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May 9, 2012, 9:05 PM

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Aaron Brady / Facebook Developer Blog:
Introducing the App Center  —  Today, we're announcing the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps.  The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful.  —  In the coming weeks …
Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Google+: a mobile app with sense and soul  —  Sharing is deeply sensory.  From cooking a favorite meal to getting together with friends, it's the smells and the stories and the smiles that make human connections so essential.  With Google+ we want to extend these moments online …
TechCrunch:
Status Update  —  So first thing's first: We're not being sold!  Instead, we've just hired a bunch of brilliant writers and a new COO.  Also, we've seen a resurgence of community support (with over a thousand people attending our NYC meetup last night, for example), are back around 12% …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
What's Behind the Drop in Kindle Fire Shipments?  —  Once hailed as the first true rival to the iPad, Amazon's Kindle Fire no longer seems to be much of a threat to Apple's tablet.  The Fire had no impact on Apple's March-quarter iPad sales.  Indeed, during the company's second-quarter earnings call …
More: TechFlash
Bryan Bishop / The Verge:
Oracle's request for fair use ruling denied, Google down to one count of infringement  —  Following the jury's inability to decide on the issue of fair use in the Oracle vs. Google trial, Oracle asked the judge to rule on the issue as a matter of law (JMOL).
More: CNET
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings  —  The old FBI copyright warning gets an upgrade.  —  You know those FBI warning messages that appear at the beginning of DVDs and Blu-ray discs?  They're getting an upgrade—and they're multiplying.
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Evernote for Mac Update: Card View, Word Count, New Save Features, and More  —  Today, Evernote for Mac gets a pretty great update (v 3.1) full of new features, redesigned screens and stability improvements.  We've added a completely new Card View, word and character counts for notes, easier attachment export, and much more.
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Venture-Capital Firm NEA Raises $2.1 Billion  —  In the venture-capital industry's most significant fundraising this year, New Enterprise Associates has closed on $2.08 billion for a fund that could grow in size to become one of the largest ever raised.  —  In a securities filing on Wednesday …
Jamie Keene / The Verge:
Flipboard for Android leaks out for all to download  —  At the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S III, one unexpected inclusion was the Flipboard app — supposedly exclusive to the handset for the first few months.  However, despite the fact that the Galaxy S III hasn't even been released yet …
Michael Degusta / Technology Review:
Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History?  —  Mobile computers are on track to saturate markets in the U.S. and the developing world in record time.  —  Today's technology scene seems overheated to some.  Apple is the most valuable company on earth.
M. Alex Johnson / msnbc.com:
Viewing child porn on the Web ‘legal’ in New York, state appeals court finds  —  Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the case of a college professor whose work computer was found to have stored more than a hundred illegal images in its Web cache.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Safari update automatically disables old versions of Flash  —  Apple on Wednesday released Safari 5.1.7, an update to its Web browser.  One of the new security features is that Safari will automatically disable old versions of Adobe's Flash Player.  —  “Out-of-date versions of Adobe Flash Player …
More: The Verge
Martin LaMonica / CNET:
Two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket  —  Juice in a box.  Lilliputian's portable fuel cell can deliver between 10 to 14 full charges for an iPhone with one replaceable cartridge.  —  (Credit: Lilliputian Systems)  —  Retailer Brookstone this year will start selling …

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