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8:35 PM ET, April 16, 2010

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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell's 7-inch and 10-inch Streak tablets leaked!  —  We'd heard through the grapevine that the engineers at Round Rock were working on a number of slates to fill the Streak lineup, but man, we didn't see this coming... at least not yet.  A couple of images along with an internal Dell announcement landed …
AppleInsider:
Apple in advanced discussions to adopt AMD chips  —  Intel has served as Apple's sole source for the microprocessors used in its notebook and desktop personal computers since the company began its transition away from PowerPC in 2006, but that may soon change given the company's recent talks …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Cartoonist: Apple Backs Down After Denying iPhone App  —  The cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning this week says Apple has asked him to resubmit an iPhone app that it earlier rejected because it “ridicules public figures.” … Mark Fiore, who won the prize …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Steve Jobs Says Apple Made a Mistake in Rejecting Pulitzer Winner's App  —  Apple's chief executive apparently believes that his company made a mistake when it rejected an iPhone app from a cartoonist who is now a Pulitzer prize winner.  —  An Apple spokeswoman did not comment Friday afternoon …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
It's Not the Control, It's the Secrecy
Discussion: Slate, Mediactive, PC World and DailyTech, Thanks:atul
Boy Genius Report:
AT&T blocks employees vacations in June for iPhone launch  —  Same story as last year and the year before, but we've confirmed with multiple AT&T sources that the carrier has now put a block on employees taking vacations in June.  The only time AT&T does a straight block like this is for iPhone launches.
Electronista:
RIM chief: no market for tablets, touch-only phones  —  RIM's co-chief Mike Lazaridis downplayed many of Apple's efforts today in a keynote at the TD Newcrest technology conference in Toronto.  The executive was concerned that there wasn't necessarily a market for tablets like the iPad …
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John McCrank / Reuters:   RIM says video is big challenge to networks
Pandu Nayak / The Official Google Blog:
Search with fewer keystrokes and better spelling  —  We spend a lot of time thinking about search results, but we also spend a lot of time thinking about search queries.  Today we're announcing three enhancements to help you input your searches more quickly and easily: more localized Google Suggest …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Can Yahoo Still Nab Foursquare for $125 Million or Will VCs Prevail?  The Race for the Hot Mobile Start-Up Nears Its End.  —  You have to give Yahoo an A for effort, if perhaps the ultimate grade in its ongoing quest to buy hot mobile social network Foursquare is an F.
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:   Foursquare Product Boss: “I Like Yahoo” (YHOO)
Wall Street Journal:
Tech Sector in Hiring Drive  —  Google, Intel Add Workers as Profits Snap Back; Start-Ups Also Fight for Talent  —  The technology industry, an engine of innovation and U.S. prosperity for more than half a century, is accelerating its recovery from the recession with surging earnings …
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Introduces us to a New iTunes “Concert Ticket +” System  —  There's no missing the point that Apple wants to enter the electronic concert and event ticket business via a new application and system simply called “Concert Ticket +.”  The system that is laid out in this extraordinarily detailed patent …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
More Details Emerge About the iPad's Connectivity Issues  —  According to Dow Jones, some colleges have banned the iPad from their networks.  Princeton and Cornell, for example, are seeing major networking and connectivity issues that mirror the problems many users are seeing with their iPads at home.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm's SVP of software and services takes off, others (including CFO) given cash to stick around  —  No one really knows exactly what's going on inside the walls of Palm HQ this week — whether the company will sink or swim is perhaps a bigger question right now than it has been since its rebirth last year …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Ideas for Twitter's new Annotations — from obvious to intriguing  —  The big game-changer (or alternately, the potential disaster) that came out of Twitter's first big conference this week was Annotations.  It's a new way for developers to attach any kind of metadata to tweets.
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Twitter reveals details of new “Annotated Tweets” feature
Thanks:zee
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Those iPhone 4 case shots?  Fake!  —  Yesterday evening, we posted a handful of images that were going around the Internets, purportedly showing the back of the next-gen iPhone (iPhone 4, iPhone HD, whatever you want to call it.)  We spent more than half of the post decrying them as fakes — and it looks like we were right.
Andreas Constantinou / VisionMobile :: blog:
Is Android Evil?  —  You thought Android was open?  The Android governance model consists of an elaborate set of control points that allows Google to bundle its own services and control the exact software and hardware make-up on every handset.  All this while touting the openness rhetoric …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Calif. cities dominate Apple's top 10 markets  —  Shocker!  The San Francisco Bay Area is the biggest U.S. market for Apple products, according to the results of a survey conducted by research firm Experian Simmons.  The study found that 32.3 percent of adult residents of the region own …
Stanislav Datskovskiy / Loper OS:
Non-Apple's Mistake … The howls of protest coming from iPhone and iPad developers are loud and shrill, and are sure to grow louder and shriller as their Golden Cage grows smaller and smaller, as I'm certain it will.  —  The Golden Cage is indeed a cage, and a strong one.  Yet it has no door.
Jason Rosenthal / Ning Blog:
An Update from Ning  —  As many of you know, we made a decision yesterday to focus 100% of the company on enhancing the features and services we offer to paying Ning Creators.  The tens of thousands of you who already use our paid service represent over 75% of our traffic …
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Microsoft pulls part of Kin campaign after ‘sexting’ complaints  —  Microsoft is saying no to “sexting.”  —  As part of the launch of its new, mostly kid-oriented Kin phones, Microsoft posted a video depicting young people rocking out at a music club — including a scene of a young man peeling off …
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog and Telegraph
Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Wi-Fi-Only Nook “Lite” Coming Soon, Nook 2 To Follow  —  We're told that Barnes & Noble will be revealing some new products later this year: Nook 2 ("Project Encore") and a Wi-Fi-only Nook Lite.  Meanwhile, a software update that includes a full browser is supposed to hit next week.
Thanks:sebatinsky
Eric Slivka / MacRumors Page 2:
Sprint Rolls Out Combination iPad ‘4G Case’ to Promote Overdrive Mobile Hotspot  —  Last month, Sprint began using Apple's iPhone to promote the carrier's Overdrive 3G/4G mobile hotspot device, claiming that customers could achieve Internet speeds up to ten times faster than AT&T's 3G network …
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Office 2010 releases to manufacturing, availability as soon as May 1  —  The first volume licensing arrangements for Microsoft Office 2010 will be made through company partners on May 1, almost two weeks earlier than expected.  This news today from the company's Office Engineering team …
Discussion: CNET News and The Microsoft Blog
 
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Microsoft adds repair shop to Windows
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
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 Earlier Items: 
Neil Hunt / The Official Netflix Blog:
Subtitles Now Available for Some Titles for PC/Mac Viewing
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Yahoo! News and AppScout
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Prosper Raises $14.7 Million For Peer To Peer Lending Market; Eric Schmidt Invests
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Twitter Will Get Its Own Data Center
Discussion: GigaOM and SocialTimes.com
Neil Vidyarthi / All Facebook:
Report: 6.8% Of Business Internet Traffic Goes To Facebook
Discussion: Mashable!
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Millennial Media: Android Ad Impressions Rise 72 Percent From February To March
Discussion: mocoNews and Electronista
Asher Moses / The Age:
Autism iPhone breakthrough: from tantrums to app-y days
Discussion: GottaBeMobile, Thanks:mayav