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11:35 AM ET, March 4, 2009

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
That Was Fast: Kindle, Meet the iPhone.  —  Remember last month, when Amazon said that it planned to make its Kindle e-book titles available on other devices, but wouldn't say what devices, or when?  —  Now we know.  As of today, you can now read Kindle titles on your Apple iPhone (AAPL).
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Amazon.com:
Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available For Free From Apple's App Store  —  Read some on your iPhone, read some on your Kindle, customers can now synchronize their reading and enjoy over 240,000 books, including 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, on the iPhone and iPod touch
Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:
First Impressions of Kindle on iPhone  —  As I predicted in my review of Amazon.com's Kindle 2 e-book reader last week, the giant bookseller has moved quickly to make the 240,000 book Kindle catalog available on other devices.  On Tuesday night, the first Kindle software reader appeared, and it's a free iPhone app.
Discussion: Gravitational Pull
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon to Sell Books for iPhones  —  Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a program Wednesday for reading electronic books on Apple Inc.'s iPhone, extending Amazon's sales of digital books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader.  —  Amazon's software application, which can be downloaded free of charge …
Rachel Metz / Associated Press:
Amazon unveils Kindle Application for iPhone  —  NEW YORK (AP) — You may not have the latest $359 Kindle electronic book reader from Amazon.com, but if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, a new application will let you access the same content on your Apple device.
David Rothman / TeleRead:
Fallout from Kindle software for iPhone/Touch? …
Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
Palm Treo Pro for Sprint gets dated  —  The Treo Pro was supposed to launch in January on Sprint and then it was rumored to launch on the 15th of February, but that never happened either.  Then we realized the Pre was coming, so the Treo Pro didn't matter at all.
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The Official Palm Blog:
Sprint Treo Pro Available March 15
Discussion: WMExperts, InformationWeek and Engadget
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
ZillionTV, the next generation of video on demand  —  During a long career as a television and technology executive, Mitch Berman has tried to sell several different iterations of TV, often in their formative stages.  These included premium cable networks (at HBO), original cable programming …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Smart Execs Leave Before The Fall.  —  When a smart, ambitious executive who isn't the CEO leaves a company, it isn't necessarily a sign of trouble.  Sometimes that executive isn't performing all that well, or he/she wants to see if they can make it at their own startup where they call the shots.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind  —  Last month an e-mail message washed up at the offices of The Cook Islands News in the South Pacific.  It was a request to place a half-page advertisement in the newspaper, which has a circulation of 2,500.  The cost was $370.
Thanks:atul
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Why Google won't remove that page you don't like  —  (This is just a post from my personal perspective, but I hope it's helpful.)  —  Every few weeks or so, someone contacts me and says “Hey Matt, there's page out on the web about me that I really don't like.  Is there any way to remove it from Google's index?”
Discussion: Mashable!
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Setting the iPhone Free from AT&T  —  Consumer groups, small wireless carriers, and even Mozilla say all such exclusive deals are anticompetitive, and they're taking the fight to Washington  —  As the exclusive U.S. carrier for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, AT&T has had a lot to celebrate.
Discussion: Network World and MacDailyNews
Google Mobile Blog:
Finance for Android App  —  Just over a year ago, during a user experience research trip for Google Finance, we were at the home of a stay-at-home mom / day trader.  She was frustrated that there were “personal blackout periods” in the trading day when she was entirely disconnected from the stock market …
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Apple Source Confirms 50 Layoffs in Sales  —  A source in Apple's enterprise group confirmed the company had layoffs today.  Fifty salespeople lost their jobs — even as the blogosphere collectively scoffed at the idea that layoffs were happening.  —  That's not a “major” layoff, as one Valleywag tipster maintained this morning.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Sell-Out Like Gawker Media  —  Blog network Gawker Media's ad revenues are up 20% year-over-year, according to an internal memo obtained by the Poynter Institute.  Not bad, considering the recession.  —  The secret, says Gawker owner Nick Denton in the memo, has been those big …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and The Mind of Alex
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't  —  Twitter sees lucrative opportunities in search, albeit a different kind of search than what Google offers, and, as co-founder Biz Stone told Ad Age recently, “we'll certainly be exploring those.”  —  Ad Age Digital  —  DigitalNext  —  MediaWorks
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Netbook Headache May Persist as Buyers Won't Trade Up  —  Microsoft Corp., already suffering from netbook makers using older and cheaper versions of Windows, probably won't find a remedy with Windows 7.  —  Microsoft is planning to offer several editions of Windows 7 for netbooks …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Activision to Use $3 Billion Cash for Acquisitions as Targets' Prices Drop  —  Activision Blizzard Inc., with $3 billion in cash and no debt, will consider acquisitions as the recession brings down the prices of potential targets, the company's top publishing executive said.
