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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Are Here — Google Voice, previously called Grand Central, is rolling out the first mobile apps for the service this evening. The main function of the apps is to make it easier to use your Google Voice phone number by automatically routing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Meet Google, Your Phone Company — Can Google be your phone company? The answer is yes. I came to that conclusion after I met with Vincent Paquet, co-founder of GrandCentral (a company acquired by Google) and now a member of the Google Voice team. Earlier today he stopped by our office …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents — Here's a dilemma: The guy ("Hacker Croll") who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly and sent them to us earlier today.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life:
The Twitter hack and the cloud — A leading technology blog Techcrunch said last night that it had been forwarded hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents belonging to Twitter and its employees. — The information, obtained by a hacker calling himself Hacker Croll, was first mentioned on this French blog.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Our Reaction To Your Reactions To the Twitter Confidential Documents Post
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS — To Bill Gates, Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux. — “There's many, many forms of Linux operating systems out there and packaged in different ways and booted in different ways,” Gates said in an interview with CNET News this week.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Gates: Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows too — Microsoft doesn't just want to bring gesture recognition to the Xbox with Project Natal. It also wants the technology in Windows, according to a very good source—Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. — In an interview with CNET News this week …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson — It's been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he's found plenty to keep him busy. — In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken U.S. education system, Gates has managed to fulfill a dream …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 lets developers work over WiFi (Updated) — Apple released an update to the iPhone OS 3.1 beta tonight, making the new version of the software available to registered developers. According to several developers speaking to Ars, beta 2 enables them to connect …
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Sang Tang / TUAW:IPCC tethering trick no longer works in iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2
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Brandon Sterne / Mozilla Security Blog:
Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 — Issue — A bug discovered last week in Firefox 3.5's Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler was disclosed publicly yesterday. It is a critical vulnerability that can be used to execute malicious code. — Impact
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David Marmaros / The Google Apps Blog:
Introducing Google Calendar Labs — It's hard to believe it's been more than three years since we introduced Google Calendar to the world. (It's true, I just checked my calendar.) In that time we've received countless ideas and suggestions, including many from my fellow Googlers …
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Gmail Blog:Tasks graduates from Gmail Labs
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Clay Shirky / Cato Unbound:
Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval — In his lead essay, Clay Shirky argues that the old models of journalism are broken primarily because in today's online environment, self-created publics can parse the news however they like. The biggest failure of journalism in the online age is the failure …
Bing / Search Blog:
BingTweets Debuts — As part of our ongoing efforts to explore options in real-time search, we've partnered with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets which fuses Bing search results and real time content from Twitter in an interesting new interface.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
YouTube pulls audio from greatest music video ever — This is really quite sad. — Citing copyright concerns, YouTube has deleted the audio from a hosted video that depicts the Internet meme “Keyboard Cat” showing up in a vintage TV after-school special and then embedded in the foreground …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Breaking News Online: How One 19-Year Old Is Shaking Up Online Media — Michael van Poppel used to be like a lot of young people, trawling the internet for interesting news about the world. Just like many others have considered doing, he created a place where he could post the most interesting news he finds, as fast as he can.
BBC:
Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf — The latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK. — Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.
Canadian Press:
Most Canadians support reasonable Internet traffic management, poll suggests — OTTAWA — Most Canadians support the idea of Internet traffic management as long as all users are treated fairly, a new poll suggests. — The Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll found only about one in five …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Behind the scenes at Twitter — Twitter is the hottest internet startup on the planet. Over the last few months, the messaging service it provides has morphed from a social networking tool into an instrument of revolution. So what's life like for the 52 employees at its San Francisco headquarters?
Matt Brezina / Xobni Blog:
Announcing Xobni Plus - Xobni's most powerful Outlook search tool ever — When we ask Xobni users why they love Xobni they say a lot of really nice things, but a universal truth is that our users love Xobni search. Here's just a sample of the comments we see on Twitter:
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Amazon sued for cracking Kindles, $5-plus million sought in class action — You've heard about cracking open a book, but how about cracking open a Kindle? — Apparently this is happening to some owners of Amazon.com's electronic book who also bought the optional, $30 protective cover …
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Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
Hands-on: Samsung Highlight for T-Mobile — Perhaps it's the die-hard QWERTY keyboard purist in me, but I don't see how these tiny touchscreen phones are viable options these days. Look at the size of the screen on the Samsung Highlight compared to that of the iPhone and G1.
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Steve Ballmer Shouts, ‘Microsoft Will Keep On Coming’ — Steve Ballmer's extra-large mocha, triple-shot frap must have kicked in at just the right time. Microsoft's chief executive put on one of his classic, chest-thumping performances on Tuesday for attendees gathered at the company's partner conference in New Orleans.
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The Register:
Chrome OS: Windows killer? — Or will it just leave smudgy fingermarks? — Google's announcement last week concerning its plans to bring out a fully fledged operating system was inevitably going to put the cat amongst the twitterati. “Let's see,” asked the pundits, “who else makes operating systems?”
Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Stop worrying, Hollywood - nobody is stealing your films with mobiles — Why are movie studios so concerned at reviewers pirating movies when the data on the mobiles they are asked to hand over is much more sensitive - and poorly protected? — Let's talk about hypothetical risks.
Oliver Marks / Collaboration 2.0:
Sex Positive Socializing Online Arrives — If you're ‘textually active’ online looking for relationships on social networking and dating sites, finally you have a new option. Despite all the hoopla around the brave new world of Facebook, match.com et al, it's actually the same old industrial scale meat market for most people.
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Kindle For Every Schoolkid Proposed, We Strongly Recommend At Least 1 Calculator — The “New” Democratic Leadership Council in Washington has proposed that the government buy a Kindle or other “eTextbook” for each of the 56 million K-12 schoolchildren in America. It's a nice sentiment, but as a plan, it's holey.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Not That It Matters... But Appeals Court Rejects Webcasters' Challenge Over Copyright Royalties — Last week, we noted that the DC Appeals court had rejected a challenge to the Copyright Royalty Board's rates set for satellite radio. Michael Scott notes that the same court has also rejected the challenge to webcasting rates.
