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Palm announces webOS SDK availability, Palm OS emulation for Pre, new cloud services — Well, it's not quite the release date and price you were hoping for, but it's definitely something. Today Palm — via a short keynote at the Web 2. Expo — announced that the company would begin taking names …
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TechCrunch, Palm Developer Network Blog, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, Technologizer, eWeek, Epicenter, Gadget Lab, AppScout, PreCentral.net, PalmInfocenter, Phone Scoop and Gizmodo, Thanks:sinkercat
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The webOS developer community leaps ahead — Today, Palm expanded the Mojo SDK program for webOS, announcing that a broad group of developers will be provided with the software development kit to create applications for the Palm Pre phone (as well as other future devices running webOS).
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Epicenter, Palm, Inc., The Toybox, PreCentral.net, Palm WebOS, GPS Obsessed, AppScout, PalmInfocenter and Simply Everything Palm Pre
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WebOS to Support Palm OS Emulation!
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CNET News, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Mobile Marketing Watch, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, IntoMobile, Palm WebOS, Boing Boing Gadgets and Gadgetell
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AT&T Offers Mini Laptops, ‘Internet at Home and On the Go,’ and Onsite Tech Support from Retail Stores — Select AT&T Stores Trial Promotional Mini Laptop Pricing, Complimentary ConnecTech® Consultations; ‘Internet at Home and On the Go’ Broadband Service
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Technologizer, InformationWeek, Phone Arena, DSLreports, The Toybox, jkOnTheRun, Liliputing, Engadget and TechSpot
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AT&T Offers a $50 Netbook and Bundled Broadband Package — Updated: Holy price cuts, Ma Bell! AT&T is rolling out a trial of subsidized netbooks in its Atlanta retail stores, where it will have some netbooks (or “mini laptops,” in AT&T speak) for $49.95 (on the high end you're gonna pay $250).
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First Impressions of the New BlackBerry App Store — There have long been third-party programs for the BlackBerry, but in light of Apple's enormous success with an easy, built-in App Store for the iPhone, Research in Motion today unveiled its own similar store, called BlackBerry App World.
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Review: BlackBerry App World [Update 2]
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Industry Standard, AdAge, VentureBeat, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, eWeek, Silicon Alley Insider, PC World, jkOnTheRun, BetaNews, Electronista, NEWSFACTOR, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, last100, Pulse2, Agence France Presse, SiliconBeat, AppScout, Download Squad and Music Ally, Thanks:thepeterha
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Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps — It looks like Hulu's trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxee — TunerFreeMCE's Martin Millmore says Hulu's HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client.
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Is Twitter Turning Into MySpace? — Editor's note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, who was an early employee of LinkedIn before he co-founded CrossLoop, a startup funded by El Dorado and Venrock. You can follow him on Twitter. — I try and test many social services …
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Intel Turns Over Its Linux Operating System — Intel's short run as an operating system maker has come to an end. — On Thursday, the non-profit Linux Foundation plans to announce that it will take over the “stewardship” of the Moblin project from Intel.
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Linux Foundation says it's time to ditch Microsoft's FAT — Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says that Microsoft is hostile to open technologies and that product makers should ditch the company's patent-encumbered FAT filesystem. — The Linux Foundation …
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Google uncloaks once-secret server — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.
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Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone? — I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote, where Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hinted that we may be seeing Microsoft Office make its way to the iPhone some time soon. After his interviewer Tim O'Reilly caught him on the comment …
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Wired.com ‘Gutted’ in Conde Layoffs — More detail on the layoffs at Conde Nast Digital today (which is not an April Fool's joke, okay): Wired.com was reportedly hit hard. Internal turf war? — SAI says that Wired.com was “gutted.” We've heard the same, although exact numbers are hard to come by …
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Verizon Wireless: More E-book Readers May Be Coming — Yardena Arar — Are e-book readers going to be the next big thing in wireless? Verizon Wireless chief executive Lowell McAdam said “four or five” of them are in various stages of development in the company's open development labs.
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AT&T May Enter E-Book Market, Challenging Sprint Service for Kindle Reader
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Sales of Start-Ups Plummet, Along With Prices — Venture-backed start-ups hoping to go public or get acquired had a tough first quarter, according to data released Wednesday. — So you'd think that with start-up valuations down, corporate acquirers could be jumping on opportunities.
