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Staska / Unwired View:
iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3.0 or iPhone Nano - a clamshell/flip phone? — When talking about how Apple is gonna take over mobile phone industry, one of the things that is very rarely talked about, is iPhone form factor. — There's a reason we have mobile phones in tens of shapes and sizes, and a number of form factors.
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Engadget, CyberNet, IntoMobile, The Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, LoopRumors and textually.org
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Early Yahoo Postmortem, And Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Prospect Of MicroHoo — If the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo does happen the “postmortems” on Yahoo will come fast and furious. Perhaps the first of these is from the Mercury News, which recounts the history of Google …
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Silicon Alley Insider, HipMojo.com, WebProNews, Mercury News, Electronista and Valleywag
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Reuters:
Google says Microsoft's Yahoo buy might hurt Internet — BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world's leading search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo Inc.
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
Because of Tibet, China Blocks YouTube — China's efforts to tame protests in Tibet and possibly others in its own provinces has spread to the Web, following a familiar pattern that has once again raised a question posed by Seth Mydans of The New York Times during the crackdown in Myanmar:
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Adopts Flash Lite For Windows Mobile As a Stopgap Measure — Flash Lite for mobile phones might not be good enough for Steve Jobs, but Microsoft is less picky. It is licensing Flash Lite for Windows Mobile. This is an acknowledgment of two things: there are a lot of developers …
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Adobe:Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE Licensed by Microsoft
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Beet.TV, Computerworld, Mashable!, Between the Lines, Flash Devices, All about Microsoft, Aral Balkan, Apple 2.0, The Boy Genius Report, Digital Trends, Tech Tracks, CrunchGear, CenterNetworks and Seeking Alpha
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
10 Things I Warned Microsoft About Windows Vista — The imminent real release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is reason enough to broach the question. SP1 is an important milestone for an operating system that bloggers and other critics consistently ridicule.
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Forever Geek
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Online advertiser to settle spam charges for record $2.9 million — An online advertising company accused of luring customers with deceptive offers of “free” iPhones, laptop computers, plasma televisions, and other goods has agreed to pay a record $2.9 million fine as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
CBS to bloggers: Install our widgets, and we'll split the profits — CBS Television Stations has launched a new program to get its local news headlines onto blogs and social-media sites, the CBS division said Monday. — Called the CBS Local Ad Network, it's a way for participating region-focused blogs …
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paidContent.org, CenterNetworks, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, WebProNews, dailywireless.org, PalmAddicts and Lost Remote
Steve Eisenstadt / Eclipse.org:
Eclipse Announces New Runtime Initiative around Equinox — EclipseCon 2008, SANTA CLARA, CA - March 17, 2008 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime.
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Matthew Creamer / AdAge:
Think Different: Maybe the Web's Not a Place to Stick Your Ads — Matthew Creamer Asks Whether We're All Missing the Point When It Comes to the Internet — “Steve Jobs hates the internet.” So jokes a contact of mine whenever he laments what he regards as Apple's relatively paltry investment in web advertising.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Makes DoubleClick Employees Apply To Keep Their Jobs — Nothing like a short honeymoon. A secondhand source reports that Google has devised a new way to welcome employees of acquired companies into the fold: Make them apply to keep their jobs. — Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt …
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Web creator rejects net tracking — The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.
Phil Wainewright / Software as Services:
Ozzie signals Microsoft's surrender to the cloud — Publicly, Microsoft talks up the merits of its ‘software-plus-services’ strategy. In my view the message is bunkum, even though it reflects the reality of Microsoft's business today: mostly software, with a few early-stage service offerings.
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The Enterprise System …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Spitzer Call Girl Threatens News Outlets Over Copyright — from the it-all-comes-back-to-copyright dept — Well, it had to happen sooner or later. With the press going nuts printing photos of the call girl at the center of the Eliot Spitzer affair, her lawyers are suddenly making …
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
802.11n officially makes its way to the Airport Express — Hot on the heels of a leak from the Swiss Apple Store, Apple went ahead and popped out an updated Airport Express this morning. (Please, hold your gasps—we know it's not Tuesday yet.) The new Airport Express …
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123Macmini.com, Listening Post, TidBITS, Digital Trends, Gearlog, TGDaily.com and Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Martian Headsets — You're about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out. It'll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon tea at your grandmother's and wrapped the Mustang around a tree.
