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John Paczkowski / D8 Conference:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Privacy Hot Seat at D8 — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was last on the D stage-at D6 in 2008-the company was still reeling from the privacy backlash over its Beacon advertising system. Months earlier, Zuckerberg had apologized for Facebook's disregard …
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John Paczkowski / D8 Conference:
D8 Video: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Privacy — As expected, Facebook's privacy controls and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's views on privacy figured prominently in his Wednesday appearance at D8. Is the company violating its members' expectation of privacy? Is it pushing them to overshare?
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Zuckerberg acknowledges “stupid” collegiate behavior on-stage — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg literally sweated out a tough interview on-stage at The Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD conference today. — He admitted that when he was younger and still running Facebook out of his dorm room …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Up close with the Dell Streak — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—The tablet parade at D: All Things Digital continued into Wednesday afternoon, with Dell doing a brief onstage demo of its 5-inch Dell Streak device. — The Android-powered gadget is bigger than any smartphone but smaller than nearly all other tablets.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Dell Streak: $500 unlocked in US, available next month — We've just learned at D8 today that Dell will be offering the Streak to US customers direct from its website — unlocked — starting next month for $500. That's later than the June 4 date that UK customers will be enjoying …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP CEO: “We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business” — You'd think spending a billion dollars on a smartphone company would indicate a desire to, say, make and sell smartphones, but you'd apparently be thinking wrong: HP CEO Mark Hurd just told investors at the Bank …
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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
HP CEO Mark Hurd talks datacenters, networking and Palm — A day after Hewlett-Packard outlined plans to invest $1 billion into its enterprise services unit and cut a net 3,000 jobs, CEO Mark Hurd elaborated on the thinking behind the move, next-gen datacenters and the company's networking prospects.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft unveils Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 — After unveiling what's next for the most popular Windows Live client application, Messenger, and the most popular Windows Live web service, Hotmail, Microsoft is now ready to zero in on (most of) the remaining client applications in the Windows Live Essentials suite.
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CNET News, The Register, PC World, Electronista, TechCrunch, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, The Microsoft Blog and MSDN Blogs, Thanks:rawmeet
Google Mobile Blog:
Google Search for mobile now includes mobile app results — As mobile apps continue to proliferate in stores like Android Market and the iPhone App Store, finding relevant information on the web about these apps is becoming more important to help you decide which apps to download.
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9 to 5 Mac, Fast Company, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, Android Phone Fans, Electronic Pulp, Fortune, Erictric, Lifehacker, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, Droid Life, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, mocoNews, Mobile Entertainment, Google Operating System, AndroidOS.in, Phone Scoop and Gizmodo
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T's New Data Plans — Good: The big plan, “DataPro”, now costs $25/month and gives you 2 GB per month. That's $5 cheaper than the previous “unlimited” plan, and, according to AT&T, 98 percent of their current smartphone customers use less than 2 GB per month.
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CNET News, ZDNet, Mobile Entertainment, Digital Society, Free Press, Gizmodo, MobileContentToday, New York Times, Zatz Not Funny!, GigaOM and MobileCrunch, Thanks:atul
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Erica Sadun / TUAW:
Candid answers from AT&T on the new iPhone data plans
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E-Commerce Times, Life On My Mobile, MacRumors, EverythingiCafe, Geek.com, PR Newswire, Velocity, iLounge, Switched, The Loop, Faster Forward, Gadgetell and Insanely Great Mac, Thanks:rawmeet
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T warns customer that emailing the CEO will result in a cease and desist letter — Sure, Steve Jobs might be a one-man email PR machine, but his pal Randall Stephenson at AT&T doesn't appear to be quite as gregarious — as reader Giorgio Galante found out today, sending AT&T's CEO two emails …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Verizon Has No Plans for Apple Support in the “Immediate Future” — LOS ANGELES - Despite relentless speculation about the imminent support of the iPhone and iPad in the U.S., there is no immediate plan for Verizon to support the Apple mobile devices, John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Beet.TV in this video interview.
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Bruce Newman / Mercury News:
Woz, Jobs and ... Wayne? Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert — PAHRUMP, Nev. — It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple — colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise — leaves his home here and heads into town.
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Marvin Ma / DigiTimes:
First Chrome OS notebook to be available in fall of 2010, says Google VP — The first notebook equipped with the Google-developed Chrome OS is expected to be launched in the fall of 2010, according to Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Kazaa/Skype founders return to online music with Rdio social startup — Rdio — pronounced r-dee-o — has some spelling problems. But it is a very ambitious startup that hopes to liberate consumers from some annoying restrictions when listening to online music.
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Rdio Blog, Fast Company, Domain Name Wire, Computerworld, New York Times, Business Week, Epicenter, MacNN, GigaOM and Gizmodo
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
First look: BlackBerry Curve 9300 images! — First look at the next generation of low-cost BlackBerry Curve, the 9300... Back on April 8th we outted a new BlackBerry device model by finding it's UAProf xml document up on BlackBerry's website, and now we've got the first solid photos of it here for you to enjoy.
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MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, SlashPhone and Ubergizmo
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Kno dual-screen tablet appears at D8, we go hands-on — Kno promised to launch a double-screened Linux-based e-reader designed for students at D8, and the undercover startup didn't disappoint — believe us when we say it came out in a big way. That's big as in freaking big …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
doubleTwist Launches A Slick Media Player For Android Devices — doubleTwist, the ‘iTunes for Android’ software that lets you sync your media files with dozens of devices, including Android phones, is one step closer to being a full-fledged solution for media sync on Android.
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Gadget Lab, The Register, Gizmodo, Android Phone Fans, Phone Arena, Engadget, Electronista, Lifehacker and Phone Scoop
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The FriendFeedization Of Facebook Continues: Bret Taylor Promoted To CTO — Facebook has a new chief technology officer, Bret Taylor. The FriendFeed co-founder and initial product manager of Google Maps came to Facebook with the $50 million acquisition of FriendFeed last year.
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Skype: millions downloaded new iPhone 3G app in days — (Reuters) - Millions of consumers have downloaded a Skype Web telephony application that launched Sunday, allowing users of Apple Inc iPhone to use privately held Skype's service over the cellular network for the first time, a Skype mobile executive said on Wednesday.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why IBM, Chipmakers Are Backing an Open Source Linux Company. Hint: Intel — ARM, IBM, ST Ericsson, Samsung, Freescale and Texas Instruments are banding together to back a not-for-profit open source company, Linaro, which will develop tools, packages, processes and a Linux kernel …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Why Google TV As A Platform May Push Apple To Build Televisions — Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a lot of interesting things to say tonight at the D8 Conference. But to me, one of the most interesting topics he talked about was only brought up by a question from the audience: Apple TV.
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eWeek, WebProNews, 9 to 5 Mac, Zatz Not Funny!, Cult of Mac, The Snitch, Electricpig, eHomeUpgrade and D8 Conference
Chris Pirillo:
New Twitter Feature to Reveal Relationships — A few moments ago, I stumbled onto what appears to be a new feature being rolled out on Twitter. I had clicked on someone's profile to see what they were up to, and noticed that just above their list of “following” now appeared one called “both following.”
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Erictric, WebNewser, Neowin.net, Social Blade and TNW, Thanks:katarmstrong
Naoko Komura / Wikimedia blog:
New Wikipedia interface to nine more languages — We'd like to thank users for all the feedback and comments about the new user interface which was enabled to English Wikipedia on May 13, 2010. The summary of feedback will be published soon. — I'd like to address a few of the points you've made here …
