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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Update on Terms — A couple of weeks ago, we revised our terms of use hoping to clarify some parts for our users. Over the past couple of days, we received a lot of questions and comments about the changes and what they mean for people and their information.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Android G2 Hands On: Close to Perfection — HTC and Google are getting closer to perfection with the new Android G2, the HTC Magic. Nice finish, great form factor. Check out our video, including the obligatory comparison with Apple's iPhone, and hands-on impressions:
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Anonymous Caller? New Service Says, Not Any More — A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-anonymous caller.
PC World:
Facebook Privacy Change Sparks Federal Complaint — JR Raphael, PC World — facebook faces privacy backlash over change in terms of use of network — The backlash against Facebook's updated privacy policies is about to expand. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) …
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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
How Facebook is taking over our lives — President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zuckerberg make those connections pay off?
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Battery, RAM, and HD access on new 17-inch Macbook Pro — Apple's new unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro began shipping earlier this week and a new tear-down of the high-end notebook reveals the steps needed to access the system's internal memory, hard drive, and battery components.
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MacRumors, Macworld, The Apple Core, The Register, Ars Technica, Insanely Great Mac and Engadget
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple execs rethinking iPhone pricing strategy for 2009 — While the likelihood of Apple releasing new iPhones this year is all but certain, a discussion between analysts and Apple's top brass has also dropped clues that the iPhone's pricing may not be static this year.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
With a King's Ransom in Cash, Why Is There Still No Buying Spree in the Tech Space Yet? — Even in the midst of the economic meltdown, consider these mega-billion-dollar cash hordes of big tech companies: — Microsoft (MSFT): $20.7 billion — Cisco (CSCO): $29.5 billion — Apple (AAPL): $25.6 billion
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TechFlash, Industry Standard, Computerworld Blogs, The Enterprise System …, The Open Road and Know It All, Thanks:atul
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Charges Research in Motion and Four Senior Executives With Stock Option Backdating — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2009-27 — Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Limited (RIM) and four of its senior executives for stock option backdating.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Confusion reigns on Time's best blogs list — I'm a huge list nerd, so I had check out Time Magazine's list of the best and most overrated blogs of 2009. I was desperately hoping Time could clue me in to the State of the Blogosphere, and boy, did it ever.
Jessica Vascellaro / Digits:
Startup Sues Google Using Microsoft's (Outside) Lawyers — By Jessica E. Vascellaro — TradeComet.com LLC, which operates a small search engine for industrial products, has sued Google, alleging that the search giant tried to put it out of business by increasing its advertising prices.
Aaron Wall / Learn. Rank. Dominate.:
Mahalo Caught Spamming Google With PageRank Funneling Link Scheme — Jason “SEO is dead” Calacanas, founder of Mahalo, used “SEO is dead” as a publicity stunt to help launch his made for AdSense scraper website. In the past we have noted how he was caught ranking pages without any original content …
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Anonybloggers, Be Gone! Tumblr Boots Griefers — Last September, we noted the unfortunate reality that every social network has its troublemakers, and Tumblr — which was plagued by so-called “anonybloggers” — is no exception. — No more. In a post today on the official Tumblr blog …
Hiptop3.com:
The Sidekick 2009 in the wild — We knew it was coming. We knew they were visiting and they answered the call. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the photo we've all been waiting for. May we present to you, the Sidekick 2009 aka the Sidekick Blade.
Ubergizmo:
Samsung SWD-M100 MID Hands-On (WiMax) — Now, there's a MID (mobile internet device) that we could use to blog on the go. The Samsung SWD-M100D is a WiMax + WiFi device that has both a touch display and a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The most important feature (for live blogging) …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
For all the “open” talk, Android Market sure has a lot of rules — Paid applications in the Android Market, the app store for Google's mobile platform, are now live. This should boost development for the platform and in turn create new, interesting applications for consumers.
InfoWorld:
Spammers break Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA yet again — The battle by Microsoft to secure its Live Hotmail system from spammers appears to have failed yet again with the news that the latest version of its CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken. — According to a detailed analysis …
Mike Snider / USA Today:
eGuiders cuts through clutter of a gazillion videos online — In the golden age of television, TV Guide arrived on newsstands to let viewers know what was being broadcast and when. — Whether this is the golden age of Web videos is debatable. But a new Hollywood-based site, eGuiders.com …
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Latest Adrian's Rojak Pot Updates:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 RTM Details — Although Microsoft has consistently asserted in public that Windows 7 will probably only be launched in 2010, the truth is they are rushing for a December 2009 release. How close are they? Well, one of Windows 7's key components, Internet Explorer 8 is almost ready for launch!
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
SynthaSite Gets A $20 Million Boost For Simple Website Creation Software — There have been simple, browser-based website creation tools available on the market ever since the WWW turned mainstream, but there's clearly still a significant demand for this type of services, especially with the way the web is evolving.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
WeddingBook Marries Search Aggregation With Wedding Vendor Listings — With upwards of 200,000 wedding vendors in the U.S. alone, the wedding industry can be both fiercely competitive and highly profitable for businesses. A new website, WeddingBook, is attempting to become …
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Mike Hendrickson / O'Reilly Radar:
State of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 1: The Market — As described in Computer Book Sales as a Technology Trend Indicator, and our other posts on the State of the Computer Book Market we have an updated series of posts that show the whole market's final 2008 numbers.
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Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Google Street View Case Dismissed—Boring v. Google — Boring v. Google, Inc., 2:08-cv-00694-ARH (W.D. Pa. Feb. 17, 2009) — You may recall the Boring case from last Spring. A Pennsylvania couple sued because Google's camera car drove up their private driveway and the resulting pictures were posted to Google's Street View.
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing Gadgets:
South Park iPhone App a No-Show in Apps Store; Cartman Blames Kyle's Mom. — Remember back in October when I blogged about a new iPhone app from the South Park guys? Not sure what the whole story is on this one, but our friends at South Park tell us the app has long been completed — so, well, where is it?
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iPhone Savior, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Electronic Frontier Foundation, VentureBeat, Pulse2, Edible Apple, MacRumors iPhone Blog and CNET News
Nina Kang / Google LatLong:
1000 is the new 10 — Ever wish you could see more than just ten local search results at once? Us too. — So we've added a search layer for local search results that activates when there are more relevant results than we can show on one page. Instead of just plotting the first page …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Did Hulu Just Pull The Plug On Its Deal With TV.com? — Something is up at TV.com, the CBS-owned site that recently relaunched as a competitor to Hulu. Since last summer, when TV.com was owned by CNET and was still primarily a community hub, the site has featured content from NBC and News Corp through a partnership with Hulu.
comScore:
India's Social Networking Market Sees Global Brands Gain Prominence in 2008 — Orkut Ranks as the Most Visited Social Networking Site in India, Followed by Facebook — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report on the top social networking sites …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Analyst: Declines in Mac, iPod sales isn't so bad — When is negative growth a positive thing? In this economy, any growth that stays in-line with Wall Street expectations can be viewed as a good thing - though it's still too early to call. And that's how one analyst is looking at Apple's current quarter.
Radhika Lakshmanan / Docs Blog:
Data Validation gives you more control over your spreadsheets — Have you ever wanted to suggest or control what people enter in your spreadsheet? Now you can, using the new data validation feature in spreadsheets. Once a range of cells are selected, the feature can be accessed …
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Glassdoor.com:
Mobile Company Employees Report What It's Like on the Inside — The Mobile World Congress kicked off Monday in Barcelona, bringing together nearly 50,000 attendees for the largest exhibition in the mobile industry. Not only is this a great opportunity for those in the mobile world to network …
