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Myriam Joire / Engadget:
Windows Phone adds multitasking, deeper OS integration, and sensor access to dev platform — We knew it was coming, and today at MIX 11, Microsoft showed off its developer platform for the next version of Windows Phone, which developers will be able to get their hands on for free in May.
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Engadget, Microsoft, The Windows Blog, WinRumors, All about Microsoft Blog, Ars Technica, eWeek, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Register and Datamation
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Ina Fried / Mobilized:
Microsoft Offers Mea Culpa for Slow Windows Phone Updates, Promises “Mango” Update This Fall — Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore kicked off his keynote speech on Wednesday by offering yet another apology for the slowness with which the company has rolled out the first couple of updates for Windows Phone 7.
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eWeek, CNET News, Reuters, The Register, WinRumors, WMPoweruser.com, GeekWire, IntoMobile, SAI, WPCentral.com, GottaBeMobile, Redmond Pie, Computerworld, Techie Buzz, msnbc.com, The Next Web, Electronista, Pulse2, MSDN Blogs, BetaNews, BGR, MobileCrunch, SAI and Windows Phone Secrets
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft benchmarks Windows Phone browser against iPhone 4 and Android, wins
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VentureBeat, LiveSide.net, GottaBeMobile, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, Geek.com, MSDN Blogs, www.thehostingnews.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Next Web, Electronista and The Microsoft Blog, Thanks:fxshaw
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
PlayBook: A Tablet With a Case Of Codependency — Now entering the tablet wars: the BlackBerry PlayBook, a contender from Research In Motion, maker of the iconic smartphone. — Unlike most tablets aiming to take on the iPad juggernaut, the PlayBook, which I've been testing for five days …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
BlackBerry PlayBook review — The words “play” and “book” are a bit of an odd choice for RIM's latest attempt at consumer relevance, a tablet that, at its core, runs one of the most hardcore and industry-friendly operating systems known to man. The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook.
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CrackBerry.com blogs, DailyTech, Marco.org, SlashGear, The Loop and DisplayBlog
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
REVEALED: The Real History Of Twitter — “Mr. Williams says that all successful businesspeople make enemies along the way.” - The New York Times, October 30, 2010 — How Twitter's owners and top executives say Twitter was founded is different than how Twitter was actually founded.
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The Awl, @ev, StartupMuse, Fast Company, @tolles and @taylorbuley
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview With Twitter's Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass — Noah Glass is the Twitter cofounder you've never heard of. — He was pushed out of the company way back in 2006. — Before that he was the cofounder of a startup called Odeo. He had an investor who would become cofounder and CEO, Ev Williams.
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NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, Pulse2, Gawker, @jason and NewsGrange
Bloomberg:
Apple Is Said to Ready White IPhone After 10-Month Wait — Apple Inc. will begin selling a white model of the iPhone 4 in the next few weeks after a 10- month delay, according to three people familiar with the plans. — The new version will be available from AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, AppleInsider, iPhone Alley, Neowin.net, MacRumors, Electronista, FM Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, SlashPhone, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Mobilized, MacStories, PhoneArena, Crave, PhoneNews.com, GeekSugar and mocoNews
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser — Apple Inc. has added a do-not-track privacy tool to a test version of its latest Web browser for keeping customers' online activities from being monitored by marketers. — The tool is included within the latest test release of Lion …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacStories, TUAW, Daring Fireball, ReadWriteWeb, ClickZ, CNET News, paidContent, L.A. Times Tech Blog, MacNN and iClarified
Mark Milian / CNN:
Leading app maker said to be planning Twitter competitor — (CNN) — UberMedia, which owns several popular applications that interface with Twitter, is outlining plans to build a social network that could compete with that popular microblogging platform, said three people who were briefed on the plans.
