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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model — I had a chance to sit down with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams at Foo Camp last weekend and talk about the overall state of the company. The first part of the conversation focused on their acquisition of Summize …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Twitter has its search, now it's time to embrace mobile
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:Finding A Perfect Match
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:Back on Track — Now that Twitter has gone public …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
The New Apple Walled Garden — Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM.
Aviram / SecuriTeam Blogs:
Finding the name behind the gmail address — Ever wondered what name is behind some obscure gmail address? Maybe your preferred gmail address was taken and you're wondering who took it? — Here's a cute vulnerability in the gmail system that comes from the strong tie-ins between gmail …
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
Seeking Mass Market Acceptance, Apple Stresses Cost Reduction for iPhone 3G — The new iPhone 3G sports an evolutionary design that favors cost reduction instead of cutting-edge features, supporting Apple Inc.'s goal of expanding its market share and achieving a worldwide presence for the product …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
iPhone 3G's final build price: just $174.33 — In a teardown done with production hardware, research firm iSuppli now says a base iPhone 3G costs just $174.33 in pure manufacturing costs, or less than what it took to build the less capable original. — The conclusion is almost exactly identical …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Seeking Ad Revenue, Blinkx Syndicates Video Search — Video search engine Blinkx is trying a new strategy to boost ad revenues: selling its search engine to third-party sites. The deal is pretty straightforward: any site that signs up can have Blinkx's video search engine embedded for free.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Pandora Usage Stats Prove It's iPhone's Killer App — Pandora's internet radio has always been one of those sites that was really cool in concept, but too inconvenient to ever go mainstream. The service was long tied to computers only, and while it eventually expanded to special internet radios …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 — An insider let slip that two new Amazon Kindle models will hit stores this holiday season, with the first coming as early as October. — The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free — One of the coolest features available in the new iPhone 2.0 software update is the ability to get new email messages, contacts, and calendar events pushed to your device automatically. The catch: If you don't want to shell …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold review: we've been rockin' it for a month — This might be a shocker out there to many, but we do actually, you know, not leak things from time to time. What's important here, is that we've been rockin' a BlackBerry Bold for around a month now and have a great handle on the unit.
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft details AJAX navigation implemented in IE8 — Microsoft has included HTML5 AJAX page navigations in Internet Explorer 8. The improvement will only work if the browser is using the default rendering mode, in other words not “Emulate IE7.” The feature makes it possible …
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Business Wire:
Intel Posts Record Second-Quarter Revenue of $9.5 Billion — SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intel Corporation today announced record second-quarter revenue of $9.5 billion, operating income of $2.3 billion, net income of $1.6 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 28 cents.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:Intel posts record-breaking Q2 earnings
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Google Sued For Selling Ads On Parked Domains — A class-action lawsuit alleges that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions. — Google on Friday was sued for fraud, business code violations …
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm at E3 — LOS ANGELES — The Japanese video game titans, Nintendo and Sony, announced wide-ranging, if not entirely breathtaking, constellations of new games and services at the E3 convention here on Tuesday, but did not appear to significantly alter …
Reuters:
NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? — You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world - being social is becoming an important full time job.
Steven Frank / stevenf.com:
This is going to sound a little weird at first considering what I do for a living, but I want you to stop using FTP. — There are too many aspects of it which have not kept up with modern computing environments. In particular: — Unless tunneled over a secure socket, FTP is 100% insecure.
