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Charles Wiles / Google Mobile Blog:
New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites — Imagine if web sites could provide you with customized information based on your current location, even if you don't have GPS. Today we're launching the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, while two third-party developers …
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Steve Block / Google Code Blog:
Two new ways to location-enable your web apps — We just launched two new ways to give your web apps free and secure access to a user's location, without requiring that user to enter it manually. — First, there's the AJAX API property that provides a simple way to get an approximate …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source - Will it Matter? — Social bookmarking: the awkward genius hopes you'll take its ideas to parties for it. — Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company …
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redhat.com:
OpenSSH blacklist script — Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the distribution channel we use with our customers, Red Hat Network …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Red Hat, Fedora servers compromised — Red Hat warned on Friday that a network attack compromised some servers last week that are involved with both its commercially supported and free versions of Linux. — The breaches involved Red Hat Linux Enterprise servers and those from its community-supported Fedora project that it sponsors.
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Apple's Ambitious iPhone 3G Plans — It intends to make at least 40 million iPhones in the next year; selling so many will hinge on global success and fixing connection glitches — Forecasting iPhone sales is one of tech's toughest guessing games. Since Apple's iPhone 3G came storming …
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:Apple: Street Not Factoring iPhone Expansion, Says Piper
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon, Google Close To Mobile Search Deal — Verizon Communications Inc. is nearing an agreement with Google Inc. on a wide-ranging partnership, according to people familiar with the situation, in what could be a much-needed jolt for the anemic mobile search business.
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Economist:
If you build it... Lively, Google's virtual world, has been a flop — IT SOUNDED like a brilliant idea. Google, the internet giant, would bring 3-D virtual worlds to the masses by making them accessible through a web browser. Millions of people log into virtual worlds such as World …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
A Comprehensive List of Ultraportables, Netbooks, Mini-Notebooks, Or Whatever You Call Them — When the Asus Eee came out, the market was simple. There was only one tiny, cheap laptop so you knew which one was for you. That was less than a year ago, but things move quickly in the tech world.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Who should be USA's CTO? — Today I visited Larry Lessig. He's the founder of Creative Commons. A professor of law at Stanford University. And does many other things. — He is one of those guys who is just interesting to talk to. Why? Whip smart and has a view of things that very few other people have.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Akamai Shares Jump On Buyout Chatter. But Who's Buying? (AKAM) — Akamai Technologies (AKAM) shares are up 6.3% today to $24.02 on “renewed takeover chatter.” — With a $4 billion market cap/$3.7 billion enterprise value, the content delivery network could be an easy acquisition …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Smartphone Start-Ups Have a Friend in This Fund — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Matt Murphy eats at expensive steakhouses, likes to watch his kids play soccer and is a loyal fan of Peet's Coffee and Tea. And if he has his way, mobile phone users will know as much about each other as readers now know about him.
Daniel Ionescu / Today @ PC World:
Google Gains in Search at Microsoft, Yahoo Expense — Web site traffic watcher ComScore released figures this week that reveal Google's dominance is growing, when it comes to search, at the expense of Microsoft's search destinations and Yahoo, who continue to lose market share.
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Phone Arena:
LG KC910 is the 8-megapixel successor of Viewty — LG just officially announced to us the successor of the Viewty, the KC910. It is an all-in-one multimedia phone, sporting 8-megapixel camera, Dolby sound for music, and DivX and XviD support for video playback.
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