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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down — Below is the full text of the email AOL EVP Kevin Conroy sent out to staff on July 14, outlining the reorganization of his product groups and announcing the “sunsetting” of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Reports: AOL cuts XDrive, Pictures, some blogs
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:More AOL Cost-Cutting: Dumping Properties; Cutting Back On Blogs (TWX)
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Denver Post:
Missing ‘spam king’ kills self, family — BENNETT — Just four days after escaping a federal minimum-security work camp, “Spam King” Eddie Davidson shot his wife and child and wounded a teen-age girl before turning the gun on himself. — Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of gunfire …
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Lester Haines / The Register:
Inquirer celebrates spammer murder-suicide — ‘Yay. No, YAY!’ — Comment There's an air of celebration down at The Inquirer at the news that fugitive spammer Eddie Davidson decided to do the decent thing and kill himself. — Here's our take on the story, but check out the opposition's view on the whole sorry affair.
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Escaped spammer kills himself — Comment Yay. No, YAY! — NOT ALL STORIES have a happy ending, but the tale of escaped spam king Edward “Eddie” Davidson sure does. After walking away from prison, he got a gun, killed his family, then killed himself. — While it is hard not to feel bad …
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Apple beta testing iPhone 2.1 firmware, adding more GPS features — We just got word that Apple has released a beta version of iPhone OS 2.1 to developers. Along with the 2.1 firmware, a new version of the iPhone SDK has been seeded as well, but the new SDK can't be used for submitting applications to the App Store at the moment.
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Apple releases iPhone 2.1 beta to registered developers only — Apple has posted a beta of iPhone OS 2.1 to its iPhone Dev Center. The beta firmware also has a new SDK, allowing developers start working with the new functionality. However, according to several developers …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Android Is For The Masses, iPhone For The Rich — Our network blog last100 has an interesting interview with Nicolas Gramlich, founder of anddev.org - an online community for Android developers. As editor Steve O'Hear notes in his intro, there have been issues with Google's mobile OS of late …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank — Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. — A big part of Google's rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses …
Chris Morris / Forbes:
Doom'ing The iPhone — While he's best known for creating graphics engines that push systems to their limits, game designer John Carmack is spending a lot of time with mobile gaming these days. — The co-founder of id Software is considered one of the creators of the first-person shooter genre …
Dianne See Morrison / paidContent.org:
Italian Prosecutors To Charge Google Execs Over Third-Party Content — Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site. Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a two-year old case …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Bomb Blasts Hit Bangalore, Impact to Be Felt in Silicon Valley — Updated at the bottom: Over the past few years, the quaint and sleepy town of Bangalore has been transformed into a highly compressed version of Silicon Valley, only with worse housing and transportation problems.
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Netflix Announces Q2 2008 Financial Results — Subscribers - 8.4 million Revenue - $337.6 million GAAP Net Income - $26.6 million GAAP EPS - $0.42 per diluted share — Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008.
Daniel AJ Sokolov / heise Security UK:
Speculation over back door in Skype — According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
High-Stakes Race to Unlock a Wider Web — Critics Say New Technology May Hinder TV Signals — The nation's top technology companies have spent millions of dollars and nearly two years building devices, poring over laptops and working in federal labs trying to come up with a new way of …
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Coding Without Comments — If peppering your code with lots of comments is good, then having zillions of comments in your code must be great, right? Not quite. Excess is one way good comments go bad: … I'm constantly running across comments from developers who don't seem to understand …
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Jim Kerstetter / CNET News.com:
Report: MySpace could work with Amazon on music service — Amazon.com could become the e-commerce engine behind the MySpace Music service expected to launch in September, according to a report on TechCrunch. — In April, MySpace, which is already used by young acts trying to promote their music …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it — The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008.
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