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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
What May Be Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches — Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing on Apple's latest smartphone may stem from an Infineon chip. A fix is on the way — Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple's iPhone 3G have sparked a wave of debate in the blogosphere over the root cause of the problems.
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Netflix Goes Dark And Finds It's No Place To Be — It started this morning with an email apology from online movie rental powerhouse Netflix, confirming to its 8.4 million users that the company was suffering a shipping and distribution outage. — I called the company this morning …
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix Suffers Major Outage — Netflix Inc. is experiencing a serious disruption to its DVD rental business that has prevented the company from mailing movies to most of its customers since Tuesday. — Steve Swasey, a spokesman for the Los Gatos, Calif., company, described the cause …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Netflix users suffering service's longest outage ever — Netflix, and its customers, are currently experiencing the worst system failure in the DVD shipper's history. The company shipped no discs on Tuesday, only “a few” yesterday, and so far none today. Affected customers are receiving e-mails telling them their discs are delayed.
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 — Est. $825K Sales In First Week — Console game developers — people who make games for the Xbox, PlayStation, etc. — have mostly been big companies — EA, Activision, etc. — because of the high cost of game development and retail distribution.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already? — I've got some bad news for you if you're addicted to the micro-messaging service Twitter and don't live in the United States, Canada or India: You're about to get shafted.
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:Changes for Some SMS Users—Good and Bad News
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Nancy Gohring / Network World:
Facebook faces class-action suit over Beacon — A class-action suit filed in California charges Facebook and a handful of other companies, including Blockbuster, Fandango and Overstock, with violating online privacy and computer fraud laws related to Facebook's controversial Beacon system.
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:Facebook Faces Class Action Suit Over Beacon Ad System
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Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Heinen settles with SEC over Apple option backdating complaint — In doing so, Heinen neither admitted or denied the Commission's allegations. — According to the complaint, “Heinen caused Apple to fraudulently backdate two large options grants to senior executives of Apple …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software — SAN FRANCISCO — A legal dispute involving model railroad hobbyists has resulted in a major courtroom victory for the free software movement also known as open-source software. — In a ruling Wednesday, the federal appeals court …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T Mulls Watching You Surf — AT&T is “carefully considering” monitoring the Web-surfing activities of customers who use its Internet service, the company said in a letter in response to an inquiry from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. — While the company said it hadn't tested …
Christopher Price / PhoneNews.com:
MacBook Air Revision Imminent, Penryn, More Power — PhoneNews.com can confirm that Apple is preparing to release an new revision of the MacBook Air. While that in and of itself is not a surprise to many, we can confirm some of the specifications of the unit. — Much of the MacBook Air's external design will not change.
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Markus Jakobsson / Markus Jakobsson's blog:
What is worse than reusing passwords? — 9 I like it! — Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do - whether you know it or not. — The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as …
Alex Davis / Courier-Journal:
Courier-Journal to lay off about 15, leave other jobs vacant — The Courier-Journal will lay off about 15 employees and leave other positions vacant as part of a broader cost-cutting move by the newspaper's parent, Gannett Co., the newspaper announced today.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Psystar ‘Definitely Still Shipping’ Mac Clones — In further defiance of Apple, Psystar also this week said it is making Leopard OS restore disks available to its customers. — In the latest sign that it has no intention of backing down in its copyright dispute with computing giant Apple …
Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Sources: HTC's Google Android phone is “weeks away” from launching — Over the past few days, we've gotten multiple confirmations from reliable sources that the first phone built on Google's Android platform will launch in the next several weeks. It will be an HTC phone, likely the HTC Dream …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
One month later: Google Lively? Not so much — In July, Google released Lively, a “Second Life in the browser” plug-in that lets anyone embed a basic 3D chat realm on a website or blog. We strolled through Google's new social world back then and found that, possibly as a result of the …
Mary A. C. Fallon / DEMO.com:
JAJAH calls wake up computers powered by new Intel boards — Internet telephony company JAJAH, Inc. (DEMOfall 06) of Mountain View, CA today introduced an application that uses Intel Corp.'s new “remote wake” technology to turn on Windows-based computers to make and accept online calls.
