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WMPoweruser.com:
New ZuneHD pictures, details — Some more ZuneHD information has trickled into our inbox, and while we do not, in general, cover PMP's, Zune seems inextricably linked with the future of Windows Mobile, so its probably a valid topic of conversation here. — From our limited information …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Piper Jaffray sales count: 22 iPhones, 28 Macs a day — One of the things that distinguishes Gene Munster's coverage of Apple (AAPL) from the other analysts who follow the company is that he actually leaves his office, goes into Apple stores, and counts sales.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Stop Me if You've Heard This One: Yahoo Management and Staff Set on Shuffle Again — Yes, more layoffs are indeed coming to Yahoo, sources confirmed to BoomTown, but perhaps even more than have been reported. — But that's not all, as even more top-level managers are either leaving …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Amazon blocks Phorm adverts scan — Amazon has said it will not allow online advertising system Phorm to scan its web pages to produce targeted ads. — Phorm builds a profile of users by scanning for keywords on websites visited and then assigns relevant ads.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
PIN Crackers Nab Holy Grail of Bank Card Security — Hackers have crossed into new frontiers by devising sophisticated ways to steal large amounts of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards, says an investigator. The attacks involve both unencrypted PINs …
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Gizmodo
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Get a Vanity URL for your Google Profile Now — You may read the full article later but first, head over to this page and claim a vanity URL for your Google Profile before someone else snatches your favorite user name. This is available to all Google Accounts that don't use a Gmail address.
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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:Google Profiles, namespace lock-in & social search
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Regular Geek
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Leaf Trombone World Stage goes live for iPhone — Forget iPhone apps promoting bands, or streaming music apps, or anything serious. The best iPhone music app ever (possibly) just debuted on the App Store. It's called Leaf Trombone World Stage, and is the work of Smule, the developer behind Ocarina.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple near ready with release of Mac OS X 10.5.7 Juno — Apple as early as this week could announce the release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, a seventh maintenance and security update to its Leopard operating system scheduled to deliver over a 100 minor tweaks and bug fixes.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Dinosaur at the Gate — Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats …
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Beyond Search
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Time Warner Cable tells FCC to shut up about net neutrality — “Now is not the time... to engage in a debate about the need for net neutrality obligations,” Time Warner Cable tells the FCC. But why not, other than the fact that TWC is taking a beating over bandwidth caps?
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Tired of the events mess on Facebook? Try Socializr — Socializr, a service that lets you organize your events online, has just released a cool new set of features that let you more easily see what events your friends are going to, and then track and manage the photos of these events.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
An Embarrassed Warner Music Regrets MySpace Music Deal — One thing is for certain - the six month old MySpace Music project is throwing off a lot of cash to the labels. That's because MySpace's 75 million or so U.S. users are streaming literally billions of songs a month.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Attack of The Frames: VideoEgg Introduces The Twig Ad Bar — Frames are definitely back. More and more Web apps like the Diggbar are using frames to overlay a thin toolbar on top of other Websites, and the practice is causing some controversy because frames are generally frowned upon as messy Web design.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Google Prepares Earnings as Microsoft and Yahoo Lurk — Google will release its first quarter earnings on Thursday against a backdrop of renewed negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft about some sort of deal to create some sort of meaningful competition for the search industry giant.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity — Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign …
Darren Waters / BBC:
Pirate Bay confident of trial win — One of the founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has said he anticipates victory in the court battle over alleged copyright theft. — Peter Sunde said: “We are quite confident we are going to win.” — Mr Sunde said the site would continue operating …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Deflating The Cloud — A new report argues that cloud computing could cost more than twice as much as a traditional IT setup. — “The cloud” has come to represent the bright future of computing, a world where processing and storage become as ubiquitous, cheap and accessible as electricity.
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Bits
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Miserable Three Months For the Magazine Business: Sales Down 20.2 Percent (at Least) — If you talked to any remotely candid magazine publisher about their performance during the first three months of this year, they'd respond with a glower and an epithet.
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Silicon Alley Insider
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Lead-Gen Provider Pontiflex Raises $6.25 Million Second Round — Lead-gen tech company Pontiflex has raised a $6.25 million second round funding. The round was led by RRE Ventures, with returning investors New Atlantic Ventures and Greenhill SAVP also participating.
John Quinn / Digg the Blog:
(Yet) Another DiggBar Update — Since we launched the DiggBar, we've received valuable feedback from the Digg community, publishers, SEO industry experts and Google. We believe that the DiggBar provides a more seamless way to discover and share content on Digg.
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Internet Ads Growing Faster Than Any Medium In History — The growth of Internet advertising through the medium's first 14 years obliterates the growth of advertising for cable and broadcast television over their first 14 years. Here's a revenue comparison in current inflation-adjusted dollars.
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Sebastian Tonkin / Google Analytics Blog:
An upcoming change to Google.com search referrals; Google Analytics unaffected — First, just a heads-up that if you don't analyze your own traffic logs, use Urchin web analytics software, or develop web analytics software, you probably don't need to read this post.
Eric Lai / LinuxWorld.com:
A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL? — Start-up offers appliance delivering high-performance data warehousing — The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising Web site. In fact, a quarter of the 12 million MySQL installations …
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eWeek
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Chief Presses for iPhone — When Randall Stephenson became AT&T Inc.'s chief executive, the company had just started offering the iPhone. The blockbuster device has since reeled in millions of new customers and helped revitalize the telecom giant's brand.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
ComScore: Facebook is conquering Europe — Facebook has become the top social network in a majority of European countries, according to analytics firm ComScore's figures for February. — That's most dramatically reflected in Spain, where Facebook's reach has grown tenfold over the course of only a year and is now in the No. 1 spot.
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Phone Arena:
LG Viewty II is on the way — First official information on the Viewty II, now also known as the Viewty Smart, has just been published by LG's official German blog! LG seems to have hired Motorola's newly announced MOTOROKR W6 as a personal trainer for the Viewty Smart …
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David Martin / CNET News:
iPhone Wi-Fi failures caused by battery heat? — iPhone Atlas has already covered a number of complaints from iPhone users about iPhone OS 2.2.1. — Frequently, faulty Wi-Fi connections were the source of these complaints. Recently, that problem has resurfaced, and one user is linking …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Newspaper Ad Revenue Could Fall as Much as 30% — NEWSPAPER advertising, already in its worst slump since the Depression, suffered by far the sharpest drop in generations during the first quarter of 2009, down 30 percent for some papers, industry executives and analysts say.
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Freddie Laker / Take me to your Leader!:
Facebook Connect + YouTube - An Interesting Mix — Coca-Cola Europe launched an interesting project for Sprite earlier this month that I think is worth noting. “Green Eyed World” is a video series revolving around a 23-year old singer from London as she looks to fulfill her dream of becoming a star.
