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Investors probe Apple's Jobs on successor, games, future products — AppleInsider joined Apple investors, some of whom traveled from as far away as Europe, at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Tuesday, where Steve Jobs and his executive team were both grilled and lauded …
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Love Him or Hate Him, Fortune Cannot Make Up Its Mind About Steve Jobs — Once again, Steve Jobs is on the cover of Fortune magazine. He is there because Apple is the most admired company in America. No, wait. He is there because investigative reporter Peter Elkind wrote a 12-page takedown of his Steveness.
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Adobe's Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn't good enough for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments …
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Apple shareholders pepper Jobs with questions
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Yahoo Searches for Options — Yahoo and Time Warner stepped up talks on creating an alternative to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. A possible deal would fold AOL into Yahoo.
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Yahoo Looks at New Way to Survive — As it scrambles to avoid defeat in its battle with Microsoft, Yahoo may try to put a little more time on the clock. — Microsoft, whose offer for Yahoo is now worth $41.2 billion, was preparing to escalate its takeover fight by starting a proxy contest next week.
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WordPress: The Social Network — Can WordPress become the basis of a social network? Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg hinted today on his blog that WordPress might go in a more social direction. He announced a new hire, Andy Peatling, the developer behind BuddyPress …
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Microsoft Develops New Operating System From Scratch — Microsoft Research unveiled the new operating system, Singularity, as a prototype aimed at academics and researchers. — Microsoft showed off a new operating system on Tuesday, but don't get too excited.
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Google Tests Additional Search Box Within Search Results — Tamar tipped me off to people seeing secondary search boxes in the Google search results. I see them myself now. For example a search on amazon returns this search box directly under the snippet but above the URL, here is a picture:
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CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA! — In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations “unbreakable”: — 2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs: — Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo CAPTCHA broken — Feb 6: Websense reports Hotmail CAPTCHA broken
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1,000 True Fans — The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. — But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators.
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AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy — AOL is pushing their two year old OpenAim initiative much further this morning with OpenAIM 2.0. — There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tried to stop …
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Indefinite Hiatus — I've been writing a personal weblog for almost seven years. It's weird to go back and read some of the posts in my old kuro5hin diary such as my early postings about interning at Microsoft and see how much my perspectives have changed in some ways and stayed the same in others.
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Memory trick breaks PC encryption — Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. — Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. — It was previously thought …
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The economy of Friending — Just about every part of the Web 2.0 evolution that has occurred over the last while has all been based on the success of one thing - the likelihood of people willing to mark some-one that they may or may not know from either mutual reputation or mutual interests as a friend.
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Q&A with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, on hiring, growth, and its platform — Facebook has just hired a new COO, Sheryl Sandberg of Google (our coverage). So I talked with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg today, to get some more context on her hire and how it fits in with the company's larger plans.