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iPad May Beat iPhone's First Three-Month Sales

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

Apple's iPad so far reportedly has chalked up hundreds of thousands of pre-orders. The tablet, due out April 3 in a Wi-Fi only version, starts at $499. Another version, that has Wi-Fi and can also run on a 3G cellular network, is expected in late April. Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. “Hundreds of thousands" of ...

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Skype Offering Free WI-Fi This Weekend

Source: PC Magazine
March 19, 2010

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Mobile App Sales Will Surpass CD Sales by 2012

Source: HypeBot
March 19, 2010

Just how big is the market for mobile apps?

Global mobile apps will be worth $17.5 billion by 2012, according to an independent report commissioned by app store GetJar. Mobile app downloads across all types of handset are also expected to increase from over 7 billion downloads in 2009 to almost 50 billion in 2012 - a year on year growth rate of 92%.

This would mean that the value of apps sold would be greater than the projected $13.83 ...

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Earliest Signature of Renaissance Artist Found

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

Hidden beneath arabesque decorations, art experts have found what they believe is the earliest signature placed on a painting by the Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520), who at the time was a 16-year-old boy. Featuring the words “RAPHAEL SANT" Santi was Raphael's real surname the signature has been detected in an obscure painting that has been kept in private collections for the past three centuries. The finding will be unveiled on Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, where the painting will go on ...

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Viacom Says YouTube Ignored Copyrights

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

Pointing to internal YouTube e-mail messages, Viacom said in a court filing that the video sites founders turned a blind eye when users uploaded copyrighted clips so they could amass a big audience and sell the company quickly.

The charge was one of many made by Viacom in filings unsealed on Thursday in its three-year-old copyright lawsuit against YouTube and Google, which bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion. Google fired back, saying Viacom was distorting the record by taking ...

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Where Are Twitter Users Going?

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

As most Twitter users know, a significant portion of the social network's value comes from all the interesting links that send users from one part of the Web to another. Market-research firm Hitwise recently decided to see where all those Twitter users go when they leave Twitter.com. The firm found that most folks go to entertainment sites and other social networks. According to Hitwise, about 60% of Twitter users go to entertainment sites or social networks after leaving Twitter.com. Out ...

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Is Apple Developing a Social Networking App for iPhone?

Source: Michael Ricci
March 19, 2010

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple a patent that describes a location-based social-networking application for the iPhone. The patent, discovered by Apple blog Patently Apple, describes a location-based app, called iGroups, that would enable users to form a social network with others around them. The main focus is to deliver a social-networking-like service, while maintaining a person's privacy. “During private or public events, a typical individual may have many brief contacts with individuals for which they would ...

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Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX Hacker

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2010

Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez deserves a quarter-century behind bars for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from a transaction processor and several giant retail chains, federal prosecutors argued in a court filing Thursday night. [T]he sentences would be the longest ever imposed in an identity theft case and among the longest imposed for a financial crime, which is appropriate because Gonzalez was at the center of the largest and most ...

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