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March 13, 2012, 1:50 AM
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing) — In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. — The attack by the Internet icon …
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Tweets: @abrams, @levie, @amir_efrati, @jeffjarvis and @dannysullivan
See also Mediagazer| Jeff Roberts / paidContent: |
Meet The 10 Patents Yahoo Is Using To Sue Facebook — Yes, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) went there today—claiming in a lawsuit that it, not Facebook, is the real king of social networks. The company points to ten patents that it says cover features like messages, advertising and privacy settings.
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| Sachin Agarwal / The Official Posterous Space: |
Posterous is Joining the Flock at Twitter — Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter! — The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn't be happier about bringing our team's expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe.
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Tweets: @agarwal, @thomasborowski, @marcoarment and @kfury
See also Mediagazer| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
Twitter has acquired shortform blogging company Posterous, Spaces will remain up and running for now — Blogging and sharing company Posterous has announced via its company blog that it has been snagged by Twitter in an apparent ‘acqui-hire’, with Twitter interested mostly in the people, not the product.
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| Tim Carmody / Wired: |
The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW — It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia. But it's absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn't be mentioned in any of the panels at South by Southwest Interactive.| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
Organizers Defend “Homeless Hotspots” at SXSW — The talk of Austin is a jarring campaign in which homeless people actually become Wi-Fi hotspots. “The worry is that these people are suddenly just hardware,” admits its organizer. — Source: hardlynormal.posterous.com
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Techland, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, NYT @ SXSW, LAPTOP Magazine, Gawker, Geekosystem, Geek News Central, PhoneArena and io9. Thanks:@fwd
| Joe Palazzolo / Law Blog: |
So Sirious: iPhone User Sues Apple over Voice-Activated Assistant — Siri, the iPhone 4S's deadpan voice-activated assistant, is imperfect. She's stumped easily. Her command of English is only so so. In the U.K., she's a man. But is Siri a fraud? — A New York man represented … | Noah Shachtman / Wired: |
Exclusive: Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google — Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon's premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was …
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| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
Report: Walmart To Charge $2-$4 Per DVD To Convert Movies To UltraViolet Cloud — Tomorrow at 1pm ET, Walmart along with UltraViolet partners Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and Fox will announce Walmart's UltraViolet offering. Studio execs I have spoken with say that consumers …
| Wall Street Journal: |
Intel Developing Web-Based TV Service — Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Government — In the wake of the MegaUpload shutdown many of the site's users complained that their personal files had been lost due to collateral damage. — From work-related data to personal photos, the raid disabled access to hundreds of thousands …
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| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Microsoft unveils universal translator that converts your voice into another language — Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual voice.
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Hollywood Studios Warm To Apple's iCloud Effort — Apple Inc. and Hollywood are proving how complicated it is to build alliances in the digital-media business. — Last week Apple said five major movie studios had agreed to allow consumers to buy their films on one Apple device …
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Foursquare, Vevo, Fandango, and The Onion launch new Facebook Timeline apps — Facebook just announced a few high-profile additions to its roster of Timeline apps: Foursquare, Vevo, Fandango, The Onion, Viddy, Endomondo, and RootMusic all have new ways to share what you're doing with your friends.
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Facebook, MediaPost, VentureBeat, ABCNEWS, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Mashable!, BetaKit, The Next Web, TechCrunch and All Facebook. Thanks:@hamburger
| AppleInsider: |
iTunes 10.6 adds option to sync 192kbps, 256kbps quality audio to devices — In the newly released iTunes 10.6, Apple has quietly added the ability for users to select higher quality audio conversion bitrates when syncing to an iPhone, iPod or iPad. — Previously, users were given the option …
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TUAW, The Verge, Macgasm, iPhone and App Advice
| Ryan Kim / GigaOM: |
Rumored: PayPal to launch Square competitor — PayPal's plans to announce a solution for small businesses at an event this Thursday includes a mobile payment dongle that would compete against Square, Intuit (intu), Verifone and others, according to sources we've talked to who are familiar with PayPal's plans.| Hamilton Nolan / Gawker: |
We Don't Need No Stinking Seal of Approval from the Blog Police — David Carr's column today is partly about a plan masterminded by Ad Age columnist Simon Dumenco to create, quote, a “Council on Ethical Blogging and Aggregation,” which will ostensibly serve as a sort of trade group or …
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Marco.org, Matt Langer, Digiday, New York Magazine, WebProNews, Boing Boing and Mashable!
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mathewi and @om
See also Mediagazer| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
OMG: 5-Week-Old App Draw Something Hits 20 Million Downloads And Generates 6-Figures Per Day — Three weeks ago, we wrote about OMGPOP's mobile app, Draw Something. The ten-day-old social game had been downloaded more than 1.2 million times. Now the company has shared even more staggering numbers with us.
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Inside Social Games, WebProNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@stevekovach
| Ben Popper / VentureBeat: |
Wikia, Jimmy Wales' for-profit company, passes IGN to become the largest network of gaming sites on the web — What happens when you combine the Wiki model of open, collaborative editing with just a pinch of old-school-oversight? In the case of Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for-profit company …
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GamePolitics blogs, Social Media and Kotaku
| Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: |
Exclusive: Amazon Has Sold Over Two Million Kindle Singles — When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Singles program a little over a year ago, nobody knew whether there was a market for e-books that are shorter than full-length books but longer than most magazine articles.| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Google+ updates mobile UI, still no iPad app — Google rolled out a new design for its Google+ mobile site Monday morning, which now looks more like the Google+ apps for Android and iOS. That's especially good news for Google+ iPad users, who have been waiting for a native app for the social network for some time.
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Tom Charytoniuk, The Verge, The Next Web, WebProNews and Ubergizmo
| Amit Singhal / Inside Search: |
Video! The search quality meeting, uncut (annotated) — It took eight video cameras and 16 microphones, but we've done something new and special to give you another inside look at how search works. Today we've published, for the first time, a video with the uncut discussion of a proposed algorithm change …
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Apple's Siri is struggling to master Japanese as DoCoMo's clone puts it to shame — Apple added Japanese support for Siri with the release of iOS 5.1 last week, but the virtual personal assistant is reportedly having some issues coming to grips with its first Asian language.
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AppleInsider and Kotaku
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo Activist's Passive-Aggressive Strategy — Activist investors frequently agitate for companies to break themselves up. Not Daniel Loeb. — Or so it would appear. In his coming quarterly investor letter, the head of Third Point lays out “The Case for Alibaba,” according to extracts reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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