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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter — Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates to the Facebook platform one of which is the opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to access statuses.
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Chris Putnam / Facebook Developers:
Opening Up Facebook Status, Notes, Links, and Video to Facebook Platform — We're launching several new APIs for Facebook Platform today. These new interfaces open up access to the content and methods for sharing through several Facebook Applications — including Facebook Status, Notes …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Official-looking Kindle 2 pictures and pricing leak out — We're not going to call it official yet, but a bunch of very real-looking Kindle 2 press images just hit the tubes, and we've got to say we're pretty convinced. Although the device itself looks basically the same …
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Microsoft On The Issues:
Steve Ballmer's Comments at Democratic Caucus Retreat — U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat — Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer — STEVE BALLMER: Well, I want to thank Jay, I want to thank the speaker and all of you for the opportunity to be here today and chat with you.
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Ballmer tells congressional Dems how Gates worried about making payroll in the early days; gives view of economy, “culture of spending”; calls stimulus package “vital” — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave his take on the economy during the U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus Retreat in Williamsburg, Va., today.
dailymobile.se:
Pictures: Samsung M7600 - With Bang & Olufsen Powered Audio — As promised, Here are some pictures of the Samsung M7600 that haven't yet been announced. — Samsung M7600 Specifications: GSP, HDSPA, 3mpix camera, 2,8″ amoled screen, Bang olufsen amp, Divx, Full touch screen.
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Google Accused Of Invisibly Deleting Blog Posts On The RIAA's Say-So — from the how-not-to-promote-yourself dept — The fight between music bloggers and record labels reached its most visible point when a guy who uploaded a leaked copy of the latest Guns N' Roses album to his site got arrested by the FBI.
Micheline Maynard / New York Times:
Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi-Fi Takes to the Air — For all the annoyance of being crammed into an aluminum tube at 35,000 feet with a bunch of strangers, air travel has offered one benefit: the ability to tell bosses and colleagues, “I'll be on a flight, so you won't be able to reach me.”
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon Announcing Kindle iPhone App Monday? (AMZN, AAPL) — Amazon (AMZN) will likely announce the new Kindle e-book reader Monday at a news conference in New York. We'll cover it live; join us at 10 a.m. ET for the latest. — But will Amazon also announce Kindle stores for other devices?
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
AT&T's 3G MicroCell to patch iPhone dead zones — iPhone 3G users stuck in an AT&T dead zone at home or at work will soon be able to plug in a device that provides a strong local signal for up to 10 phones and four simultaneous voice or data connections via a connection to broadband Internet.
The Official Google Blog:
Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye — Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose? — Where did your eyes go first when you saw the results page?
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Kim Zetter / Epicenter:
Bill Gates TED Talk Online — Watch the ‘Swarm’ — News that Bill Gates unleashed a “swarm” of mosquitoes on the participants of TED has “swarmed” the internet and airwaves from FOX TV to NPR. Now you can see his talk for yourself. You can jump to 5:10 to see him release the insects.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Attach Files to Google Calendar Events — Brandon Kraft spotted a new feature in the Google Apps version of Google Calendar: attaching files from Google Docs and photos from Picasa Web Albums to an event. Sometimes you can provide all the details of an event in the description box …
Samir Balwani / Mashable!:
Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media — Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter. — As we battle a global recession, corporations are looking for new ways …
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Windows Mobile phones to become just Windows phones, say sources — Microsoft, which is planning to unveil its Windows Mobile 6.5 platform at the Mobile World Congress soon, has decided that, going forward, Windows Mobile-based handsets will be promoted simply as Windows phones without specifying …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Apple to go back to user-replaceable batteries? — A patent application uncovered by The Register seem to indicate that Apple is interested in making batteries user-replaceable. … It's far too soon to read too much into this patent filing and could be little more than blue-sky thinking.
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Seeking Alpha:
Canaccord: Three New iPhones Expected in 2009 — Three new iPhones could be coming in 2009. The first is a 32G iPhone in multiple colours that is likely to arrive during the next six months. Next up is a lower-cost handset based on the 2.5G iPhone, which is targeted for China and India.
Mark Hachman / Gearlog:
Report: Pioneer Exiting TV Business, Spinning Off DVD — Tags: — HDTV, Pioneer — A report in the Nikkei Japanese business journal Friday claims that “Pioneer Corp. will pull the plug on its loss-ridden television business and shift its DVD player operations to a new venture with Sharp Corp …
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Trouble at Salesforce.com? — Resource Library: — Steve Cakebread, president and chief strategy officer at Salesforce.com, has resigned, and reports say two top vice presidents have also left the company. — Is there trouble in the house that Benioff built?
Jia Lynn Yang / Fortune:
Online marketing's bright spot: In-text ads — A funky hybrid of display and search advertising grows despite downturn. — (Fortune) — It's been a bad couple of months for the online advertising business. Those banner advertisements that run on the top and sides of websites? Down, by many measures.
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Microsoft digital ad shop Razorfish lays off 70 in Seattle, Portland, SF and LA — Razorfish, the digital advertising agency that Microsoft gained when it acquired aQuantive in 2007, is going through another round of layoffs. A spokeswoman confirmed that the company laid off about 70 people …
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intel Cuts Notebook SSD Prices By a Third — Intel issued price reductions for its line of solid-state discs (SSDs) on Thursday, cutting the price of the low-end 80-Gbyte model for notebook PCs by 34 percent, to a more affordable $390. — Intel manufactures solid-state discs in both 1.8-inch …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
StumbleUpon Hits 7 Million Users, Quietly 50% Bigger Than Twitter — What's got a button to push, knows how to make money while changing the world and is read all over? StumbleUpon! The social discovery network, like Pandora for webpages and videos, just passed 7 million users according to the site.
