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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Huawei Android devices hitting T-Mobile in Q3 2009? — Huawei's “look but don't touch” Android handset at Mobile World Congress last week was quite the disappointment: if it wasn't for the display around it, you'd not know what OS the device was meant to be running.
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Alex Wright / New York Times:
Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can't Grasp — One day last summer, Google's search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iTunes Concept Shows How iPhone App Management Should Have Worked From the Start — Add, delete, rate, and move—these are your app options on the iPhone. This interface concept, though, puts full app management within iTunes, and makes us wonder why it wasn't there in the first place.
PC World:
Rejected! 10 iPhone Apps That Didn't Make Apple's App Store — A ‘throw shoes at Bush’ app, a breast-jiggler, a naughty entry from the South Park guys—these are some of the iPhone apps that Apple unceremoniously denied shelf space — JR Raphael, PC World
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Start Up the Risk-Takers — Reading the news that General Motors and Chrysler are now lining up for another $20 billion or so in government aid — on top of the billions they've already received or requested — leaves me with the sick feeling that we are subsidizing the losers and for only one reason …
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:Friedman Misses the Point and Economic Reality of Silicon Valley
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
The day iTunes died? Spotify is working on a killer iPhone app — Ever since hot streaming music startup Spotify hired a director of “portable solutions” you just knew they were going to do something cool in mobile. And frankly there is no cooler place to do it right now than on the iPhone.
Stuff.co.nz:
Internet copyright law delayed — A controversial copyright law covering the internet will be delayed to see if the sector can make it workable, Prime Minister John Key said today. — The online community has been up in arms in recent weeks as the law is due to come into effect on Saturday.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
ARM's Cortex-M0 core: the lowest-power ARM chip yet for wireless devices — ARM is announcing today a new microprocessor core that can bring fast performance to even the smallest of electronic devices. — The Cortex-M0 processor core is a 32-bit chip — meaning it can process data …
Rac / ubiq_uitous communication …:
Apple wireless keyboard used with an iPhone — Here is a short video showing the interacting devices (Apple wireless keyboard, iPhone, communicating over Bluetooth) in operation. — Feels like getting closer to the “mainstreaming” goal - it uses hardware that comes of the shelf …
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Jobs Health Concerns Swirl as Apple Holds Annual Meeting Without Its CEO — Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will hold its annual meeting this week without Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, his first absence since he reclaimed leadership of the company more than a decade ago.
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Andy Pemberton / Times of London:
A load of Twitter — Feel the need to tell everyone everything you're doing all of the time? Then tweeting is for you — “Arse, poo and widdle.” With this unholy trinity of coy expletives, Stephen Fry introduced us to the joys of Twitter earlier this month. Fry was stuck in a lift and posted a “tweet” about it.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
More Consolidation In Europe: GoAdv To Acquire LeGuide.com For €50 Million — After Meetic buying the European operations of Match.com last week, here's another sign the online media landscape in Europe is changing in the face of a dire economy: pan-European online media company GoAdv …
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
6,473 Texts a Month, But at What Cost? — Constant Cellphone Messaging Keeps Kids Connected, Parents Concerned — Julie Zingeser texts at home, at school, in the car while her mother is driving. She texts during homework, after pompon practice and as she walks the family dog.
Nick Denton:
Gawker, now incorporating Defamer [Housekeeping] — It's Oscars day, a good a time as any to do this: Hollywood gossip site Defamer is being merged into Gawker, the company's flagship gossip title. The four-year-old title will continue as Gawker's entertainment column …
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