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TechCrunch:
What An Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look Like — Editor's note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The views he expresses are his own, and we present them here to foster debate.
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T may be looking to launch handset trade-in program — Treat this one as a rumor and nothing more for the time being, but we just got some details on a “Phone Trade-In” program that AT&T is apparently looking to launch sometime around June. From the looks of things …
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter VC Laughs at the Idea that Twitter Has No Business Model — Todd Dagres, founder of Spark Capital and one of the VCs that poured an additional $35 million into Twitter recently, finds it amusing when people talk about Twitter's lack of a business model.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's Net share slipped in February — The numbers are still in flux, but preliminary figures released Sunday morning by Net Applications show Apple's (AAPL) Internet market share dropping a couple percent in February. — One chart shows Mac OS X with a 9.61% share, down from 9.93% in January.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Is Twitter actually making money? — Web2.0rhea outfit in ‘revenue-sharing deal’ — Free whitepaper - Best practices in SOX compliance — It's a question that has consumed the Silicon Valley pundit brigade for several months now: How will Twitter make its money? — And the answer may be just under their noses.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Is Google App Engine the wrong product for the market? — Earlier this year I was approached about writing a book on cloud computing topics by an editor for one of the big computer book publishers. Given that between my day job and having an infant I barely have time to keep this blog updated, I had to turn down the offer.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) — When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what's possible, but they also invest so much into communicating these ideas through sights and sounds …
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ReadWriteWeb, Mobilewhack.com, Download Squad, VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, GottaBeMobile.com and WinExtra, Thanks:zwelgje
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Amazon misread book sector on speech feature — Amazon executives so admired the way Apple launches products that they spent lots of time studying Steve Jobs to help them prepare for the release of the original Kindle, a source told me in Nov. 2007. — A hallmark of Apple product launches is to wow fans with surprise features.
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
LG Versa now available from Verizon Wireless — Right on time, the hit-or-miss LG Versa has made its sales debut online and at Verizon stores. This modular LG phone will set you back $199 with a $50 mail-in rebate and a 2-year contract, as reported. Official specs from the site:
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
So What's Really Going On With That Pirate Bay Trial? — Hacked web sites. Angry ABBA singers. Charges of media bias. Hundreds of flower bouquets for an expert who testified on behalf of the defense. The Swedish Pirate Bay trial has largely been an entertaining spectacle, especially for anyone who doesn't speak Swedish.
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Datamation:
Bruce Perens: Analyzing Microsoft's TomTom Lawsuit — About the Author: Bruce Perens is the creator of the Open Source Definition, the manifesto of Open Source and the criterion for Open Source software licensing. Perens represented Open Source at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society …
Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Sony: PS3 is hard to develop for—on purpose — Earlier this week, Shaun Himmerick, executive producer for “Wheelman” and employee at Midway, told the hosts of the “This Xbox Life” podcast that developing for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 couldn't be any different.
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing Gadgets:
Apple fans denounce Wired article. Japanese still not buying many iPhones. — Does Japan hate the iPhone as much as Wired thinks it does? No, say local experts Nobi Hayashi and Daiji Hirata, who were somewhat misquoted by Brian Chen in his article. — Though the quotes were accurate …
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