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Richard Ziade / Readability Blog:
An Open Letter to Apple — Dear Apple: It's your friends from Readability. Remember us? You put our technology into your Safari browser last year. We're writing this open letter because - well - we're a little upset right now.
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Digital Trends, Ars Technica, New York Times, TUAW, L.A. Times Tech Blog, mocoNews, App Advice, The Register, AppleInsider, Stage Two, Cult of Mac, techno.blog, Mashable!, SlashGear, Engadget, Alan Quatermain, Mediactive, rc3.org, ReadWriteWeb, MacStories, Pardon the Disruption, MacRumors, WebProNews, @codinghorror, insideHPC and Daring Fireball, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:arpitnext
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement — Apple's new subscription-billing requirement has generated a lot of bad press and debate. The new rule, from the App Store Review Guidelines (developer account required): — In practice, this means that any app that requires content …
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MacNN, MacStories, Online Dating Insider and Washington Post
Chris Leydon / TinyGrab Blog:
TinyGrab & Apple's App Stores — We love Apple, we really do. Let's face it, without them TinyGrab just wouldn't exist and none of us would be reading this right now; for this we're incredibly indebted to them. The homebrew and independent app development community for OS X is wonderful and vibrant.
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Examiner, Cult of Mac, FierceDeveloper, App Advice and TUAW
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Smacks Readability In The Face With Subscription Rules; All SaaS In Trouble
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The Loop, Examiner, TiPb, Technologizer and TeleRead
Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:
Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 — Every year about this time, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, holds an intimate gathering to discuss the company's vision for the future: just Craig, a handful of Microsoft thinkers and select media convening …
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Microsoft Research, Pocket-lint, WinRumors, Examiner, The Register, All about Microsoft Blog, The Microsoft Blog, Crave, TechFlash, VentureBeat, Erictric, VG247, Gamasutra, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, MSDN Blogs, Geek.com, CrunchGear, MSDN Blogs, BetaNews, The Windows Blog, Engadget and Neowin.net
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Early Look: Avatar Kinect — I'm over in Redmond today for a series of discussions and demos featuring Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, and other executives from the company. — One of the first topics of discussions: Natural user interfaces …
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WinRumors, The Next Web, GeekSmack and The Microsoft Blog
Verne G. Kopytoff / New York Times:
Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter — SAN FRANCISCO — Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he instead started posting his clips on Facebook …
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Global Nerdy, Twist Image, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Mark Evans Tech, parislemon, WebProNews, Stowe Boyd, Switched, Changing Way, Adotas, toni.org and Teds Take, Thanks:fredericl
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft on the verge of finalizing Windows 8 Milestone 2 build … Microsoft is on the verge of finishing its second Milestone build of Windows 8, WinRumors has learned. — The software giant has compiled a number of Milestone 2 builds recently ready for the final M2 build …
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Redmond Pie, SlashGear, Windows 8 News and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:blogsdna
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Windows 8 roadmap: A picture is worth a thousand build numbers
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Electronista, Neowin.net, WinRumors, Windows 8 Beta and PhoneArena
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adobe: Flash Coming To Android Tablets “Within A Few Weeks” — Earlier today there was quite a bit of commotion in the tech press over a Verizon ad that stated that Flash wouldn't be making its way to Android tablets until Spring 2011. Which has the potential to be pretty far off …
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Electronista, Adobe Flash Platform Blog and Erictric
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom will ship without Flash support on February 24th, expects it in ‘Spring 2011’?
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PC World, Electronista, ITworld.com, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Gadgetell, PhoneNews.com, The Toybox Blog, TechSpot, Techie Buzz, SAI, Digital Trends, MobileWhack, Thoughts from the Sidelines, AppleInsider, techblog.dallasnews.com, Know Your Cell, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Droid Life, Phones Review, Linux.com, Examiner, Liliputing, Techland, jd/adobe and The Next Web
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Mobile Flash: Always Exciting, Always Not Quite Here Yet
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Engadget, GottaBeMobile, SAI and IntoMobile
Greg Tito / The Escapist:
PS3 Hacker Raised All the Legal Funds Needed to Beat Sony in a Weekend — Famed rapper and PS3 hacker Geohot asked for donations on Friday to fund his defense against Sony and got all he needed by Monday. — Geohot, aka George Hotz, firmly believes that he has done nothing wrong.
