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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 …
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.
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.
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.
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?) …
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,” …
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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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The Break it Down Blog:
Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for PC-Viewers … I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I'm on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation — AUSTIN, Texas—By now, the story of how Twitter exploded onto the scene at the 2007 South by Southwest festival is legend in technology circles. — But here at SXSW 2009, the notion of the perfect match among community, service, and event seems flipped on its head.
Boing Boing Gadgets:
We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM? — You'd never guess it was there—a tiny chip, barely a millimeter square, hidden inside the headphone module on the third-gen iPod shuffle. If you dismantle the module itself, you still won't see it: it's underneath …
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
A nervous FCC announces game plan for new DTV day — Attention full power TV stations: the FCC says that you must notify viewers if your digital TV signal will reach fewer homes than the analog signal did. — The Federal Communications Commission on Friday laid out the rules for the remainder …
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 …
