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John Poirier / Reuters:
FTC to press on with Apple-Google board probe — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc, after Google's chief quit Apple's board on Monday.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Why Schmidt Had To Go — What happens when the enemy of your enemy is no longer your friend? You cast him out, as Steve Jobs seems to have done to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who today resigned his seat from Apple's board. An alliance which began with a mutual distrust of Microsoft …
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple's Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple's Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. — “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Another Startup Falls Prey To The iPhone/Google Voice Crossfire — If you've been paying attention to the tech news at all over the last week, you're already very familiar with the outrage that Apple has sparked over its rejection of Google Voice for the App Store, and its ban of all third-party applications that tap into the service.
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Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
Apple bans App Store's 3rd-most prolific developer — Over the past few weeks, Apple has been much-maligned for keeping apps such as Google Voice off the App Store. These weren't some random garbage apps; there was no farting, or baby shaking. Google Voice apps are utilities which many have come …
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Skype Journal, InformationWeek, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, The Buzz Bin and Edible Apple, Thanks:2yadav
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits — WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Ancestry.com Files For $75 Million IPO — Genealogy company Ancestry.com has filed for an IPO and plans to raise about $75 million in the offering, according to an SEC filing. It plans to list on Nasdaq or NYSE under the symbol ACOM, and Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch are the lead underwriters.
Richard Wray / Guardian:
INQ handsets turn to Twitter and iTunes — Mobile phone maker INQ is releasing two new handsets boasting support for Twitter and iTunes compatibility, thanks to a deal with one of the internet's best-known hackers — Mobile phone maker INQ is to follow its first award-winning eponymous mobile phone …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
AP Will Sell You A License To Words It Has No Right To Sell — Last year, you may recall, we pointed out that the Associated Press had a laughable sliding scale price if you wanted to copy and use more than 4 words (the first 4 free!). After that, it cost $12.50 for 5 to 25 words.
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
‘Moving newspaper’ on flexible screen to be launched within months — It is the norm in the fictional world of Harry Potter: the magical daily newspaper where words and pictures come to life in the reader's hands. — Now a revolutionary technology means that the moving imagery in The Daily Prophet is set to become a reality.
Adam Strong / Domain Name News:
BREAKING: First Ever Criminal Prosecution for Domain Name Theft Underway — Over the years hundreds of stories of domain name theft have been reported, most famous among them of course is the theft of Sex.com. Even as recent as last week, reports of stolen domains sent a chilling reminder through …
The Official Google Blog:
“Going Google” with Google Apps — Every morning, millions of people wake up to a very refreshing experience at work. They don't see “mailbox is full” errors in their email. They don't worry about backing up their data. They can get to any file they need from any computer, anywhere with Internet access and a browser.
Markcuban / blog maverick:
Why TV Networks Should Support Net Neutrality — If you run a TV network, broadcast or cable, you should be spending a lot of money to support Net Neutrality. You should have every lobbyist you own getting on the Net Neutrality train. Why ? Because in a net neutrality environment no bits get priority over any other bits.
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Palm Pre Hacks Blog!:
How To Hack(Tether) Palm Pre into a WiFi Router! — For those of you who want to hack your Palm Pre into a wifi-router like a Novatel MiFi 2000 WiFi router, there's a free app you can install called My Tether. — Currently, there's 2 versions of My Tether, version 2. with $10 donation w/ easy installer …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:Palm Pre $99.99 only for today only
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Photobucket Founders To Leave News Corp. — The founders of photo sharing site Photobucket, Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, are leaving News Corp./Fox, we've confirmed. The two sold Photobucket to Fox Interactive in May 2007 for around $300 million. Welch and Crystal will leave the company at the end of August.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
PayFail: PayPal And Its APIs Go Down, Online Shopping Grinds To A Halt — There's a mad rush of tips coming into us right now that PayPal's online purchasing service is down for the count. While the site itself appears to be loading (though very slowly), numerous buyers and venders are reporting that sales are not going through.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter augmented reality search: Tweetmondo and Layar team up — A still from Twittaround, the original augmented reality Twitter search app — Less than a month ago, a fascinating, if slightly creepy, mobile app called Twittaround launched — overlaying nearby tweets onto a smartphone camera.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
If You Could See Google Street View In Video, It Would Look Like YellowBird — Over the past few years we've seen 3-D panoramic photographs become popular on the Web. These are photos taken with special 360-degree cameras and stitched together to mimic the experience of moving through space.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Why 2010 Will Be the Year of the Tablet — After years of enticing rumors, ambitious prognostications and flat-out blather, 2010 may finally be the year that the tablet PC evolves from being a niche device to becoming a mainstream portable computer. — The tipping point comes via word …
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Sarah Rotman Epps / The Forrester Blog …:
Forrester: New eReader Data Suggests Amazon Vulnerability — Just a quick note to say that we've got a new report up on the changing demographics of eReader buyers: “Who Will Buy An eReader?,” available in full to Forrester clients. — First, eReader interest and awareness is definitely growing, as you can see:
Financial Times:
Music service Spotify wins high-profile backing — By Tim Bradshaw in London, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Tom Mitchell in Hong Kong — Spotify, the digital music service widely tipped as a potential challenger to the dominance of iTunes, is close to securing new investment …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power — Can't donate your personal time to a good cause? Intel is providing what may be the next best option. — Intel teamed up with GridRepublic on Monday to launch a Facebook application that allows the spare processing power in a PC …
Office Communicator Team Blog:
Communicator Mobile Just Got Better — Following the release of Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 in January, the Communicator team continued to work on additional features and improved upon some of the existing ones. Everything is now in an update that's ready to use.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google reveals plans for Chrome cloud synchronization — Google has revealed plans for a Chrome cloud service that will allow users to synchronize browser data with their Google accounts. The synchronization framework, which is still at an early stage of development, will arrive …
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