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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Mania: Google Got Shut Down. Apple Rumors Heat Up. — Twitter! Whether you use it or not, or understand it or not, it's the hottest thing in Silicon Valley right now. It's brought up in every conversation. And no wonder - the service has exploded to somewhere north …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ignore the Twitter Buyout Rumors: Here Are the Facts in Five Beyoncé-Madonna-Approved Steps — Was it more than a month ago that Google was rumored to be in “late-stage negotiations to acquire Twitter”? — Not so much late-stage, I guess, with a gestation period that seems interminable …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft sends second wave of layoff notices to 3,000 — Microsoft on Tuesday notified more than 3,000 workers that it was eliminating their jobs. — The software maker said in January that it would cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. It made 1,400 cuts at the time.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Ballmer's layoff mail to the troops fails to rule out more cuts
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Windows 7 Fail — Windows 7 RC is out today. — This is great news. — Because surely by now they've fixed Windows Explorer. — You see, in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, Explorer used to Hide extensions for known file types. And virus writers used this “feature” …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is here! — As we previously announced, today the Windows 7 RC is now available for anyone interested in giving it a spin! Typically, a release candidate is the last development milestone before release to manufacturing (RTM), signifying that engineering …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
RSS readers modeled after email clients are fundamentally broken — Farhad Manjoo has an article on Slate entitled Kill your RSS reader which captures a growing sentiment I've had for a while and ranted about during a recent panel at SXSW. Below are a few key excerpts from Farhad's article that resonate strongly with me
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Rest in Peace, RSS — It's time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn't cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it's not worth swimming in if you get my drift. — I haven't been in Google Reader for months.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 Firmware Taking Better Pictures than 2.2.1? — The iPhone's camera resolution leaves much to be desired, but there's more to image quality than just resolution. And according to one series of tests, the firmware 3.0 is taking better photos than its predecessor.
David / TmoNews:
Visual Voicemail Coming! — Well I bet at least a few of you will be more than interested in getting your hands on this feature and while the above picture lacks any real detail, an approaching release date is interesting enough. Visual voicemail is a feature the iPhone popularized …
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
The Webby Awards Remain the Best Scam Going — For a dozen years, the Webby Awards have tried to make the Web glamorous. But what they've really done is distill the hucksterism of the Internet into its purest form. — Among the inside crowd, the Webby Awards were always a joke …
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Julie Rivera / Crave: The gadget blog:
Behind-the-scenes Palm Pre advert leaked...and stars Facebook? — We've already seen Palm and Apple clash when it comes to print advertisements, but now details of what could be the first Pre TV advertisement have leaked. Photographer and film maker Jaime Gonzalez had been tweeting …
Jim Spanfeller / paidContent.org:
What Google Can Do To Make The Web Less Of A ‘Cesspool’ — Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. — After years of debate about the value of the near monopoly owned …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Rumored Microsoft 3D Wii killer: we think we played with it — The rumors, leaked images, and speculation are only going to get worse as we move closer to E3, and now it's Microsoft's turn to bear the scrutiny of the gaming press. A report making the rounds, along with a “leaked” …
Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore:
Report: Water-Damaged iPhones Now Swappable — Careless iPhone owners who have flipped their handset into a swimming pool-or glass of beer-can now reportedly save themselves the expense of purchasing a new handset under a new Apple store policy allowing the replacement of a liquid-damaged handset for $199.
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Etan Horowitz / Etan on Tech:
AT&T releases iPhone app to help you track minutes and manage your account — File this iPhone app under “What took them so long?” — AT&T, the exclusive wireless carrier of Apple's iPhone, has just released “AT&T myWireless,” a free iPhone application that lets you view and pay your bill …
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Evidence points to 3G radios in MacBooks, Tablets? — From the rumor mill to the evidence mill.... I heard from an Apple source last month that Apple laptops were going to get a slight update this summer. There was speculation that update might be a 3G wireless radio added to MacBooks.
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Rachael King / Business Week:
Hungry for iPhone Business Apps — The iPhone is gaining wider acceptance at companies, but the selection of useful business apps is still paltry — David Lin is traveling lighter for business lately. Ever since the software marketing exec bought an iPod Touch, he's often able to leave his notebook computer behind.
Mckt / skeptikal.org:
Epic Failure from McAfee — When you outsource all your PCI scanning to another company, you'd expect that company to be careful with your data. First off, there's the fact that security is what they do- if that data were to get leaked, you'd expect the damage to reputation alone to be crippling.
Will Oremus / Mercury News:
Facebook to vacate downtown Palo Alto in May 14 move — Facebook's long-planned move to new headquarters in the Stanford Research Park will begin May 14, the company said Monday. — The social networking firm's new home will bring together all of its more than 850 local employees …
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
McAfee: New botnets dwarf Conficker threat — The Conficker worm, which has sent off many a recent security alarm bell, may just be a small fry, compared to the growing number of botnets, viruses, and worms infecting cyberspace. — According to a report released on Tuesday from security vendor McAfee …
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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
announcing the boxee app dev challenge — the new boxee API enables developers to build and publish apps for boxee users. while people are working on a variety of boxee apps, we thought it would be a good idea to provide some extra incentive for the developers.
Code Android Singapore:
Leaked Image of G3 aka HTC Hero Surfaced — An anonymous reader sent us these photos of the G3, aka as the HTC Hero, that will be released probably in Q3 this year. This device look very similar to the HTC Magic in terms of the form factor and possibly slightly slimmer …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
IBM in Post-Sun Rebound Acquisition — Looks like IBM found another use for some of the $6.5 billion it had considered using to acquire Sun (JAVA). This morning the company said it is acquiring Exeros, a data relationship discovery company that it plans to roll into into its business analytics unit.
BBC:
US needs ‘digital warfare force’ — The head of America's National Security Agency says that America needs to build a digital warfare force for the future, according to reports. — Lt Gen Keith Alexander, who also heads the Pentagon's new Cyber Command, outlined his views in a report for the House Armed Services subcommittee.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Antitrust inquiry: How Apple and Google compete — Given the looming presence of Microsoft (MSFT) on the PC desktop, we tend to think of Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) as corporate best friends united by a common enemy. — But the news Monday night that the U.S. government has opened …
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