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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
XP SP3 not generally available yet, after all — Microsoft has decided not to release Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 to Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center as planned on April 29. The reason? A last-minute compatibility issue with a Microsoft application — Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System (RMS).
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:Microsoft releases the long-anticipated Windows XP SP3 (updated)
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:UPDATED - XP SP3 available for download from Microsoft
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Scott Moritz / Techland:
AT&T to cut the price of Apple's new iPhone — AT&T (T) is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple (AAPL) iPhone. — When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.
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Ken Liu / CENS.com:
Hon Hai Reported to Make New-Version iPhones for Apple — Foreign institutional investors believed Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. had won orders to make 25 million units of Apple's latest iPhone and would begin to ship the phones in June this year. — The newest version …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Lenovo Parodies MacBook Air Ad For X300 — Most parody videos are lame in the sense that they take one joke and stretch it to 60 seconds, but Lenovo's one joke actually works when properly executed. Not to spoil anything, but it's a send-up of the MacBook Air in favor of Lenovo's own X300.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers — Speculation about Twitter's new round of financing is leading everyone to speculate on Twitter's actual penetration into the “mainstream,” or lack thereof. — Hitwise says web visits have increased 8x in the last year, albeit from a minuscule base.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Hitwise: Twitter traffic is, in fact, going up (but still not big) [Updated] — Updated with Twitter's “real” traffic numbers, below the original post. — Web analytics service Hitwise has just released more data on web traffic to group messaging service Twitter, confirming what many blogs have anecdotally observed.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Street Views To Step-By-Step Driving Directions — The Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google Maps. — For example, when driving from the Empire State Building to Times Square …
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Andy Szybalski / Google LatLong:
Getting from A to B with Street View — Street View lets you virtually behold amazing sights like Yosemite's El Capitan and The World's Largest Rocking Chair without ever leaving your computer. But if you're like me, occasionally you need to go somewhere in real life.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Rejects RIAA's ‘Making Available’ Theory In Infamous Howell Case — The lawsuit of Atlantic v. Howell got a ton of attention late last year when some folks, including the Washington Post, misinterpreted an RIAA filing to suggest that the RIAA had claimed that merely ripping your CD to your computer was file sharing.
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Benjamin J. Romano / The Seattle Times:
Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime — Microsoft has developed a small plug-in device that investigators can use to quickly extract forensic data from computers that may have been used in crimes. — The COFEE, which stands for Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Yep It's Coming... AdSense in RSS Feeds — Late last week, Steve from FeedBurner (owned by Google) posted an entry explaining that you will soon be able to login to your FeedBurner account using your Google account. This isn't really that exciting but it does mean that Google can now tie even more together.
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The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9000: Internal Spec Sheet Answers Your Questions — Enough with the speculation, the rumors, the spokespersons commenting on our blogging abilities — we're setting it all straight right here with this internal RIM doc we just got a hold of. You might be thinking that cover page above …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Mac Messenger still trying to find its voice — Updated at 10:35 a.m. to note that the product has been released. — Microsoft released the latest version of its instant-messaging program for the Mac on Tuesday, though it still continues to trail its Windows counterpart when it comes to features.
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
What I look for in Startups — During the past ten years, what I look for in a startup has changed. — These days I no longer actively look for an opportunity to participate in the “A” round or “B” round of a startup, although I still do that from time to time.
Ashley Phillips / ABCNEWS:
The Revolution Will Be Twittered — From Bloggers to Corporations, Everyone Is ‘Tweeting’ — Before traveling to Egypt to work on his graduate school thesis, James Buck, a 29-year-old American student at the University of California Berkeley, had never heard of the social blogging site Twitter.
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Hey! Ho! Time for Ballmer to Go? — The investment community likes Steve Ballmer. He's competent, aggressive and occasionally crazy. He's been at Microsoft's helm for eight years, during which time the technology landscape has drastically changed several times over.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Up For Grabs: $42 Billion of Newspaper Ad Revenue — How bad are things in the newspaper industry? Don't ask. After another jarring 3.5% decline over the past six months, print-paper circulation will drop to about 50 million this year—the lowest level since 1946 (62 years ago).
