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4:08 AM ET, March 18, 2009

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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know  —  iPhone 3.0 OS, the next generation operating system for the iPhone, iPod touch, and whatever Apple device comes next.  New features, new apps, here you will find all the information you need.  —  NEW IPHONE OS 3.0 FEATURES
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos  —  Developers late Tuesday evening are downloading a widely distributed beta of Apple's new iPhone 3.0 software, installing it on their handsets, and weighing in with some first impressions and screen shots, all of which follow.
Discussion: iLounge and The iPhone Blog
Apple:
Apple Previews Developer Beta of iPhone OS 3.0  —  Beta Release Provides New SDK, Over 1,000 APIs & 100 New Features  —  Apple® today previewed its iPhone™ OS 3.0 software and announced the immediate availability of a beta software release to registered developers.
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Apple Puts Onus On AT&T For 3G Tethering, Confirms Hardware Support
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iPhone finally gets copy and paste!
Discussion: Gizmodo and Apple 2.0
Jason Toff / Google Chrome Blog:
Google Chrome has a new beta  —  Since we took the “beta” tag off Google Chrome in December, we've been updating two release channels: developer and stable.  With our latest release, we're re-introducing the beta channel for some early feedback — and if you're reading the brand new Google Chrome blog …
InfoWorld:
Sun challenges Amazon for cloud dominance  —  Move over, Amazon.  The leading provider of cloud services is about to get some serious competition from Sun Microsystems, which made its entrance into cloud computing Wednesday with plans to offer compute and storage services built on Sun technologies, including OpenSolaris and MySQL.
Jared M. Spool / UIE:
The Magic Behind Amazon's 2.7 Billion Dollar Question  —  Since its release in 2007, the last volume of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has garnered 3,286 reviews from Amazon.com customers.  While response has been overwhelmingly positive for the book …
Thanks:atul
John Schwartz / New York Times:
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up  —  Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge's instructions and centuries of legal rules.
Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
Breaking News: CIO Vivek Kundra is Back on the Job [updated]  —  Vivek Kundra, the federal government's new Chief Information Officer, has been spotted at his desk, doing his job.  We're hearing that his temporary leave of absence, in the wake of last week's arrest of two individuals individuals running …
corporate.discovery.com:
Discovery Communications Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Amazon.com  —  (Silver Spring, Md.) Discovery Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) today filed a patent infringement suit against Amazon.com, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Fail You Can't Blame Twitter For: ABC's McCain Interview  —  Inevitably, as Twitter bubbles up higher and higher into the mainstream, we're going to see more misguided stunts like these: George Stephanopoulos of Disney's ABC News (DIS) interviewing Senator John McCain today, using the newfangled technology.
Discussion: eWeek and CNET News
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
30 million iPhones sold — now that's a game platform  —  With more than 29 million Xbox 360s on the market, no one debates whether Microsoft has succeeded in creating a viable video game platform anymore.  Developers have flocked to it.  —  Now Apple has proven that its mobile platform is just as solid.
Discussion: AppleInsider
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Facebook Co-Founder Joins General Catalyst  —  Chris Hughes has more professional accomplishments at 26 year-old than most of us will have in a lifetime.  He helped co-found Facebook, before leaving in 2007 to help the fledgling Obama campaign launch an online media strategy.
Discussion: Fast Company, TechCrunch, Jobwire and Gawker, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Government 2.0 Meets Catch 22  —  “Do I need to P.I.A. Facebook?” said the perplexed bureaucrat squished into a narrow basement hotel conference room in Washington DC.  —  P.I.A. stands for Privacy Impact Assessment, a procedure that federal agencies must go through every time they create a new computer system.
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry 9630 Hands-On Hardware First Look!  —  A CrackBerry.com Hands-On First Look at the BlackBerry “Niagara” 9630...  The Full Qwerty BlackBerry CDMA Carriers & Users Have Been Waiting For!  —  Didn't we say when it rains it pours?  As you likely surmised from the previously leaked images …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Privacy Group Asks F.T.C. to Investigate Google  —  The Electronic Privacy Information Center formally asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to investigate the privacy and security safeguards of Gmail, Google Docs and other so-called cloud computing services offered by Google to consumers.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Why Microsoft continues with search: it's still not solved  —  Ars learns a little more about Microsoft's strategy for search thanks to a chat with Stefan Weitz, one of the members of the Live Search team.  —  I recently had the pleasure of having a long discussion with Stefan Weitz …
Discussion: The Noisy Channel, Thanks:thecomicproject
Iomega:
Iomega Announces New Features for StorCenter ix2 NAS Appliance For Home and Small Business Users Remote Access, Torrent Download and Many More New Features Without Compromising Heralded Ease-Of-Use  —  Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a global leader in data protection …
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
How to Tweet Your Way Out of a Job  —  I saw this exchange on Twitter, which is a painful lesson in how NOT to use Twitter in this tough economy.  —  A lucky job applicant tweeted the following: … This tweet caught the attention of Tim Levad, a channel partner advocate for Cisco.
Thanks:atul
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd  —  Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications …
Thanks:omfut
Sophos:
Credit card skimming malware targeting ATMs  —  From time to time, because they know I work for SophosLabs, my friends ask me about different malware types and forward me warnings of alleged malware outbreaks, which often turn out to be just standard hoax emails.
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale?  —  The Internet economy has been built on the network effect (i.e. the effect that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product for other people).  Investors and entrepreneurs have treated this like Moore's Law.
Thanks:atul
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
IE 8, Silverlight 3 on tap for Microsoft's Mix  —  A correction was made to this story.  See below for details.  —  The expected release of Internet Explorer 8 is likely to be the biggest headline out of Microsoft's Mix conference this week, though the company is likely to spend at least …
Discussion: Ars Technica
 
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Google Picks UK Sales Head Woodside To Replace AOL-Bound Armstrong
Rina Chandran / Reuters:
India leaders blog, text to plug in to young voters
Byron Acohido / USA Today:
Website-infecting SQL injection attacks hit 450,000 a day
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Google advertising appearing in iPhone applications [confirmed]
Discussion: Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul
Reuters:
Expedia shares gain on Google takeover talk
Discussion: TechFlash, Thanks:mrinaldesai
 Earlier Items: 
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
He's Baaaaaack: Steve Case Reemerges at AOL
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Webware Radar: Alltop launches personal pages
Discussion: TUAW, Download Squad and ReadWriteWeb
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple issues Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter Firmware Update
Sydney Morning Herald:
Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
Todd Hoff / High Scalability:
Are Cloud Based Memory Architectures the Next Big Thing?
Discussion: Soaring on Ridgelift, Thanks:atul
John Markoff / New York Times:
Computer Science Programs Make a Comeback in Enrollment
Discussion: Ars Technica and Maximum PC all
 

 
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