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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impressions, insights, and expectations — As you may or may not know, Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 has been officially handed out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers today, and there are plans to unleash the heavily-hyped OS to the waiting public at large come May 5th.
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Microsoft:
Windows 7 Release Candidate Is Available From Microsoft — Industry experts advise partners, companies and developers to preview Microsoft's next operating system. — Today Microsoft Corp. has reached a significant milestone with the Release Candidate (RC) of the highly anticipated Windows …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Finally: Disney, Hulu Deal Announced — Took 'em long enough. — Just as MediaMemo predicted, Walt Disney Co. has finally taken a stake in Hulu, the video-streaming site operated by General Electric's (GE) NBC Universal, News Corp. (NWS) and Providence Equity Partners.
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Hulu Blog, Washington Post, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent.org, Technologizer, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Macworld, Company Town, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo and fierceonlinevideo.com …, Thanks:atul
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm's next webOS device? Pre Centro? — One of our ninjas just hit us up with the above photo... they said it would be Palm's next webOS device, the rumored Centro-esque handset. No specs or anything, just a “Fall” release date. Sorry for the blurry and small photo, but it's legit!
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T? — Liked that blurry photo of a new Palm webOS phone we saw earlier? Well how about some specs, a name, and a better look at this thing? Enter the device above, apparently dubbed the Palm Eos (codenamed Castle... where have we seen that before? …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Forget The Pre, Palm's Got A Second Device Coming Out This Year.
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blogs.ft.com, I4U News, ITworld.com, MobileCrunch, DigiTimes, Electronista, GMSV, Palm WebOS, Unwired View, Gearlog, Electricpig.co.uk, PhoneReport v2.0 and Engadget
Wayne Schulz / Gear Diary:
Amazon starts charging by the megabyte for delivering personal documents to your Kindle - adds support for DOCX and RTF file formats — Amazon just revealed a few changes to their Kindle supported documents as well as modifications to their whispernet fee structure.
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Amazon Kindle / Amazon Kindle's Blog:
Kindle Personal Documents — For anyone who has recently sent personal documents to your Kindle, we'd like to let you know about some updates to our Personal Document Service (via Whispernet). — Starting May 4, in addition to the existing list of supported file types (DOC, HTML, JPEG …
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The Register, Between the Lines, Gizmodo, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Maximum PC all, Gearlog and Mashable!
BBC:
Web tool ‘as important as Google’ — A web tool that “could be as important as Google”, according to some experts, has been shown off to the public. — Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram. — The free program aims to answer questions directly …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield and Chief Architect Henderson Working on Stealth Start-Up — Yesterday, several Flickr engineers posted news of their layoffs from the Yahoo photo-sharing unit on Twitter, which caused GigaOm's Om Malik to notice that Flickr architect Cal Henderson (pictured here) was also no longer on its About page.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Filing confirms Apple exploring carbon fiber Mac enclosures — A new patent filing discovered by AppleInsider provides some of the first public evidence that Apple is indeed exploring carbon fiber-like enclosures for future product designs, corroborating an earlier report on the matter.
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
FACE(BOOK) VALUE — SOCIAL NETWORK CAN'T GET FRIENDLY FUNDING NUMBERS — Facebook has been holding exploratory meetings with private-equity firms about raising another round of funding, but the two sides are $3 billion apart on what the popular social-networking Web site is worth, The Post has learned.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel — According to French blog Nowhere Else, someone has been able to access Twitter's administration area, and they've got a bunch of screenshots to prove it. — The URL which leads to Twitter's admin page is simple enough (and open to everyone): “https …
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Alexis Madrigal / Wired Science:
Google Could Have Caught Swine Flu Early — Google's search data may have been able to provide an early warning of the swine flu outbreak — if the company had been looking in the right place. — Last week, at the request of the Centers for Disease Control, Google took a retroactive look at its search data from Mexico.
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New York Times, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Switched, AppScout, GPS Obsessed and Sydney Morning Herald
Wall Street Journal:
In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Team to Design Chips — Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple's work from rivals.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to introduce more affordable Macs, sources say — Determined to grow its share of the personal computer market during the worst economic climate in its corporate history, Apple is tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings that will help drive down prices of some of the most popular Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
New Phishing Attack Spreading On Facebook. This Time From FBstarter (Updated) — Yesterday a phishing scam spread across Facebook in the form of a message form a friend asking you to click on a link which took you to what appeared to be a Facebook login, but was actually at a different URL, http://fbaction.net.
Financial Times:
Madison Avenue feels the squeeze — Duck Phillips! Thou should'st be living at this hour. — Phillips was the alcoholic account executive in the television series Mad Men who lost out after failing to marginalise his advertising agency's charismatic copywriters, led by Don Draper.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Booyah nears launch of cause-oriented iPhone entertainment apps — Booyah is nearing the completion of its first round of cause-oriented apps for the iPhone. — Keith Lee, (pictured below) chief executive of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, also confirmed that the company raised $4.5 million …
Rob Jackson / Android Phone Fans:
CONFIRMED: Official Cupcake Update Underway for T-Mobile G1 USA & UK! — Watch this space... I'll update THIS POST as the story unfolds: — YES! T-Mobile USA ISSSSS getting the cupcake update! Our first tipster, Bo Shonka, has indicated they are in the United States and they've attached …
Eric Rabe / Verizon:
Some Thoughts on Cablevision's 101 Mbps Speed — Verizon first demonstrated the ability to deliver 100 Mbps to the home over our FiOS system nearly two years ago. Now Cablevision is offering that speed - oh, yeah, 101 Mbps — over its DOCSIS cable system, it claims, to customers across its footprint in the New York area.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Death to Windows AutoRun! — The economy might be in ruins, and swine flu might put us all in pine boxes, but there are still things that we can be happy about. One thing that has put a broad grin on my face over the past day or so is news that Microsoft plans to kill off AutoRun.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Future of Advertising is Shakable and Location-Based — Last month, you may remember having heard about a special iPhone ad from Dockers. Its claim to fame was that it was the world's first “shakable” ad. Called “Shakedown to Get Down,” the ad prompted users to shake the phone in order …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Inspired By A Pile Of Crap, Gmail Adds More Emoticons — You've likely already seen it, but it's still a little unbelievable to me that Gmail included feces as one of its emoticons. If you haven't seen it, go ahead, check it out, it's there (the very last one on the bottom row).
