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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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Ars Technica, Digital Trends, New York Times, TUAW, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Register, mocoNews, App Advice, rc3.org, Alan Quatermain, AppleInsider, Stage Two, ReadWriteWeb, Mediactive, Cult of Mac, techno.blog, Mashable!, SlashGear, Engadget, MacStories, Pardon the Disruption, MacRumors, @codinghorror, insideHPC, WebProNews 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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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, App Advice and TUAW
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Smacks Readability In The Face With Subscription Rules; All SaaS In Trouble
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Examiner, The Loop, TiPb, Technologizer and TeleRead
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, Mark Evans Tech, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, parislemon, WebProNews, Stowe Boyd, Switched, Adotas, Changing Way, toni.org and Teds Take, Thanks:fredericl
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Matt Mullenweg:
Blogging Drift — The New York Times has a pretty prominent article today called Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. The title was probably written by an editor, not the author, because as soon as the article gets past the two token teenagers who tumble and Facebook instead of blogging …
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Trends in the Living Networks, TechCrunch and Daily Patricia, more at Mediagazer »
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, Examiner, Pocket-lint, WinRumors, The Register, All about Microsoft Blog, Crave, BetaNews, The Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, VentureBeat, Erictric, VG247, Gamasutra, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, MSDN Blogs, Geek.com, CrunchGear, MSDN Blogs, The Windows Blog, Engadget and Neowin.net
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Early Look: Avatar Kinect
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WinRumors, The Microsoft Blog, The Next Web and GeekSmack
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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Adobe Flash Platform Blog, Erictric and Droid Life
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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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ITworld.com, PC World, Electronista, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Android Phone Fans, Daring Fireball, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, SAI, PhoneNews.com, Techie Buzz, Gadgetell, The Toybox Blog, Digital Trends, TechSpot, AppleInsider, techblog.dallasnews.com, Thoughts from the Sidelines, MobileWhack, Pocket-lint, Know Your Cell, Softpedia News, Droid Life, Phones Review, Examiner, Linux.com, Liliputing, Techland, jd/adobe, The Next Web and Engadget
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, Edge Online and Destructoid
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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
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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All about Microsoft Blog, Electronista, Neowin.net, Redmond Pie, WinRumors, SlashGear, Windows 8 News and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:blogsdna
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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Telegraph, TheAustralian, TECH.BLORGE.com and Reuters
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Quintura blog:
Yandex Plans $1 Billion IPO on NASDAQ in Summer 2011
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WebProNews and paidContent
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DST About To Lead Huge Spotify Funding
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DealBook, GigaOM, SAI, VentureBeat, ITProPortal, Electricpig.co.uk, thinq_, Mobile Entertainment, Music Ally and ArcticStartup Posts, more at Mediagazer »
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, All Facebook and WebProNews
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, MacRumors, Electronista, everythingiCafe, MacDailyNews, Neowin.net, T3.com News, Examiner, Apple Bitch, MacStories, Softpedia News and mocoNews, Thanks:markgurman
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
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, Yahoo! News, newsfeed.time.com and The Huffington Post
Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Says CEO Wei Quits After Probe Finds Fraud Committed by Suppliers — Alibaba.com Ltd., operator of China's biggest electronic-commerce website, said Chief Executive Officer David Wei resigned after a company probe found more than 2,000 subscribers engaged in fraudulent sales.
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