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Accel and Greylock Appoint Jeff Weiner as Executive in Residence — Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, leading venture capital firms, today jointly announced the appointment of Jeff Weiner as an Executive in Residence with both firms. His new role becomes effective in early September 2008.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sue Decker's Email To Yahoo Employees On Weiner's Departure — The news is now official - Yahoo's EVP Jeff Weiner has officially bailed. President Sue Decker addresses the troops in an all hands email, below. These types of emails leak regularly, of course (I actually think companies …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
As BoomTown Already Said, Weiner Moves to Accel and Greylock — Accel Partners and Greylock Partners will officially announce today that Yahoo Network head Jeff Weiner will become an executive in residence at both Silicon Valley venture capital firms. — That obviously means Weiner …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Why Saul Hansell is wrong on AP — In most cases, I'm all for a dose of rationality and common sense amid the short-attention-span Drama 2.0 that makes up much of the blogosphere. That's exactly what New York Times blogger Saul Hansell is selling in his latest post at the Bits blog …
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden / Making Light:The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google — My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only opportunity left was (re)search - i.e. what one does after the basic search.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google easily extending dominance to mobile search market — Google managed to spank the rest of the mobile search world during the first quarter of 2008, according to data from Nielsen Mobile. The search giant managed to capture 61 percent of the mobile search market in the first four months of the year …
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it — And to think Microsoft used to be popular with the developer crowd... Not anymore. A recent report from Evans Data shows fewer than one in 10 software developers writing applications for Windows Vista this year. Eight percent.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:Windows XP era draws to a close
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPod/iPhone join United's mile-high club — United Airlines has become the first US air carrier to offer iPod and iPhone connectivity within its in-flight entertainment systems, the airline announced today. — The company's solution allows passengers to watch and listen to their media on the 15.4-inch screen available at their seat.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:$15 to check a bag, but free to charge an iPod
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Ineligible AT&T Customers Need to Pay Full Price For iPhone 3G — AT&T just gave us new details on how their upgrading plans will work for the iPhone 3G. The company is treating the iPhone 3G pretty much just like any other phone in that people who are ineligible for upgrades have to pay the full, unsubsidized price for the phone.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
BlackBerry Javelin in the wild — As we understand it, RIM's so-called Javelin is a new BlackBerry completely devoid of 3G that's currently on track for a mid-2009 (yes, 2009) launch. That sucks, yes, but at least it'll look mighty purty if these shots of an engineering dummy in the wild are any indication.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's iPhone 3G Is The New iPod, Sales To Triple (AAPL) — The iPhone 3G's faster speeds, cheaper price, apps platform, and wider distribution will lead to a breakout holiday quarter for Apple (AAPL), reminiscent of the iPod's December quarter in 2005, when sales tripled year-over-year …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Demand for Data Puts Engineers in Spotlight — In Silicon Valley, the stars have long been charismatic marketing visionaries and cool-nerd software wizards. By contrast, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers were traditionally regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Vuze Becomes Social, Tears Down Walls — The popular BitTorrent media platform Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, is releasing a major update later today that offers some social features as well as a web-wide search functionality. Users of the new client version 3.1 will be able to connect …
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
The Browser Is The New Operating System — A couple of weeks ago TechCrunch had a good write-up of the move toward open local storage APIs in web browsers. As websites have come to look more and more like applications rather than static pages, they've begun to bump up against the limits of what today's web browsers can do.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web — One of the biggest revelations at WWDC was quietly unveiled in a session on Friday morning entitled “Building Native Look-and-Feel Web Applications Using SproutCore.” While Apple maintained high security during the entire NDA-sealed WWDC session …
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Apple settles patent suit over iPhone visual voice mail — Apple has settled a patent-infringement lawsuit over the visual voice mail system used in the iPhone by signing a license for the technology in question. — Klausner Technologies sued Apple and AT&T last December …
