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Google quietly launches Latitude Leaderboards, threatens Foursquare under its breath — Google didn't exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature — as far as we can tell, it still hasn't been officially announced. With the latest update to the Maps app, Mountain View delivered …
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PC Magazine, The Next Web, PhoneArena, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans and WebProNews
| Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo: |
Everything Apple's Trying to Kill with OS X Mountain Lion — Apple's OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of new features to the table. It's the future of instant messaging, for one thing, and probably more than a few other things as well. — But with the update, Apple's also moving to push …
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| Vinod Khosla / TechCrunch: |
The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile — Editor's note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. All Khosla Ventures investments, as well as ventures related to Vinod Khosla, are italicized.| Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
More upcoming SkyDrive features revealed: ODF documents, BitLocker key management, URL shortening, and much more — Following the screenshot leaks of SkyDrive yesterday, revealing details about Microsoft's plans for paid storage and SkyDrive apps for Windows and Mac, today we've been tipped … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
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| Josh Ong / AppleInsider: |
Analyst who leaked Apple sales projections arrested, charged for insider trading — A research analyst who allegedly obtained secret information about Apple and sold it for hundreds of thousands of dollars has been arrested and charged with securities fraud, conspiracy and insider trading.
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| Josh Lowensohn / CNET: |
Settlement reached in iPhone 4 antennagate suit — A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit targeting the antenna in Apple's iPhone 4. Original buyers are entitled to $15 or a new bumper case from Apple. — An iPhone 4 being tested inside one of Apple's anechoic chambers …
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iPhone Alley, The Loop, iPhone Savior, AllThingsD, MobileSyrup.com, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Macgasm, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable!, App Advice, The Next Web, Apple Bitch, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Business Insider, MacRumors, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MobileBurn.com, The Verge, PC World, iClarified, AppleInsider, Electronista, Engadget and Slashdot
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
LG makes the Optimus Vu official: 5-inch display and LTE in an 8.5mm-thin package — When LG surprised us with a teaser for the Optimus Vu smartphone, touting its 4:3 aspect ratio display, we expected an official announcement to come at Mobile World Congress.
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PC World, PC Magazine, Engadget, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, AllThingsD and Electronista
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Apple posts gorgeous new ‘how to get started as an iOS developer’ guide — If there is one aspect of Apple's iDevice ecosystem that deserves a ton of credit for both growing and cementing its user base, it has to be the way developers flock to it. Apple wants developers on that line, Apple needs developers on that line.
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PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and The Loop
| Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider: |
Pinterest Might Be Enabling Massive Copyright Theft — Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing web sites in history. — Launched about six months ago, the site already has more than 10 million monthly visitors and, among social networks, is ranked below only Facebook and Tumblr in terms of average time-spent-per-user per month.
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| John P. Mello Jr. / PC World: |
Google Working on Password Generator for Chrome — Google is working on a new password manager for its Chrome browser that would also automatically create strong passwords for users. — The new manager is currently in the design phase, but Google has described the process by which it would work.
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LIVEdigitally, Dennis Fisher, PC Magazine, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Slashdot
| Steven Leckart / Wired: |
The Hackathon Is On: Pitching and Programming the Next Killer App — Dirk de Kok is grinding. Hunched over a MacBook in a fluorescent-lit basement, he and 31 other software engineers pound away at source code for the 12th straight hour. Thick metal bars—actual bars—obscure the few tiny windows.
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| Ashley Lutz / Bloomberg: |
Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy — Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who'd declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. — Gamestop has company.
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New Web Order, Business Insider, 9.blog, Andrew Lark, P Morgan Brown, Jon Burg's Future Visions, Friending Facebook Blog, Tech~Surf~Blog, Pulse2 Technology …, Social Media, All Facebook and Marketing Pilgrim. Tweets: @cdixon. Thanks:@sarahfrier
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