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USA Today:
Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal — NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands. — Among other things …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Vista "upgrade" drops compliance checking, requires old OS to install — Microsoft's quest to closely control the way Windows Vista can be used on PCs has taken a turn for the worse as new information indicates that the company is breaking tradition when it comes to Windows Vista upgrades.
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George Ou, Windows-Now.com, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, GottaBeMobile.com, Gizmodo, Alec Saunders .LOG, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, digg and Slashdot
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines — Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the analysis. — Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google."
Adobe:
Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization — For immediate release
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Open Source, Technoracle, MAKE Magazine, LXer Linux News, TechCrunch, JD on EP and GottaBeMobile.com
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn raises $12.8M to build out professional network — LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals connect, has raised $12.8 million in venture funding. — The venture capitalists, Silicon Valley's Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund (EFF), an internet focused firm …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Microsoft: Forget about PayPal; how about a MasterCard killer? — Ever since PayPal burst on to the scene, the Nostradamus types have been predicting one PayPal killer after another. First it was "e-gold," then Western Union, then C2IT (by Citibank), then Google.
Anne Zelenka / Web Worker Daily:
27 TIPS FOR TELECONFERENCING — Whether you call them conference calls or telecons or excruciatingly dull time-wasters, multi-participant phone conversations are as important to most web workers as email. If you can't meet face to face or arrange video conferencing, the conference call is the next best thing.
Anna Sebestyén / Google Blogoscoped:
YouTube Sharing Revenue With Users — Goo(g)d news. Soon you will start generating money on YouTube. — How soon? We don't know. But Chad Hurley announced at World Economic Forum, Davos on 27 Jan that they would reward users for self-generated content, saying "We are getting …
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Chris / Are You Paying Attention?:
Announcing the Media 2.0 Workgroup … The term "Web 2.0" has become a little worn out lately, but it has had an important and dramatic effect on our industry. It has spurred innovation, driven investment and ignited the imagination of the entrepreneurial community.
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Web Strategy, ALLIED, Somewhat Frank, Strange Attractor, Publishing 2.0 and Resonance Partnership Blog
Mark Wallace / Wired News:
A Second Life for MTV … Lounging by a bright blue pool, Kyndra and Cami, stars of MTV's hit reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, chat with a bunch of other teenagers. Kyndra's white bikini shows off an artificially enhanced figure, while Cami's dark skin glows against an unnaturally bright blue sky.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Wellsphere Launches Wellness 2.0 — Wellshpere is launching an alpha version of their wellness community site tomorrow. It joins a host of other health related search, training, and Q&A sites we've covered. Wellsphere is concerned with day-to-day sorts of health choices that make up …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Wellsphere, for those striving to be fit and healthy
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Gizmo, now making browser based phone calls — Update: The service is still not publicly available and is protected right now. Don't try your Gizmo username or password - this is a seperate combo, which only company officials are privy to. More updates to follow.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Startups Take on Amazon Reviews — While low prices and huge inventory are the main attraction at Amazon.com, the site's reviews have emerged as an essential online resource. Now, a new generation of start-ups wants to take on the shopping giant by spreading reviews across the web.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Broken connection for Sprint Nextel — After Sprint merged with Nextel Communications, Leigh Elliott noticed that her Nextel phone started dropping calls in places where it used to get coverage just fine. — "On my 20-minute drive to and from work everyday, I'd lose a call up to five times …
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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google TV Hoax - No DNS Information Found — Over the weekend, there were tons of buzz over a prank YouTube video that claims Google launched Google TV. The guy has two videos, taking you through him using Google TV. Here is the most recent one. — Is it real? Probably not.
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Record Companies Boxed In By Their Own Rhetoric — Reports are popping up all over that the major record companies are cautiously gearing up to sell music in MP3 format, without any DRM (anti-copying) technology. This was the buzz at the recent Midem conference, according to a New York Times story.
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Paul Durman / Times of London:
Jilted tech boss tries hand at venture capital — DAN WAGNER, the entrepreneur who ran the Maid online information business in the 1990s, once turned down an opportunity to invest $1m (£510,000) for 30% of the fledgling Ebay — a stake that would now be worth many billions.
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