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3:40 PM ET, March 27, 2008

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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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Staska / Unwired View:
iPhone. Your Lifestyle Companion
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Donald Melanson / Engadget:   Apple patent apps reveal plans for iPhone as “lifestyle companion”
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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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Comcast Teams Up With BitTorrent and Promises Net Neutrality  —  Comcast has announced that it will lift the ban on BitTorrent traffic, which prevented its users from sharing files using the popular protocol.  The ISP and BitTorrent Inc. will work together on finding customer friendly solutions …
Anna Lindén / nokiasiemensnetworks.com:
Nokia Siemens Networks doubles EDGE data speed  —  Facilitates genuine mobile broadband experience for GSM/EDGE networks  —  Nokia Siemens Networks today launched their downlink Dual Carrier EDGE software solution, ushering the first steps of EDGE Evolution into Nokia Siemens Networks' GSM/EDGE radio portfolio.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coming Soon, Even Faster EDGE Networks  —  With 3G and 4G wireless broadband becoming part of the daily mobile lexicon, who has time for pokey old EDGE networks?  Nokia Siemens Networks, a wireless equipment maker, does and has come up with a new software solution that doubles the EDGE data speeds.
YouTube :: Blog:
YouTube Reveals Video Analytics Tool for All Users  —  Whether a YouTube video has 10 views or 10,000,000, people always want to know the same thing: who's watching this?  Where do viewers come from?  How did they find my video?  —  Finally, we have some answers.
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Tracy Chan / Official Google Blog:
Insight into YouTube videos
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Facebook adds me-too feature - “People You May Know”  —  Facebook has quietly rolled out a new feature called “People You May Know”, which, as the names suggests, attempts to identify members of the social networking site who you likely know but haven't actually “connected” with yet i.e. invited to be a “friend.”
Discussion: BoomTown
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Danny Mendez / Download Squad:
Facebook now suggests “people you may know”
Discussion: AppScout and Inside Facebook
dfes.gov.uk:
Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron Review  —  On 6th September the Prime Minister asked me to conduct an independent review, looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Unveils Webtop Version of Photoshop.  Picnik Is Not Scared.  —  As I alluded to in an earlier post, online photo-editing applications keep getting better as the competition heats up between startups like Picnik and FotoFlexer.  Today, a very large competitor, Adobe …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Worth 1,000 words: Photoshop Express now free and online
Discussion: Download Squad and The Register
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Opera Becomes First Windows Browser To Pass Acid3  —  The Windows browser world has a new compatibility king  —  It looks like Safari's sole reign at the top of the Acid3 standings was rather short lived.  The new co-victor is Opera, maker of the Nintendo Wii and DS browsers …
Discussion: my.opera.com and p2pnet
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Google Watch:
The Sky Is Falling on Google's Paid Clicks  —  The latest paid click report from comScore has financial analysts in a tizzy and eying the leading search and online advertising player with suspicion and not a light undercurrent of dread.  Google's paid click rate grew 3.1 percent year-to-year in February …
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.
Ryan Naraine / eWeek:
Hacker Pours Cold Water on Windows Server 2008 Security Design  —  Argeniss co-founder Cesar Cerrudo has found serious design weaknesses that could allow a skilled hacker to take complete control of the operating system.  —  A hacker picking apart the security model of Microsoft's brand …
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 …
Discussion: Switched
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On  —  Senator Barack Obama's videotaped response to President Bush's final State of the Union address — almost five minutes of Mr. Obama's talking directly to the camera — elicited little attention from newspaper and television reporters in January.
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Silicon chips stretch into shape  —  Normally fragile and brittle silicon chips have been made to bend and fold, paving the way for a new generation of flexible electronic devices.  —  The stretchy circuits could be used to build advanced brain implants, health monitors or smart clothing.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project  —  Chris Pirillo has announced a new, large scale open source CMS project that aims to “de-geekify” website tools (announcement video above).  —  The project will be built on the open source Drupal framework: … I chatted with Pirillo after the announcement.
James A. Kimble / EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA:
Police: Employees steal 332 iPhones  —  SALEM — Two men employed to sell iPhones at the Apple Computer Store in the Mall at Rockingham Park went into business for themselves, stealing 332 of them before being caught by their bosses, police said.  —  Police yesterday arrested Joshua Garrand …
Discussion: Infinite Loop and ifoAppleStore
 
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
SlingPlayer TV-on-Cellphone Coming For Symbian UIQ This Summer
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Blizzard sues over ‘WoW’ bot
Discussion: TechSpot and Ars Technica
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Rumors, speculation of impending 3G iPhone continue to swirl
Discussion: Apple 2.0 and Digital Daily
The Boy Genius Report:
Motorola MING A1800 says, “Whatup BGR?”
John Bowker / Reuters:
Wolfson misses out on Apple players
Discussion: One More Thing
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Glam Media Buys Fashion Site Stylemob
eWeek:
ATandT CEO Says Hard to Find Skilled U.S. Workers
Discussion: DSLreports
PC World:
Anatomy of an Icon: Inside the Apple IIc
Discussion: MacUser
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Guardian hires Yahoo! developer head to build platform
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
$3 million tax cut on Larry Ellison's estate
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bug Labs Founder: Sold Out Of Open-Source Mobile Gadgets
Discussion: Crave and Engadget
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
“Let them use AOL”: upper-class searchers prefer Google
PR Newswire:
JANA Partners Comments on CNET Reorganization
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Safari for Windows: Only for ‘Apple-labeled’ computers?
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
A content suggestion engine for blogging? That could work...
Discussion: MarketingShift
 

 
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Karoline Leavitt, who served as his campaign's press secretary, to be his White House press secretary

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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