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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft splits Zune team in two — Microsoft has quietly reorganized its Zune team, splitting up the hardware and software teams, CNET News has learned. — The software and services portion of the Zune team—the bulk of its staff—will be added to the portfolio of Enrique Rodriguez …
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Fred / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal — Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking. This marks the first formal public statement by Apple about its legal stance on iPhone jailbreaking.
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
First Google Chrome on Mac screenshot appears — Mac users who have been waiting patiently for the arrival of Google Chrome, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. A member of the development team has posted a screenshot of the browser in the Chrome Group.
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Pinkerton / Sucking less, on a budget:
It's Alive! — Over the last couple of months, the group working on Mac Chrome (myself included) has shifted gears from layout tests and WebKit compatibility to getting the application user interface up and limping. That also means getting the separate WebCore renderer processes to communicate over IPC to the browser.
Eric Bogs / Docs Blog:
Add, edit, sort, and filter: Improved mobile access to spreadsheets — Over a year ago, we enabled view-only access to docs from mobile devices. This has come in handy for me because I use Google Docs spreadsheets to keep track of a lot of nerdy and not-so-nerdy things in my life.
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Edit Google Docs Spreadsheets on your iPhone — Running a mobile handset with a Webkit-based browser? If so, Google has added some functionality to the Google Docs mobile view just for you. — Up until now, the interface has really only be a handy way to view your files on the go.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses — The average person likely won't even notice, but Webmasters can rejoice that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have banded together to support an unofficial standard for steering search engines in the right direction.
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WebProNews, AppScout, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Network World, Obsessable and the Econsultancy blog
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray Was a Bust — Displaying BoomTown's advanced age and elephantine cache of meaningless tech memories, after news yesterday that the software giant was plunging into the retail market, I was surprised to find little mention …
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Apple MobileMe News:
Sharing Large Files with iDisk — We're pleased to announce that you can now use your MobileMe iDisk to share files with others simply and easily. Instead of attaching a large document to an email and hoping it's not too big to be received, you can place the file in your iDisk and use the new Share File command in the iDisk web app.
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide — They're no Strunk and White, but Dom Sagolla and Adam Johnson are aiming to do for Twitter what “The Elements of Style” did for good writing on paper: outline elementary rules of usage, composition and grammar.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On — Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as a Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
700 comments tell the FTC “No DRM!” — The Federal Trade Commission's DRM conference coming up in March has already attracted 700 user comments... nearly all of them negative. Gamers currently appear to be the single most vocal group on the topic. — The Federal Trade Commission wants …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:FTC warns of “day of reckoning” for online advertisers
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Microsoft sued over charge to downgrade Vista to XP — With one major case challenging Microsoft's Windows marketing practices nearing a make-or-break juncture, another one was filed. A woman sued Microsoft in federal court in Seattle this week claiming that the company abused its monopoly power …
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Glenn Fleishman / Ars Technica:
Terabit Ethernet becomes a photonic possibility — Researchers may have found a way to break the terabit-per-second barrier by using a photonic chip made with an unusual material to pull vast amounts of data from a single fiber strand. — Researchers from Australia, Denmark …
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Mozilla Bespin tries taking coding to the cloud — Mozilla Labs on Thursday unveiled a new open-source project called Bespin, a Web-based programming environment its developers hope will combine the speed and power of desktop-based development with the collaborative benefits of cloud computing.
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Ben / Mozilla Labs:Introducing Bespin — As we strive to evolve the Open Web …
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
The micropayments argument: do we want to turn the web into Zimbabwe? — Every so often between 1995 and 2003 or so I would meet Jakob Nielsen, the web usability expert whose Nielsen/Norman Group will tell you all sorts of things you hadn't thought about over usability.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Xoopit for Firefox Integrates Facebook Status Updates with Gmail — It was just a few days ago that Facebook launched new status update APIs. Today, Xoopit is launching an update to its Xoopit for Gmail Firefox add-on that lets users set their status update and view friends' status updates from within Gmail through Facebook Connect.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM, Amazon foreshadow a bevy of connecting clouds; Is Microsoft surrounded? — If there were any lingering doubts about whether Amazon Web Services were enterprise ready they dissolved this week once IBM became a partner. And now that Amazon and IBM have teamed up a picture of multiple computing clouds is emerging.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Broadband Stimulus Package Nears Finish Line — The House and Senate held a pre-Valentine's Day love fest last night and produced a compromise stimulus package; the two houses must now approve the conference bill, after which it would be sent to the president.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route — The Pirate Bay goes on trial in Sweden this upcoming Monday, and the site's backers are ready to unleash a media juggernaut of bloggers, Twitterers, and press with the help of a city bus and a live audio stream of the entire trial.
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The Local, Times of London, Obsessable, PC World, Electricpig.co.uk and Pocket-lint.co.uk
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia, others target mobile software sales — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Technology firms like Nokia and Microsoft are rushing to open their mobile software stores, hoping to follow the runaway success of Apple's online App Store. — The focus of the cellphone market has been shifting …
Kamal DS / GadgetMix.com!:
Fresh Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots - MarketPlace by Microsoft CONFIRMED [Windows Mobile] — UPDATE: although the market place is not working yet, but its presence in the ROMs gives us an assurance that it will be available and working in the final release
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's AngelConf Teaches Would-Be Investors How To Get Started — It's no secret that Silicon Valley is teeming with wealthy tech veterans, many of whom are eager to try their hand at angel funding a few new startups. Unfortunately, the vast majority of them are put off by the logistics …
Tony Bain / ReadWriteWeb:
Is the Relational Database Doomed? — Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, “if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database”. — If that is true, then is this a sign …
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Boston Globe:
Jobs's leave not slowing development at Apple — SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. chief operating officer Tim Cook, filling in for Steve Jobs, is hinting of iPhone price changes, working on new handsets, and has “ideas” for netbook computers, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. said.
