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4:45 PM ET, July 15, 2009

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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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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted  —  About a month ago, an administrative employee here at Twitter was targeted and her personal email account was hacked.  From the personal account, we believe the hacker was able to gain information which allowed access to this employee's Google Apps account …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Our Reaction To Your Reactions To the Twitter Confidential Documents Post  —  Wow, that's quite a reaction to our post earlier this evening saying that we will publish some of the confidential Twitter documents we've been forwarded.  Nearly 200 comments in a little over an hour, mostly saying we shouldn't publish.
Michael Eisenberg / Seeking Alpha:
Twitter Theft: It's Really All About Google  —  Lost in the brouhaha Michael Arrington stirred up on Techcrunch about the ethics of posting to Techcrunch the documents stolen by a hacker from Twitter, is a most important nugget that Arrington brings out in the comments:
Discussion: Screenwerk
Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life:
The Twitter hack and the cloud
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Financial Forecast Shows First Revenue In Q3, 1 billion users in 2013
Thanks:gsharma
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 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.
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 …
The Official Google Blog:
Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android  —  It's been an exciting few months since we announced Google Voice.  The feedback from early users has been terrific, and the requests for invites have been flowing in.  We started sending invites a few weeks ago and will keep sending them daily.
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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:
Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Are Here
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing  —  It has begun.  With the release of iTunes 8.2.1 (via TiPb), gut46 tells us, Palm Pre syncing with iTunes is indeed kaput.  At least on this Pre user's Mac, iTunes sync isn't working after the 8.2.1 update.  * According to Apple's surprisingly forthcoming release notes:
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
iTunes 8.2.1 available, kills sync with Palm Pre
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Now Connecting 250 Million People  —  As of today, 250 million people are using Facebook to stay updated on what's happening around them and share with the people in their lives.  The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us, and it affirms that people everywhere are realizing …
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Getting Noticed on the iPhone App Store  —  In a megastore as big as Apple's iPhone App Store, the secret to success is getting noticed.  With more than 65,000 apps in 20 categories, app developers have come up with different strategies to accomplish that.  —  Infomedia
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Dirty Little Secret of Apple's App Store
Discussion: mocoNews
Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Big game publishers muscle in on iPhone's upstarts
Discussion: AppleInsider, PC World and I4U News
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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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability ‘self-inflicted,’ says scientist
Discussion: BetaNews, Mashable! and Security Fix
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple may extend antiglare display option to more Macs  —  Apple made a bold move roughly two years ago to begin transitioning its entire Mac product line away from matte displays and towards glass-enclosed glossy ones, but the company may be nearing a concession that these shiny, highly-reflective screens may not be for everyone.
Discussion: Ars Technica, MacRumors and Engadget
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 …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to open retail stores near Apple's this fall  —  Microsoft is planning to open the first of its planned retail stores next to existing Apple stores this fall.  —  Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners the news during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote on July 15.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Podcasting News
David Martin / CNET News:
Apple cops to OS 3.0 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth problems  —  A rash of Wi-Fi connectivity and signal strength complaints have cropped up after Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 software update.  Some users complain that their iPhones and iPod Touches drop from Wi-Fi unexpectedly; others that they can't connect to the Internet at all.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Onion Said To Be Negotiating Sale  —  The Onion this month told staff that resisting advertiser pressure is a “losing game.”  But it seems the humor publication isn't just keen to sell its soul to sponsors; we hear The Onion is talking about selling everything.
Discussion: CNET News
Laura June / Engadget:
ASUS Eee PC T91 review  —  We've had our eye on ASUS' first full touchscreen tablet netbook, the Eee PC T91, since way back in January, when the hardware was on display while the software had yet to appear.  Since then, we've seen quite a lot of the T91, and now it's finally making its way onto the US retail market.
Josh Cohen / European Public Policy Blog:
Working with News Publishers  —  Last week, a group of newspaper and magazine publishers signed a declaration stating that “Universal access to websites does not necessarily mean access at no cost,” and that they “no longer wish to be forced to give away property without having granted permission.”
abovethecrowd.com:
Bill Gurley On The “Free” Business Model  —  Filed under: Internet, Venture Capital, Web/Tech, advertising, online video, video |  I have been intrigued by the back and forth between Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, and Mark Cuban on the topic of “Free” as a strategy and business model.
IHS:
PayPal shuts us down  —  I had a subscription system running under WP-MEMBER for about a year before that software flaked out on me.  Multiple domains caused problems that were irreconcilable.  I had donations for our work in Africa coming in (not through wp-member) and a few hundred subscribers to Informer through wp-member.
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 …
 
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Kevin Anderson / Guardian:
How Craigslist turned small ads into big business
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Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Zookz: A license to infringe?
Discussion: Techdirt and AppScout
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Yahoo Develops Mobile Opt Out
Warren Lee / AdAge:
What Sunk Veoh and Joost? Too Much Cash Too Soon
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Sluggish sales of 1.8-inch drives may signal end to iPod classic
Discussion: iPodNN and I4U News
 Earlier Items: 
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA: Tenenbaum “fair use” defense is laughable
Discussion: PlagiarismToday
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why The Story That Bloggers Are A Few Hours Behind Mainstream Press Is Wrong
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Would You Pay for Advanced Email Search? Xobni Thinks You Will
Discussion: Tech Beat
The Register:
Chrome OS: Windows killer?
Canadian Press:
Most Canadians support reasonable Internet traffic management, poll suggests
Discussion: CBC News and p2pnet
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iTunes goes retro with digital 45s
Discussion: Switched
New York Times:
A New World: Scheduling E-Books
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
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