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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Regarding the WSJ's Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant — [This piece combines into a single narrative and expands upon three shorter pieces I posted immediately after this news broke Friday night.] — Friday night around midnight, The Wall Street Journal published a report headlined …
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Is This Steve Jobs's Memphis Mansion? … Could this 7,500 square foot mansion at 36 Morningside Place in Memphis be Steve Jobs's new mansion? — Jobs has reportedly bought a large residence in Memphis after receiving a liver transplant in March at one of the city's hospitals.
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features — Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it's just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release. — UPDATE: A previous version of this list …
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Wall Street Journal:
Iran's Web Spying Gets Western Aid — European Gear Used in Vast Effort to Monitor Communications — By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS in New York and LORETTA CHAO in Beijing — The Iranian regime has quietly developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies …
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Deborah Yao / Associated Press:
FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments — Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products and services, scouring through comments from everyday Joes and Janes to help them find a gem or shun a lemon. — What some fail to realize, though …
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Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Apple Issuing $30 iTunes Store Credit For iPhone 3GS/AT&T Activation Snafu — Following iPhone 3GS/AT&T activation delays that were in some cases 48 hours long, Apple has allegedly responded with a $30 “We're sorry” gift that will be good at the iTunes Store on Monday.
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New York Times:
Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone — SAN FRANCISCO — On a PC, having to fill out a form and type in a credit card number to buy something is only mildly annoying. On a cellphone, it could make you want to skip the purchase entirely. — This is why investors …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Click Fraud Enraging Advertisers (Updated) — Facebook has a big revenue target this year - $550 million, according to investors who were pitched in the last round of funding. That's nearly twice 2008 revenues of $280 million. — A big part of that revenue comes …
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User the Books He's Bought and Paid For — Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the following story is ridiculous. — Basically, the way Kindle and the Kindle iPhone app are set up today, users have no idea how many times they can download a book …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
It Really Should Have Been Called The iPhone 3G V - For Video — Disclosure: I have not bought an iPhone 3G S — I'm still unsure if I will. Apple gave me a review unit to play with for 60 days. — So, I've now had a full day with the latest iPhone, the 3G S. So far, so good.
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Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Google Opens Up Digital-Education Portal — With Agencyland, Search Giant Hoping Shops Will Be Hot for Teacher — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google has spent a lot of time in the past few years trying to quell fears it's out to disintermediate advertising agencies.
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The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien:
Twitter Tracker Returns! — The Tonight Show Twitter Tracker is back now with extra bird bacon!
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Twitter Diplomacy — The U.S. State Dept. is enlisting Silicon Valley companies such as Google and Twitter to help bring high tech to Iraq and Afghanistan — Watch the Video... “Sorry, my first tweet not pleasant; dust storm in Baghdad today & yet another suicide bomb. awful reminder that it is not yet all fine here.”
