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Amazon.com:
Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available For Free From Apple's App Store — Read some on your iPhone, read some on your Kindle, customers can now synchronize their reading and enjoy over 240,000 books, including 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, on the iPhone and iPod touch
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Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:
First Impressions of Kindle on iPhone — As I predicted in my review of Amazon.com's Kindle 2 e-book reader last week, the giant bookseller has moved quickly to make the 240,000 book Kindle catalog available on other devices. On Tuesday night, the first Kindle software reader appeared, and it's a free iPhone app.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
That Was Fast: Kindle, Meet the iPhone — Remember last month, when Amazon said it planned to make its Kindle e-book titles available on other devices, but wouldn't say what devices, or when? — Now we know. As of today, you can read Kindle titles on your Apple iPhone.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Ars Technica, CNET News, Bits, Agence France Presse, Smartphones and Cell Phones, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, mocoNews, CrunchGear, New York Times, The Open Road, Obsessable, The Register, Electronista, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Crave, Download Squad, Loic Le Meur Blog, jkOnTheRun, Wall Street Journal and MobileCrunch
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
ZillionTV, the next generation of video on demand — During a long career as a television and technology executive, Mitch Berman has tried to sell several different iterations of TV, often in their formative stages. These included premium cable networks (at HBO), original cable programming …
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:ZillionTV: Hollywood and ISPs Unite to Deliver Video over the Net
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't — Venture Capital Backer Says Search Is Reason It Walked Away From Facebook Deal — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter sees lucrative opportunities in search, albeit a different kind of search than what Google offers, and, as co-founder Biz Stone told Ad Age recently …
Gavriella Schuster / The Windows Blog:
Behind the Scenes of Windows 7 Enterprise — There's been a lot of talk in the community about what Windows 7 offers consumers. Today, I'd like to highlight the enterprise value of the product and how it reflects what customers and partners told us enterprises need most.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind — Last month an e-mail message washed up at the offices of The Cook Islands News in the South Pacific. It was a request to place a half-page advertisement in the newspaper, which has a circulation of 2,500. The cost was $370.
Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
Palm Treo Pro for Sprint gets dated — The Treo Pro was supposed to launch in January on Sprint and then it was rumored to launch on the 15th of February, but that never happened either. Then we realized the Pre was coming, so the Treo Pro didn't matter at all.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Why Google won't remove that page you don't like — (This is just a post from my personal perspective, but I hope it's helpful.) — Every few weeks or so, someone contacts me and says “Hey Matt, there's page out on the web about me that I really don't like. Is there any way to remove it from Google's index?”
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Apple Source Confirms 50 Layoffs in Sales — A source in Apple's enterprise group confirmed the company had layoffs today. Fifty salespeople lost their jobs — even as the blogosphere collectively scoffed at the idea that layoffs were happening. — That's not a “major” layoff, as one Valleywag tipster maintained this morning.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Smart Execs Leave Before The Fall. — When a smart, ambitious executive who isn't the CEO leaves a company, it isn't necessarily a sign of trouble. Sometimes that executive isn't performing all that well, or he/she wants to see if they can make it at their own startup where they call the shots.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Three MySpace Execs Departing To Start New Company (Leaked Memo)
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SiliconAngle, AppScout, Web Strategy, TECH.BLORGE.com, the Econsultancy blog, Neowin.net, BoomTown, Gawker, paidContent.org, Silicon Alley Insider, Pulse2 and digg.com
Google Mobile Blog:
Finance for Android App — Just over a year ago, during a user experience research trip for Google Finance, we were at the home of a stay-at-home mom / day trader. She was frustrated that there were “personal blackout periods” in the trading day when she was entirely disconnected from the stock market …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ex-Googlers Start Up Likaholix, A Micro-Sharing Service For Personal Recommendations (200 Invite Codes) — Likaholix is a brand new web service that lets you share personal recommendations about virtually anything with the world. The tool lets you build a list of things you like and recommend …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Setting the iPhone Free from AT&T — Consumer groups, small wireless carriers, and even Mozilla say all such exclusive deals are anticompetitive, and they're taking the fight to Washington — As the exclusive U.S. carrier for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone, AT&T has had a lot to celebrate.
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Netbook Headache May Persist as Buyers Won't Trade Up — Microsoft Corp., already suffering from netbook makers using older and cheaper versions of Windows, probably won't find a remedy with Windows 7. — Microsoft is planning to offer several editions of Windows 7 for netbooks …
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Activision to Use $3 Billion Cash for Acquisitions as Targets' Prices Drop — Activision Blizzard Inc., with $3 billion in cash and no debt, will consider acquisitions as the recession brings down the prices of potential targets, the company's top publishing executive said.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Lessons from Demo on surviving recession — PALM DESERT, Calif.—How does one measure the effects of economic meltdown? — At Demo 09 here, there are two ways, one that's obvious, yet hard to see, and another that is both obvious and visceral. — While Demo for years has featured …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Live from Facebook: A move to share more information — I'm here at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, Calif. for a Facebook presentation. Apparently this is going to be a long one, so I figured I'd live blog it. — Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is up first. Here's what he's saying (paraphrased):
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Disney Might Build Its Own Netflix, iTunes Rival — Disney CEO Bob Iger told a conference audience yesterday that the company is “is considering creating a subscription-based online movie and TV rental service from the company's huge video library,” reports Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Sell-Out Like Gawker Media — Blog network Gawker Media's ad revenues are up 20% year-over-year, according to an internal memo obtained by the Poynter Institute. Not bad, considering the recession. — The secret, says Gawker owner Nick Denton in the memo, has been those big …
Kentc / Kent Compton:
What would you like changed/improved in Windows Live? — Most people feel it is too hard to give someone at Microsoft their feedback. I know I felt that too when I was a non-Microsoft employee (and I still feel that way as a consumer of other company's goods and services).
