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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack — The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected.
James Altucher / Wall Street Journal:
The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment) — I can live all day inside the Internet. I can talk to my friends, listen to music, watch TV, trade stocks, play games, do work - all on the Internet. From 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day I can spend on the Internet and it would be a day well spent.
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Fred / A VC:
The Internet Is Alive And Well (As An Investment) — James Altucher penned a column in today's WSJ titled The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment). James is a fund manager and well read columnist on investing and he is entitled to his opinion. He puts his money where his mouth is.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Kevin Rose Not Pleased With DiggBar Change — Earlier today we reported on a change in how Digg handles URL redirects from its URL shortening service called DiggBar. Users of the service are not happy - links are now sometimes going to Digg's summary of the story instead of the story itself.
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Jd Rucker / Social News Watch:
Did Digg Just “Bait & Switch” Twitter Users? — UPDATE: Let Digg know how you feel through Twitter. Send an @digg via @socialnews reply and your tweets will be posted here as well. — Either there's an error happening with Diggbar or Digg just made a big mistake.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Could Apple really dictate iPhone terms to Verizon Wireless? — The bricks just keep being thrown through AT&T's reputation window. — This time, TechCrunch's MG Siegler has an entertaining rant on how Apple needs to dump AT&T and put the iPhone on Verizon Wireless.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Why Japan's Cellphones Haven't Gone Global — TOKYO — At first glance, Japanese cellphones are a gadget lover's dream: ready for Internet and e-mail, they double as credit cards, boarding passes and even body-fat calculators. — But it is hard to find anyone in Chicago or London using …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: AOL's Armstrong First 100 Days: ‘People Are Missing The Real AOL Story’ — Sixteen cities in ten countries, from Baltimore to Bangalore, Denver to Dublin. 26 Town Hall and All Hands meetings. 71 product reviews. 51 partner/customer meetings. The numbers charting Tim Armstrong's 100 …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Software Engineering: Dead? — I was utterly floored when I read this new IEEE article by Tom DeMarco (pdf). See if you can tell why. … If your head just exploded, don't be alarmed. Mine did too. To somewhat reduce the migraine headache you might now be experiencing from reading the above summary …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Report: ‘Crippled’ iPhone coming to China in September — China Unicom and Apple (AAPL) have reportedly signed an agreement to launch a specially-built version of the iPhone in China, perhaps as early as September. — The report, published Friday by China Business Network, credits Hon Hai …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Clever attack exploits fully-patched Linux kernel — ‘NULL pointer’ bug plagues even super max versions — Free whitepaper - The starter PKI program — A recently published attack exploiting newer versions of the Linux kernel is getting plenty of notice because it works …
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Ari Allyn-Feuer / Ars Technica:
Pay-as-you-drive insurance, privacy, and government mandates — California's revised Pay-As-You-Drive auto insurance proposal has drawn fire from the EFF, which hailed the amended bill as an improvement over the original, but voiced substantially the same privacy complaints.