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PC Magazine, SAI, Mashable!, Techland, Digital Trends, TG Daily, PC World, Computerworld, The Atlantic Online, BetaNews, Stowe Boyd, IntoMobile, VatorNews, Network World, GMSV, WebProNews, The Next Web, Pulse2 and AllTwitter
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Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Preview: webOS 3.0 Beta 1 emulator leak [Exclusive] — We got our first glimpse at webOS 3.0 for the TouchPad back in February at Think Beyond, and new items have been trickling out ever since. Well, dear PreCentral reader, now it's time for the flood. — It's been a few weeks since HP released …
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The Next Web, IntoMobile, ZDNet, Pulse2, PC Magazine, SlashGear, 901am, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Ubergizmo, CrunchGear, Crave, Electronista, BGR, SAI, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Between the Lines Blog, mobiputing, Gizmodo and Technologizer
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Eran Feigenbaum / Google Enterprise Blog:
The truth about Google Apps and FISMA — In a breathless blog post, Microsoft recently suggested we intentionally misled the U.S. government over our compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft claims we filed a separate FISMA application for Google Apps …
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The Microsoft Blog, PC World, PC Magazine, SAI, The Next Web, @akovacs, ReadWriteWeb and WinRumors
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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Blog fight: Google calls Microsoft ‘irresponsible’ for calling Google ‘misleading’
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SAI, NBC Bay Area and MediaPost
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Evidence points toward Apple releasing HDTV this year - report — Apple could launch an Internet-connected high-definition television set by the end of 2011, entering the lucrative $100 billion LCD TV market, a new report claims. — Analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities …
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MacRumors, Geek.com, Apple Bitch, Gearlog, PadGadget, Neowin.net, Electronista, WebProNews, NBC Bay Area and Crave
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Revenge of the iPad? PC market tanks in first quarter — New numbers this afternoon from the IDC research firm show worldwide PC shipments falling 3.2% during the first quarter — the first year-over-year quarterly decline since the end of the Great Recession.
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IDC, Fortune, The Microsoft Blog, PC World, @tomkrazit, Electronista, CNET News, Bits, SAI, Between the Lines Blog, The Seattle Times, mocoNews and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:johnhcook
Shawn Blanc:
Tweetbot's Got Personality — Using an app by Tapbots feels like a privilege. — There is this addictive cleverness and playful uniqueness to the way Mark and Paul build their apps. The sounds, the animations, and graphics don't feel or act like a standard app, they feel more like a toy.
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Daring Fireball, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, @tapbots and The Next Web
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple assembling small team to build ‘the future of cloud services’ — Apple is building a small team to write software which will lay the groundwork for the company's future Web services, which it has advertised as “the future” of its cloud-based offerings.
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PC Magazine, TUAW, iClarified, PC World, MacDailyNews, BGR, MacNN and ReadWriteWeb
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
About That Lawsuit... The lawsuit filed Tuesday by Jonathan Tasini is so utterly without merit, and has been so thoroughly eviscerated in the media — including being ridiculed as the “dumbest lawsuit ever” — I am hesitant to take any time away from aggregating adorable kitten videos to respond.
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Joe Manna and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Gmail gets smarter with recipient suggestions — If you've ever been typing an email and after sending it you've realized that you've forgotten someone, you know that sinking feeling. Worse yet, what if you meant to email Bobbi but emailed Bobby instead? Awkward...
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:
No IE10 for Vista users — You might have noticed that the Platform Preview release for IE10 was only compatible with Windows 7. Well, if you're a Vista user, you're not only out of luck with the Platform Preview, but also with the final release. — Here's the official word, straight from a Microsoft spokesperson:
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The Next Web, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Ed Bott's Microsoft …, PC World and Neowin.net
Devin Mullins / The Official Google Blog:
Beefing up goo.gl with new features — Since we launched our URL shortener goo.gl last September, we've been lucky enough to build a thriving and growing community of passionate users who aren't shy about letting us know when something could be better. We appreciate the feedback …
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Google Watch, TechCrunch and Ubergizmo
