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Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores — Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing and rolling out new Microsoft-branded stores.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores — Microsoft is planning to launch a number of new Microsoft-branded retail stores, according to a company press release issued late in the day on February 12. — The press release announced the appointment of David Porter …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Leaked Photos of Next Generation iPhone? — Images claiming to depict the back cover of an upcoming iPhone have started circulating on the internet. iPodObserver first posted a version of the above photo that allegedly depicts an unreleased 16GB iPhone with the model number A1303.
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New 16GB iPhone 3G May Be On the Way — Apple may be preparing to roll out an updated version of its 16GB iPhone 3G. An image showing a new case back seems to back up rumors that an iPhone update is on the way thanks to its model number, A1303, which previously hasn't appeared on any iPhone model.
Thai Tran / YouTube Blog:
YouTube Goes Offline — We are always looking for ways to make it easier for you to find, watch, and share videos. Many of you have told us that you wanted to take your favorite videos offline. So we've started working with a few partners who want their videos shared universally and even enjoyed away from an Internet connection.
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Podcasting News, TechCrunch, Electronista, InformationWeek, Epicenter, YouTube Help, Between the Lines, Guardian, Bits, Download Squad, Contentinople, NewTeeVee, GMSV, Technologizer, Pocket-lint.co.uk, blogs.ft.com, Insanely Great Mac, Macworld and Webware.com, Thanks:amanfirdaus
Apple:
About the security content of Security Update 2009-001 — This document describes Security Update 2009-001, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads. — For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss …
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Brian Mastenbrook, Computerworld, Security Watch, 9 to 5 Mac, TidBITS, AppleInsider, InformationWeek, The Register, TUAW, Zero Day and Macworld
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Pew Internet:
Twitter and status updating — In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online.
Ben / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Bespin — As we strive to evolve the Open Web as a robust platform for application development, we believe in the potential for web-based code editors to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.
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Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:Bespin: A new Mozilla Labs experimental extensible code editor using Canvas
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Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Specify your canonical — Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If your site has identical or vastly similar content that's accessible through multiple URLs, this format provides …
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Exchange / You Had Me At EHLO:
Introducing Outlook Live for schools - and cool new features for everyone — We've put together a new video, sharing some of the cool new stuff you can expect to see with the next version of Exchange, code-named Exchange 14. Please take a few minutes to go watch it because, hey …
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Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
“Google Devalues Everything It Touches” - Wall Street Journal Chief — Charlie Rose today started a series on the future of journalism. … It was a fascinating discussion about micropayments, subscription models, and how newspapers can adapt to the challenge of low online ad revenues.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
HBS Study Finds VCs Need Successful Serial Entrepreneurs Way More than Vice Versa — Entrepreneurs with one success in the rear view mirror are more likely to succeed in subsequent ventures than either first-time entrepreneurs, or those who failed in a past endeavor.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FTC warns of “day of reckoning” for online advertisers — The Federal Trade Commission today backed the idea of self-regulation for online behavioral advertisers, but two commissioners expressed strong discomfort with the idea. One went so far as to warn of a “day of reckoning” if the industry doesn't get its house in order soon.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Snow Leopard Adds Minor Often Requested Tweaks: Put Back, Stack Folder Navigation — With the absence of major new user interface features in Snow Leopard, we're left discussing some rather minor (though frequently requested) tweaks found in the latest developer builds of Mac OS X 10.6.
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Susan Wojcicki / Traditional Media:
Google Exits Radio but Will Explore Online Streaming Audio — Labels: Announcements, Google Audio Ads — At Google we've never shied away from high-risk, high-reward projects. We believe that making big bets is not only in the best interests of our users and partners, but also important for our long term success.
Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
MacBook owners frustrated by new audio jacks — A few owners of Apple's new unibody notebooks are experiencing backwards compatibility issues with the units' redesigned audio jacks, which offer a snug connection for the company's latest headphones with integrated microphones at the expense …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Sources: Windows 7 moving toward 2009 release — Microsoft is moving forward with plans to launch Windows 7 this year, although the company still refuses to publicly commit to that goal. — PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S. tell CNET News that they have heard things are on track …
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Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
Samsung unveils Blue Earth solar powered phone … Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar-powered full touchscreen phone called “Blue Earth”. — No eco launch is complete without earthy PR speak, so the Blue Eartch is apparently designed to “symbolise a flat and well rounded shiny pebble”.
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Chris Wilson / Slate:
The evolutionary roots of Facebook's “25 Things” craze. — Last week, I enlisted Slate readers to help divine how Facebook's “25 Random Things About Me” trend got started. More than 3,000 of you responded, answering queries on when you first saw a “25 Things” note, when you were first tagged …
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Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Midway Files for Bankruptcy — This is no surprise, seeing as the company was looking at $150 million in debt last December with just 50 days to pay it, but today Midway Games filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. — Chairman, President and CEO Matt Booty called the filing “a difficult but necessary decision …
Opera Press Room:
Opera unveils turbo-charged browsing at Mobile World Congress 2009 — Just when you thought browsing couldn't get any faster, Opera unveils its latest innovation for better browsing, Opera Turbo. This all-new, turbo-charged way to surf will make its exclusive appearance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 16-19, 2009.
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Los Alamos National Lab missing 67 computers — One security incident involves Blackberry loss in ‘sensitive’ foreign nation — Computerworld) New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the nation's leading nuclear weapons lab, once again finds itself the focus of concerns about potentially serious cybersecurity lapses.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Tzero Technologies shuts down; that's the end of ultrawideband — Goodbye to another ultra-wideband company. Tzero Technologies has shut down its business of making wireless chips for transferring high-speed video from one consumer electronics device to another, according to an EE Times report.
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
January game console sales defy gravity — In January, Microsoft's U.S. Xbox 360 sales increased 34 percent and Nintendo saw sales of its market-leading Wii console jump 148 percent over the same month a year ago, according to NPD Group figures released this afternoon.
Grant Robertson / Download Squad:
Browsing on Android isn't as dangerous as some may beileve — I don't want to sound like a grizzled old Lou Grant smoking a cigar and tossing back belts of the scotch I keep in my desk for the days the news doesn't go so good (which is, incidentally, every day.) but there are some stories you just toss in the wait and watch pile.
Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore:
Apple Plans Major Store Space Reorganization — On the heels of an iPhone/iPod display table make-over, Apple plans to entirely reorganize and refocus space within the stores to emphasize customer education, and software over hardware. The change would be the third major interior design for the stores …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Sirius XM should dump satellites for the Web. — Sirius XM bet on a losing technology. Here's how the company can save itself. — Satellite radio is falling out of orbit. Sirius XM, the product of a merger between America's founding satellite radio companies, is reportedly unable …
