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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy Facebook Stake — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Facebook Inc. about making an investment in the social-networking startup that could value Facebook at $10 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Will MSFT push Yahoo to buy Facebook? — According to the Wall Street Journal, the software behemoth known as the Beast from Redmond is looking at buying between three and five per cent of Facebook for between $300-million and $500-million. As any math whiz (of which I am not one) …
PR Newswire:
Apple today released the following statement: — CUPERTINO, Calif. /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which will likely result …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
How to relock your iPhone before the firmware update — Apple has your unlocked iPhone in their crosshairs. What do you do? This method in no way guarantees that your iPhone will survive the update after being unlocked. If you're risk adverse, you may want to wait a day or two for these instructions to get debugged.
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas:
Apple reps: iPhone warranty will be voided by hacks (third-party native apps) — It's been a point of contention virtually since the iPhone shipped, and especially since hacking the device (by hacking, in this sense, we mean the addition of third-party native applications via the use …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones "permanently inoperable"
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Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:Apple: Next iPhone update could break unlocked phones
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Experience Blog:
Experiencing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta — Today Microsoft is releasing the Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 which was announced by Nick White few weeks ago. I'd like to take the opportunity to share my very own experiences with Windows Vista SP1 Beta running on several PCs of my own.
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:A Warning About the Windows Vista SP1 Beta Standalone Installer
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Ted / Ted's Take:
"PayPal Meets MasterCard" Without The High Fees — MEDIA CONTACT: — Brad Burns — 202-776-1400 — brad.burns@revolution.com — REVOLUTION JOINED BY INDUSTRY LEGENDS AND MAJOR BANKS TO LAUNCH REVOLUTIONARY PAYMENT SYSTEM — Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, Larry Summers, David Pottruck …
beford.org:
Google Vulnerability — Yesterday, I found a new Google.com XSS vulnerability that can be abussed to steal information from Gmail accounts, I've done responsible disclosure of at least 3 vulns to Google, but since I havn't got enough 'motivation', I'll go full disclosure now.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ouch...mEgo Gets Kicked Out Of DEMO Conference — Well this was inevitable I guess. mEgo has been booted out of the DEMO conference. The reason? They showed their stuff at TechCrunch40 last week. Our coverage of them is here. — That's a bit rough on the company …
Brad Stone / NYT:
New York State Investigates Facebook — Another state attorney general is getting tough with Facebook. — In the wake of scrutiny of the hot social network by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, his New York state counterpart, Andrew M. Cuomo, has subpoenaed Facebook asking …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sketchcasting - Another Weapon In The Blogging Arsenal — A new site called Sketchcast launched moments ago - it's a tool for bloggers and others to create a presentation to express an idea using a sketchpad and (optionally) a †sound recording, and then embed it into a website.
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Company Will Monitor Phone Calls to Tailor Ads — Companies like Google scan their e-mail users' in-boxes to deliver ads related to those messages. Will people be as willing to let a company listen in on their phone conversations to do the same? — Pudding Media, a start-up based in San Jose …
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Microsoft Corporation:
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate Evaluation — Note: Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 will be available here shortly. — Click an option below to continue, or to read all of the option descriptions at one time, select the View all descriptions check box. — View all descriptions
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Sling Media To Be Acquired By Echostar; Deal Valued At Approximately $380 Million — This just in ... Echostar (NSDQ: DISH) is acquiring Sling Media in a cash-and-options transaction valued at approximately $380 million. The deal was announced just a few minutes ago.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Mobile Improves the Interface — Gmail updated the mobile version available at m.gmail.com by adding more features from the desktop version. Now you can configure the links to some of your labels and add other views like Spam or Drafts. Next to the messages you'll see a checkboxes …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
WITH NEW LANGUAGE EXPANSION, FRIENDSTER DIGS A HOLE TO CHINA — Social-networking pioneer Friendster might have been losing out to rivals Facebook and MySpace for some time now, but the company isn't giving up any time soon. The San Francisco-based company announced on Monday evening …
Official Google Blog:
It's all about today — A lot of us love video games, and everyone here has their favorite from the latest generation of consoles. We have a game room in our building that happens to have all three of the latest systems: Artem loves Microsoft's Xbox 360, Niv can't part with Sony's Playstation 3 …
