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The Official Google Blog:
Google's newest venture — Today we're excited to announce Google Ventures, Google's new venture capital fund. This is Google's effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies. By borrowing the best practices of top-tier …
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Wales giving up on Wikia Search — Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users. — Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Skype works on AT&T's 3G on iPhone 3.0 — We just found something very interesting. When you install Skype on a 3.0 developer preview iPhone, you can use AT&T's connection to make and receive calls. It even works pretty well over EDGE. Skype treats AT&T's WWAN like a Wifi connection.
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Rik Ferguson / Counter Measures:
Poisoned Downad/Conficker Removal Searches... Reminder: For a FREE tool to remove Conficker (and every other malware in the current pattern file) use Trend Micro's SysClean available here. — As soon as the good news breaks that it is possible to use tools such as the network scanning tool nmap …
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Chris Davies / Android Community:
Android tethering apps pulled from Market — Google has reportedly pulled tethering apps from the Android Market. According to at least one developer, who contributed to the WiFi Tether for Root Users app, Google are citing their distribution agreements with carriers as the prompt for removal:
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Dan Reed / USA Today:
American to add Wi-Fi service to domestic flights — Being online while being airborne is fast becoming reality for U.S travelers. — American Airlines (AMR) is announcing on Tuesday that it's joining rival Delta Air Lines (DAL) in making Wi-Fi Internet connections available to most domestic passengers.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Gains Support for Next Generation of Windows® Phones — EA Mobile, MySpace and Isaac Mizrahi are among early supporters of Windows® phones; new Windows® phone applications are now available. — Furthering its vision to connect the PC, Web and phone …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace partners, tweaked policies …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Postini: Spam up again following McColo takedown — It has taken spammers only four months to get their botnets back up after hosting company McColo Corp. was shut down, according to statistics due to be released on Tuesday from Google's Postini e-mail security provider.
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John Koller / PlayStation.Blog:
PlayStation 2 Will Be Available for Under $100 — Hi everyone, the last time you heard from me, I talked about the huge milestone that PlayStation 2 achieved - reaching 50 million units sold in North America. Today I'm excited to talk about another milestone in PlayStation 2's lifespan.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Pirates Board Apple's iPhone App Store — The iPhone's App Store is becoming an increasingly juicy target for pirates, who have illegally cracked 20 percent of paid applications for free distribution. — Apple's App Store offers about 25,000 paid apps, and iPhone analytics company Medialets estimates …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Next up for Microsoft's ‘real life’ Windows star: 7-Eleven ads — After setting the tech world abuzz with her criticism of Apple's Mac prices, the star of Microsoft's latest Windows ad will be featured next in promotional videos for 7-Eleven, according to a public Web site where she chronicles her burgeoning acting career.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Analyst: 32GB iPhone could debut in June — Updated at 9:15 a.m. PDT with comments from analyst Daniel Amir. — Apple is expected to begin production on a high-end iPhone with 32GB of flash memory and a low-end 3G version this spring, according to a research report released Tuesday by Lazard Capital Markets analyst.
Jacob Gube / Smashing Magazine:
Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked — Smashing Magazine tries to be at the forefront of new and exciting developments in the wide world of the web. You might have heard that we met with the IE 8 Chief Strategist in the past, so it should come as no surprise that we like to keep …
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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Authors have lost the plot in Kindle row — Amazon's Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature is not so much violating authors' copyright but rather basic consumer rights — The Amazon Kindle 2's release in February was attended by much fanfare and controversy: Kindle customers were delighted …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace, Citysearch Partner To Create MySpace Local — MySpace and Citysearch are jointly announcing a new MySpace property this morning called MySpace Local. The site combines Citysearch business listings (including address, photos, menus, videos, maps and hours of location) from a thousand cities with the MySpace community.
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Hulu Attracts Crowds but Not Ads — News Corp.-NBC joint venture Hulu has surged in viewership, but advertisers are still leery, and content partners are pulling back — In the Super Bowl commercial calling Hulu “an evil plot to destroy the world,” 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin intones: “There's nothing you can do to stop it.”
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
New method for detecting Conficker discovered, debuted — With Conficker.C slowly counting down towards its April 1 launch date, Team White Hat may have had a breakthrough. The new scanning tool developed by Dan Kaminsky, Felix Leder, and Tillman Werner may not actually remove the malware …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Forbes Starts a Second Round of Layoffs; Who Else Will Join It? — Forbes Media has begun a new round of layoffs and will let go of more than 50 people on its editorial and business teams, I'm told. The cuts are roughly proportional to the ones the business publication made in November …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
What's the Password? Only Your iPhone Knows — A few weeks ago, I wondered if people would start to use their cellphones to verify their identities when logging on to Internet sites. I imagined a phone application similar to RSA's SecurID, the small gizmo many corporations issue to employees …
Eric Ward / Search Engine Land:
Twitter: Incredibly Valuable Or Utterly Useless As A Link Building Tool? — I've read so many articles lately about Twitter, from mainstream press to the sports world to the SEO world, that all seem to focus on the “phenomena” aspect of it. After the Twittles (Twitter+Skittles) thing happened, it was like a dam bursting.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Troubled SeeqPod Files For Bankruptcy Protection — SeeqPod, the popular “playable media” search service that many music sites use as the foundation for their core offering, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 yesterday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of California.
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
The Twitting Point — Bill O'Reilly has the last word on Twitter for today. He thinks the Twitterati is crushing talk radio, by sucking up all our listener time. He thinks that's bad; I hope he's right and it drives Rush out of business. It won't drive The View out of business …
