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11:30 PM ET, March 1, 2010

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Virginia / Picnik Blog:
Picnik Acquired by Google  —  When Bitnik, Inc was created, our founders envisioned making great software for real people and giving users the power to edit digital photos in their browser, without having to purchase or download complicated software.  While our first office in 2005 only had two desks …
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Picnik CEO: Google deal comes with ‘a very happy number’  —  Picnik Chief Executive Jonathan Sposato chatted with TechFlash this afternoon shortly after the online photo editing service sold out to Google, marking the second time that the search giant has purchased one of his startup companies.
Discussion: BetaNews and CloudAve
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google: Flickr Can Keep Using Picnik.  Yahoo: We Have No Comment.  —  Earlier today, in writing about Google buying the photo-editing service Picnik, we noted that the most interesting thing about the buy may be that Picnik is currently Flickr's default photo editor.
Discussion: Fast Company and TechFlash
Patrick Seybold / PlayStation.Blog:
PlayStation Network Service Restored  —  We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year.  Having the internal clock date change from February 29 to March 1 (both GMT), we have verified that the symptoms …
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Rsarver / Twitter Blog:
Enabling A Rush of Innovation  —  Even before Twitter was officially a company, we opened our technology in ways that invited developers to extend the service.  Before long, Twitter became a platform and an ecosystem of innovation began to grow.  Recently we've announced partnerships with Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft.
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Twitter Opens Up the Firehose to Startups
Discussion: TechCrunch and louisgray.com
David Flynn / APC:
Microsoft: “No Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6.x devices”  —  Microsoft's tight hardware spec for Windows Phone 7 smartphones means that Windows Mobile 6.x devices - including HTC's just-launched HD2 - can't be upgraded.  —  Owners of HTC's highly-praised HD2 touchscreen smartphone …
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Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft Exec Offers First Look at Windows Phone 7 Series Device
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Google wins patent for location-based advertising  —  While the blogosphere was buzzing over the patent Facebook won for its news feed last week, Google earned a killer one too.  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the search giant a patent for using location in an advertising system last Tuesday …
AppleInsider:
Apple prepping first Macs with HDMI - sources  —  Apple plans to introduce HDMI connectivity on some of its personal computers this year, embracing an emerging trend that has seen the high-definition audio/video interface crop up on an increasing number of systems from rival PC manufacturers, AppleInsider has learned.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Google Chrome only browser to make gains in February  —  Data collected by web metrics firm Net Applications suggests that over the month of February, Google's Chrome web browser was the only desktop browser to make any gains over the month.  —  Google Chrome saw a jump in usage share to 5.61%, up 0.39% from 5.22% in January.
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share
Discussion: Gizmodo
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Production Delays Mean iPad Inventories May Be Tight at Launch  —  When Apple's new iPad slate begins to arrive at market later this month, limited availability may leave some early adopters empty-handed-assuming it goes on sale this month at all.  —  In a research note this morning …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook Users Prefer Broadcast Media  —  A couple of weeks ago, I posted an entry about Facebook becoming the largest news reader.  Facebook does send more traffic to News and Media sites than Google News but looking more closely at the data, I noticed that the two sites send traffic …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to show off new ‘Mobile Surface’ at TechFest 2010  —  It looks like Microsoft has finally figured out how to turn its table-sized multi-touch Surface computer into a more portable experience.  —  Microsoft is planning to demonstrate this week at its employee-only Microsoft Research showcase …
Pew Internet:
Understanding the Participatory News Consumer  —  Overview  —  In the digital era, news has become omnipresent.  Americans access it in multiple formats on multiple platforms on myriad devices.  The days of loyalty to a particular news organization on a particular piece of technology in a particular form are gone.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Series Seed Documents-With an Assist From Andreessen Horowitz-To Help Entrepreneurs With Legal Hairballs  —  Series Seed Documents, templated term sheets for entrepreneurs to use for seed-stage deals, will be launched today, part of an effort by Silicon Valley lawyer Ted Wang and pushed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Discussion: PE Hub Blog and Tech Beat, Thanks:atul
Tim Hrenchir / Topeka Capital-Journal:
‘Topeka to be Google, Kansas’  —  Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten signed a proclamation Monday calling for Topeka to be known for the month of March as “Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics.”  —  Bunten told city council members about the proclamation prior to a special meeting …
