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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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Between the Lines, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Smartphones and Cell Phones, Apple 2.0, TeleRead, The iPhone Blog, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, Obsessable, Technologizer, MediaMemo, New York Times, TechFlash, BetaNews, bub.blicio.us, SlashGear, Local Mobile Search, Podcasting News and GottaBeMobile.com
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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.
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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paidContent.org, Reuters, Webware.com, BetaNews, CrunchGear, NewTeeVee, Bits and Gizmodo
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:ZillionTV: Hollywood and ISPs Unite to Deliver Video over the Net
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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):
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:Screenshots Of Facebook's New Real-Time Homepage
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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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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 …
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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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple: Sales Layoffs Story Not True — An Apple (AAPL) spokesman says Gawker's report that 50 salespeople were laid off yesterday is not true. — Is it possible that somewhere in Apple's ranks of 32,000, staffing has shifted around during the recession? Sure, we assume — but Apple wouldn't comment on that.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Launches Major Challenge to Facebook Connect — Yahoo! Updates, the company's answer to Facebook Connect, became available on more than 600,000 websites today with the launch of a new partnership with commenting infrastructure company JS-Kit. Whereas Facebook's technology …
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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?”
IAB:
IAB leads behavioural advertising good practice — Digital marketing trade body collaborates with key industry players to promote transparency, user choice and education. — www.youronlinechoices.co.uk launched to help consumers understand online behavioural advertising and how their privacy is protected.
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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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Mashable!, InformationWeek, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, Android Phone Fans, Unwired View and AppScout
Andres / Spotify:
Spotify security notice — Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group had gained access to information that could allow testing of a very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.
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.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
A Tale Of Two Studies On File Sharing... from the guess-who-paid-for-the-terrorism- one? dept — I've recently come across two separate studies concerning file sharing — that seem to come to vastly different conclusions. The first, as pointed out by Michael Scott, is a very long …
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.
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 …
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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VentureBeat, Internet Evolution, SiliconAngle, AppScout, TECH.BLORGE.com, the Econsultancy blog, Neowin.net, Gawker, Silicon Alley Insider and BoomTown
