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Isabel Reynolds / Reuters:
Sony says to begin restoration of PlayStation network on Sunday — (Reuters) - Sony said it would begin a phased restoration of its PlayStation Network on Sunday on a country by country basis. — The company said in a news release it expects the restoration to be complete by May 31.
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Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
Play On - PSN Restoration Begins Now — Thank you for your patience and encouragement over the last few weeks. As covered in the post from earlier today, you can now update the firmware on your PS3 and change your password. Kazuo Hirai just announced that we have begun the phased restoration …
Business Week:
Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest — The PlayStation data breach comes shortly after Sony sued and prosecuted hackers — There's an Internet phenomenon called the Streisand Effect. It happens when a person or company tries to suppress a piece of information and, in so doing, unintentionally popularizes it.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
PlayStation Network Outage: Now It's the Worst One Ever, Right?
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Electronista:
iPhone ‘5G’ case shows edge-to-edge screen, moved flash — Supposed iPhone 5G case tips up in China — A very early instance of a 2011 iPhone case has shown up in a listing at Asian trading site AliBaba. Guangdong-based Kulcase is selling what it claims is a crystal case for an “iPhone 5G.”
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPhone 5 front and rear-facing camera parts appear, point to relocated camera flash? — Just off the heals of rumors pointing to Apple repositioning the iPhone LED flash to the top-right side of the next-generation iPhone, purported iPhone 5 camera parts have appeared online.
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AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, MacStories, tw.apple.pro and iClarified, Thanks:markgurman
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
The Ad-Supported Kindle Is Amazon's Best Seller — Amazon's cheapest Kindle, the one supported by advertising and special offers, it its best-selling Kindle, if you can trust Amazon's best-selling Kindles list. — This tells us: — 1) People don't hate advertising as much as some Internet wonks think they do.
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Michael Geist Blog:
Forget the iPod Tax, Canadian Copyright Collective Demanding Memory Card Tax — During the most recent election campaign, there was no shortage of debate over the so-called iPod Tax, a proposed levy on iPods and similar devices to compensate for copies of sound recordings.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Nuance and Apple partnership is all but confirmed: Lion uses Nuance speech technology — Apple and Nuance's rumored partnership is all but official at this point: Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Lion uses Nuance's speech technology. A quick look in Lion's system preferences application reveals several …
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
Six Reasons Why Chromebooks Are a Bad Idea — Not everyone thinks Google's attempt to reinvent the computer will work. — When it took the wraps off its stripped down, nothing-but-the-browser Chromebooks this week Google was attempting its own iPad moment.
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Close To A Big Search Deal With Baidu, Says Chinese Press — Microsoft is close to announcing a partnership with Chinese search company Baidu, according to rumors in the Chinese press, via Bill Bishop on Twitter. — It looks like Baidu is taking over the paid ads on Bing China …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
The Bestsellers: Fortune Article ‘Inside Apple’ Beats Out Full-Length Books — Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of a surprise: “Inside Apple—From Steve Jobs Down to the Janitor …
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Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Just how many people are using the iPad 2 camera? (Answer: Not many) — So remember back when the iPad first launched, and everyone had a good old a moan about the the lack of a camera? Yeah, here's Flickr's current daily average user stats for Apple's devices with cameras.
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Mashable!, App Advice, I4U News, PadGadget, SAI, CrunchGear, PetaPixel, TUAW, MacStories and 9 to 5 Mac
