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April 25, 2012, 10:20 PM
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
This was the original ‘Google Phone’ presented in 2006 — Two years before the T-Mobile G1 introduced to the world to Android, Google presented carriers with the “Google Phone — a device that looked a lot more like the portrait QWERTY Android prototype shown in early 2008.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
First Android revenue numbers revealed: $278.1m in 2010, iPhone more lucrative — The Google / Oracle trial continues to reveal a wealth of inside information about Android — in addition to seeing the earliest mockups of a “Google Phone” earlier today, we're also seeing how the platform was doing in 2010 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Google wanted to sell 10m Android tablets a year in 2011, have 33 percent marketshare — According to a presentation given by Andy Rubin in July 2010, Google expected to sell some 10 million Android tablets a year in 2011 and 2012 and capture up to a third of the entire tablet market.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint confirms unlimited data plan for next iPhone — Sprint Nextel is banking that its unlimited data plan will continue to set its iPhone apart from the others — even when the next version arrives. — If the next iteration of the iPhone arrives with LTE, Sprint will continue to offer …
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Exclusive: Microsoft to preview ‘Woodstock’ Xbox music service at E3 — Microsoft will offer a sneak peak at its Zune replacement during E3 2012, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The new music service, codenamed Woodstock, will continue Microsoft's shift away from the Zune brand towards the well known Xbox one.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Google Set to Meld GDrive With Chrome OS — Google senior vice president Sundar Pichai says the GDrive will soon be integrated with the company's Chrome OS operating system. Image: Flickr/niallkennedy — Google will tightly integrate its new Google Drive online storage service …
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| Apple: |
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 11 at Moscone West in San Francisco — Apple® today announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 11 through June 15 at San Francisco's Moscone West. At this year's five-day conference …
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| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
Square Payment Pace Rises 25% in Niche Coveted by EBay — Square Inc., maker of credit-card readers for smartphones and tablets, has increased its payment volume 25 percent since March, when EBay Inc. (EBAY)'s PayPal showed off a new mobile scanner and underscored growth in the field.
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| Seth Stevenson / Wired: |
What Your Klout Score Really Means — Last spring Sam Fiorella was recruited for a VP position at a large Toronto marketing agency. With 15 years of experience consulting for major brands like AOL, Ford, and Kraft, Fiorella felt confident in his qualifications.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
People Search Engine Ark Raises Biggest Y Combinator Seed Round Ever — People search start-up Ark.com has led a bit of a charmed existence. Part of Y Combinator's winter class, it debuted to the public shortly after YC leader Paul Graham posted an essay about “frighteningly ambitious ideas” …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity — A different type of return on investment — Venture capital firm makes a bold philanthropic pledge. — FORTUNE — The general partners of Andreessen Horowitz have pledged to donate at least half of their future venture capital earnings to philanthropic causes.
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| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
The real reason Facebook's IPO will be delayed: 15-30% drop in new tech stocks — Facebook's IPO was scheduled for May 2012, or so every analyst across the country was saying a couple months ago. However, that just ain't gonna happen, and we're here to tell you why.
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Kickstarter project aims to turn iPad into MacBook Air — The Brydge hits Kickstarter with early-adopter pricing of $150 for the entry-level model with no built-in speaker. — (Credit: Oona) — During Apple's second quarter earnings call yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea …
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| Joseph B. White / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Seeks Co-Pilots for Self-Driving Car — DETROIT—The leader of Google Inc.'s effort to develop self-driving cars was in the Motor City on Wednesday to send a message that the Internet company is looking for partners to bring its innovations to market within the next decade.
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| Dare Obasanjo / The Windows Blog: |
SkyDrive APIs - Bring your data to any app, any platform, any device — On Monday, we released preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows and Mac, along with updates for iOS and Windows Phone. With SkyDrive on your desktop, you can now access files in the cloud right from any of your PC or Mac apps.| Tim Kelly / Reuters: |
Nintendo's hard choices for a soft landing — But with that Wii boom waning, the successor being prepared by the creator of Super Mario looks like a losing proposition as Apple Inc and other smartphone and tablet makers take gaming to the bathroom, the commuter bus and back to the bedroom.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million — Utah-based genealogy site Ancestry.com just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Silicon Valley-based startup Inflection to acquire its competitor Archives.com for $100 million in cash and assumed liabilities.
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VatorNews, PandoDaily, AllThingsD, Ancestry.com Blog, Techrockies.com and silicontap.com
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
VMware confirms source code leak, LulzSec-affiliated hacker claims credit — VMware has confirmed a leak of source code from the ESX hypervisor. The code was posted on Pastebin on April 8 by a hacker calling himself “Hardcore Charlie.” — VMware confirmed the theft yesterday …
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The Verge, BetaNews, Computerworld, The Register, threatpost and VMware Security & Compliance. Thanks:@jbrodkin
| David Kushner / GQ: |
The Man Who Hacked Hollywood — They've become a part of the pop-culture landscape: sexy, private shots of celebrities (your Scarletts, your Milas) stolen from their phones and e-mail accounts. They're also the center of an entire stealth industry. For the man recently arrested in the biggest case yet … | Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: |
White House Blasts CISPA, Promises Veto — The White House issued a statement today that it “strongly opposes” the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its current form in the House of Representatives over consumer privacy concerns. CISPA is a controversial bill …
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The Register, Politico, CNET, Associated Press, PC Magazine, The Hill and Mashable!. Thanks:@dan_rowinski
| Greg Lindahl / High Scalability: |
The Anatomy of Search Technology: blekko's NoSQL database — Imagine that you're crazy enough to think about building a search engine. It's a huge task: the minimum index size needed to answer most queries is a few billion webpages. Crawling and indexing a few billion webpages requires … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Snapguide Becomes First iOS App With Pinterest Integration — Snapguide today rolled out an update to its iPhone application that lets users share the slick “how-to” guides built on the app directly to Pinterest. — App updates aren't always big deals, but this one is … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google Ideas helps launch counter-radicalization ‘Against Violent Extremism’ network — Today, on the Official Google Blog, the company unveiled its next step for the Google Ideas think tank run by former 'Twitterer in Chief" of the State Department Jared Cohen.
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