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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon — Here's a bit of cheery news from the Web 2.0 Summit: AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph De La Vega just told interviewer Michael Arrington that the company is working with Apple to let the iPhone serve as a tethered wireless modem for laptops soon.
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
AT&T-sanctioned 3G tethering on the way for iPhone — In an interview with Michael Arrington at the Web 2.0 Summit, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega let it be known that an official, AT&T sanctioned method of using the iPhone as a 3G modem for a laptop is on the way “soon”.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Craigslist Agrees to Curb Sex Ads — SAN FRANCISCO — The online classifieds company Craigslist said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general and agreed to tame its notoriously unruly “erotic services” listings. — Prostitutes and sex-oriented businesses …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Craigslist puts a dimmer on its red-light district
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LiveBlogging Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg At Web 2.0: Revenue, Fundraising, Growth and Products — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon, at about 2 pm. — Like Jerry Yang yesterday, Zuckerberg has a lot to talk …
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Oh, dear, here come the ‘Facebook to buy Twitter’ rumors — SAN FRANCISCO—John Battelle, CEO of Federated Media, decided to have a little bit of speculative fun onstage Thursday with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's the sort of “speculative fun” …
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Fuze hitting shelves November 11th for $299 — Looks like the Fuze may be hitting sooner than initially anticipated. An anonymous tipster just dropped some official AT&T documents on us that show the Fuze dropping on November 11th. Start saving your dough now as the Fuze …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple in second place as smartphones surge — The iPhone was the story in the worldwide smartphone market last quarter. — (Credit: Apple) — Apple's blowout quarter for iPhone 3G sales lifted it into second place among all smartphone vendors worldwide.
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Robertjmoore / The Metric System:
“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape — Over the past two years, I have developed a growing fascination with lawn signs. Not the ones advertising politicians or plumbers, but the ones advertising websites. Dating websites. — These signs are so prevalent in my area …
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Yahoo's Jerry Yang runs into a wall — The reviews of Jerry Yang's performance at the Web 2.0 Summit have not been glowing. The Yahoo CEO's interview with Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle this week has been described as a train wreck, self-delusional, and as making a mockery of the vaunted company he helped create.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Twitter's Evan Williams: Making money through corporate accounts? — SAN FRANCISCO—In a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams wouldn't concretely answer one of Silicon Valley's biggest unanswered questions: how the company plans to make money.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Feature films coming to YouTube — YouTube will begin offering feature films produced by at least one of the biggest Hollywood movie studios possibly as early as next month, according to an executive with a major entertainment company. — For months, Google, YouTube's parent company …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season — LOS ANGELES—In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next year's holiday buying season.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
AT&T to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport — AT&T announced plans on Thursday to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport in a $275 million cash deal. — The acquisition will expand AT&T's network of free U.S. hot spots by an additional 20,000 locations, adding such select hotels as Wyndham …
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Suzanne Tindal / CNET News:
Ballmer dismisses Google Android — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed the Android mobile operating system, saying he believed that building it was financially unsound for Google. — Speaking at Telstra's annual investment day, Ballmer said designing Android wasn't easy for Google.
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Svetlana Gladkova / Profy:
Russian Company to Sue Google for $3 Billion for Contextual Ads Technology — It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit - this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google's money-making machine and a team of Russian developers.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
John Doerr's Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy — At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Wednesday, billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr was interviewed by John Heilemann, a contributing editor at New York magazine who came in from Chicago, fresh off the Obama campaign trail.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
BitTorrent President Quits, Forms New Venture With YouTube's Chen, Others — BitTorrent Inc. co-founder Ashwin Navin is leaving his post as president of the company to form an incubator-like endeavor with a group of other tech executives that includes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen.
MetroPCS:
MetroPCS Launches MetroPCS Unlimited NationwideSM — Wireless Service Provider Includes Expanded Footprint in Its Flat-Rate, Unlimited Service Offering — MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS), the nation's leading provider of unlimited, flat-rate wireless communications service …
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Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Government transition sites launched — Two new Web sites launched Wednesday that map out President-elect Barack Obama's transition to the White House. — Change.gov, Obama's official transition site, features a blog, a section with Obama's agenda, and a section that profiles the Obama administration.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Windows 7 Server gets its day — Microsoft Vice President Bill Laing talks about the server version of Windows 7, dwarfed by servers from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. — (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET Networks) — LOS ANGELES—After two weeks of focus on the desktop version of Windows 7, it's server counterpart finally got a day in the sun.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. Has Tech Answer for Woes of Economy — I.B.M.'s chief executive, Samuel J. Palmisano, is proposing a technology-fueled economic recovery plan that calls for public and private investment in more efficient systems for utility grids, traffic management, food distribution, water conservation and health care.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Layoffs At Zappos, According To Employee Tweets, CEO Blog — Online shoe store Zappos laid off 8% of its employees today. CEO Tony Hsieh blogs: — Today has been a tough, emotional day for everyone at Zappos. We made the hard choice of laying off about 8% of our employees.
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Photosynth Exploration in Live Search Maps — Finding cool Photosynth's just got a heck of a lot easier. We've just introduced a new way to explore Photosynth's as a part of our Collection Explorer feature on Live Search Maps. — 2 things - (1) how do you find Photosynths and (2) how did they get there??
PhotographyBLOG:
Canon PowerShot E1 Review — If the digital camera had been invented in the 1950s, it would probably have looked a lot like the Canon PowerShot E1. The curvy design brings to mind a host of associations ranging from vintage jukeboxes to early refrigerators.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Snapily Spices Up Business Cards And More With Awesome 3D Effects — For all the startups making customizable stationary and business cards available on the web, we really haven't seen much in terms of innovation: most sites have almost the same options and features, and there isn't much you can do beyond …
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Jon Brodkin / Computerworld:
Ex-Intel worker indicted on $1B trade secrets theft — Network World) An ex-Intel employee accused of stealing US$1 billion worth of trade secrets and using them to help rival AMD was indicted in Massachusetts Wednesday, according to news reports. — Biswamohan Pani, 33, of Worcester …
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Obama's Online Ad Spend Approached $8 Million — If a recent online political ad revenue prediction is correct, President-elect Barack Obama's campaign could account for at least half of all 2008 online political ad spending. The winning candidate's campaign shelled out nearly $8 million through October …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LiveBlogging MySpace's Chris DeWolfe And Warner Music's Edgar Bronfman At Web2.0: Music, Music, Music (And Money) — MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and Warner Music Group's Edgar Bronfman take the stage with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit this evening. The topic: The Future Of Music.
AT&T:
AT&T Customers Connect Faster with New 18 Mbps U-verse High Speed Internet Service AT&T Offers More Speed, More Choices with Its Fastest Broadband Service Ever — For millions of consumers with a need for more speed, the broadband choices just got better. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) …
