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12:25 PM ET, February 27, 2010

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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
All U.S. Android phones to receive Android 2.1, but some will require a wipe  —  Considering over 80% of our readers with Android phones are running an outdated version of the operating system, I think most of you will find this interesting.  —  There has been some confusion over which phones …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
It's Time to Put These Olympics Behind Us (As Far As Web Coverage Goes)  —  With the 2010 Winter Olympics wrapping up this weekend in Vancouver, I hope we can put the past behind us.  That is, the past of crappy U.S. online coverage of a major global sporting event, with the key offender being exclusive distributor NBC.
Discussion: NewTeeVee and the Econsultancy blog, Thanks:beet_tv
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
Wisconsin senator critical of NBC handling of online access to Olympics  —  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Gene J. Puskar, AP / February 26, 2010)  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator criticized NBC on Friday for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it unfair and restrictive.
Discussion: Reuters
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23  —  Verizon will release Google's Nexus One Android device on March 23 according to sources familiar with the matter.  —  The Nexus One, originally released on T-Mobile in January, has passed FCC inspection for use on Verizon's CDMA network …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Steve Jobs rocks a 3.1.2 OS iPhone  —  So Mike from Macsoda wrote us saying he got a response from Steve Jobs to his email wondering about the future of Final Cut Pro (40 Final Cut Pro developers were recently let go).  Typically brief, Steve Jobs said:  —  No worries.  FCP is alive and well.
Discussion: Mac Soda and ithinkdifferent
Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Ancient Secret Service Computers Overtaxed  —  System Is ‘Fragile’ and Cannot Sustain Tempo of Current or Future Operational Missions  —  A classified review of the United States Secret Service's computer technology found that the agency's computers were fully operational only 60 percent …
Discussion: Switched and MacDailyNews
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Cellphones Let Shoppers Point, Click and Purchase  —  Shoppers will soon be able to stand outside the designer Norma Kamali's boutique in Manhattan, point a phone at merchandise in the window and buy it — even late at night when the store is closed.  —  Ms. Kamali is at the forefront …
Larry Downes:
The Italian Job: What the Google Convictions are Really About  —  I was pleased to be interviewed last night on BBC America World News (live!) about the convictions of three senior Google executives by an Italian court for privacy violations.  The case involved a video uploaded to Google Videos …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Palm's webOS 1.4 Update Is Live With Video Recording and Flash  —  You know that webOS 1.4 update for Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus that we've been talking about since January?  The one with video recording and Flash 10 beta and some other stuff?  It's live.  [Palm]
Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
Apple admits using child labour in China  —  Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones.  —  At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
Discussion: Macsimum News
Dave Heiner / Microsoft On The Issues:
Competition Authorities and Search  —  Vice President and Deputy General Counsel  —  Government competition agencies are increasingly focused on Google's growing power in search and online advertising.  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft To Google: Grow Up And Deal With The EC
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
PayPal To Restore Bank Withdrawal Service In India On March 3rd  —  About three weeks ago, eBay's electronic payments daughter PayPal suddenly started blocking personal payments going in or coming out of accounts from Indian customers, resulting in a flood of online complaints from the latter …
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
iTunes Prize Winner to Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?”  —  When Steve Jobs personally called Woodstock, Georgia native Louie Sulcer to tell him he'd won Apple's iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold contest, Sulcer first thought was that he was being pranked.
Mike Dano / FierceWireless:
Checking out Symbian^4: Nokia's response to the iPhone  —  During last week's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, I had a very interesting discussion with the folks at the Symbian Foundation.  Long story short, I got a very brief look at what appears to be Nokia's answer to the iPhone.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nexus One coming to Vodafone UK in April, says Telegraph  —  Without citing its sources, the Telegraph is reporting matter-of-factly that the Nexus One will launch on Vodafone in April for a to-be-determined price, though it's “likely to be priced very similarly to comparable smartphones such as the iPhone.”
Jeremy / Yelp Official Blog:
Lady Justice Needs a Lawsuit Filter....  In light of recent news, I wanted to share some thoughts about the lawsuit that was filed against Yelp this week.  —  There has been a long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around with reviews in exchange for money.
Discussion: The Social, Mashable! and Screenwerk, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Kelly Winters / Facebook Developers:
Continuing to Simplify Facebook: Removing Application Notifications  —  When we launched Facebook Platform in 2007 there were just 40 million users on Facebook.  Since then, in less than three years, more than 350 million users have joined Facebook, and more than one million developers …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam
Discussion: Maximum PC and FierceCIO News
 
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Brian Burke / TechFlash:
Guest Post: Is the iPad worth the time for mobile app developers?
Discussion: Screenwerk
Christopher Caldwell / Financial Times:
Is Google now a monopoly?
Discussion: Memex 1.1
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Verizon to launch 4G in up to 60 markets by mid-2012
Discussion: Electronista
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Targeted Audio Ads: Coming to a Cellphone Near You
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Google LatLong:
Navigate your way through user photos in Street View
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LeeAnn Prescott / VentureBeat:
OS X share up 29% in past year, slowly chipping away at Microsoft
Discussion: MacDailyNews
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Digg Found a Way to Make Money
Discussion: The Next Web, Thanks:atul
 

 
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