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Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Nation's New Chief Information Officer Speaks — Reforming the entire health care system may be easier than doing everything Vivek Kundra says he wants to do when it comes to reforming the government's computer systems. — Mr. Kundra, the 34-year-old former chief technology officer …
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The White House:
President Obama Names Vivek Kundra Chief Information Officer — WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the White House. — The Federal Chief Information Officer directs the policy and strategic planning …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Why I employed a felon — Yesterday, I joined one of our Mahalo employees at Federal District Court as he was sentenced to 48 months in jail for crimes related to computer security. — Before my employee John Schiefer was sentenced, a violent career criminal was facing 60 months for beating up a prison guard.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Mahalo: Our hacker employee is no threat to your privacy — Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis sent an e-mail Thursday to his followers (also posted on his blog, and worth a read) disclosing that his company mistakenly hired a man convicted of computer crimes but who hasn't yet served his sentence.
Clearwire News Room:
Clearwire Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results — Key 2008 Highlights — Completed Combination with Sprint's 4G Assets, Resulting in Largest U.S. Mobile Wireless Spectrum Portfolio — Closed $3.2 Billion Financing Round at $17 Per Share
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Clearwire: The race between Wimax expansion and cash burn is on
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Perhaps if They Think of Their Win Mobile Devices as Broken iPhones... What an uncomfortable moment for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the CIO Summit Wednesday. Fielding questions at Microsoft's annual event for government and education sector IT workers, Ballmer was asked how best …
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Ars Technica, MobileCrunch, The iPhone Blog, tinyComb, mocoNews, iLounge, The Register, Homotron.net, 9 to 5 Mac, WMExperts and msmobiles.com
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Real Photos of the BlackBerry 9630! — FINALLY!!!!! What you're looking at above are the first real photos of the BlackBerry “Niagara” 9630. As you can see, this CDMA full-QWERTY BlackBerry is looking sweet and very much has the appearance of the BlackBerry Curve 8900 and BlackBerry Bold morphed into one.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
New Viral Channel: Facebook Launches Chat Invite API for Applications — Facebook has just released a new chat invite API that allows developers to let users send application invitations to their friends via Facebook Chat. — Here's how it works: — After embedding the fb:chat-invite FBML element …
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Yariv Sadan / Facebook Developers:Inviting Users to Chat in Your Applications
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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Yahoo! Mail More than One Third of Yahoo! Traffic — Tuesday, Yahoo!'s new CEO, Carol Bartz spoke to analysts and one comment in particular caught my attention. According to an article on ZDNet, she said “Yahoo Mail is becoming increasingly critical to the company.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Inquisitor Makes Search Shine On The iPhone — Last May, Yahoo acquired a startup called Inquisitor which offers a search plug-in for all the major browsers. Today, Inquisitor is available as an iPhone app and it shows how certain features, such as Yahoo's Search Assist …
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Colby Ranger / The Official Google Blog:
Tipping points — Ideas are everywhere, but how do we know which ones actually work? At Google, we put a lot of stock in both the wisdom of crowds — the idea that lots of people responding to a given question can collectively find the best answer — and the value of community.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:Google's Tip Jar Uses Crowdsourcing to Help People Save Money
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Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Zoho Writer 2.0 launches with fresh look — Refreshing changes don't come often. Today, we are launching a new major version of our word processor - Zoho Writer 2.0 - with a fresh and elegant user interface & significant improvements. This important upgrade comes with hundreds of improvements, mostly on the user interface.
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PC World, ReadWriteWeb, Technologizer, Download Squad, Lifehacker, Between the Lines, SiliconAngle, RotorBlog.com and Webware.com, Thanks:zoho
Stephen Schenck / Obsessable:
Acrobat bug can lead to malware installs without even opening an infected file — Because Adobe builds parts of Acrobat into Windows Explorer, you can trigger the bug unintentionally. — If you've been living in fear of opening any suspicious PDF files since we let you know about a still-unpatched bug …
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
At DEMO, VCs Have Stern Advice for Startups — With less money available to entrepreneurs and with fewer startups being bought, VCs are pushing portfolio companies to focus on frugality — Watch the Video... Venture capital investor Christine Herron has a bit of advice for technology startups …
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Lee Gomes / Forbes:
Google Disrupts—Again — The Internet giant's search engine could make Web site design and navigation obsolete. — BURLINGAME, Calif.—Google has turned the advertising industry upside down. Here's something else the Internet giant is changing: Web sites—both how they are used …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for March 2009 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: March 5, 2009 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: March 10, 2009 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on March 10, 2009.
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Chicago Breaking News:
Sheriff sues Craigslist as ‘largest source’ of prostitution — Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced today that his office has sued Craigslist and has asked a federal judge to ban the Internet company from posting its “erotic services” section, which the sheriff said is a clearing house for prostitution.
David Evans / Online Dating Insider:
PlentyOfFish Starts Charging Premium Membership Fees … Free dating sites have had a good run the past few years. Everyone starting a free dating site jumped, and continues to jump, on the free dating bandwagon. Meanwhile, top paid dating sites are making hundreds of millions of dollars …
Amazon Game Room / Amazon Game Room's Blog:
Amazon.com's Trade-In Store Launches with 1,500+ Eligible Titles — Calling all gamers! Do you have any used games lying around? — Today we are pleased to announce the beta launch of Amazon Video Games Trade-In, www.amazon.com/tradeingames. Amazon Video Games Trade-In is a new service …
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Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Begins Rolling Out Search and Trends — Twitter appears to be in the process of rolling out its integrated search feature with a search box and a trends button appearing on some user profiles today. While the feature is not yet available to all users, our guess is that it's very much on the way - and soon.
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Bloomberg:
Palm Pre Will Take IPhone Users as Contracts End, Investor McNamee Says — Palm Inc.'s new Pre smart phone will persuade customers to switch from Apple Inc.'s iPhone when their contracts start expiring in June, Palm investor Roger McNamee said. — “They will wait until their two-year contract is done …
Mike Danylchuk / The Official Google Blog:
Shaking up earthquake searches — Silicon Valley is well known as the home of technology companies like Google, but it's also one of many regions around the world with frequent earthquake activity. When we in the Bay Area feel an earthquake, we want to know how strong it was and where it occurred, as soon as possible.
Aza Raskin / Mozilla Labs:
New Tab Page: Proposed design principles and prototype — Every time you open a new tab, you are opening it to go somewhere. Sometimes it's to do a search. Sometimes it's to type in a new URL. Sometimes it's to check an address you just selected. The only thing you are guaranteed to not want is a blank page.
Paul Biba / TeleRead:
Fictionwise acquired by Barnes & Noble for $15.7 million in cash — Fictionwise has been acquired by Barnes & Noble, said to be the world's largest bookseller, for $15.7 million in a stock deal that TeleRead revealed earlier today. — I spoke with Scott Pendergrast of Fictionwise at 7:20 …
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jkOnTheRun, Wall Street Journal, paidContent.org, Bits, TreoCentral, Reuters and BetaNews, Thanks:davidrothman
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Analyst: Apple turns its back on e-book market — Says Amazon.com's Kindle for iPhone proves Apple thinks 'people don't read anymore' — Computerworld) Amazon.com's release of a free e-book reader for the iPhone proves that Apple is simply not interested in the electronic book market, one expert said today.
