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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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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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DSLreports, AIRLINE BIZ, CrunchGear, Switched, dailywireless.org, Gizmodo, Engadget, localmobilesearch.net, WebProNews, MobileCrunch and Telecom Trends
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:The Captain Has Turned Off the “No Streaming” Sign
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E-Commerce Times
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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Google Blogoscoped, Google LatLong, Search Engine Land, Natural Search Blog, James Fee GIS Blog and WebProNews
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:How Image-to-Text Could Be Used in Google Street View
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Screenwerk
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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TechCrunch, The Register, Dancho Danchev's Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews, Profy.Com, Zero Day, Guardian Unlimited and TwitPwn
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BBC:
Hi-tech criminals target Twitter — Micro blogging site Twitter is the latest target of cyber criminals who are increasingly finding fertile ground on social networks. — A fake Twitter profile with a malicious payload has been spotted by security firm Kaspersky.
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The Social Web
Brad Stone / Bits:
Friendster Lives: New Cash, New Boss 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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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Friendster gets $20 million, ex-Googler as CEO — Updated at 7:24 a.m. PT on Tuesday with comment from Richard Kimber. — Brush off your Monty Python and the Holy Grail references: although long forgotten by social-media junkies in the United States, Friendster is not dead yet.
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.”
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Lynn Tornabene / Google:
DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising for NBC Universal Digital Media — DoubleClick In-Stream powers video advertising in Flash, RealMedia, Windows Media and now Silverlight 2 players — Today, DoubleClick, a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft, Google Play Nice: DoubleClick To Serve Silverlight Ads (MSFT, GOOG) — Microsoft (MSFT) and Google may be bitter rivals, but sometimes a deal makes sense for both companies. Like today's announcement: Google's (GOOG) DoubleClick is now capable of serving video ads …
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
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Rocketboom Inks Seven-Figure Distribution Deal With Sony — Rocketboom, the daily video blog, is turning over its distribution and ad sales to Sony Pictures Television in return for a seven-figure guarantee plus a share of revenues. Rocketboom will be distributed on Sony's Crackle video site …
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NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent.org, TomsTechBlog.com, Dembot and Online Video Watch
Bill Ray / The Register:
iPhone security and battery life are crap — Analysts have decreed that the new iPhone's lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use. — The conclusions come in a nine-page research note from Gartner, as reported by Computerword.
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 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Shareholder Vote: Like Florida, Except More Confusing! — All Yahoo needs now is for former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to show up and start recounting votes. — It could happen, given all the crazy characters who have been drawn to the much-beleaguered Internet company like a magnet in 2008.
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Forbes, Search Engine Watch Blog, Furrier.org, MediaFile, Breakout Performance and TG Daily
Micron Technology, Inc.,:
Micron Introduces Next-Generation RealSSD™ Solid State Drives For Enterprise Server And Notebook Applications — Micron Technology, Inc., today introduced its next-generation RealSSD solid state drives (SSDs) for enterprise computing and notebook applications.