Discussion: TechCrunch, TechFlash and Fox News
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Interview: Why Platial Shut Down and What That Means for Geo  —  Today the news came out that Platial, a first-generation map mashup startup, was throwing in the towel on its product and encouraging users to export their data.  The company actually ran out of money 18 months ago …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobclix Acquires iPhone App Sales Analytics Software Heartbeat  —  Mobile ad network Mobclix has made its first acquisition.  The startup is buying up Heartbeat, a cloud-based SaaS that helps iPhone app developers manage and access sales data, crash reporting, ongoing hourly usage stats, reviews and rankings.
Discussion: paidContent and Mobclix
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Dropcam puts home surveillance in the cloud  —  Last August, I wrote about converting a Webcam into a home security tool, and truth be told, the results were underwhelming.  Sure there are services and specialty hardware that let you do it with very little setup, but there continued …
Discussion: CrunchGear and VentureBeat
Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:
Additional thoughts on last week's lawsuit, or How a Conspiracy Theory is Born  —  (The following is a continuation of my blog post from last Friday.)  —  I have said that false allegations that Yelp manipulates reviews for money ignore empirical evidence to the contrary and instead rely on conspiracy theories.
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
‘Salmon,’ Google's Open Source Social Web Aggregator  —  Google engineers and the open source community have begun laying the groundwork to support an open social Web.  The group has been working on a protocol that would aggregate conversations at the source, bring them back to any Web site related …
Discussion: Andy Beard, Thanks:chrismessina
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
How AT&T Plans to Keep SXSW From Swamping Its Network  —  Smartphones, including iPhones, were all the rage at SxSW in 2009.  —  Last year, the hordes of South by Southwest-attending geeks toting iPhones blew out the AT&T network around the convention center in Austin …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Dancing tot prevails over UMG in YouTube fair use case  —  The mother of a dancing toddler is dancing after winning a closely watched copyright case.  US District Judge Jeremy Fogel granted partial summary judgment to Stephanie Lenz last week in her battle against Universal Music Group …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
Q4 Wireless Scorecard: It's Good to Be the King  —  The prepaid guys pummeled each other during the fourth quarter of 2009 while the nation's two largest carriers enjoyed their view from the throne.  Users continued to move toward prepaid thanks to an ultra-competitive prepaid market …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Details How It Tests Code, But Won't Say How It Misdelivered Private Messages  —  Last week, Facebook was affected by a glitch that sent what appear to be thousands of private messages to the wrong people — a very alarming security breach given the amount of data 400 million users have entrusted to the service.
Peter Corbett / iStrategyLabs:
Apps for the Army - a first of its kind app dev contest for .mil  —  Disclaimer: iStrategyLabs does not represent the views and options of the US Army.  The views and options contained in this post are to be taken solely as those of Peter Corbett, CEO, iStrategyLabs.
Discussion: InformationWeek
Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
Comcast's iPhone App Now Lets You Record On-The-Go; BlackBerry App Next  —  Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has updated its mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to enable customers to update their DVR settings remotely, including the ability to search and schedule new recordings, cancel recordings and sort TV listings by category.
Discussion: Comcast Voices and IntoMobile
 
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Edward Kim:
An Android Success Story: $13,000/month App Sales
Discussion: TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb
Andrew Lyle / Neowin.net:
Microsoft Research working on real-time phone conversation translation
Discussion: TechFlash
Christina Warren / Mashable!:
Movieclips Makes Legally Licensed Movie Clips Available Internationally
Discussion: NewTeeVee and TechCrunch
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek:
Google Sync Down, Affecting iPhone, WinMo, S60
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Who Are the Contenders for the Federal Cloud?
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and CNET News
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Opera's Jon Von Tetzchner on browser choice, the iphone and Google
Discussion: TechFlash, Guardian and Guardian
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Aggressively Pursues ‘Joint Venture’ Trademark
Discussion: Computerworld, Pulse2 and 9 to 5 Mac
Leslie Patton / Associated Press:
New EU rules limit Internet charges for cell phone
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Putting the Web in a Spreadsheet
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why Google makes it easy to leave Google
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book
Discussion: AppleInsider, VentureBeat and Gizmodo, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Ian King / Bloomberg:
E-Readers' Price May Fall to $150 This Year With New Chip, Freescale Says
Discussion: Fast Company and Digital Daily
 

 
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