Suzanne Tindal / ZDNET.com.au:
RIM records all employee calls  —  BlackBerry maker Research in Motion admitted yesterday that it recorded all employee conversations in the interest of maintaining control over intellectual property.  —  RIM CIO Robin Bienfait (Credit: RIM)  —  RIM chief information officer Robin Bienfait …
Electronista:
EU softens monitoring of Microsoft  —  The European Commission today said it would scale back its efforts to monitor Microsoft's compliance with a 2004 antitrust ruling that has forced the American software firm to provide code to third-party developers.  In a statement, the European Union's …
Discussion: Reuters
Elodie Bodet / Inside AdSense:
Reports have gone international  —  One of the requests we frequently hear from our international publishers is to view reports in currencies other than U.S. Dollars.  That's why we're happy to announce that publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain can now view AdSense reports in Euros.
Kentc / Kent Compton:
What would you like changed/improved in Windows Live?  —  Most people feel it is too hard to give someone at Microsoft their feedback.  I know I felt that too when I was a non-Microsoft employee (and I still feel that way as a consumer of other company's goods and services).
Discussion: LiveSide, Neowin.net and Ars Technica
BBC:
New guidelines on behavioural ads  —  The online advertising industry has launched a set of guidelines for a genre of adverts that have been causing controversy.  —  The code of practice drawn up by the Internet Advertising Bureau looks specifically at behavioural advertising.
Discussion: MarketingVOX and Reuters, Thanks:atul
JKK / jkkmobile:
Hands-on with Asus Eee PC 1008HA  —  Click to see the video
Lori Weiman / Search Engine Land:
The Armchair Sleuth: Competitive Intelligence Via Search  —  Would you like to have a heads-up any time your competitors are about ready to launch a new product?  In many cases you can get good advance warning with clever use of search.  There are specific competitive intelligence tactics that make this relatively straightforward.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'  —  Real-time microblogging and messaging services like Twitter could potentially become a threat to Google — whose search index doesn't keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter's.  So what does Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt think about Twitter?
 
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Juan Carlos Perez / Macworld:
Yahoo CEO likes Google Maps better than Yahoo Maps
Discussion: The Map Room and All Points Blog
Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg:
Reader's Digest Said to Seek Kirkland's Restructuring Advice
Discussion: PersonaNonData and paidContent.org
Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Afghan tech boom: Mullah embraces iPhone
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and digg.com
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Hack-off contestant dubs Apple Safari ‘easy pickins’
Discussion: Softpedia News
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Disney Might Build Its Own Netflix, iTunes Rival
Jim Rossignol / Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
Capcom On Digital Distribution, PC Ubiquity
Scott Duke Harris / Mercury News:
Magical ‘oo’ factor boosts Web startups
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Some tech companies rethink their outsourcing strategies
Discussion: Profy
Vince / Cuil Blog:
Rolling out a new look  —  Cuil is all about innovative techniques …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's Redesigned Fan Pages to Compete More Directly with Twitter
Ben Lorica / O'Reilly Radar:
The Fastest-Growing Category in the iTunes App Store: Books
Discussion: TheNextWeb.com, The Equity Kicker and TeleRead, Thanks:atul