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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
The Death Of “Web 2.0″ — I'm not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “Web 2.0″ seems to become more and more a void (and an avoided) term.
Discussion:
The Mind of Alex, The Open Road, unstruc chitchatting …, MediaFlect, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg.com, Thanks:atul
Phone Arena:
Exclusive: Samsung OMNIA HD and BeatDJ — Hola! We have just arrived in Barcelona, Spain for the 2009's Mobile World Congress and before unpacking our luggage, we decided to share with you information about the surprise Samsung has for us all! In a huge billboard, the Korean manufacturer shows off …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Do We Need a New Internet? — Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a few hours.
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
How Google Decides to Pull the Plug — GOOGLE recently set the blogosphere abuzz by announcing that it was pulling the plug on several products. — The victims included Lively, a virtual world that was Google's answer to Second Life; Dodgeball, a cellphone service aimed at young bar-hoppers …
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Macworld:
Apple sued over screen rendering technology in iPhone — Apple is facing another iPhone lawsuit, this time focusing on the screen rendering technology Apple uses in the iPhone and iPod touch. — In the suit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
7 Things We Hate About Windows 7 — Since the Windows 7 beta launched, we've pretty much been having a love-in. But the truth is, it's not all rainbows and Start buttons. There are 7 things about Windows 7 that we really hate. — 1. Can't Pin What We Want to Taskbar.
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
GIMME, LIBERTY — MALONE AND CO. HELPING SIRIUS AVOID BANKRUPTCY — John Malone's Liberty Media is offering Sirius XM a bridge loan of several hundred million dollars to help the nearly insolvent satellite-radio company pay off debt that matures Tuesday, The Post has learned.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube — Well, what have we got here? Someone has upped nine breathtaking minutes of Windows Mobile 6.5 (build 21159.5.0.0, if you must know) running live on an HTC Touch HD. The action is pretty choppy — we get the impression this is a fairly rough beta …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
5 Geeky Marriage Proposals That Worked — Propose to your girlfriend with technology and you're bound to get blogged. — There's no shame in that, though. If the idea of Cupid were conceived in modern times, he'd probably be sending messages through an RSS reader rather than shooting arrows with a bow, right?
Discussion:
Mobilewhack.com, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, Switched, michael parekh on IT and digg.com
Paul Andrews / TechFlash:
Guest Post: Apple isn't the real reason Microsoft needs stores — Most of the reaction to Microsoft's announcement that it will open retail outlets has focused on Apple, with good reason. Apple stores are the liveliest retail thing going right now, even in the downturn.
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Jon / p2pnet:
Dianne Feinstein, MPAA / RIAA representative — p2pnet news view Politics | RIAA | MPAA News:- Hardly was the blood dry on the Obama presidential inauguration documents when the news came that RIAA and other vested interest lawyers are to run the US Department of Justice.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MySpace Quietly Launches Site-Wide Image Search — MySpace has introduced a new image search feature to its integrated search engine, allowing users to quickly search through photos shared by their friends and the MySpace community. While MySpace did not officially announce the new feature …
