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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook fires up IM, ratchets up privacy — CNET News.com's Dan Farber co-wrote this report. — Social network Facebook will roll out more extensive privacy controls Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, as well as an instant-messaging service soon after, representatives from the company announced during …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming — Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application - called Facebook Chat - that has been rumored since last week.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:Facebook Announcement Notes: Launching Friend List Privacy Tonight; Chat in 2 Weeks
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Significant new features coming to Facebook: More privacy, and chat
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Facebook Ready To Pass MySpace In Worldwide Traffic
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Investor Presentation Details Financial Plan — Management Reaffirms First Quarter and Full Year 2008 Outlook — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today filed an investor presentation that details the Company's three-year financial plan and strategic initiatives which are expected …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Yahoo's Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent By Focusing …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Yahoo: Q1 Fine, Here's Our Awesome Plan!
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Apple:
About Security Update 2008-002 — This document describes Security Update 2008-002, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads. — For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until …
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Apple:
About the Safari 3.1 Update — Installation — To update to Safari 3.1, use Apple Software Update or a standalone installer. You only need to use one of these methods to update your computer. — Software Update — Software Update will automatically check for the latest Apple software using the Internet.
Bill Evans / Apple:
Apple Releases Safari 3.1 — The World's Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows — Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3.1, the world's fastest web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2.
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update — Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 - you can now do so! We've seen quite a bit of questions in our comments so we want to communicate …
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Ramesh Balakrishnan / Google LatLong:
It's your world. Map it. — We realize that you know your neighborhood best. So to provide the most accurate maps possible, Google Maps is open to user edits. People have moved markers of their homes and businesses all around the U.S. and Australia, making Maps work even better.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Maps, Wiki-Style — Google is getting more comfortable with its inner wiki. It is now allowing anyone in the U.S., Australia, or New Zealand to improve Google Maps by editing places for everyone else to see. So if a restaurant listed on a map of your local neighborhood has closed or moved, you can correct the map.
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Nick Wingfield / Business Technology:
Idling on the iPhone — There are already a lot of professionals clinging to their iPhones, and there may soon be even more as Apple rolls out a bunch of new features in the coming months geared towards business users. But a new report out today shows how, for the time being at least …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Is venture capital's love affair with Web 2.0 over? — Silicon Valley remains the hotbed of Web 2.0 activity, but the hipness of start-ups with goofy names is starting to cool in the face of economic reality. — Dow Jones VentureSource on Tuesday released numbers of venture capital activity …
Molly Peterson / Bloomberg:
U.S. Airwaves Bids Total $19.6 Billion; Auction Ends — The most lucrative airwaves sale in U.S. history ended today with bids totaling $19.6 billion, underscoring demand from AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless for spectrum that will bolster Internet services on mobile phones.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The TechMeme killer or the Google Reader killer? — I just switched all my home pages off of TechMeme to FriendFeed. — I find that TechMeme has become a Google News killer. All I see on it is big media companies (including me, who works at Fast Company).
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cogent CEO: Peering Breakdown Is Telia's Fault — If you read the comments and channel the outrage expressed by Internet users in Nordic and Baltic nations over the Internet peering breakdown between TeliaSonera and Cogent Communications, you'll get the impression that the latter is the devil incarnate.
Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Fear and doubt spread in Silicon Valley — The investment banking crisis on Wall Street is already drying up the flow of capital to Silicon Valley, and while money should find new ways to reach local startups, a cash drought of unknown duration and severity is under way.
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Kate Greene / Technology Review:
Long-Distance Wi-Fi — Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away. — Intel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away …
Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
