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Zachery Kouwe / New York Times:
Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing — Sirius XM Satellite Radio has been working with advisers to prepare for a possible bankruptcy filing in a move that could put pressure on the satellite company EchoStar, which owns a substantial amount of the company's debt.
Zusha Elinson / LAW.com:
Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm's marketing brochure.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Winklevoss twins made $65 million on Facebook “copycat” settlement — Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss may have had some serious evidence showing that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole ideas like “profile pages” back when he worked at their social-networking startup, ConnectU.
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Nothing To Report Just Yet — There was a sudden burst of news early this week surrounding some ideas we've shared publicly for quite some time. We've been thinking out loud for more than a year about the growing use of Twitter by companies, brands, and other commercial organizations.
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Fiona Ramsay / Marketing magazine:
Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use — LONDON - Twitter is planning to charge brands for using the micro-blogging website. — Twitter — Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: 'We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple, Google, and Palm — M.G. Siegler has an intriguing report today regarding the lack of multi-touch support in the current Android OS: … This jibes with a story I heard several months ago from a source who works at Apple, which is that Google showed Apple legal a pre-release prototype of the HTC G1 …
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MobileCrunch, Engadget, Techdirt, NEWSFACTOR, Gadget Lab, The iPhone Blog, InformationWeek, DailyTech and ParisLemon
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Intel demos first-ever 32nm processors — Intel had a little roadmap event today to shed some light on its massive $7b fab investment, and the focus was mostly on the upcoming transition to 32nm processors — highlighted by the first-ever demo of a working 32nm Nehalem-based Westmere chip.
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Gizmodo, PC World, The Tech Report, EE Times, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, GPS Obsessed, The Register, DVICE, dailywireless.org, Electronista and Forbes
Fast Company:
Forget Kindle 2: Fujitsu's E-Reader Screen is Bigger, and It's in Color — In all the fuss about the new Amazon Kindle 2 yesterday, it was easy to forget that the “upgraded” device still has a relatively small paperback-sized screen and can only cope with greyscale imagery.
Yury Pinsky / Google Mobile Blog:
Calling all Carriers — Introducing AdSense for mobile search — In September 2007, we launched Adsense for mobile content so that publishers could join our mobile content network and monetize their sites with Google text ads. — Today, we're happy to announce a new AdSense product …
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CrunchGear, IntoMobile, Unwired View, JenSense, mocoNews.net, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, InformationWeek and LiveSide, Thanks:atul
Nick / Rough Type:
The writing is on the paywall — There has been much interesting speculation about the future of the newspaper business in recent weeks. There was Michael Hirschorn's pre-obituary for the print edition of the New York Times in The Atlantic. He foresees the Times shrinking into “a bigger …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
$99 iPhone Coming This Summer: RBC (AAPL) — Apple will start selling a cheaper, ‘entry-level’ iPhone sometime this summer, for around $99 after subsidy, according to “checks,” RBC analyst Mike Abramsky said in a note this morning. — The main cost reductions would come from fewer features …
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PC World, Ars Technica, Electronic Pulp, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, GMSV, Macsimum News, VentureBeat, MacBlogz and GPS Obsessed
Nicholas Reville / Miro - Internet TV Blog:
Miro 2.0 is here! — I am thrilled to announce the release of Miro 2.0! This is a huge update of Miro, the Miro Guide, and the GetMiro website. — Download Miro 2.0 Now — Miro 2 has an all-new interface and lots of new features- but for me it's less of a collection of new stuff …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map — Strategy features FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business. — Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a detailed road map for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business.
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Network World:
Angry shareholders say Microsoft squanders billions on pointless R&D projects — Welcome to the second article in a series on Microsoft shareholder activism. These posts examine why investors, through the power of the stock price, aren't buying the idea that Microsoft has a great future.
Matt Shobe / FeedBurner Status:
Feed serving and FeedBurner application outage — Issue: FeedBurner stopped serving feeds for about 45 minutes today, starting at approximately 9:15am PST. Most feeds are being served again properly, but we are still working to restore full service. feedburner.google.com is not currently available …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft patches four critical IE, Exchange holes — Updated at 12:30 p.m. PST with nCircle comment. — Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates that fix four critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected computer remotely.
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
More Sprint details: New Treo Pro target launch, Rumor 2, Instinct Mini, HTC Cedar and more — Ok Sprint people, you had some bad news yesterday as we learned the Treo Pro will not be launching on time this coming Sunday. It's time to regroup and calm down because you know we wouldn't just hit and run with bad news.
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MobileCrunch, Unwired View, Obsessable, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, Electronista, MobileBurn.com and WMExperts
Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009 — Last week (w/e 07/02/09) Twitter became one of the 100 most visited websites in the UK for the first time. It ranked 91st within All Categories, placing above online heavyweights such as Expedia UK (96), Gumtree (100) …
PC Pro:
Mozilla reveals plans for Firefox 3.2 — Mozilla is planning to include simple-text commands and desktop web apps in the next version of Firefox. — Firefox 3.2 will see the company build the Mozilla Labs project, Ubiquity, into the browser. Ubiquity allows users to type natural language phrases …
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Many local TV stations to go ahead with DTV switch — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 40 percent of the nation's hundreds of TV stations will be broadcasting completely in digital signals next week, even after regulators delayed a mandatory nationwide switch to “DTV” by months.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's “sticky” iPhone — When Barclays' Ben Reitzes refers to the “stickiness” of Apple's iPhone, he's not talking about adhesives on the product's surface. (Indeed, the iPhone seems to us as slippery as ever, which may be why there's such a lively market in protective cases.)
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Dell uses Zink Imaging to create an ink-free mobile printer — Zink Imaging is steadily expanding its reach for its inkless printing technology as it announces that licensee Dell has released its Dell Wasabi PZ310 Ink-free Mobile printer. — Bedford, Mass-based Zink Imaging figured …
Lenore Skenazy / AdAge:
Smartphone Apps Great for Marketing, Bad for Social Skills — Are We Dumbing Down a Generation of Children With Technology? — Is it just my kid, or is every child over the age of 8 carrying around a smartphone that's making him dumb? — That's what I've been wondering ever since …
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Engineering Windows 7:
Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting — Microsoft has been working on handwriting recognition for over 15 years going back to the Pen extensions for Windows 3.0. With the increased integration and broad availability of the handwriting components present in Windows Vista …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Appoints Simon Sproule as Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications — Sproule brings 17 years of broad communications experience to Microsoft. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Simon Sproule will join the company as corporate vice president of Corporate Communications.
Ellen Miller / Sunlight Foundation Transparency …:
White House: Where is the CTO? — On his second day in office, President Barack Obama issued a sweeping memorandum on transparency in government, setting out an ambitious to-do list for the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This person was to be responsible initially …
Joshua Karp / Boy Genius Report:
Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry shows up in AT&T OLAM system — For the record, we've been aware of this one for quite a while, but it looks like Visual Voicemail for Blackberry is coming on the very near horizon for current AT&T Blackberry customers. An eagle-eyed tipster alerted us …
