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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs on MobileMe: the full e-mail — Ever since our report last night on an internal e-mail sent by Steve Jobs about the botched launch of MobileMe, we have received an outpouring of requests for the full text of the e-mail. Although we originally weren't comfortable publishing the entire thing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson — Steve Jobs, in an internal email seen by Ars Technica, makes clear that he's upset about the botched launch of MobileMe, Apple's new online suite of applications that has been plagued with bugs, including being flat-out unavailable to some for days at a time.
chrisbrogan.com:
When Google Owns You — Nick Saber isn't happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn't get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn't get into anything that Google made (beside search) where his account credentials once worked.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comcast Buys DailyCandy For $125 Million* — As previously reported, Comcast (CMCSA) was indeed interested in buying DailyCandy. But they ended up paying much more than the $75 million we head about earlier this month — the cable company is paying Bob Pittman's Pilot Group Ventures $125 million …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The First $1000 iPhone Application — iPhone developer Armin Heinrich has released an application for the iPhone with two noteworthy characteristics: — 1) Its primary function is to display a handsome glowing red jewel on your iPhone's screen: — 2) It sells on Apple's App Store for $999.99 …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
A $999.99 joke iPhone app? Apple, wake up or grow up — The App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch is not even a month old and already we've seen a number of applications sent out with security issues and one, NetShare, that appears to violate AT&T's own terms of service.
Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Lost laptop found in SFO office — (08-05) 15:37 PDT SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — A laptop containing personal information on 33,000 travelers enrolled in a fast pass program at San Francisco International Airport turned up Tuesday in the same airport office from which it had been reported missing more than a week ago.
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KPIX-TV:
Security Breached At SFO Due To Stolen Laptop — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― The Transportation Security Administration says a laptop containing the sensitive personal information of 33,000 applicants to an airport security prescreening program has gone missing.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Revised Tally Increases ‘No’ Votes for Yahoo Directors — SAN FRANCISCO — Five Yahoo directors, including Jerry Yang, the chief executive, were re-elected to the board with much higher protest votes than previously reported, indicating strong shareholder dissatisfaction with the company's performance …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Expands Trend Tracking With “Insights For Search” — Google has just written a blog post introducing “Insights for Search”, an extension to its Google Trends and AdWords products that allows users to track keywords across different verticals, geographic locations, and time periods.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
What's Your Vision of the Future of the Web? Mozilla Wants to Know — Everything's changing on the internet these days, so it's as good a time as any to make some drastic changes to the way we interact with it too. Mozilla Labs has put out a call for anyone in the world to share their vision …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Google Search Appliance gets bigger, better, stores 10M docs in a box — The Google Search Appliance, which can make all of a company's data accessible through through a simple Google search interface, is getting an upgrade. There are a bunch of improvements being announced …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Which Facebook Applications Really Are the Most Engaging? A Look at MAU & MAU%. — Given that yesterday was the last day that total active installs and daily active users were published for the directory, Inside Facebook has combined that data with Facebook's newly released monthly active user data …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Olympics One Box Results — I was chatting with Danny about the Yahoo Olympics Shortcut on the Daily SearchCast and Danny noticed that a search for beach volleyball olympics on Google returns a Google OneBox result. — But other searches also work and they all show special icons and results.
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Googling Google, Google Blogoscoped, Yahoo! Search Blog, CNET News.com, Startup Meme, TechCrunch and PC World
Maths / Music 2.0:
Google Finally Launches MP3 Search in China — So finally, the much talked about Google MP3 Search service is here at www.google.cn/music — And it's certainly game on as they take on Baidu's very illegal mp3 search with legal links from its search results provided by local music service Top 100.cn …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Going Back to School: Picking Up Where Facebook Left Off — Back when Facebook was a social network only for college students, one of the most popular features was the ability to see not only who was in your class, but who else was taking the same courses as you.
