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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
What May Be Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches — Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing on Apple's latest smartphone may stem from an Infineon chip. A fix is on the way — Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple's iPhone 3G have sparked a wave of debate in the blogosphere over the root cause of the problems.
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Changes for Some SMS Users—Good and Bad News — Let's start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number. If you have been receiving SMS updates from Twitter via +44 762 480 1423, you'll notice that they've stopped and you may want to explore …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:Twitter cuts UK SMS - there goes another business model
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 — Est. $825K Sales In First Week — Console game developers — people who make games for the Xbox, PlayStation, etc. — have mostly been big companies — EA, Activision, etc. — because of the high cost of game development and retail distribution.
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Nancy Gohring / Network World:
Facebook faces class-action suit over Beacon — A class-action suit filed in California charges Facebook and a handful of other companies, including Blockbuster, Fandango and Overstock, with violating online privacy and computer fraud laws related to Facebook's controversial Beacon system.
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:Facebook Faces Class Action Suit Over Beacon Ad System
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Markus Jakobsson / Markus Jakobsson's blog:
What is worse than reusing passwords? — 9 I like it! — Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do - whether you know it or not. — The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Intel releases USB 3.0 controller interface spec — Intel has provided chipset makers with a draft specification for a USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Interface (XHCI), making good a promise it made a couple of months ago. — According to the chip giant, the XCHI will allow chipset makers …
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Twitter joins the Olympics, as a Chinese journalist cries out for help — There seems to be some grassroots support for the idea of an emergency broadcast system on the micro-messaging service Twitter, at least from people who have emergencies to broadcast.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T Mulls Watching You Surf — AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. — While the company said it hadn't tested …
Christopher Price / PhoneNews.com:
MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Penryn, More Power — PhoneNews.com can confirm that Apple is preparing to release an new revision of the MacBook Air. While that in and of itself is not a surprise to many, we can confirm some of the specifications of the unit. — Much of the MacBook Air's external design will not change.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software — SAN FRANCISCO — A legal dispute involving model railroad hobbyists has resulted in a major courtroom victory for the free software movement also known as open-source software. — In a ruling Wednesday, the federal appeals court …
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Alex Davis / Courier-Journal:
Courier-Journal to lay off about 15, leave other jobs vacant — The Courier-Journal will lay off about 15 employees and leave other positions vacant as part of a broader cost-cutting move by the newspaper's parent, Gannett Co., the newspaper announced today.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Psystar ‘Definitely Still Shipping’ Mac Clones — In further defiance of Apple, Psystar also this week said it is making Leopard OS restore disks available to its customers. — In the latest sign that it has no intention of backing down in its copyright dispute with computing giant Apple …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
One month later: Google Lively? Not so much — In July, Google released Lively, a “Second Life in the browser” plug-in that lets anyone embed a basic 3D chat realm on a website or blog. We strolled through Google's new social world back then and found that, possibly as a result of the …
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
Wanted: Writers for D.C. tech lobby group, secrecy mandatory — Mel King is a Boston-area community organizer locally famous for a housing sit-in, an almost-successful mayoral campaign, and the South End Technology Center, which provides low-cost computer training.
Vancouver Sun:
Radical layoffs at Radical Entertainment — Marke Andrews and Fiona Anderson , Vancouver Sun — VANCOUVER — Vancouver video game company Radical Entertainment will be laying off about 100 employees, almost half of its staff, the company confirmed Wednesday.
