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Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Facebook Readies an iPad App, Finally — Facebook had its application for the iPhone ready right when the Apple App Store opened in July 2008. But more than a year after the iPad went on sale, there is still no official Facebook app for it. — That is about to change.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yes, Despite All The HTML5 Talk (And Action), Facebook Is Finally Doing An iPad App — The leaking of Facebook continues. Following our stories yesterday about their new Photos mobile app and “Project Spartan” (a new mobile app platform), Nick Bilton of The New York Times reports that Facebook will soon release an iPad app.
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Computerworld and PC Magazine
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
RIM Falls 15%: FYQ1 Rev, Q2 View Miss; Cuts Year View; Plans Job Cuts, Share Buyback — BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIMM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q1 revenue below analysts' estimates, but profit a penny ahead, and a Q2 revenue forecast well below estimates, and cut its year outlook.
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The Loop, Market Wire, mocoNews, Between the Lines Blog, BetaNews, BGR, Engadget and PhoneArena
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
4G PlayBook launches delayed until fall
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AllThingsD, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile and FierceWireless
AppleInsider:
Apple may freeze new Mac introductions until release of Mac OS X Lion — Apple management is so pumped up over the advantages presented by its forthcoming Mac OS X Lion operating system that the company has been holding back the release of at least one new Mac refresh until the software is finalized, AppleInsider has learned.
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PC Magazine, Ars Technica, MacStories, TiPb, Redmond Pie, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, I4U News, OS X Daily, SlashGear, Electronista, TUAW, parislemon and iClarified
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Vostu Responds To Zynga Lawsuit, Now Denies Copying Zynga* — Vostu, a social gaming company that's big in Brazil, has responded to a lawsuit from social gaming leader Zynga, which accused Vostu of stealing its games. (With pretty serious evidence.) — Vostu's statement …
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TechCrunch and The Business Insider
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Zee / The Next Web:
Lulzsec has released over 150,000 names, emails and home addresses. Check if you're one of them here — Hacker group Lulz Security has been busy over the past five weeks. It has successfully managed to hack Sony BMG, Nintendo.com, Sonypictures.com, PBS.org, Fox.com and its US X Factor …
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Examiner, Gizmodo, SiliconFilter, DailyTech, Redmond Pie and TeleRead
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Stephen Chapman / Between the Lines Blog:
LulzSec leaks 62,000 emails and passwords, also targets CIA
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CNN, THN, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Guardian, PC World, Fast Company, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Geekosystem, Bits, Gizmodo, Zero Day Blog, msnbc.com, The Firewall and Washington Post
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple gives us a Peek into a New Social Networking App in the Works — Social networking on sites LinkedIn and Facebook are a huge success with today's in-crowd. Today's social apps typically use matching algorithms to match members with members who are deemed compatible by with their interests and values.
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MacRumors
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Kinect goes legit on Windows as Microsoft releases software development kit — Oregon State University student Alex Wiggins gestures to Kinect, which in turn makes a remote-control toy helicopter take off while teammates Ruma Paul (left) and Fabio Matsui (right) look on.
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Examiner, BGR, L.A. Times Tech Blog, BetaNews, eWeek, Ed Burnette's Dev …, Computerworld and Gizmodo
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
Oracle seeks billions in lawsuit against Google — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp is seeking damages “in the billions of dollars” from Google Inc in a patent lawsuit over the smartphone market, according to a court filing. — Oracle sued Google last year, claiming the Web search company's Android …
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mocoNews, SAI, 24/7 Wall St. and AllThingsD
Beth Kowitt / Fortune:
100 million Android fans can't be wrong — The inside story of how Google conquered the smartphone world. — FORTUNE — When Google (GOOG) acquired a tiny wireless startup called Android in 2005, few at the search giant had particularly high hopes for the deal — if they even knew about it.
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9to5 Google, Android and Me and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:louisgray
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Rebecca Black Pulls Infamous ‘Friday’ Video From YouTube — It's Thursday, Thursday, and Rebecca Black's memetastic “Friday” video is no longer available on YouTube, due to a copyright claim filed by Rebecca Black apparently. It's not clear what exactly happened to the video …
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Techdirt, WebProNews, Mashable!, Gawker and Geekosystem
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Here's Google's Secret Plan To Kill Groupon In New York And San Francisco — Google recently launched its Groupon-killer, Google Offers, in Portland, Oregon. — We don't yet know how that launch went. — But Google is now planning to launch Offers in New York and San Francisco.
