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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
New MacBook Pros support audio over Mini DisplayPort — Those hooking up the latest MacBook Pros to an HDTV using an HDMI adapter can now do so a little more easily: Apple has updated its implementation of Mini DisplayPort to pass audio signals through to any device that supports them.
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Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, Lucas Gonze's blog and iClarified
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
MacBook Pro 15-inch Core i7 Benchmarked: It's So Fast — The new 17 and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Core i5/i7 processors are fast. Fast. Overall I'd say they're about 50% faster than the last gen Core 2 Duos, which is about the same bump the iMacs got with Core i7.
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MacRumors, Apple, Gadget Lab, Engadget, Delimiter, AppleInsider, Technologizer, The Apple Core, Macworld, DVICE, dailywireless.org, CNET News and techeblog.com
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Inside Apple's automatic graphics switching — Apple touts the automatic graphics switching in its new 15" and 17" MacBook Pros as a “breakthrough technology from Apple.” Some readers scoffed at the description earlier today, assuming (as we originally did) that Apple was using NVIDIA's Optimus technology.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter to Rival Ad Players: Tread Carefully — Twitter has started showing ads to its users. But Twitter is not the only one doing this-there's a host of start-ups trying to insert ads into the Twitter stream, and more on the way. — So here's a question: Will Twitter force publishers …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Is Twitter's Ad Platform TweetUp's Early Death Knell Or Starter's Pistol?
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter-based ad network 140Proof not afraid of Twitter's move into ads
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OneRiot Blog
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Twitter's Costolo: Promoted Tweets And The Importance Of ‘Resonance’
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AdAge, Trends in the Living Networks, Between the Lines, broadstuff, Guardian, GeekSugar, Download Squad and Technologizer
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple — This whole Apple/Adobe spat is about to get a lot uglier, according to IT World. Their sources say Adobe is prepping for a major lawsuit against Apple in the coming weeks. The updated SDK that was released with the iPhone 4. dev kit seems …
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Sjvn / ITworld.com:
Adobe vs. Apple is going to get uglier — You think things are bad now between Apple and Adobe? Just wait until the lawsuit. — 2 I like it! — Usually I write about security here, but Apple's iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple's face.
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Tech Trader Daily, Pulse2, Erictric, AppleInsider, NewTeeVee, IntoMobile, Electronista, MacRumors, Software Journal, 9 to 5 Mac, Go Rumors, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, MacDailyNews, Silicon Alley Insider, iLounge, EverythingiCafe, Macsimum News, Forrester Blogs and the Econsultancy blog
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
HTC Studying Whether to Have Own Smartphone Software — HTC Corp., Taiwan's largest mobile- phone maker, is studying whether to equip phones with its own operating system, a move that may intensify competition with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. — “We continue to assess …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel CEO: New dual-core Atom chip coming — Intel will bring out a new dual-core Atom in the second quarter, CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday during an earnings conference call. — Because Intel already has a dual-core Atom for small desktops, called Nettops, Otellini is likely referring …
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Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
[UPDATE] HTC Incredible $199.99 at CostCo! [RUMOR] — There's just a ton of information rolling out of AndroidForums lately! The latest from the epic HTC Incredible thread comes from forum user JakRabbitSlim. He's been checking the CostCo inventory system religiously and finally came …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
HTC Incredible specs
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DailyTech, eWeek, SlashPhone, Go Rumors, I4U News, Unwired View, Phone Arena, Google Android News …, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Electronista, MobileCrunch, BerryScoop, Phones Review, SlashGear and Android Police
MacDailyNews:
RUMOR: Apple to unveil next-gen iPhone on June 22; Evidence of Verizon iPhone found in online logs? — “Although no confirmations have yet come from Apple (naturally), there is speculation that the big [next-gen iPhone] reveal could take place on June 22nd,” Messany reports for ModMyi.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Currently Testing New “Questions” Product — Some users have begun reporting seeing a new “Questions” product within their homepage, something oddly similar to Quora, a product developed by ex-Facebook employees that also recently raised funding at an $86 million valuation.
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Alastair Tse / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for iPad now available in the App Store — We're pleased to announce that a new iPad-friendly version of Google Mobile App is now available in the App Store worldwide. By “iPad-friendly”, we mean that this new version has been designed to show neatly on the iPad's screen …
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Crave, MobileContentToday, Mashable!, Erictric, Search Engine Journal, 901am, The Next Web, WebProNews, AppScout and Software Journal
PR Newswire:
Twelve Major Broadcast Groups to Form Joint Venture to Develop National Mobile Content Service — Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, E.W. Scripps Co., Fox, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst Television Inc., ION Television, Media General Inc., Meredith Corp., NBC, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc …
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New York Times, Mobile Entertainment, Phone Scoop, NewTeeVee, Bloomberg, IntoMobile, mocoNews, TechCrunch and Lost Remote
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Spring Design's Android-based Alex e-reader ships tomorrow — Spring Design's Android-based, dual-screen e-reader named “Alex” made a sudden and noticeable splash when it was announced one day before book retailer Barnes and Noble debuted its Android-powered Nook e-reader, and then Spring Design sued them over it.
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Gmail redesigns its message window for Android, iPhone, iPad — Google is continuing the slow and steady march of improvements to its Android-, iPhone-, and now iPad-optimized site. On Tuesday, the company pushed out a handful of small changes to the way Gmail.com handles new messages.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus — We've all seen the studies trumpeting massive losses to the US economy from piracy. One famous figure, used literally for decades by rightsholders and the government, said that 750,000 jobs and up to $250 billion a year …
bit.ly blog:
bit.ly 1.3 — We are on our way to Chirp and we are excited to meet many new and emerging companies and discuss bit.ly and the bit.ly API. Since the day we founded bit.ly, we've aimed to provide a simple service that does a few things very well — we believe the world of social distribution …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Groupon Raises Huge New Round at $1.2 Billion Valuation — Fast growing Groupon, fresh off a $30 million round of financing that valued the company at around $250 million, is back raising new money. They have closed or are in the process of closing new venture money at a $1.2 billion valuation …
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Skyfire's response to iPhone's Opera Mini: Us, too! — When Opera Software announced late Monday that its Opera Mini browser would hit the iPhone App Store, we guessed it wouldn't be long before we saw other browser-makers follow suit by producing similar efforts that get around Apple's …
Ethan Smith / Digits:
ABC Sees Success in iPad App — ABC is the only television network so far to offer an application for watching its shows free—with ads—on Apple Inc.'s new iPad tablet computer, and it says its business model is proving fruitful. … The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad's debut …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Buzz Spreads Across The Web, Launches Official Share Buttons — You may remember that soon after Google Buzz launched, our crack developer Andy Brett made the Internet's first Google Buzz Button, which you could use to share our stories to the new service.
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The Official Google Blog, Widgets Lab, Search Engine Journal, WebProNews, Erictric, AppScout, The Next Web, GigaOM, Mashable!, CNET News, Ubergizmo and The Huffington Post
