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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
WSJ.Com's Redesign Sneak Peek: See Tuesday's Paper Today — We don't know what Tuesday's Wall Street Journal will tell us (we're guessing there may be some Wall Street news) but we do know Tuesday's WSJ.com will look like: A lot like Monday's WSJ.com, but easier to look at.
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Social networking coming to revamped Journal site — NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is borrowing elements from popular Internet hangouts like Facebook as it seeks to boost usage. — WSJ.com, one of the few news sites to restrict many of its stories to paying subscribers …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Podcaster Developer Uses Little-Known “Ad Hoc” Mode To Distribute Banned iPhone App — Over the weekend, a debate raged across the tech blogosphere concerning the risks involved in developing for the iPhone platform. — What prompted the debate in the first place was Apple's decision …
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Pallab Ghosh / BBC:
Warning sounded on web's future — The internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, says the creator of the World Wide Web. — Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux — A few months ago, our own Jon Stokes bemoaned the frustration of managing and accessing data strewn across a multitude of personal computing devices. His description of the challenges of syncing and saving resonated with many of us …
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
iPhone App Downloads to Hit 1 Billion Mark Faster Than Songs Did — There may only be over 12 million iPhones in the wild, but that hasn't stopped iTunes users from downloading more than twice as many apps as songs during the store's first two months of availability, according to a report.
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Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
JuiceCaster brings picture messaging to the iPhone — JuiceCaster is doing what Apple didn't. It's giving iPhone 3G users some picture messaging love. — JuiceCaster is announcing the availability of Flutter, a free new application for the iPhone that allows people to take a picture and send it to another cell phone.
Eric J. Savitz / Barron's Online:
Low Bid: Why eBay Shares Trade Near Their Five-Year Low — IS THERE FRESH TROUBLE BREWING AT EBAY? — The company already faces a variety of headwinds: Many sellers are irritated about recent changes eBay (ticker: EBAY) made in its fee structures. The softening consumer economy is not helping matters.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Don't Buy That Textbook, Download It Free — SQUINT hard, and textbook publishers can look a lot like drug makers. They both make money from doing obvious good — healing, educating — and they both have customers who may be willing to sacrifice their last pennies to buy what these companies are selling.
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
VMware Adds Cloud, Desktop Infrastructure to its Virtualization Roadmap — As the 2008 VMworld conference kicks off, VMware is detailing a new roadmap that will take the company beyond virtualization as a server and data center infrastructure consolidation tool and into the world of cloud computing.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Folks Who Brought You Slate Build a Business Site for the Facebook Set — The editors of The Big Money, a new business Web site by the editors of Slate, had their work cut out for them Sunday: it was the day before their site opened, and Wall Street seemed to be in free fall.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Music Already Has Revenue Locked, May Raise Outside Capital At $2 Billion Valuation — Get ready for MySpace Music, because you are going to be hearing a lot about it over the next couple of weeks as it prepares for launch. — The new joint venture, which tosses music rights …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network — At a time when most social networks are still trying to figure out how to make money from advertising, one social network is bucking the trend. LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, has so much demand from advertisers that it will be launching its own ad network on Monday.
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Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
Spore #1 Game - on BitTorrent Indexers — In a DRM firestorm not seen since the Sony rootkit fiasco, EA Games finds itself in the middle of public relations hell. Since the release of the highly anticipated PC game Spore on Wednesday, fans of the game have derided the cumbersome DRM …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate elbowing its way further into consumer backup market — Seagate is elbowing its way further into the consumer tech market with new backup products that it will launch with a broad consumer-oriented ad campaign. — The devices, being introduced today, fall under Seagate's FreeAgent brand.
