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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling At WWDC — Many people (including myself) were a bit disappointed that Apple didn't devote any time during the iPad 2 unveiling to talking about iOS 5, the next major revamp of the software. But there may be a very good reason for that: it's not coming anytime soon.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo 3DS review: Is it worth $249 and $40 per game? — Nintendo has done its best to launch a new era in video games with the launch of its 3DS portable gaming system, which goes on sale for $249 on Sunday. The appeal of this device, which can display games in stereoscopic 3D without glasses, is growing on me.
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Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Nintendo 3DS Launches, Haunted by Smartphones — The Nintendo 3DS goes on sale in North America today, and while my experience is limited to previews at trade shows and a public demo over the weekend, my sentiment is similar to that of full reviews: The tech is impressive, even if the first batch of games aren't.
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Digital Trends, The Business Insider and CrunchGear
New York Times:
Silicon Valley Hiring Perks: Meals, iPads and a Cubicle for Spot — By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and JENNA WORTHAM — SAN FRANCISCO — Eric Firestone began a new job at a Web start-up here three weeks ago, and he's already thinking about what he might do next. But that's just fine with his new employer.
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Paul Kedrosky's …, @iainkennedy, @jason, @loic, @stevecheney and SiliconValley.com
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Silicon Valley is abuzz with bubble and recovery stories — too soon?
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SiliconValley.com and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
RIM: The inmates have taken over the asylum — Once upon a time, the Blackberry was the king of smartphones. After a succession of Psion PDAs and Palm devices, I loved my Blackberry, it was the perfect PIM (Personal Information Manager). Email, contacts and calendar functions worked well together …
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Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Lukewarm Reaction To Playbook Could Force Drastic Measures For RIM
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Sean Bonner / Boing Boing:
iPhone app store of “Color” may be best app store review ever — Sean Bonner has been involved with blogs and hackerspaces and art galleries and record labels of the punk rock variety. Now he's on Twitter. — The photo sharing/social network app Color launched last week …
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mike's posterous and iPhone Download Blog
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPad 2: Out of stock by Saturday — A launch perfectly timed to coincide with the end of Apple's second fiscal quarter — Shoppers queued up for the iPad 2 in London. Image: onlygeek — Reports are still drifting in, but it seems likely that most of the 25 countries where Apple …
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Pocket-lint, Technology Questions and Electronista
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple looking to “radically improve” iOS maps and location services — Apple, in late 2009, acquired a mapping company called PlaceBase and since then many rumors have said that Apple is working to revamp their built-in maps application. Rumors have covered a redesigned iOS application …
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AppleInsider, LAPTOP Magazine, MacDailyNews, The Toybox Blog, GeekSmack, MacRumors, iPhone Download Blog, iClarified, MacNN and Engadget, Thanks:markgurman
Jon Bruner / Forbes:
Steal This E-Book — Tech publisher Tim O'Reilly has turned his $100 million O'Reilly Media into an e-book power—while rejecting antipiracy measures. — Jon Bruner: On all your titles you've dropped digital-rights management (DRM), which limits file sharing and copying. Aren't you worried about piracy?
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Ben Zimmer / New York Times:
The Great Language Land Grab — When tech companies engage in legal squabbles about who gets to use our everyday words, what are ordinary speakers of the language to make of it all? — Microsoft is suing Apple, and Apple is suing Amazon, all over the right to use a simple two-word phrase: “app store.”
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Firefox 4 usage share is twice Internet Explorer 9 in half the time — In the early battle for users, Firefox 4 handedly beats Internet Explorer 9, according to NetApplications. As of March 26, IE 9 usage share was 1.78 percent (in 12 days), according to NetApplications.
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Computerworld, Geek With Laptop, Asa Dotzler, The Blog Herald and Mashable!
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
The first musical album that's also a location aware iPhone app — As the power of location based mobile technologies improves, so too do the seemingly limitless creative potentials of their uses to enhance the human experience. — Imagine walking outside, listening to music and having …
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LAPTOP Magazine and Arts Desk
