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The White House:
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov — Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov. I'm Macon Phillips, the Director of New Media for the White House and one of the people who will be contributing to the blog. — A short time ago, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Obama Renovates WhiteHouse.gov — To the keys to the nuclear arsenal, we now add one more technological weapon that is handed over to the incoming president at exactly noon every Inauguration Day: the root password to WhiteHouse.gov. — Before Barack Obama even finished taking the oath of office …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face, And a Blog — As President Barack Obama was giving his inauguration speech, another transfer of power was happening online. At exactly 12 PM ET, Whitehouse.gov, the official Website of the President switched over to a new design.
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One By One Media, The Web Life, Silicon Alley Insider, Obsessable, Lifehacker, edu.blogs.com, Washington Wire, ClickZ and Front Row Washington
Adam O'Donnell / Zero Day:
It's a good day to disclose the largest credit card data breach ever — While the majority of American media is glued to the quadrennial spectacle that is the Presidential inauguration, Heartland Payment Systems has uncovered a piece of malware hidden in their payment processing system.
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Payment Processor Breach May Be Largest Ever — A data breach last year at Princeton, N.J., payment processor Heartland Payment Systems may have led to the theft of more than 100 million credit and debit card accounts, the company said today. — If accurate, such figures may make the Heartland incident …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Inauguration Day, by the numbers — From what early numbers are indicating, the historic swearing-in of President Barack Obama was not the biggest traffic day for the Internet. But for many social networks and digital-media sites, Inauguration Day shattered traffic and usage records regardless.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Watching The Inauguration With All My Facebook Friends
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Beet.TV, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, Bleeding Edge, Bits and Search Engine Journal
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:Web Sites Scale Up for Inauguration Traffic
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Silicon Alley Insider, Bits, CNET News, Industry Standard, Xconomy, USA Today, TechCrunch and Webware.com
Wired News:
The Plot to Kill Google — When Google's lawyers entered the smooth marble hallways of the Department of Justice on the morning of October 17, they had reason to feel confident. Sure, they were about to face the antitrust division—an experience most companies dread—to defend a proposed deal with Yahoo.
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Techdirt, TechFlash, Google Watch, DSLreports, Search Engine Land, Beyond Search and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Spencer Spinnell / Traditional Media:
Turning the page on Print Ads — Labels: Announcements, Google Print Ads — In the last few months, we've been taking a long, hard look at all the things we are doing to ensure we are investing our resources in the projects that will have the biggest impact for our users and partners.
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MediaMemo, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, Local Onliner, CNET News, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Screenwerk and CenterNetworks
Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog:
Upcoming PS3 Firmware (v2.60) Update — Hi, everyone, we have a system software updates for PS3 coming soon, and I wanted to provide you with a sneak peak at the details. — The PS3 firmware update (v2.60) is designed primarily to enhance the system's media capabilities.
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Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Electronista, Joystiq, TechSpot, PS3 Fanboy, Destructoid, I4U News and Game|Life
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple sales data: Half empty, half full — It continues to amaze me that analysts who specialize in Apple (AAPL) can look at the same data and come to such different conclusions. — Case in point: Reports issued Tuesday morning by Bernstein Research's Toni Sacconaghi and Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Apple's Mac, iPod sales see slight rebound in December
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Joseph Tartakoff / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft expansion to take a hit to cut costs — Still unclear whether layoffs part of plan — When Microsoft Corp. reports its second-quarter earnings Thursday, the company is expected to outline a series of cost-cutting measures, which will include postponing most of its plans …
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
AMD Sells Handset Division to Qualcomm for $65 Million — Resource Library: — Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to sell its struggling handset division to Qualcomm for $65 million, according to the chip makers. AMD plans to sell the handset division that includes graphics, multimedia and other technology.
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Andy M. Zaky / Bullish Cross:
How the iPhone and Poor Apple Management have contributed to the Downfall of Apple — In April of 2007, Peter Oppenheimer (Apple's CFO) announced that Apple will be using what is commonly referred to as the “subscription method of accounting” for sales of the iPhone where the sales revenue …
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Suzanne Choney / MSNBC:
Wireless networks crushed with traffic — Exacerbating problem are inauguration-goers sending photos and videos — John Podesta, president of the the Center for American Progress, left, and Howard Dean, outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman, right, managed to get service …
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iSpazio - The iPhone Blog:
Clippy - iSpazio Exclusive: Finally the real Copy & Paste for iPhone and iPod Touch is here! — Everyone was missing it! Finally we got the real Copy and Paste application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch! It's Clippy, avaiable from the iSpazio Repository in Cydia: — It's very easy to use this app.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton and Reagan's — Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web.
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Susan Mernit's Blog
Apple:
iWork '09: Serial number not required for installation of retail boxes — iWork '09 retail boxes no longer come with a serial number. Install iWork '09 from the enclosed disc and you're ready to go. — Products Affected — iWork '09 — Though retail versions of iWork '09 no longer come …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Did You Just Click on a Fake Hyundai Ad? — The Web is the future of advertising, but we're not there yet. And getting there will be an interesting journey. For instance, I find it hard to believe that traditional media buyers have ever had to worry about impostors buying ad space using their client's name before.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft Sells Entire Comcast Stake — Microsoft (MSFT) disclosed in an SEC filing on Friday that it has sold its entire 7.3% stake in Comcast (CMCSA) Class A common stock. Microsoft had owned 150,935,575 shares. — In a research note this morning, Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett notes …
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Beyond Binary
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
An Outsider Gets A Peek Behind The Scenes Of The Music Industry's Mindset: Optimism Into Denial — I'm writing this on the way back from MidemNet, where I had the chance to present a case study on why Trent Reznor's various experiments with business models represents the future of music.
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BBC
Linux-Watch.com:
Virtualization gets a boost in RHEL 5.3 — Red Hat announced the availability of a new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that improves virtualization scalability. RHEL 5.3 also adds an implementation of the open-source OpenJDK Java technology, as well as support for Intel's Nehalem processor architecture, says Red Hat.
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The Register
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Marketers Look Beyond Search Engines — Facebook, MySpace, iPhone Figure in Efforts by Pizza Hut, Others to Boost Online Exposure While Controlling Costs — Marketers, seeking to boost their online exposure while keeping a lid on costs, are looking beyond Internet search engines such as Google …
