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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Apple, Acer and...Arrington? — Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing. Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality. — The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday …
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Fred / A VC:
Freemium and Freeconomics — This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times. I'd like to talk a bit about the firestorm that freeconomics (fed by Chris' book) has unleashed but first we need to clarify something.
Dave Rosenberg / Software, Interrupted:
Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography — In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive. — @font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000 — Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky this week. The crooks were aided by more than two dozen co-conspirators in the United States, as well as assistance from a family of malicious software capable …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter? It's the rebirth of a startup — It's not often that Internet companies last 10 years, but Moonfruit in the UK has proved pretty resilient. It survived the dotcom boom the first time round, launching with VC-backing, growing to 65 staff and cutting …
The Wallet:
You've Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn't Die — Jason Zweig writes the Intelligent Investor column that runs in Saturday's Journal. Today, he takes on customer service. — Back in 2000, I worked at a magazine published by Time Inc., a division of Time Warner.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Short Is Sweet: Postcards Begat SMS Begat Twitter — Recently, I've noticed something. If you send me an email, the likelihood that I'm going to respond is pretty small. But if you send me a message on Twitter, the likelihood that I'll respond is much higher. Certainly, part of it is that I get fewer messages on Twitter.
John Foley / InformationWeek:
How Government's Driving Cloud Computing Ahead — Federal agencies are testing use cases as well as pushing standards and definitions that could help the business world. — Cloud computing may still be emerging as an IT delivery model, but U.S. government agencies are forging ahead …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
As turnaround continues, June chip sales point to tech economy recovery — While the U.S. unemployment dashed stock market hopes of a recovery in the national economy, the bellwether semiconductor industry seems like it's on its way to a recovery. — Chips are a leading indicator for sales …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan — Gauging the iPhone's popularity in Japan is not easy. — Just ask Brian X. Chen. He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G last summer, the device was a big flop in Japan.
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites — During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Engadget and Chip.de …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
MJ OD — When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV “news.” Well, it didn't take long to see the divergence: TV thinks we're still buzzing about MJ. But online, we're not. — Here's Blogpulse on mentions of Michael Jackson:
