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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses — (08-07) 12:04 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Californians have the right to move from one company to another or start their own business and can't be prohibited by their employer from working for a competitor in their next job, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
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Bob Rudis / The Apple Blog:
My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm — Just this week I was posing the question of where are all the (no-jailbreak-required) ssh/terminal apps for the iPhone? While not the best platform for such a tool (the keyboard would - and does, as you will see - eat up some serious real estate) …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Tech Company Goes Public but Its Shares Dive 20% — Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio company that provides Web hosting to corporate clients, went public Friday, ending a six-month market drought in initial public offerings of shares in technology companies.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Tech IPOs Return With Rackspace
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple Reviews NetShare; Permanent Ban Likely — Nullriver's short-lived iPhone application NetShare, which turns your iPhone into a wireless modem for your laptop, might not be returning to the App Store after all. — Earlier in the week, Nullriver received a response from Apple saying …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Airline Plans To Cancel All Flights Booked Through 3rd Party Websites — from the piss-off-your-customers-much? dept — And people wonder why airlines have so much trouble staying in business? We were already confused enough by American Airlines' desire not to be listed on the sites …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Perks Of Being The MySpace CEO Include, Apparently, Paris Hilton — Facebook may be the king of the Silicon Valley crowd, but Paris Hilton apparently prefers MySpace. 42 year old MySpace cofounder and CEO Chris DeWolfe has been dating 27 year old Paris Hilton for at least a few weeks, sources close to the company confirm.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Patch for Web Security Hole Has Leaks of Its Own — SAN FRANCISCO — Faced with the discovery of a serious flaw in the Internet's workings, computer network administrators around the world have been rushing to fix their systems with a cobbled-together patch. Now it appears that the patch has some gaping holes.
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Announces New Privacy Choice for Consumers — Will Expand Its Opt-Out Policy to Customized Advertising on — Yahoo.com — Today Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced that it will offer users greater choice in how they manage their privacy online by enabling them to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com.
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Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Home Renovation: What Tech Do I Need? — My wife and I bought a house a few months ago, and it needs some renovation work (read: holy crap, we're practically gutting the place, what the heck were we thinking???). One aspect of said work is redoing the entire electrical system …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Defcon: Excuse me while I turn off your pacemaker — The Defcon conference is the wild and woolly version of Black Hat for the unwashed masses of hackers. It always has its share of unusual hacks. The oddest so far is a collaborative academic effort where medical device security researchers …
Allen Hutchison / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Translate now for iPhone — A few months ago I was planning a vacation to Austria and Italy. I knew a few words and phrases in German and Italian, but that was about it. So I looked around for some portable language dictionaries. I thought Google Translate was great, but the web page didn't work that well on the iPhone.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Thunder gets 9530 model designation on Verizon, October 13th release date? — We just got a screen cap of the product inventory screen from a Verizon tipster. It shows that the BlackBerry Thunder, which we've all been reporting as a 9500-series device is correct.
Mike Rogoway / Oregonian:
Wi-Fi's dead; antennas live on — City worries that taxpayers could get stuck with the bill for removal - — S omeday, perhaps, they'll be ashtrays, vases or the crowning touch of Conehead costumes at Halloween. — For now, though, the 600 cylindrical Wi-Fi antennas atop Portland streetlights …
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Why Do PR Firms Send Unsolicited Embargoed Press Announcements? — Yesterday I received the following message: — From: Terry May — To: tammysnook@hightechpr.net — Subject: GIPS enables VoIP for iPhone - embargoed news until Monday — Hi Guys, On Monday (8/11), GIPS …
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