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11:40 AM ET, May 5, 2011

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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple and Verizon to deliver over-the-air iOS updates to Verizon iPhone  —  Apple has long used the proxy of iTunes to push updates to its iOS devices: when a new software update is available, users need to plug their device in via USB, click update, and the new software version is downloaded and installed.
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Trevor Mogg / Yahoo! News:   Rumor: over-the-air updates to Verizon iPhone coming with iOS 5
Joe Siegrist / LastPass:
LastPass Security Notification  —  We noticed an issue yesterday and wanted to alert you to it.  As a precaution, we're also forcing you to change your master password.  —  We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we see.  Tuesday morning we saw a network traffic anomaly …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
LastPass potentially hacked, users urged to change master passwords
Discussion: GigaOM and New Scientist
Reuters:
Exclusive: Facebook, Google considering Skype deals  —  (Reuters) - Facebook and Google Inc (GOOG.O) are separately considering a tie-up with Skype after the web video conferencing service delayed its initial public offering, two sources with direct knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook And Google Ready To Battle Over Skype
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Anonymous denies involvement in Playstation Network credit card theft scandal  —  Hacktivism group Anonymous, which routinely attacks major corporations and takes up political causes, said it is not responsible for the theft of sensitive information and credit card data from Sony's Playstation Network …
NielsenWire:
Connected Devices: How We Use Tablets in the U.S.  —  With new entrants like the Samsung Galaxy and the Motorola Xoom, the market for tablet computers is heating up in the United States, even though iPad continues to dominate the conversation - and market.  That's the word from The Nielsen …
Discussion: Mobilized, GigaOM and mocoNews
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Nielsen: Apple's iPad still commands 82% of the U.S. tablet market
Discussion: @jowyang
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple to release Mac OS X Lion through Mac App Store - sources  —  With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this summer, Apple will make the switch to a new kind of digital distribution for its operating system upgrades by releasing the software first through its new Mac App Store, AppleInsider has learned.
Mercury News:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg buys house in Palo Alto  —  Long after he became a billionaire, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg still rented modest digs.  But now one of Silicon Valley's top tech celebrities has become a first-time homeowner, recently buying a large house in Palo Alto that is a 10-minute drive …
Discussion: All Facebook and NBC Bay Area
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
RIM to launch 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook this fall; OS 7 devices delayed?  —  With BlackBerry World 2011 coming to a close, you knew there had to be some unannounced news waiting to come out of the conference, right?  We have been told by multiple sources that RIM is planning on releasing …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft tries luring iOS devs as Windows Phone 7 dev interest falters  —  In an effort to drum up support for its smartphone platform among existing smartphone developers, Microsoft has released a raft of information to help iOS developers find their feet on Windows Phone 7.
Chris Dixon / cdixon.org:
Best practices for raising a VC round  —  Having raised a number of VC rounds personally and observed many more as an investor or friend, I've come to think there are a set of dominant best practices that entrepreneurs should follow.  —  1. Valuation: Come up with what minimum valuation …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Android To Surpass Apple's App Store In Size By August 2011: Report (Exclusive)  —  There's no doubt Android Market will at some point offer more applications for download and/or purchase than Apple's App Store, as the latter's growth has been slowing down of late, while the Android application store's growth rate has been accelerating.
Brandon Watson / The Windows Blog:
All Updated Windows Phones Are Not Alike  —  Yesterday, Eric announced that there would be a new update for Windows Phone.  You can read his post to see what all is included, but I wanted to focus on a specific issue: phones “updated” using any unofficial mechanisms.
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:   Microsoft confirms WP7 handsets updated using ‘unofficial mechanisms’ cannot get latest update
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Calls Out Rivals' Web Benchmark Tools, Rebuilds Them To Better Gauge Chrome  —  When it comes to Chrome, Google has long been addicted to speed.  And for many tasks on the web today, that speed is related to how fast your JavaScript engine is.  Google has long held that their's is the fastest.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Has Facebook Become The Master Key To Unlocking The Web?  —  When Facebook rolled out its Send button last week, I laughed.  I even mocked on Twitter that Facebook wouldn't be happy until our pages were full of buttons.  But the Send button, as well as integrating other aspects of Facebook into websites, does make a lot of sense.
Discussion: Datamation, Thanks:dannysullivan
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice CEO Craig Walker Launches Firespotter, A Google Ventures Funded Incubator  —  When Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) cofounder and CEO Craig Walker left Google last year, he didn't go far.  In fact, he just went across the street to set up a desk at Google Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence.
Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Cisco Systems Seeks to Streamline Its Operations With a Reorganization  —  With less than a week to go before it next reports its quarterly earnings, networking giant Cisco Systems announced a corporate-wide reorganization that it says will “streamline” its sales service and engineering organizations.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Begins Sending @ Replies to Users - Not All of Which Are SFW  —  Twitter has created a new official account called @TwitterSuggests and is using it to send public replies to other Twitter users.  What does Twitter want to say to its users?  How to use the service, of course, and more specifically whom they should follow.
Discussion: louisgray.com, @pankaj and @znmeb
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Can Publishers Create a Business Class For News?  —  In their ongoing struggle to get readers to pay for content, some media companies have implemented paywalls, while others have hitched their wagon to Apple's app store and are trying a subscription model.  But what if, instead of trying …
Discussion: Daring Fireball
MG Siegler / parislemon:
On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging  —  The information in the image above is not surprising at all.  But still pathetic.  —  Imagine that, you write 35 200-word posts featuring the words “Bin Laden” in the headline and they pull in traffic on the day it's one of the most searched terms ever.
Christopher Trout / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble to release new e-reader, according to securities filing  —  It's not often that we get word of a new gadget by way of an SEC filing, but Barnes & Noble has broken with tradition with an 8-K report that reveals its intentions to introduce a new e-reader.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
IDC lists ARM with Intel as PC chips  —  Intel's power-efficient 3D transistor couldn't have come any sooner.  IDC on Thursday, in its quarterly forecast, is listing not just Intel-compatible PC chips but other categories of processors, namely ARM—the power-frugal silicon of choice in the tablet and smartphone world.
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Tim Armstrong's Rambling Explanation Of What He's Getting For Plowing $40 Million Into Patch  —  During AOL's earnings call, one of the top questions from analysts was what is AOL's plan with Patch?  —  AOL dumped $40 million into the hyper local network for the second quarter in a row, and it didn't generate much revenue.
Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
LinkedIn gets revenue boost from tech hiring  —  With tech sector employment booming, LinkedIn Corp. on Wednesday reported a first-quarter revenue jump of 110 percent largely fueled by features on the professional social network that helps companies recruit workers.
 
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
And the leader in high speed fiber broadband is... Lithuania
Discussion: DSLreports
Felix Salmon / Reuters:
Grouponomics  —  18 months ago, Groupon didn't exist.
Discussion: broadstuff
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Oracle U-turns on Hudson open source control
Discussion: Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Electronista:
Sprint delays PlayBook launch indefinitely
Discussion: SAI, Ubergizmo and BriefMobile
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
100,000 Developers Strong, Mashery Nabs $11 Million To Push The Internet Beyond Websites
Discussion: silicontap.com
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Head Of Flickr On New Mobile App: “We're Going To Nail It”
Discussion: The Business Insider
 

 
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