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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple developing full-fledged digital lifestyle fitness companion — Electronics maker Apple Inc. is developing a digital fitness companion system based around its iPhone and iPod touch players aimed a helping americans, and folks in general, live a healthier and more fit lifestyle.
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The Social, Infinite Loop, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Good Morning Silicon Valley, iLounge, WebGuild, CrunchGear, TechRadar.com and From The Head Of Zeus Jones
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Staska / Unwired View:
iPhone. Your Lifestyle Companion — Now that iPhone has almost become an open platform for third party software development, we can expect tons of new exciting applications that will make it into a much more useful thing, then a fancy phone and media player.
InfoWorld:
Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest — It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. — He took the first of three laptop computers — and a $10,000 cash prize — Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
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Crave, Zero Day, DVLabs, Computerworld, MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Engadget
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Can Google Stop the Brain Drain? — It takes more than an army of trained chefs and free lunch to keep Googlers happy. As a new wave of web darlings (such as Facebook) beef up recruiting efforts, high-level Googlers are blowing the joint. Sheryl Sandberg, Ethan Beard (right) …
Chris Williams / The Register:
MPAA copyright punch up knocks out TorrentSpy — Former BitTorrent champ throws in the towel — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — The operators of TorrentSpy, once the most popular BitTorrent tracker, have been forced to permanently shutter the site after losing a battle with rights holders.
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Chester Yung / MarketWatch:
Hong Kong tycoon Li raises personal Facebook investment above $100 mln — HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing said Thursday he has increased his personal investment in social networking site Facebook to more than US$100 million, and might invest even more.
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Coop's Corner, TechCrunch, GigaOM, paidContent.org, Valleywag, VentureBeat, Mashable! and Silicon Alley Insider
Jody Rosen / New York Times:
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison — For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice …
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Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Business Models for Social Networks: Monetizing Social Capital, The Long Tail of Cool, & The Friends List. — Q: Social Networks still Sexy? — Or is the Thrill Gone? — well, what's new folks... turns out Teh Sexy depends on CASH MONEY, G. — which means we probably need to do more work …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Why are we clicking less on Google search ads? — The latest paid-click data for search engines shows that Americans are clicking on paid search ads less than we did last year—not an encouraging trend for the state of online advertising. — For Google alone, which represents about 60 percent …
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InfoWorld:
Apple releases iPhone SDK beta 2 — Apple released on Thursday a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple's development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications.
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One More Thing, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Infinite Loop, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and iPod Observer
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
M'SOFT NOT YET ON BOARD — NO NAMES LINED UP YET FOR YAHOO! — Microsoft has been so cagey about the candidates it plans to nominate to Yahoo!'s board that speculation is mounting that the software giant actually doesn't have anyone lined up. — The word on Wall Street and in technology circles …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
The Next Phase Of Our Company: Scaling From The Inside Out — Some time around late summer last year, about six months after we moved into our (first-ever) office in Santa Monica, I realized we needed to start asking the “BIG S” question for our growing B2B media company: How Do You Scale?
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Watch Out - Adobe Is Slowly Building an Online Empire — The blogosphere was abuzz today with the launch of Adobe's online photo-editing and storage platform, Adobe Photoshop Express. The new tool isn't so much of a web-based version of Photoshop as people had hoped, but more of a simple online photo editor …
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Microsoft Watch, Between the Lines, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Maple Leaf 2.0 and John Nack on Adobe
James McGill / Official Google Maps API Blog:
Street View in the API (or, How I Spent My Summer “Vacation") — For the past three months I have had the great pleasure of working as an intern with the Google Maps API team in Sydney. Unfortunately my time is now up and I must head back to the mundane life of a undergraduate scholar …
PR Newswire:
Comcast and BitTorrent Form Collaboration to Address Network Management, Network Architecture and Content Distribution — Comcast Corporation and BitTorrent, Inc. announced today that they will undertake a collaborative effort with one another and with the broader Internet and ISP community …
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DSLreports, TorrentFreak, IP Democracy, Download Squad, CNET News.com, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Public Knowledge, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, The Great American Blog, Digital Trends, Threat Level, NewTeeVee, P2P Blog, Valleywag, Spectrum Talk, Salon, Zatz Not Funny!, Between the Lines, WebProBlog and Digital Daily
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Blizzard sues over ‘WoW’ bot — We've long known that publishers of massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft don't like it when players mess with the purity of their games. — That's why they routinely issue stern warnings that anyone caught gold farming or buying accounts …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
“If the news is important, it will find me” — Brian Stelter has a great piece in the New York Times that I urge anyone interested in the media business to go and read right now — I'll wait — and that includes reporters, editors and (most of all) managers, and probably IT departments and designers as well.
