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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know — A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.
Discussion:
Examiner, Yahoo! News, Gawker and @timoreilly
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Meet ‘Disco’, The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google — It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have. — The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google bought at Domainfest last year for $255K.
Discussion:
VentureBeat, Reuters, @alexia, IntoMobile, Mashable!, mobiputing, WebProNews, The Domains, SAI, Softpedia News, Engadget and textually.org
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
First Look: With Disco, Google Also Joins The Group Messaging Dance (Care Of Slide)
Discussion:
Examiner, Techie Buzz, Geekosystem and LAPTOP Magazine
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
High-tech industry on hiring binge in California; Google, Facebook and Zynga lead the pack — It's the Silicon Valley hiring boom being felt all over California. — California added nearly 100,000 new jobs in February, and the state's unemployment rate dropped by two-tenths of a percentage point …
Discussion:
New York Times and SiliconValley.com
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Tom Krazit / mocoNews:
Lukewarm Reaction To Playbook Could Force Drastic Measures For RIM — Is Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) turning into Palm (NSDQ: PALM), the next big prize in the mobile industry's consolidation? — Two of the most important companies in the prehistoric era of the mobile computer …
Discussion:
raganwald's posterous and Apple Outsider
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy — The site that put the concept of pay-per-bid auctions on the map is now apparently in financial trouble, Technologizer has learned. Although the company's front page claims “technical issues,” documents from a Munich, Germany bankruptcy court indicate …
Thanks:edoswald
Jillian C. York:
Microsoft Fixes Bug; Re-enables HTTPS for All Users — Yesterday, I blogged that users in Iran, all Arab countries, Burma, Nigeria, and the Central Asian nations had been blocked from turning on HTTPS encryption within Hotmail. This was true. — According to Microsoft …
Discussion:
The Register, @timoreilly, The Next Web, Security Watch and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Kevin Murphy / DomainIncite:
ICANN asks the US to cut it loose — ICANN has officially requested the loosening of its contractual ties to the US government. — In a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (pdf), ICANN president Rod Beckstrom said the US should finally make good on its promise …
Andrew Quinn / Reuters:
U.S. develops “panic button” for democracy activists — (Reuters) - Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they'll be able to hit the “panic button” — a special app that will both wipe out the phone's address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists.
Discussion:
Fast Company and Memex 1.1
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
THE SEEDY SIDE OF REDDIT: Porn, Racism, And Nazi Memorabilia — Reddit is an amazing creation. — The news aggregator is a great startup success story. It's also a great community site that often bands together in support of worthy causes. It's also a live interview site …
Nitasha Tiku / New York Magazine:
4chan Using Fake OkCupid Profiles to Lure Pathetic Singles to Times Square — 4chan has been known on occasion to pick worthy targets for its “malwebolence.” This is not one of those times. As part of a campaign to launch an “involuntary” flash mob, 4chan users and people on Reddit's 4chan forum …
Discussion:
Know Your Meme, Online Dating Insider, Urlesque and TechEye
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
OS X Lion Already Nearing “Golden Master” — Release Around WWDC? — It has been one month since Apple unveiled a developer preview of their latest operating system, OS X Lion. And while the initial deployment was a bit rocky, Apple appears to have worked through their initial Mac App Store distribution issues.
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, TUAW, MacStories, MacRumors, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac and iClarified
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
RIM Buys Developer Of HTML5 Mobile App Testing Platform TinyHippos — Research In Motion has made another acquisition-mobile development company TinyHippos. In an announcement on both RIM's development blog and TinyHippos blog, the BlackBerry manufacturer said that it bought …
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BlackBerry Developer's Blog, Mobilized, tinyHippos, Reuters, Electronista and BerryReview.com
