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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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Patrick Hoge / bizjournals:
Tech blog titan Michael Arrington's next big thing: Hardware — In four years, Michael Arrington has gone from knowing relatively little about the Internet or journalism to presiding over the hugely popular, influential and profitable Palo Alto-based TechCrunch network of blogs.
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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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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads — Pesky monkey still creating (some) havoc — Join our expert panel in discussing application security — Mozilla Foundation notched up five million downloads in the first 24 hours after it released Firefox 3.5 earlier this week.
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 …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice? — Three months ago we reported that Ads Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word “sponsored” was only appearing on the site in error. Now the “sponsored definitions” of certain Twitter “concepts” …
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Sogrady / tecosystems:
Open Source and the Cloud: Where's the LAMP? — “My challenge to everyone competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft is to remember that you're competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft. These are strong technology companies, and if you're going to compete with them, open source is the only way to do that.
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 …
Derek Kravitz / Washington Post:
Woman Shot in Apple Store at Clarendon's Market Common — An employee of an Apple store in Arlington was shot and wounded this morning during an attempted armed robbery in a back storeroom as more than three-dozen shoppers and other employees milled about the showroom.
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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.
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 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We'll Give You Advertising — Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management. — In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rabid fans and tech press.
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Seattle data center fire knocks out Bing Travel, other Web sites — A fire last night at Seattle's Fisher Plaza data center has knocked out service to some top Web sites, including Bing Travel and Authorize.net. — We first got word of the fire early this morning from the online real estate service Redfin …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Are “deleted” photos really gone from Facebook? Not always — In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean.
