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9:35 AM ET, March 20, 2008

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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Adobe realizes SDK not enough for Flash on iPhone  —  Adobe has admitted it can't bring Flash to the iPhone just because it thinks that would be a neat idea.  —  Comments made Tuesday by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen were widely interpreted this morning as confirmation that Adobe and Apple …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a F**king Jackass  —  A decade ago, Wired was my favorite magazine.  Today, they print mind-numbing tripe like Leander Kahney's 3,500-word cover story, “How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong”.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes TechCrunch's Dream Team Memo (So You Don't Have To)  —  So what prompted TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington to pen a pugnacious piece on how blogs should not be raising so much venture capital and instead roll themselves into a “Dream Team,” with the unusual title of “More Bloggers Raising Money.
Knowledge@Wharton:
The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media  —  A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content — including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption — and professional journalists …
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child-porn suspects  —  Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos.  Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds.  —  The FBI has recently adopted …
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
AMD makes massive layoffs  —  Five per cent cull  —  AMD IS QUIETLY cutting five per cent of its workforce.  Pink slips have been handed out now.  The cuts are going to be across the board, not targeted at any specific group.  —  Whispers also say that this is because the chip maker …
Louise Story / New York Times:
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks  —  AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law.
Discussion: Screenwerk and Techdirt
Darren Waters / BBC:
‘Beeb’ creators reunite at museum  —  The creators of the BBC Micro are reuniting at the Science Museum in London to discuss the legacy of the computer known fondly as “the Beeb”.  —  Hermann Hauser and Steve Furber, who worked at Acorn, will be joined by former BBC staff John Radcliffe and David Allen.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Y Combinator Demo Day - which one will be the next Google?  —  Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and the Y Combinator gang held their Demo Day yesterday for 21 hopeful startups.  In most cases these “companies” are only 3 months old, have two or three founders, and are just launching a beta product/service.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Verizon Wireless: Open In Name Only?  —  from the this-is-not-the-'open'-you-were- thinking-of dept  —  Verizon Wireless got plenty of attention a few months back for announcing that it would be opening its network.  This was a bit of a surprise, as Verizon Wireless has been among the most closed …
Discussion: MobHappy, DSLreports and Gizmodo
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Roger Cheng / CNN:
2nd UPDATE: Verizon Wireless Unveils Open Network Specs
Discussion: VentureBeat and mocoNews.net
Ken Dulaney / Gartner:
Gartner Changes Its Enterprise iPhone Recommendations  —  The iPhone will soon be tailored for enterprises.  Gartner recommends “appliance-level” support status once firmware 2.0 and improvements are released. iPhone will become a popular tool alongside BlackBerry and Microsoft devices.
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
White House Taps Tech Entrepreneur For Cyber Defense Post  —  The Bush administration is planning to tap a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to head a new inter-agency group charged with coordinating the federal government's efforts to protect its computer networks from organized cyber attacks.
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Inside the Twisted Mind of the Security Professional  —  Uncle Milton Industries has been selling ant farms to children since 1956.  Some years ago, I remember opening one up with a friend.  There were no actual ants included in the box.  Instead, there was a card that you filled in with your address …
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy?  —  Update 9 pm ET: Our comrade David Chartier from Ars Technica points out that the 7.1.3 firmware itself may not be necessary for the new functionality to work; he says he tested a 7.1 AEBS with a machine running Time Capsule & Airport 1.0 …
Times of London:
On your mobile now, Madonna's latest album  —  In a career built on publicity-seeking moves, Madonna has made another bid for attention by announcing plans to give Vodafone customers access to her latest album before it goes on sale.  —  The Material Girl, who turns 50 this year …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Debating The Unlikely: Should Google Buy Apple?
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Waxy.org:
Abort, Retry, or EPIC FAIL
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
FCC to hold Comcast hearings at Stanford
GigaOM:
Level 3 Adds IBM's CDN Patents to Its Portfolio
Mark Spoonauer / LaptopMag.com:
HTC Shift X9000
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Facebook Playing Favorites With App Developers?
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comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for February
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Facebook Should Buy Xobni
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Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:
The end of software...
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SugarSync: Most useful sync tool ever. But you'll pay for it.
Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay to BBC: We Don't Want To Be Information Slaves
Discussion: Valleywag and Digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CNET Soap Opera Continues; CEO Neil Ashe May Be Fighting For His Job
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
VC confab: Please, no more social networks
Discussion: broadstuff and HipMojo.com
Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On FriendFeed  —  I know I am late to this discussion …
Discussion: Andy Beard and broadstuff
Robert Hamilton / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Fast is better than slow
 

 
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