According to the WSJ, Twitter is looking to buy out the popular Twitter client TweetDeck for $50 million, continuing the company's efforts to buy or shutdown third-party clients.

TweetDeck had been previously linked to UberMedia, who was looking to purchase the client for $30 million. That deal is still on the table, but negotiations have died down, say the sources.

As arguably the best Twitter client around (and accounting for 13 percent of all tweets sent on a daily basis), TweetDeck is a hot commodity for the microblogging platform and remains the top app for "power users," those who tweet many times per day from many different devices.

Twitter will certainly want to outbid UberMedia, if possible, especially since Uber has the top Twitter app for BlackBerry (UberSocial) and the "highest rated" Twitter app for Android, Twidroyd and has been allegedly cooking up a plan for a "Twitter killing" service.

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It appears that Apple is quietly moving away from Toshiba's X-Gale SSDs to faster Samsung models for its MacBook Air ultra-portable.

Over the last month, Air models have been shipping with two different SSD, the "SM128C" and Toshiba's "TS128C." The SM implies Samsung is the manufacturer, says MSNBC.

The Samsung drive, when benchmarked, shows off 260MB/s read and 210MB/s write speeds compared to the Toshiba which has 210MB/s read and 185MB/s write.

Samsung and Apple have not confirmed so there is no way to know which drive you will get if you are in the market for an Air, but if accurate it may pay to wait a bit longer to ensure you have the faster drive.

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According to multiple sources, Samsung has promised a 2GHz dual-core smartphone for 2012.

By using such powerful processors, the company says it will continue to bridge the gap between phones and desktop/notebook PCs.

Says a Samsung official (via Mash):

We are planning to release a 2Ghz dual core CPU-equipped smartphone by next year. This product will have the data processing capacities of a regular PC.

Additionally, Samsung will sell the Exynos CPUs to other handset makers.

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According to his blog, Geohot has donated the remaining money from his legal defense fund to the EFF, as promised.

Last month, the hacker, facing a lawsuit from an angry Sony over his part in jailbreaking the PS3, asked for donations and received an overwhelming response. Within one day, his defense fund was full and some even speculated that Microsoft had helped.

At the end of March, however, Sony and Geohot settled and some of the donations remained unused.

The hacker says the funds remaining were a bit under $10,000 so he added the rest himself to take it to $10,000, posting the receipt of the donation on his blog.

Taking a parting shot at Sony after confirming he would not be working on jailnreaking any other Sony products, Geohot says:

If you piss [Sony] off enough for them to pull out the legal team and their million dollar checkbook, worst thing that happens is you have to super swear to never do it again.

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Retailer Toys R Us has begun selling the Apple iPad 2, although the company notes that not every store will have stock of the tablet.

Besides the actual device, the retailer has Smart Covers, the iPad Camera Connection Kit, and a VGA connector.

The iPad 2 is available in Apple stores, Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, Radioshack, Verizon and AT&T alongside e-tailers like Amazon.

Although numbers have not been released, the iPad 2 is expected to have sold over 2 million units since launch last month.

Strong demand for the tablet has many potential buyers waiting 2-3 weeks for delivery.

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Beginning next week, Nintendo has confirmed that it will lower the prices of its original Wii games, "Wii Sports Resort" and "Wii Play."

On April 25th, the minigame collections will drop to MSRP $40.

"Resort" is the sequel to Wii Sports, which featured many sports games like basketball and archery.

"Party" has 13 modes and 80 minigames.

Each game is an all-time top seller for the Wii, and for consoles in general.

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