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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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Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Kevin Rose On iPhone 3.0: Cut/Paste, Features Equal Palm Pre — Digg's Kevin Rose is again peddling his Apple rumors, this time in regards to the upcoming 3.0 preview scheduled for this Tuesday. He was dead on last time around—can he do it again? — Now the good stuff.
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.
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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.
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,” …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Sony Pressured to Cut PlayStation Price as Developers Push More Wii Titles — Sony Corp. is under pressure from video-game publishers to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 console or risk seeing more development funds shift to Nintendo Co.'s Wii. — Sony, which has resisted calls for lower prices …
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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?) …
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Computer Makers Prepare to Stake Bigger Claim in Phones — The computer industry has hit upon its Next Big Thing. It is called a phone. — Emboldened by Apple's success with its iPhone, many PC makers and chip companies are charging into the mobile-phone business, promising new devices …
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:
Cloudera floats commercial Hadoop distro — Open source for the Google wannabe — Face it: You want to launch your own Google and get your hands on some of that (easy?) internet money. Well, now's your chance to take a stab at it. — Today, a startup called Cloudera is launching …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet Someone Who Still Wants to Invest in Startups: Founders Fund's Dave McClure — It's a whole lot harder for the startups buzzing around South by Southwest to find someone to back them than it was a year ago. A decimated Dow makes it a lot harder for people to take fliers on even the most promising startups.
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Times of India:
IBM develops a technology that will allow users to talk to web — Text: — NEW DELHI: Giving a new dimension to the internet, the Indian research arm of the US-based IT giant IBM has developed a technology that will allow users to talk to the web and create voice sites using mobile phones.
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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