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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Ballmer: Riskiest product bet by Microsoft is the ‘next release of Windows’ — When you're in the on-stage interview hot seat, sometimes you may say things you regret. And sometimes you speak the truth. — My ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan covered Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer's hot-seat appearance …
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Engadget, eWeek, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and Between the Lines Blog
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft — Starbucks CIO, Stephen Gillett, and I had breakfast on Wednesday. He showed me Starbucks new Digital Network, which will pop up on the screen if you sign in on wifi at any of Starbucks US stores. 30 million people a month do that.
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Scripting News and Pulse2, Thanks:scobleizer
Markcuban / blog maverick:
How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe — I personally can't think of anything stupider for the big broadcast networks to do than give their shows to Google for free. Why ? Because they are finally getting BILLIONS of dollars in retransmission fees from their distributors.
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Hacking NetFlix and Stowe Boyd
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption — “The most ominous of fallacies-the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” -Freyda Stark — So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content they're putting online.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense — Java daddy deprecates Apple cult leader — Steve Jobs has apparently weighed into the debate over Apple's decision to deprecate Java on the Mac, and his terse explanation was promptly deprecated by Java founder James Gosling.
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On a New Road, Wild Webmink, Guardian, TeleRead, Daring Fireball, Crave and MacRumors
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Rafe / rc3.org:
The future of Java on the Mac platform
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Macworld, Apple Outsider and Wild Webmink
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Netflix testing $7.99 and $8.99 streaming-only plans in US right now, one is not a discount (update) — When CEO Reed Hastings called Netflix “primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail,” he wasn't messing around, as the company's quietly made streaming-only plans a reality on US shores.
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Electronista
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
End Of An Era: Sony Stops Manufacturing Cassette Walkmans — Truth be told, I wasn't aware Sony was still producing cassette Walkmans. But the company today announced it will stop manufacturing and selling these devices in Japan - after 30 years. Sony says the final lot was shipped …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
The new king of Apple analysts — He's a Romanian blogger with a Harvard MBA who lives in Finland. Go figure. — Horace Dediu. Photo: Rami Salle — What if you took all the estimates by all the analysts who write about Apple (AAPL) — and there are dozens — and ranked them by how closely …
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Wikileaks Hacked By “Very Skilled” Attackers Prior To Iraq Doc Release — Update: Ahead of schedule, Wikileaks has published its latest leak: nearly 400,000 Iraq War documents. — Someone is trying to spring a leak in Wikileaks. — As the whistle-blower organization prepared earlier …
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The Next Web, Guardian, Pulse2 and p2pnet, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:forbestech
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover — The simple credit card is about to get a makeover. — Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want to pay with rewards points or credit, at most any merchant they please.
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Mashable!, BlogsDNA, Pulse2, NPR, It's Your Money, DailyFinance and Gawker
Anne Ward Ernst / Mercury News:
Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting bugs in system — It's safe to say a typical Willow Glen 12-year-old doesn't earn $3,000 for a couple of weeks' worth of work. Then again, Alex Miller is no typical 12-year-old. — Alex is a bug hunter, but the bugs he's uncovering …
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CNET News, TG Daily, Zero Day Blog, Pulse2, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Geek.com and Download Squad
Reuters:
Italy orders Google to mark Street View cars: report — (Reuters) - Italy's privacy regulator has told Google Inc it will have to make sure its “Street View” photo-collecting cars are clearly marked and their itinerary is publicized, a daily newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Reuters:
Google says Street View cars got email, passwords
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Techie Buzz, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, Techdirt and SlashGear
Paul McNamara / Network World:
Why IPv6? Vint Cerf keeps blaming himself — Impending exhaustion of IPv4 addresses ‘my fault,’ he says ... regularly — Are you struggling with or dreading the thought of IPv6? — If so, Vint Cerf, much-decorated “Father of the Internet,” wants you to know that it's OK to blame him.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X — The gist of the “Back to the Mac” theme of Apple's press event this week is that the iPhone was derived from Mac OS X, the iPad from the iPhone, and now some of the good ideas from iOS are going back to the Mac.
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Pulse2, App Advice, Zero Day Blog, Softpedia News, 901am, Technologizer, Lifehacker, CNET News and Guardian
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Wall Street Journal:
MySpace, Apps Leak User Data — Site Sends Personal IDs When Ads Are Clicked, a Journal Investigation Finds — MySpace and some popular applications on the social-networking site have been transmitting information to outside advertising companies that could be used to identify users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
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TechCrunch, The Blog Herald and Softpedia News
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
WSJ: ‘Ridiculous’ to Say We Killed Tough MySpace Story
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New York Magazine and VentureBeat
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
Setting our own Direction; Ben and I to move on from Palm — When we joined Palm, we were excited to join the intersection of mobile and Web. It has been fascinating to see how that seam has grown over a very short period of time. The device landscape has exploded and developers have amazing …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Talent Bleed At Palm Continues As Dev Leads Leave To Battle Closed …
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Electronista and PreCentral.net
