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U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Hachette — The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple Corp., Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York district court, claiming collusion over eBook pricing. Apple and Macmillan …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
U.S. Sues Apple, Publishers Over E-Book Pricing — NEW YORK—The U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. and five of the nation's largest publishers, alleging they conspired to limit competition for the pricing of e-books. — The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court … | Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's $249 Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 To Make U.S. Debut On April 22, We Go Hands-On — Samsung teased the masses this past February when they revealed that one of their first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets would be the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a decidedly mid-range device that seemed lacking in the style department.| Andrew Rassweiler / Market Intelligence: |
Nokia Lumia 900 Carries Bill of Materials of $209 — Nokia's new Lumia 900 smartphone features a cost-reduced design that reveals close cooperation between the handset brand, Microsoft Corp., and semiconductor supplier Qualcomm Inc. This cooperation mimics Apple Inc.'s holistic approach to hardware and software development.
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
Is AT&T's sales force prepared to sell the Nokia Lumia 900? — AT&T stores in Manhattan promoted the release of the new Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone, but some sales associates were not prepared to recommend it to customers. — (Credit: CNET/Marguerite Reardon)| Rob Schmitz / Marketplace: |
VIDEO: Watch an iPad get made from the Foxconn factory floor — Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple's Chinese producer Foxconn. In this exclusive video, see highlights from his tour of the assembly line … | Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The new $399 iPad 2 uses a tweaked 32nm A5 chip, which may help it get better battery life — As far as we're concerned, the cheaper $399 iPad 2 is the most important device that Apple announced back in March. Now an interesting new detail has been revealed about the price-sliced tablet.
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| Royal Pingdom: |
WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs — WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. But just how popular is it? — We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world.
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CNET, PC Advisor, The Next Web and Matt Mullenweg
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Sony aims to become ‘One’, will fire 10,000 workers and spend $926m on restructuring — Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sony's new management team has laid out its plans to reinvigorate the company's businesses and look for growth in other and new markets.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. — Nick Merrill, who challenged a demand from the FBI for user data, wants to create the world's first Internet provider designed to be surveillance-resistant. — (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
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The Verge, DSLreports, Hit & Run, ANIMAL, TechSpot and Geekosystem
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Says Ruling in Motorola Case Will Prevent an Injunction, at Least for Now — If all of these smartphone patent cases have you feeling a bit overwhelmed, you are not alone. — Among the many, many cases out there are several between Microsoft and Motorola — a dispute that spans multiple continents.
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TechEye, WMPoweruser, GeekWire, TechFlash, The Verge, All about Microsoft Blog and FOSS Patents
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Code Not Physical Property, Court Rules in Goldman Sachs Espionage Case — Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov, who downloaded source code for the investment firm's high-speed trading system from the company's computers, was wrongly charged with theft of property because the code …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, CNET, Reuters and The Verge
| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The Pebble is a slick e-paper smartwatch that connects to iPhone or Android — I've wanted a slick, minimal smartwatch that connects to my iPhone for years. There have been plenty of attempts at this, especially recently, but the Pebble project on Kickstarter is the first one that I would actually love to see on my wrist.| Thorin Klosowski / Lifehacker: |
Why Microsoft and Facebook are Pro-CISPA but Anti-SOPA — Just months after the internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA were taken off the floor, a new and similarly scrutinized bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has been gaining momentum and support …
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The H Security, Mashable!, MSDN Blogs and InfoWorld
| Ben Rooney / Digits: |
Deadline Looms For New Internet Domain System — If you want to own your own top-level domain you have about 24 hours to submit your application (along with the $180,000 fee) because once the April 12 deadline passes, that is it for the foreseeable future.
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The Register, BBC and Telegraph
| Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat: |
Patch Editor-in-Chief leaving AOL — Patch editor-in-chief Brian Farnham announced today he is leaving the network of hyper-local news and its parent-company AOL. The news was revealed in an all-company call and Farnham let it all hang out on the Patch Blog.
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Patch Blog, The Atlantic Wire, New York Magazine, PandoDaily and Business Insider. Tweets: @chrishogg. See also Mediagazer
| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Walkie Talkie App Voxer Goes Big, IVP And Intel Lead $30 Million Round — Voxer, a walkie talkie mobile app that lets you talk to friends across iPhones and Androids, looked like an overnight success last November when it soared to its current place as a top social networking app in the app stores.| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
InnoSpring Launches First U.S.-China Accelerator & Seed Fund, Backed By Kleiner Perkins & More — As research from the Startup Genome is beginning to show, the world has become a global entrepreneurial playing field, as cities from Tel Aviv to Santiago evolve into thriving startup ecosystems …
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| Ben Protess / DealBook: |
Regulator Seeks Feedback on JOBS Act — The JOBS Act, the contentious new law that rolls back various securities rules, elicited strong opposition from regulators in recent months. — Now that regulators have to enforce it, they want the public to weigh in on the broad new changes.
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| Mussie Shore / Google Mobile Blog: |
Google Currents goes international — In December we launched Google Currents, an app for Android and iOS devices that lets you explore online magazines and other content with the swipe of a finger. We're thrilled by how many readers and publishers are using the app in the U.S. … Sponsor Posts
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