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Wall Street Journal:
Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones — Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that's far from the limit of the Internet giant's wireless ambitions — which could include running its own mobile network.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Huge, Risky Wireless Plan Could Crush Cash Flow — In awe about how much Google has spent on capital expenditures in recent years? ($3.9 billion in the last eight quarters). You ain't seen nothing yet. — According to the WSJ, Google is indeed preparing to bid …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
J Allard: Microsoft's Plan to Be King of All Media — In November 1994, I had breakfast with Nathan Myhrvold, then the chief technology officer of Microsoft. He talked about how the soon-to-be-introduced MSN online service would best America Online. Central to his thinking was that MSN …
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Henry Blodget / The Huffington Post:
Microsoft: Hallucinating...Or About to Buy Yahoo? — I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that Microsoft division president Kevin Johnson is not a moron. I'm also going to assume that, when Johnson said yesterday that Microsoft plans to grow its Internet search share from 10 percent …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft (MSFT) Still Hallucinating About Online Ad Future? — Reuters reports that Microsoft (MSFT) division president Kevin Johnson added more detail to Microsoft's online ad ambitions at a UBS conference yesterday. Specifically, he said that within 3-5 years, Microsoft's goal is to become …
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Internet Outsider, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Reuters, Clickety Clack, WebProNews, HipMojo.com, Search Engine Land and WinBeta
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
FBN: "Apple Buying AMD!" Wait, Scratch That. "Abu Dubai!" — At 9:27 this morning, Fox Business Morning for Breakfast co-anchor Alexis Glick eagerly reported Apple (AAPL) had taken an 8% stake in AMD. Fox's guest contributor, Charles Payne, immediately analyzed the deal and pronounced it a brilliant move for both parties.
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Digital Daily, Crave, Internet Outsider, New York Times, Valleywag, CNET News.com and Reuters
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Fast Company:
Hacking the iPhone … While researching Fast Company's December/January cover story I ran across a startling claim: some computer security professionals were boasting that they could turn an iPhone into a piece of spyware that can intercept a target's voice mail and e-mail, hijack its Safari browser …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Turning the iPhone Into a SpyPhone — In a demonstration of what can happen when someone hacks your iPhone (or any computer-like phone, for that matter), Fast Company commissioned a security expert to to show what is possible: … The Metasploit hack refernced above has since been closed in the latest patch to the iPhone's software.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Look, ma, no servers — Robert Scoble notes the rise of "the serverless Internet company" that can launch and run a webwide business through the window of a browser. He writes of a recent conversation he had with Max Haot, the CEO of Mogulus, a site that lets people produce and broadcast video programs:
Yiwyn / FORTUNE: Techland:
AdSense developer leaves Google — By Yi-Wyn Yen — Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant's most profitable ventures has left to start his own company. — "I've been having the itch to do something entrepreneurial for awhile now …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple considering raise for Jobs? — After years of drawing just a dollar in salary, Apple CEO Steve Jobs could be in store for a raise. — Apple filed its annual report for its 2007 fiscal year Thursday afternoon, and hinted in a section about executive compensation that Jobs could be in for some real money fairly soon.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell's XPS ONE now on sale — Shortly after being leaked, revealed, unclothed and paraded around in public, Dell's 20-inch XPS ONE is finally available to the masses. Up now on company's webstore are four pre-configured systems, with the high-ender rocking a Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 processor …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For Wikia Search; First Screen Shots Shown In South Africa — It was eleven months ago that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales first mentioned his vision for a people-powered search engine that would eventually launch under his for profit startup, Wikia.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Apple's Social Media Hell - Why it Needs to Repent — At the recent BlogWorld Expo, I discussed two companies that "get" social media and one that doesn't. The two that get it were Nike and Dell. Nike's excellent community efforts-especially Nike+-and Dell's efforts with forums and blogs …
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Scobleizer, Webomatica, The Mac Observer, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Mark Evans and Macsimum News
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
My Chumby is here — I've activated my black leather Chumby named Robusto, and as I write this, it's downloading a software update through wifi. — First impression: This is a breakthough device, kind of like the Cobalt Qube was in the mid-late 90s. — 1. They use BitTorrent to distribute updates.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Is the VW Space Up! interface developed by Apple? — Nice interior huh? And how 'bout that 7-inch touchscreen display slapped onto the center console. Pretty sweet right? You're looking at the inside of VW's third iteration of their Space Up! — the Space Up! blue — just revealed at the LA auto show.
