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DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple — Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday said the lawsuit against Apple was necessary to protect Americans from “anticompetitive harm.” What he didn't say is that it's likely to fail. — (Credit: CBS News)| Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: |
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's $249 Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 To Make U.S. Debut On April 22, We Go Hands-On — Samsung teased the masses this past February when they revealed that one of their first Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets would be the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, a decidedly mid-range device that seemed lacking in the style department.| Joseph Volpe / Engadget: |
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VIDEO: Watch an iPad get made from the Foxconn factory floor — Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple's Chinese producer Foxconn. In this exclusive video, see highlights from his tour of the assembly line … | Andrew Rassweiler / Market Intelligence: |
Nokia Lumia 900 Carries Bill of Materials of $209 — Nokia's new Lumia 900 smartphone features a cost-reduced design that reveals close cooperation between the handset brand, Microsoft Corp., and semiconductor supplier Qualcomm Inc. This cooperation mimics Apple Inc.'s holistic approach to hardware and software development.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5 — As e-book publishers and Apple face an antitrust lawsuit over pricing, magazine publishers are now looking into an alternative solution to the digital pricing dilemma: being able to extricate themselves from Apple's grip entirely.
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| Royal Pingdom: |
WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs — WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. But just how popular is it? — We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world.
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| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. — Nick Merrill, who challenged a demand from the FBI for user data, wants to create the world's first Internet provider designed to be surveillance-resistant. — (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The new $399 iPad 2 uses a tweaked 32nm A5 chip, which may help it get better battery life — As far as we're concerned, the cheaper $399 iPad 2 is the most important device that Apple announced back in March. Now an interesting new detail has been revealed about the price-sliced tablet.
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| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft Says Ruling in Motorola Case Will Prevent an Injunction, at Least for Now — If all of these smartphone patent cases have you feeling a bit overwhelmed, you are not alone. — Among the many, many cases out there are several between Microsoft and Motorola — a dispute that spans multiple continents.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Code Not Physical Property, Court Rules in Goldman Sachs Espionage Case — Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov, who downloaded source code for the investment firm's high-speed trading system from the company's computers, was wrongly charged with theft of property because the code …
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Sony aims to become ‘One’, will fire 10,000 workers and spend $926m on restructuring — Struggling Japanese electronics giant Sony's new management team has laid out its plans to reinvigorate the company's businesses and look for growth in other and new markets.| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
The Pebble is a slick e-paper smartwatch that connects to iPhone or Android — I've wanted a slick, minimal smartwatch that connects to my iPhone for years. There have been plenty of attempts at this, especially recently, but the Pebble project on Kickstarter is the first one that I would actually love to see on my wrist.| Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat: |
Patch Editor-in-Chief leaving AOL — Patch editor-in-chief Brian Farnham announced today he is leaving the network of hyper-local news and its parent-company AOL. The news was revealed in an all-company call and Farnham let it all hang out on the Patch Blog.
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| Eric Eldon / TechCrunch: |
Walkie Talkie App Voxer Goes Big, IVP And Intel Lead $30 Million Round — Voxer, a walkie talkie mobile app that lets you talk to friends across iPhones and Androids, looked like an overnight success last November when it soared to its current place as a top social networking app in the app stores.| Meghan Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Tablets a TV friend: 85 percent of tablet owners use the device while watching shows — The tablet's ability to deliver content has been considered a threat to PC and cable companies, but new data shows 85 percent of people using their tablets while watching the television, according to a report by Forrester.
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| Thorin Klosowski / Lifehacker: |
Why Microsoft and Facebook are Pro-CISPA but Anti-SOPA — Just months after the internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA were taken off the floor, a new and similarly scrutinized bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has been gaining momentum and support …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Android gives ‘no permissions’ apps access to sensitive info — Thanks in large part to Android's history of lax app policing, Google's mobile operating system has been criticized as insecure. — But now it appears that apps with no permissions pose a new threat, gaining access … | Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Tracking everything, Placeme is the smartphone assistant of the future — Placeme for iOS and Android may be both the scariest and amazingly futuristic smartphone app I've seen yet. The free software uses every sensor in your handset to track your activities, location and environment.Thanks:@scobleizer
| Ben Rooney / Digits: |
Deadline Looms For New Internet Domain System — If you want to own your own top-level domain you have about 24 hours to submit your application (along with the $180,000 fee) because once the April 12 deadline passes, that is it for the foreseeable future.
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| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Now at 45m members, LinkedIn rival Viadeo lands $32m to spur growth in Europe, emerging countries — For most people, online social networking in a purely professional context is almost synonymous to ‘using LinkedIn’, but that doesn't mean it's the only business social network in town.
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