hardly a day goes by in the tech industry without some software package or other getting updated, but the widely celebrated release of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” this week has been no ordinary milestone.
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Mark Shuttleworth, eWeek, Open Source Blog, Canonical and Yahoo! News
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off — News Corp., which is getting ready to part with MySpace, is now prepping a move for another one of its big Web properties. — The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site …
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VentureBeat, @pkafka, VG247 and Joystiq
Chris Kohler / GameLife:
Sony Details PlayStation Network Revival, ‘Welcome Back’ Gift — Sony will turn on most features of the PlayStation Network within a week and offer its customers a selection of free downloads, it said early Sunday morning. — The PlayStation maker's online service for its PlayStation 3 …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, PlayStation Blog, Engadget, CNN, Hardware 2.0 Blog, I4U News, Gadgetell, VGN365, Guardian, SAI, Gizmodo, NewEnterprise, PC World, SlashGear, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Reuters, Neowin.net, IndustryGamers, Siliconera, Engadget, Bloomberg, Kotaku, Reuters and VentureBeat
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Martyn Williams / PC World:
Sony Finds No Apparent Anonymous Link to PlayStation Attack
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The Register, Ars Technica, ZeroPaid.com, RipTen Videogame Blog, CNET News and VentureBeat
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google emails highlight value of location data — Larry Page's Memorial Day weekend email was terse — “Can I get a response on this?” — but the scramble it set off among top Google (GOOG) executives on a Saturday afternoon illustrates the critical importance the company places on the data …
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Wall Street Journal, SAI, @jowyang, PC Magazine and PC World
Steven Levy / Epicenter:
The Little Red (Face)Book — When I spoke at Facebook about In The Plex recently, rumors were swirling that the social networking giant was about to enter China, supposedly in a partnership with the search engine Baidu. So I made sure that my talk to a dining hall full of FB'ers included …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yes, There's An Apple “Castle” In The Cloud — Yesterday, French site Consomac.fr did some digging into the latest developer preview build of OS X Lion and found something interesting. Buried in the code are references to a service named called “Castle”. Given the context of one of the mentions …
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AppleInsider and iPhone in Canada Blog