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iPod shuffle sales surge 50% as iPod touch maintains top slot — Sales of Apple's most affordable iPod shot up more than 50 percent a week after the company unveiled new, more compact models that shift the push controls from the player itself to the included pair of earphones.
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Latest iPhone developer agreement bans jailbreaks — The latest revision of the iPhone SDK agreement that developers must sign forbids jailbreaking or creating apps for jailbroken phones. — The “iPhone Developer Program License Agreement” governs what iPhone developers can and cannot do.
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Facebook's Problem is the Management — Shockwaves were felt throughout Silicon Valley when the social networking site announced that one of its star hires, CFO Gideon Yu, had been fired. Although Facebook claims that it is looking for someone with “public company experience,” …
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Industry Standard, All Facebook, BoomTown, The Register, Computerworld Blogs, Silicon Alley Insider and Contentinople, Thanks:edoswald
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Complex — “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
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Receiving video MMS works on iPhone OS 3.0? — Ever since the iPhone 3.0 beta was released, only the lucky and skilled have managed to enable MMS on their iPhones. It's not that it's impossible to do, you just have to know your way around the OS and do some modifications, enter settings, and that sort of stuff.
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Verizon wants its software on mobile phones — LAS VEGAS - Verizon Wireless doesn't care who emerges from the coming mobile operating system wars because no matter who wins, Verizon will make sure its software runs on top of that operating system. — “I don't think I need to bet on an operating system …
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Gmail: Expect bigger changes in next 5 years — Five years ago, Gmail launched with a splash big enough that many thought it was an April 1 joke: an entire gigabyte of online storage. — Larger online e-mail rivals Hotmail and Yahoo Mail quickly matched that advantage, but in the meantime …
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Once-Mighty SGI Sold to Rackable for $25 Million — A collective shudder rippled through Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning, as Rackable Systems announced its purchase of Silicon Graphics Inc. for just $25 million in cash. — If you travel all the way back to 1997, SGI was pulling in close to $4 billion in revenue per year.
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Google's cross-platform advertising strategy is a shambles — Google's cross-platform advertising strategy is looking pretty miserable right now. — Led until recently by former Google U.S. sales executive Tim Armstrong, this strategy sought to spread Google's influence beyond search advertising …
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Yahoo Mobile launches across eight countries, 300 devices — The mobile content service which Yahoo previewed at Mobile World Congress in February launched today across eight countries, available both as an iPhone app and a mobile content site optimised for 300 devices ‘with HTML-enabled mobile browsers’.
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ReadWriteWeb, The Register, Softpedia News, Wap Review and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Cuil Launches Timeline To Search Results — The Cuil Blog announced that for some queries, they will show a timeline box on the right column. For searches such as Abraham Lincoln, Alan Turing, Michael Jordan, Great Depression, Madison Square Garden and others, you may get a timeline.
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Video Site Veoh Cuts Staff, Boots CEO, Bets on Browser Plug-in — Video site Veoh, one of the biggest and best-funded players in the “who will be the next YouTube” competition, is restructuring the company, laying off a good chunk of its staff, and replacing CEO Steve Mitgang with founder Dmitry Shapiro.
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Budget ‘rider’ would bid ‘Hasta la vista’ to Windows Vista — READ — AUSTIN — It could be “Hasta la vista, baby” to state agency purchases of Microsoft's Windows Vista information technology under a proposed state budget provision. — The “rider” in the proposed two-year …
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Third-Party Clients Causing Twitter Downtime — We weren't imagining things: Twitter's Fail Whale has been resurrected as of late, and it's your fault. — Well. Maybe it isn't your fault, but according to Twitter's API lead, Alex Payne, the Twitter team has been keeping an eye on the mammal's return …
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MySpace Music: What Went Wrong, and What's Being Done About It — The launch of MySpace Music six months ago was supposed to herald a new era, with the four major labels at long last embracing social media as a disruptive force of good and developing a business model which didn't repulse their customers.
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Net traffic down on first day of Swedish antipiracy law — This post was updated at 2:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday with new information about Internet traffic. — The same day a new antipiracy law went into effect in Sweden, Internet traffic took a dive and five audio book publishers went after an alleged illegal file sharer in court.