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MobileMe: 30-day Extension Eligibility and Details — Note: This FAQ will be updated when your 30-day extension has been made available. Please bookmark this page and check again in a few weeks. Please note that Apple's MobileMe Support team will be unable to provide any additional information regarding …
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Macworld:
Apple apologizes for MobileMe launch, extends subscriptions — Apple's launch of MobileMe last Friday was bumpy with many users not being to login at all, while others had difficulty getting anything to sync properly. Apple on Wednesday recognized those problems and is offering an olive branch to all MobileMe subscribers.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone 3G review supplemental: battery life and MobileMe tests — We spent most of the weekend putting the iPhone 3G's battery life (and to a lesser extent, MobileMe implementation) to the test, and we've got far more encouraging results to report back than we had on day one.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:Apple apologizes for its MobileMe mess, admits bungle on “push,” offers 30-days free
Sunshine / LiveSide:
Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open — Where we were wondering before, we can now confirm that Live Mesh is indeed open to anyone with a valid Windows Live ID. Open to anyone in the US without having to adjust a thing, and open to anybody elsewhere in the world willing/able to adjust their OS'es region and language setting to EN-US.
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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Technologies behind Google ranking — In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR).
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
AOL talks with Microsoft, Yahoo heat up: source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's (NYSE:TWX - News) discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) or Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) have taken on new urgency ahead …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google's Android platform: not so open after all — Google vowed that its Linux-based Android mobile platform would empower enthusiasts and amateur developers, but today we have seen compelling evidence that this is an empty promise. Third-party Android application developers …
Robert McMillan / IDG News Service:
IT Admin Locks up San Francisco's Network — A network administrator has allegedly locked up a multimillion-dollar computer system for the city of San Francisco that handles sensitive data, and he is refusing to give police the password — Terry Childs, 43, was arrested Sunday …
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Ijustine / Tasty Blog Snack:
THE LOOPT DEBACLE — With the launch of the app store this past week in conjunction with the new iPhone, a little application called loopt has been causing a bit of conflict with the community. Loopt is a location based social networking site that uses GPS to determine your exact location …
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
What the hell happened to Kleiner Perkins? — How do you know when one of the world's most respected investment firms has veered off path and bet wrong? — That's the crux of the question raised by a piece in this month's Fortune entitled “Kleiner bets the farm” that puts Kleiner Perkins …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Apple's walled garden — Nik over at TechCrunch wrote a post yesterday where he wondered why people who love open systems and open source are willing to wait in line for an iPhone 3G which is one of the most closed systems ever. And why they're willing to use software from the Apple store …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
What Getting Buzzed Says About Yahoo — The battle over Yahoo's search business as witnessed over the last few days seems both ridiculous and petty. And it takes the attention away from what is Yahoo's true value: a media aggregation platform. Yahoo is the place a lot of people …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
New version of Gmail iGoogle gadget — Google just released a new version of the Gmail iGoogle gadget that, for the most part, is a fully functioning interface for your Gmail. You can do everything from read, delete, mark as spam, and compose messages right from your homepage.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
iPhone Frenzy, “All You Can Eat” Data, Mobile Internet Now At “Critical Mass” — We will probably look back on last year's announcement of the iPhone (1.0) as the seminal or galvanizing event of the mobile internet. In fact the events leading up to the iPhone were a decade or more in the making …
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Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
Virgin Mobile USA treads a quirky path to success — Virgin Mobile USA (VM) definitely walks to its own, very hip drumbeat. — Big cellphone carriers such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless are famous for herding customers into long-term service contracts. Virgin specializes in prepaid plans …
Josh / Redeye VC:
Announcing FundingSleuth.com — About 10 years ago, I helped create a web service called Company Sleuth. The basic premise was that as a company conducted its business activities, it would leave a “paper trail” online. And Company Sleuth tried to find that trail by automatically searching …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
WSJ Laying Off 50 Staffers Amid Editorial Reorg; Plans To Add 95 Reporters In Coming Months — WSJ is cutting 50 editorial positions as it moves to reform editing functions across print, online and mobile, according to a staff memo written by Robert Thomson, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). paper's managing editor.
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA — The two Heathers (Hopkins and Dougherty) have both written about the growth of Twitter in the US recently, so here is some UK data on the micro-blogging service. As you can see from the chart below, the site's growth has really ramped up this year.
