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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo's Bartz and Microsoft's Ballmer Finally Talking About Search and Advertising Partnership — In early discussions that began in the last several weeks that apparently included a face-to-face meeting last week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking …
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
CompUSA Comes Back From the Dead — About three months ago, Loretta Alkalay, a retired Florida resident, wanted to get a new HDTV. So she decided to give the CompUSA near her home a try. — Yes, CompUSA. The once-bankrupt electronics retailer is making a comeback …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About Those New CrunchPad Pictures — A little background for those of you who haven't heard of the CrunchPad: This is the post that kicked off the project. I wanted something I couldn't buy, and found people who said it could be built for a lot less than I imagined.
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CloudAve, Electronista, Gearlog, GPS Obsessed, GottaBeMobile.com, Silicon Alley Insider and Incremental Blogger, Thanks:atul
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:TechCrunch Tablet makes an early debut
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Narcissistic Infarction, ArabCrunch, Liliputing, Gizmodo, The Toybox, GPS Obsessed, HipMojo.com, Gadget Lab, Incremental Blogger, Sean Percival's Blog and GottaBeMobile.com, Thanks:brickandclick
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Inserting images — Well, it's about time. You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:
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Download Squad, Mashable!, Google Blogoscoped, ChannelWeb, InformationWeek, Lifehacker, RotorBlog.com, Google Operating System, Digital Inspiration and AppScout, Thanks:atul
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How to Block the DiggBar — Last week Digg released something they call the DiggBar, which serves as both a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service. The way it works is that you just add “digg.com/” at the beginning of any URL, and Digg creates a short URL in the form of digg.com/1234.
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CenterNetworks, Leah Culver, The Blog Herald, TheNextWeb.com and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:atul
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Greg / 3 Dog Media:
Google and Digg's Secret Backroom Deal — Over the last couple of months, I've been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it's been awhile since you've attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder than you regular bloggers might imagine.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
AT&T uses Twitter during service outage — Want to find out why you suddenly don't have Internet access or cell phone service? You might want to check out the social-networking site Twitter. — It seems that Twitter was one of the main ways that phone company AT&T has been communicating …
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Between the Lines, Contentinople, eWeek, AppScout, DSLreports and Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Yelp Will Let Businesses Respond to Web Reviews — Small businesses will soon feel a little more love in their love-hate relationship with Yelp, the Web site whose users post reviews of restaurants, dry cleaners and other local businesses. — Starting next week, Yelp will let small-business owners publicly respond to reviews.
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Austin / Billions With Zero Knowledge:
Why Twitter's Next Fail Whale can be found on their Recruiting Page — I love Twitter and am fascinated by the ecosystem that Evan, Biz and the team at Twitter have created around the popular microblogging service. While many people on the sidelines are obsessed with when Twitter will make money …
Philip Lam / PreThinking:
Sprint Employees now training on the Palm Pre, Pre's Launch is Near — All the rumors and speculations of a mid-April/late April/May launch of the Palm Pre doesn't appear to be too far of a stretch. Stated in an email from Sprint, “Employees can expect training to start in April …
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple begins countdown to 1 billion iPhone apps downloaded — The countdown has begun. Apple posted a Web page on Friday counting down (or actually counting up) to the one billion app downloaded milestone on the App Store. — That's a significant goal for a couple of reasons.
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, ChannelWeb, The iPhone Blog, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
New Laptop Hunters ad proves Macs are just for children — Microsoft's latest installment in its popular series of ripped-from-the-headlines, “real America” style 'puter-buying adventures follows a mom and son duo — Lisa and Jackson. We learn during the commercial that the two need a computer which is …
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Gizmodo, BoomTown, CNET News, blogs.chron.com, Tech Beat, TechCrunch, Technologizer, LiveSide, Engadget HD, TUAW, techeblog.com and digg.com
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Sex, Lies, and Software Development — Are there any programming jobs you wouldn't take? Not because the jobs didn't pay enough, had poor benefits, or limited upside — but because the work itself made you uncomfortable? Consider the tale of one freshmeat.net writer: … That was eight years ago.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Time for an audit of Microsoft's ‘Apple Tax’ — Microsoft puts forth a ‘tax return’ showing the cost difference between a Windows PC or Mac purchase. However, CNET News' Ina Fried suggests auditors take a close look at the itemized deductions. — Microsoft is back touting the “Apple Tax” …
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eWeek, CrunchGear, Technologizer, MacDailyNews, Apple Watch, All about Microsoft, MacRumors, Electronista, AppleInsider, Ars Technica and The Windows Blog
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Casey Gotcher / AMD at Home:
AMD Fusion Media Explorer — A Better Media Experience — My name is Casey Gotcher, and this is my first official blog on AMD's behalf. I chose to wait a while, specifically to speak to this particular topic. We have been working diligently for over a year now on this product …
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Survey: 100% of Teens Want an iPod; 0% of Teens Want Any Other Player — News doesn't get much worse than this for the Zunes and Sansas of the world: a whopping 0% of surveyed teens planned on buying their devices, with 100% wanting an iPod in the coming year.
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Nathan Hodge / Danger Room:
Activist Charged for Inciting ‘Twitter Revolution’ (Updated) — A Moldovan activist faces criminal charges for organizing demonstrations that were enabled by social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook, the Russian press reports. — In an interview with Russian news agency ITAR-TASS …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Time Warner's Unlimited Download Plan: $150 a Month — Time Warner Cable has modestly softened its plan to test usage limits for its broadband data customers. Landel Hobbs, the company's chief operating officer, has just published a post with the new price tiers for a test of the plan it will conduct in four cities.
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Engadget, eWeek, Obsessable, ChannelWeb, Stop the Cap!, GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Electronista, Digital Savant and Gearlog
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Companies That Fight Click Fraud Enjoy the Downturn — Many things are down during the recession. But there's a boom in click fraud, the tricks used to make online ads seem more effective than they are. And companies that police the practice are seeing fresh business as Internet concerns seek …
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