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Alex Brooks / World of Apple:
Kevin Rose Weighs in on iPhone OS 3.0 [Update: Added Video] — Ahead of Apple's preview of iPhone OS 3.0 Kevin Rose has revealed some details that he believes will be present in the major iPhone software upgrade. — During the live Diggnation at SXSW in Austin, Texas last Rose gave details …
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9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Apple 2.0, Electronic Pulp, The iPhone Blog and Pulse2
Darren Waters / BBC:
Second generation Surface coming — A second generation of Microsoft's Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard. — Developer Joe Olsen, whose company Phenomblue writes applications for the Surface, said he had been told the device was still in the development stage.
Darren Waters / BBC:
Social networks ‘are new e-mail’ — Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard. — “We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0,” David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer said.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Yahoo Reverses Its Web Strategy With Web Videos — For Yahoo's original video strategy, this will be Take Two. — On Monday, the Web portal will announce the latest in a series of niche Web shows. The short segments about celebrity mothers, titled “Spotlight to Nightlight,” …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Adding Capacity At SXSW To Deal With iPhone Crush — AT&T (T) tells us it's adding wireless capacity in downtown Austin to deal with “unprecedented” demand (that's resulted in service that's flaky at best). This, of course, a result of thousands (tens of thousands?) …
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
HP Offers Low-Cost NonStop Servers with NS2000s — HP's new NS2000 completes the company's multicore NonStop lineup of fault-tolerant servers by giving SMEs the same high performance that larger enterprises get, but for a lower price. The move by HP is the latest by vendors looking to bring …
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The Register
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
How Two Coke Fans Brought the Brand to Facebook Fame — Soda Has Most Popular Page After President, in Collaboration Between Creators and Marketer — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Pop quiz: Who has the most popular page on Facebook? Barack Obama. Who's second? Coca-Cola.
Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Allies Square Off in a Tech Turf War — With a big product launch set for Monday, Cisco Systems Inc. is propelling the technology industry into a new era: Giant companies that once prized profitable cooperation are invading each others' turfs. — Cisco plans to announce it will start building …
Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock:
Why Tech Stocks Won't Lead The Next Bull Market — Eventually there will be another bull market, and it's always a good mental exercise to play the “what will lead the next bull market when it comes” game. Right now it's particularly tough, since everything in the economy seems so miserable.
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Peggy Orenstein / New York Times:
Growing Up on Facebook — Someone I haven't seen in decades just posted a snapshot of me on Facebook: there I am at 16, dressed in an unfortunate cowl-neck sweater, my hair cut to resemble a Semitic cotton ball. William Faulkner, I suspect, would love it — Facebook, after all, is the best evidence yet of the undead past.
Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
boxee iPhone remote app available on the App Store — took a while, but we finally got our iPhone remote app approved. — should be good news for anybody who lost their tiny Apple remote.. : ) — it is very basic, but we think it's a good start. — based on your feedback we'll add more functionality to it.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Poken: Tiny RFID thingies that share all your personal data with others — I was on the SXSW Meatbus last night and I met a charming young lady from England, Renate, who introduced me to the Poken. Poken is a tiny USB key with an embedded RFID reader/transmitter.