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The Business Insider and NBC Bay Area
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals New Security Features for “Find My iPhone” Part 2 — A new patent application from Apple this morning reveals that they began working on new security features for “Find My iPhone” shortly after the first iteration was revealed back in 2009. The next generation security features are noted as being proactive in nature.
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The Sun, App Advice, TUAW, MacRumors, CNET News, iPhone, SlashGear, TiPb, The Next Web, MacStories, Gizmodo and iClarified
Alex Ben Block / Hollywood Reporter:
Senate Committee Votes to Make Illegal Streaming of Movies, TV a Felony … Moving to close a possible loophole in the laws against the pirating of movies, TV shows and other intellectual property, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved making illegal streaming of video over the internet a felony in most cases.
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Neowin.net and Electronista
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Internet users now have more and closer friends than those offline — Have a computer, Internet connection, and no Facebook profile? Now you're the weirdo outcast. In a new study done by the Pew Research Center, collections of data from thousands of participants showed that people …
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Steve Rubel, MediaPost, Poynter, Pew Internet, GigaOM, Guardian, GMSV, BetaNews, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Techland, @sebprovencher, TechCrunch, Pew Internet, Search Engine Land, Nieman Journalism Lab, WebProNews, Mashable!, GeekSugar, eWeek, Mixed Media, Pew Internet and L.A. Times Tech Blog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
4 Million Users Strong And Apple Design Award In Hand, Pulse Grabs $9 Million Series A — Apple doesn't hand out a lot of design awards. When they do, it's a pretty clear indication of the apps they feel best showcase their platforms. This year at WWDC, one of the winners was Pulse …
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Social Markets, Venture Capital Dispatch, VentureBeat, Mashable!, AllThingsD and SAI
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
Facebook Launches Send Dialog For Private Shares — Starting today, you can share a link as a private message or group post within Facebook, thanks to the new send dialog button plugin. — This feature builds on the popularity of the send button unveiled one month ago and implemented on over 100,000 websites.
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Inside Facebook, Facebook Developers and NBC Bay Area
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Adobe scraps AIR for Linux, focuses on mobile — Concluding that its priorities should be on iOS and Android, Adobe Systems has stopped releasing its own version of its AIR programming foundation for Linux. — AIR combines Flash and a Web browser to let programmers build standalone software …
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Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Engadget and Geek.com
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
The MacBook Air: Apple's $3 Billion Baby — When he last gauged the revenue opportunity of the MacBook Air back in April, J.P. Morgan hardware analyst Mark Moskowitz estimated it at $2.2 billion. But with a refresh of the machine in the offing and demand for it still strong, he's reassessed and come up with a new figure: $3 billion.
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Shiny Objects, Tech Trader Daily, MacDailyNews, The Next Web, iClarified, @jason, Fortune and Softpedia News
Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore:
Work Begins To Replace Fifth Avenue Glass Cube — In a stunning development, an expensive construction project has begun at the Fifth Avenue (NYC) Apple store to completely remove the unique and iconic glass cube entrance to the store and to then reinstall it.
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9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, TUAW, CNET News, CrunchGear, PC Magazine, SAI, iClarified, AppleInsider, MacNN, The Next Web, MacDailyNews, Edible Apple and MacRumors
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google's Related Searches Now Harness Google Squared (And They're Pretty Nifty) — Google has just announced a new feature for its core search engine that sounds like it will be very helpful: a new kind of related search result that's based around lists. Starting today, when you run …
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Inside Search, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, Techie Buzz and WebProNews
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0 Blog:
Mozilla planning to use HTML5 and JavaScript to render PDFs in Firefox — This is really cool, and a really good idea. Mozilla is working on a project that will allow PDF documents to be rendered within the browser using HTML5 and JavaScript as opposed to having to rely on a separate plug-in.
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ReadWriteWeb, Andreas Gal, Web Browser, Neowin.net and The Digital Reader
