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CNET News:
Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe — Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.
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VentureBeat, Between the Lines, Computerworld, Fortune, WMPoweruser.com, Erictric, Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent, EverythingiCafe, TiPb, AppleInsider, NBC Bay Area, QuickPWN, Maximum PC, MediaFile, Gadget Lab, Technologizer, Neowin.net, Yahoo! News, DailyTech, TUAW, DailyFinance, iLounge, Geek.com, MacRumors, Webomatica, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Daily, Phones Review, Edible Apple, iPhone Savior, The Loop, PalmAddicts, PC World and The Awl, Thanks:beet_tv
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Blippy cofounder responds to credit card leak: “It's a lot less bad than it looks” — Earlier today, VentureBeat broke the news that some members of Blippy, a social-sharing site for shoppers, had their credit card numbers published to Google by Blippy's servers.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, eWeek, The Consumerist, Switched, paidContent and TechCrunch
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Greg / yardley.ca:
The tech press isn't either — Blippy, a service that lets you share your purchases with others, was just called out by Mashable for exposing its users' credit card numbers to a search engine. Since Mashable is widely-read, I start hearing from all over that Blippy released …
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Official Blippy Blog, Black Web 2.0, Erictric, p2pnet, Lockergnome Blog Network and GigaOM
Brad Stone / New York Times:
For Web's New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point
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VentureBeat, The Register, MediaPost, the Econsultancy blog, Yahoo! News, The Tech Herald …, The Awl and Silicon Alley Insider
Kevin Thau / Twitter Blog:
Cloudhopping — Twitter was inspired by SMS and we continue to embrace this simple but ubiquitous technology. In fact, Twitter's 140 character limit was designed specifically to allow for any tweet to be read in its entirety whether you're using a rudimentary mobile phone, or a more sophisticated Internet enabled device.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Palm Shake-Up Imminent, Rubinstein May Be Out — Palm right now is a disaster. Its sales are going nowhere, its market share is plummeting, and try as it might, it can't even find a buyer. Industry sources tell us that a major restructuring and management shakeup is imminent and CEO Jon Rubinstein may be replaced.
Dan / UNEASYsilence:
CONFIRMED: Fusion Garage SOLD ONLY 64 JooJoo Devices — STUPID STUPID Fusion Garage. When you email your customers use the BCC field rather then the CC field! — This morning, Fusion Garage emailed all their customers asking for their experience using the JooJoo.
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Dear Facebook & Google: We Are Not Your Pawns - Enough With The Auto Opt-In! — Over the past few months, both Facebook and Google had followed an alarming trend of opting people into things rather than letting them chose themselves. Fair to say, I've had enough of all that. I don't think I'm alone.
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Caterpillar Cowboy, blogs.ft.com, eWeek, Webomatica, Switched, Technologizer, Computerworld, Conversation Agent, GigaOM and broadstuff
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Shenaz Zack / Google Public Policy Blog:
Content ID and Fair Use — (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog) — Over the past decade, the evolution of the Internet has altered the landscape for both traditional media companies and the doctrine of fair use, and the media industry has tried to keep up.
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Open Video Alliance, Between the Lines, Social Network, Mashable!, Tech Eye and VatorNews
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Google highlights fair use defense to YouTube takedowns
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VentureBeat
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Gizmodo Caught In Copyright Crossfire — At TorrentFreak we keep a close eye on the DMCA takedown requests that are received by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. These are usually sent out by music and film companies but last week we saw them being joined by the Gawker Media-owned weblog Gizmodo.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek Eee Pad to hit channel in July — Asustek Computer chairman Jerry Shen has announced, at a conference in Taiwan, that the company will introduce its tablet PC, the Eee Pad, at Computex 2010, scheduled between June 1-5, and is aiming to launch the device in retail channels …
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Boy Genius Report, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, CrunchGear, Pocketables, The Tech Report, Obsessable, CNET News, Liliputing, iPad News Hub, Maximum PC, TG Daily, Go Rumors, Gizmodo, Tech Eye, TechSpot, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, SlashGear, I4U News, Techland, Gadgetell and Softpedia News, Thanks:aczafra
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Google Dashes Hopes of Free iPhone Turn-by-Turn GPS — Google has denied the latest rumors that the search giant will bring free turn-by-turn GPS navigation on the Apple iPhone, although the features could come in the future to other (unspecified) mobile platforms.
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Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Fast Company, Google Watch, DailyTech, Pocket-lint, Insanely Great Mac, Download Squad, TiPb, DVICE, Nieuws, Phones Review, TheAppleBlog, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Map Room, MacStories, MacNN, Techland, Phone Scoop, Erictric, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, MediaPost, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, FierceMobileContent, SlashGear, EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, The Next Web, MacUser and The Loop, Thanks:thepimpofsound
UM Newsdesk:
Students Addicted to Social Media - New UM Study — COLLEGE PARK, Md. - American college students today are addicted to media, describing their feelings when they have to abstain from using media in literally the same terms associated with drug and alcohol addictions: In withdrawal …
jballer:
Gizmodo's Trade Secret Liability — A number of sources have turned to Ian Betteridge's thoughtful analysis of the Gizmodo saga. I believe that, because he failed to address California law, Ian was too quick to dismiss the possibility of trade secret claims by Apple.
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TUAW
Markcuban / blog maverick:
Is Facebook the new internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it ? — A question for you. When was the last time you surfed the net ? Can you remember when you just clicked around looking to discover new sites or a site to occupy your time ? Now ask yourself when was the last time you sat …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why We Need an Open “Like” Standard — Mark Zuckerberg in his keynote at Facebook's f8 conference this week did his best to convince attendees that the launch of “social plugins” powering a billion or more “Like” buttons across the web was the best thing that could ever happen to the Internet.
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Robert X. Cringely's blog
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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Understanding the Open Graph Protocol
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VentureBeat, O'Reilly Radar, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, SiliconANGLE, Stay N' Alive, Ars Technica, A VC, Continuations, @vanelsas and The Praized Blog
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Reader Adds Support for Video and Audio Tags — Google's feed reader started to support the video and audio tags from feeds. The only popular browser that doesn't support the two tags is Internet Explorer, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to play videos without plug-ins in all the other browsers.