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Mashable!, geohot got sued, GamePolitics News, Redmond Pie, Destructoid and Edge Online
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
“OtherOS” class-action lawsuit: GeoHot, Sony now share same charge
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Groklaw, Inquirer, GamePolitics News, Electronista and JailbreakScene
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Facebook chat in Hotmail now available everywhere — Today, Facebook chat is available to Hotmail customers worldwide, wherever Facebook is available. — When we first announced the ability to chat with Facebook friends from Hotmail, we were only able to offer this to customers in six regions.
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Digital Trends, Erictric, Windows 8 Beta, The Next Web, WinRumors, GeekSmack, ReadWriteWeb, LiveSide.net, Download Squad, MarketingVOX, WebProNews and All Facebook
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPad 2 incoming: iPad sold out/on sale at some European retailers — The second-generation iPad is approaching and will most likely hit sometime next month. Usually, a good hint at an upcoming refresh for an Apple product is when the respective item becomes sold out or on sale at some retailers.
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TechRadar.com, App Advice, Geek.com, TiPb, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, Neowin.net, T3.com News, Examiner, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Electronista, MacStories, Apple Bitch, Softpedia News and mocoNews, Thanks:markgurman
Naked Security / Sophos:
SSDs prove difficult to securely erase — At this week's Usenix FAST 11 conference on File and Storage Technologies in San Jose, California researchers published a paper examining the effectiveness of different secure erasure methodologies on Solid State Disks (SSDs).
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Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Exclusive: Spotify Sells Stake To Silicon Valley Firm — Spotify, one of the world's hottest technology companies, is selling a stake to the legendary Silicon Valley investor Kleiner Perkins as part of a deal valuing the online music streaming service at more than $1bn, I can reveal.
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DealBook, Telegraph, TheAustralian, TECH.BLORGE.com, Reuters and TechCrunch, more at Mediagazer »
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
What Got Buzz at Mobile World Congress? — Now that Mobile World Congress has wrapped, a number of digital analytics firms have parsed the data on social networks and blogs to determine which smartphones, tablets, operating systems and brands received the most buzz - and whether that chatter was positive or negative, in some cases.
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IntoMobile
DigiTimes:
HP to start selling WebOS 3.0-based TouchPad in April — First-tier notebook brand vendor Hewlett-Packard (HP) is set to start selling its WebOS 3.0-based tablet PC, TouchPad in April with shipments to start delivery by the end of March, according to sources from HP's upstream component partners.
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PreCentral.net, Electronista and CrunchGear
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is The First Official Chrome OS Device A Monitor Or All-In-One PC? Nope. — Earlier today we received a tip to check out the blog Chrome OS Site for the details on the first official Chrome OS device. Obviously intrigued, I clicked through. There, I read about not a notebook or netbook running the OS, but rather a monitor!
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Chrome OS Site, The Register, ReadWriteWeb and ConceivablyTech
Nina Mandell / NY Daily News:
Facebook stalk much? Breakup Notifier application garners more than 100,000 users overnight — Want to stalk a potential love interest on Facebook? There's an app for that. — A new app for the popular social networking site allows users to pick “friends” whose Facebook relationship status they'd like to monitor.
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TechCrunch, CNN, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, newsfeed.time.com and The Huffington Post
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
EQNZ: The Web Mobilizes for New Zealand Earthquake — Today the New Zealand city of Christchurch was rocked by another large earthquake, a magnitude 6.3. It follows months of aftershocks from the first big earthquake to strike Christchurch, a magnitude 7.1 on 4 September last year.
