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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe “not up to Apple's standards” — In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple's standards.” The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe's flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch.
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Digital Daily, IT Project Failures, Gizmodo, The Register, Guardian Unlimited, Data Center Knowledge, AppleInsider, Boing Boing Gadgets, BloggingStocks, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, The Mac Observer, CrunchGear, The iPhone Blog, Cult of Mac, MobileCrunch, last100, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, GottaBeMobile, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Switched, Engadget and Digg
PR Newswire:
AT&T Launches Global ‘Next-Generation’ Utility Computing Service — AT&T COMPUTING PLATFORM, Global IP network delivers ‘Pay-for-use’ service capabilities to businesses — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T - News) today announced the global launch of AT&T Synaptic Hosting(SM), its next-generation utility …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T joins the cloud computing game — AT&T said Tuesday that it will offer cloud computing services via a new service dubbed AT&T Synaptic Hosting. — The telecom giant described Synaptic as a “next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.”
Andrew Lavallee / Wall Street Journal:AT&T to Be Provider Of ‘Cloud Computing’
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR — RECORDING TV shows — and skipping the commercials that come with them — may become more pervasive in the wake of a new court ruling that blesses a new networked form of digital video recorder. — The United States Court of Appeals …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft launching two security initiatives at Black Hat conference — [D.T. note: I'll be leaving today for the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas. Be sure to check for a variety of security stories during the week.] — Microsoft is launching two initiatives aimed at improving …
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Microsoft makes daring vulnerability sharing move — LAS VEGAS — Starting in October, Microsoft will start sharing details on software vulnerabilities with security vendors ahead of Patch Tuesday under a daring new program aimed at reducing the window of exposure to hacker attacks.
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Between the Lines
Kaspersky Lab Weblog:
Social engineering on Twitter — This week it's Twitter's turn to host an attack - one that is targeting both Twitter users and the Internet community at large. In this case it's a malicious Twitter profile twitter.com/[skip]/ with a name that is Portuguese for ‘pretty rabbit’ which has a photo advertising a video with girls posted.
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The Register, Zero Day, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Guardian Unlimited, jd/adobe, Profy.Com, Dancho Danchev's Blog, WebProNews and TwitPwn
Google Earth Blog:
Marriage Proposal in Street View! — Google decided to take some new Street View images at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. This time they must have let the employees know, as there are many Googlers lining the street. They must have given advance warning, because some people came prepared.
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Search Engine Land
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Stephen Chau / Google LatLong:More streets in more places — Earlier this summer we launched …
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Google Earth Blog, WebProNews, Webware.com, Google Blogoscoped and Sydney Morning Herald
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To “Inspire And Engage” Community — Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. — Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening.
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The Universal Desktop, Ryan Stewart, Adaptive Path, Technologizer, Mozilla Labs and The Inquisitr
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Friendster Lives: New Cash, New C.E.O. and a New Strategy? — Don't count Friendster out yet. — The pioneering social network, surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in most of the world, is still going strong in Asia, and now it plans to build on its success there.
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Delta Newsroom:
Delta to Become Only Major U.S. Airline to Offer Broadband Wi-Fi Access on Entire Domestic Mainline Fleet — Aircell's Gogo inflight Internet service to be available in first and economy classes on more than 330 Delta aircraft in 2009, the most expansive inflight broadband offering of any U.S. air carrier
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:Delta to roll out Aircell's GoGo service across entire fleet
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Gizmodo
AppleInsider:
Apple releases iPhone, iPod touch 2.0.1 Software Updates — Apple on Monday evening released iPhone 2.0.1 Software Update, the first maintenance and security update for iPhone 3Gs and first-generation iPhones running iPhone Software 2.0. iPod touch 2.0.1 has also been released.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn, like Facebook, is letting employees sell some stock early — LinkedIn is letting employees sell up to twenty percent of their vested stock options at a $500 million valuation, I've learned from a source. Another source tells me that the plan was announced at a recent company meeting, but they didn't give me the details.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation
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The Equity Kicker, Profy.Com, Startup Meme, Furrier.org, Pulse 2.0, metarand, Webware.com, Digital Daily, WebProNews, Valleywag, The Social Times, Inside Facebook, Darren Herman and Joe Duck
Tenzin Pema / Reuters:
Internet companies agree on China code of conduct: report — (Reuters) - U.S. technology giants Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, in talks with other Internet companies and human-rights groups, have reached an agreement on a voluntary code of conduct for activities in China …
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Startup Meme
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Larrabee: Intel's biggest leap since the Pentium Pro — Since the primitive 4004 chip first designed for a line of calculators, Intel has been a processor company. And in all of the company's decades of processor design and fabrication, Intel has seen only one truly disruptive change …
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AnandTech, Guardian Unlimited, The ACM Portal, Intel, Electronista, Hacking Cough, Forbes and GigaOM
David Griner / The Social Path:
Is Google's PG-13 virtual world doomed to be NC-17? — There's just no denying that our world is full of perverts. Thankfully, we have social norms, prison and pepper spray to keep them at bay. — Not so in the virtual world, where pervs run wild and free.
BBC:
Core problem — We need more details about the security fixes Apple is releasing, says regular commentator Bill Thompson. — The computer manufacturer formerly known as “Apple Computer” changed its name to Apple Inc eighteen months ago, reflecting the growing importance to its profitability …
