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Mat Balez / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Latitude.  Now for iPhone.  —  I'm a big fan of the iPhone.  I'm also a big fan of the web.  So, naturally, I'm excited that today we're finally releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application running in Safari.  —  Our Latitude web app provides …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native App?  Because Apple Said So.  —  We briefly pointed this out in our longer post on Google Latitude launching on the iPhone, but it's worth pointing this out separately.  In its post today, Google made an unusual admission about its service …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Twitter to Debut a New Main Homepage Next Week  —  Twitter will unveil a new main homepage next week at Twitter.com, said co-founder Biz Stone, in order “to better show who we are.”  —  In an interview with BoomTown this afternoon, Stone said the current page is essentially confusing …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Biz Stone Talks Twitter At Fortune Brainstorm
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses  —  Apple claims that hundreds of thousands of iPhones are being used by corporations and government agencies.  What it won't tell you is that the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Launches “Twitter 101″, Step One Of The Business Plan  —  The first step of Twitter's business plan is something called “Twitter 101,” which the company plans to launch either tonight or tomorrow, co-founder Biz Stone revealed at the Fortune Brainstorm Conference in Pasadena this evening.
Discussion: Mashable! and VentureBeat
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Enhancing Value for Customers and Businesses  —  Many are seeing a wide variety of businesses using Twitter in interesting ways to create value for customers and consumers.  As a result, we're often invited by businesses and organizations to talk about Twitter and how it can be used to better engage with customers.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:   Twitter 101: Does CoTweet point the way to Twitter's business model?
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Palm fires back at Apple, fixes Pre sync with iTunes  —  Just a week after Apple killed the Pre's ability to sync with desktop music management client iTunes, Palm has responded with webOS 1.1 — a software update that again enables Palm's phone to access media from the current version of iTunes.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HTC Hero review  —  The HTC Hero has been an object of lust for some time now for gadget enthusiasts.  Even from the earliest days of leaked hardware shots and blurry demo videos of its UI, smartphone fans seemed to agree that the company had finally achieved what has been missing in the world of Android.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Fourth-Quarter Results  —  The company delivered operational efficiency and innovation in a difficult environment.  —  Income Statements  —  Segment Revenue/Operating Income (Loss)  —  Financial Highlights  —  View the PowerPoint  —  Listen to the Webcast Earnings Release
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Richard Perez-Pena / New York Times:
A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web  —  Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it …
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:   The AP Puts A Gun To Its Head. And A Grenade. And A Rocket Launcher.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Exclusive: New Features of iPod Touch, Nano Revealed in Dozens of Cases … What's the worst kept secret in China?  —  The features and dimensions of Apple's new iPod Touch and iPod Nano, which are hush-hush here in the U.S. ahead of their expected September unveiling, but are well-known in China.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Bezos Apologizes For The “Stupid” And “Thoughtless” Kindle Incident  —  Last week, Amazon sent a shiver down the spine of the Internet when it remotely deleted copies of the books “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from users' Kindles.  As just about everyone was quick to point out …
Thom Holwerda / OSNews:
Linus: “Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease”  —  So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL.  Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a “cancer”.  Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
AT&T chief: iPhone won't be exclusive forever  —  PASADENA, Calif.—It's not realistic to believe AT&T will have an exclusive on the iPhone forever, CEO Randall Stephenson said Thursday.  —  “There will be a day when you are not exclusive with the iPhone,” Stephenson said, speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm: Tech conference here.
Bill Gates / Gizmodo:
Bill Gates: My 1979 Memories  —  Our Gizmodo '79 celebration may have ended last week, but there's room for a final post, written by famed retiree and mosquito wrangler Bill Gates.  It's no joke: Gates read the series then sent this in:  —  I read those 1979 stories all last week …
Discussion: Technologizer, Thanks:mgcreed
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Thanks to the iPhone, ‘app fever’ is spreading  —  Apple's iPhone, an app trendsetter.  Credit: Associated Press  —  A sickness that first infected the elitist tech sector is exploding into the mainstream.  Cellphones have certainly contributed largely to disseminating the illness …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:electricwaffles
Eric Ditzian / MTV:
Kevin Spacey Says Facebook Movie Might Shoot This Year  —  Actor is producing ‘The Social Network,’ but doubts he'll appear onscreen.  —  Last year, Kevin Spacey produced and starred in a film about making big bets and winning piles of cash: “21,” based on a book by Ben Mezrich …
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Google's Android To Invade Homes  —  Manufacturers are putting the Web giant's Android software in home management devices and remote controls.  —  In a sign that Google's Android mobile platform has a future far beyond cellphones, San Francisco-based start-up Touch Revolution says a string …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Vodafone signals interest in supplying Apple's iPhone for UK  —  • Operator hints it could challenge O2's exclusive deal with Apple  —  • Growth in emerging markets offsets slide in European revenues  —  Vodafone has added to speculation that O2's exclusive deal to supply …
Discussion: mocoNews
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Online Payment Wars Continue: PayPal Officially Announces Flexible API  —  While Ebay's Q2 earnings yesterday showed that its marketplace business was slow, the company's revenue was boosted by continued growth in its online payments business, including PayPal and BillMeLater.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Ronny Conway Joins Andreessen Horowitz  —  Ronny Conway, an Associate at Google Ventures, has resigned from Google and joined the newly formed Andreessen Horowitz, we've confirmed.  Conway, the son of prominent angel investor Ron Conway, has worked at Google for the last six years …
Discussion: CNET News
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
EFF's new lawsuit, and how the NSA is into social networking  —  A new lawsuit from the EFF seeks to shed light on the mysterious “Other Intelligence Activities” that the NSA was engaged in after 9/11, and that the DoJ eventually found to be illegal.  Based Ars' reporting …
Delvy / SpinVox Blog:
SpinVox's response  —  Statement … An article entitled ‘Voice technology firm under fire’ was published by the BBC this morning written by Rory Cellan-Jones.  It is the latest in a series of previously fair and accurate articles the BBC has written about SpinVox, but on this occasion …
Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
Traders Profit With Computers Set at High Speed  —  It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors' orders and, critics say, even subtly manipulate share prices.  —  It is called high-frequency trading …
 
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Alex Dobuzinskis / Reuters:
News Corp sees MySpace as place for videogames
Discussion: Mashable! and Pocket-lint.com
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Service Offers to Retrieve Stolen Data, For a Fee
Discussion: NEWS.com.au
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Can the U.S. Government Help Cloud Computing Reach a Tipping Point?
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google, Microsoft E-mail Synchronizer Cemaphore Acquired
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
YP.com Begins Self Reinvention
Discussion: Local Onliner and Beta Labs
Tameka Kee / paidContent:
Earnings: Netflix Grows Subscribers, Revenues; Invests In Streaming
Discussion: PR Newswire, DailyFinance and BetaNews
Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
Why You Should Thank AT&T (Yes, It's True)
Discussion: mocoNews, Thanks:geekychic
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Friendster founder on the rise and fall of America's first big social network
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog
Dan Macsai / Fast Company:
Meet the 27-Year-Old Who's Hijacking Twitter, One Quiz-Crazy Tween at a Time
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:
Apple Investigated Foxconn Complaints Before iPhone Suicide Case
Aaron O. Patrick / Wall Street Journal:
BBC Dumps Plan for Internet-TV
Amazon.com:
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Financial Results; Free Cash …
Discussion: New York Times
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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