Top Items:
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple developing full-fledged digital lifestyle fitness companion — Electronics maker Apple Inc. is developing a digital fitness companion system based around its iPhone and iPod touch players aimed a helping americans, and folks in general, live a healthier and more fit lifestyle.
RELATED:
Staska / Unwired View:
iPhone. Your Lifestyle Companion — Now that iPhone has almost become an open platform for third party software development, we can expect tons of new exciting applications that will make it into a much more useful thing, then a fancy phone and media player.
InfoWorld:
Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest — It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. — He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
Discussion:
Zero Day, Crave, Computerworld, MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget and CrunchGear
RELATED:
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Can Google Stop the Brain Drain? — It takes more than an army of trained chefs and free lunch to keep Googlers happy. As a new wave of web darlings (such as Facebook) beef up recruiting efforts, high-level Googlers are blowing the joint. Sheryl Sandberg, Ethan Beard (right) …
Discussion:
HipMojo.com
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
M'SOFT NOT YET ON BOARD — NO NAMES LINED UP YET FOR YAHOO! — Microsoft has been so cagey about the candidates it plans to nominate to Yahoo!'s board that speculation is mounting that the software giant actually doesn't have anyone lined up. — The word on Wall Street and in technology circles …
RELATED:
Chester Yung / MarketWatch:
Hong Kong tycoon Li raises personal Facebook investment above $100 mln — HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Thursday he has increased his personal investment in social networking site Facebook to more than US$100 million, and might invest even more.
Discussion:
Coop's Corner, GigaOM, TechCrunch, paidContent.org, Valleywag, Inside Facebook, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, Webware.com and All Facebook
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
“If the news is important, it will find me” — Brian Stelter has a great piece in the New York Times that I urge anyone interested in the media business to go and read right now — I'll wait — and that includes reporters, editors and (most of all) managers, and probably IT departments and designers as well.
Discussion:
New York Times, Best Engaging Communities, WebGuild, BuzzMachine and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview — To search for files on my PCs, I use Windows Search - Windows Vista's desktop search feature. I use Windows Search specifically to find photos that I've tagged in Windows Live Photo Gallery or important emails and Word documents.
Discussion:
eWeek, Microsoft Help and Support, LiveSide, All about Microsoft, Beyond Binary and Brandon Live!
RELATED:
Chris Williams / The Register:
MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy — Former BitTorrent champ throws in the towel — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — The operators of TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent tracker, have been forced to permanently shutter the site after losing a battle with rights holders.
Discussion:
CNET News.com, TorrentFreak, Mashable!, p2pnet, Copy me happy, Digital Daily and AppScout
RELATED:
James McGill / Official Google Maps API Blog:
Street View in the API (or, How I Spent My Summer “Vacation") — For the past three months I have had the great pleasure of working as an intern with the Google Maps API team in Sydney. Unfortunately my time is now up and I must head back to the mundane life of a undergraduate scholar …
RELATED:
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
The Next Phase Of Our Company: Scaling From The Inside Out — Some time around late summer last year, about six months after we moved into our (first-ever) office in Santa Monica, I realized we needed to start asking the “BIG S” question for our growing B2B media company: How Do You Scale?
Verne Kopytoff / The Technology Chronicles:
Craigslist gets heat for prostitution ads — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today threatened legal action against Craigslist if it does not curb prostitutes from advertising their services on its Web site. — In a letter to Craigslist today, he took the San Francisco Web site …
Discussion:
Mark Evans
Jody Rosen / New York Times:
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison — For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice …
InfoWorld:
Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 2 — Apple released on Thursday a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple's development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Watch Out - Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire — The blogosphere was abuzz today with the launch of Adobe's online photo-editing and storage platform, Adobe Photoshop Express. The new tool isn't so much of a web-based version of Photoshop as people had hoped, but more of a simple online photo editor …
Discussion:
Microsoft Watch, Between the Lines, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Maple Leaf 2.0 and John Nack on Adobe
Portfolio:
Fee for All — Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' internet-service bills for unlimited access to music. — The plan—the boldest move yet to keep the wounded entertainment …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ma.gnolia: OpenID to Save Anti-Spam, Anti-Spam to Save OpenID — OpenID is wildly convenient for users, which is good for vendors, but is that motivation enough to really spur its adoption? Cutting-edge social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia stopped issuing new user credentials last night …
