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DigiTimes:
Wintek to supply touch panels for Apple netbook, says paper — Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for Apple's new netbook, and shipments will start in the third quarter this year, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. — Wintek revealed that it is currently working …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Building ‘Netbook’ — Is This The ‘iPod Touch HD’? — More support that Apple is working on what we've been calling the “iPod touch HD” — a touchscreen, portable Internet device that's bigger than the iPhone: “Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for Apple's new netbook …
Darren Waters / BBC:
YouTube to block UK music videos — YouTube is blocking all premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing Right Society (PRS). — Thousands of videos will be unavailable to YouTube users from later on Monday.
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Epicenter, The Social, Industry Standard, Music Ally, dot.life blog, Neowin.net and TechSpot, Thanks:atul
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Murad Ahmed / Times of London:
Microsoft reopens door to deal with Yahoo! — Microsoft is still holding out hope that it can resurrect a deal with Yahoo!, leaving the door open for the new management of the search company to join forces with the software giant in the future. — In an interview with The Times, Kevin Turner …
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Technologizer, TechFlash, BoomTown, Computerworld, The Register, WMPoweruser.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Between the Lines, LiveSide, Pocket-lint.com and Neowin.net, Thanks:atul
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Early iPhone prototype listed on eBay — Early iPhone prototype listed on eBay — An early iPhone prototype has made its way onto eBay, complete with a rough beta version of iPhone OS and a second, non-functional unit. The working prototype is said to be in good cosmetic condition …
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MacRumors, MobileCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, The iPhone Blog, techeblog.com and Engadget Mobile
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Clearwire replaces CEO — Clearwire today shook up its management team, replacing CEO Ben Wolff with telecom industry veteran William Morrow. The news comes as the Kirkland wireless broadband company ramps up expansion plans in the face of mounting losses.
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Computerworld, eWeek, mocoNews, Brier Dudley's blog, Tech Trader Daily, Jobwire and dailywireless.org
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
U2/Apple Relationship Sours? — Maybe you saw the public relations steamroller from the uber-band U2 last week: Seems they were everywhere as they gear up for their next big world tour, but this mega tour carries some intriguing back stories worth a mention. — It was just a few years ago that U2 joined Apple Inc. [AAPL Loading...
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AppleInsider, IntoMobile, SiliconBeat, VentureBeat, Unwired View, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, mocoNews, CrunchGear, Mobilewhack.com, Gadgetell and Gadget Lab
PR Newswire:
Microsoft Adds New Board Member and Declares Quarterly Dividend — Microsoft company logo. (PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) — REDMOND, WA UNITED STATES — Maria Klawe, Ph.D., leading computer scientist and educator, to join board; dividend of $0.13 per share payable in June.
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:Microsoft adds board member, declares 13 cent per share quarterly dividend
Natasha Lomas / CNET News:
Android sales to outstrip iPhone by '12? — The iPhone's lead over smartphone upstart Android may be short-lived, according to an industry watcher's predictions. — Android smartphone sales will outstrip iPhone sales by 2012, market researcher Informa Telecoms & Media has predicted in a new report.
Evan Priestley / Facebook Blog:
Status on Photo Storage Problems — Update on Monday, March 9: We have completed the fix on the earlier photo storage problems, and access to impacted photos is now fully restored. — You may have noticed in the past day that some photos aren't appearing or are displaying a “question mark” graphic when you go to view them.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Now Has An Office That Isn't My House — The collision of two important recent events has resulted in something wonderful - TechCrunch now has offices in downtown Palo Alto. — The first event: the city of Atherton, where I live, decided to put the hammer down on me running a business from my home.
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Cameron / overstated:
Maintained Relationships on Facebook — This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Since there have been a number of questions throughout the monkeysphere, we thought we would take the opportunity …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Better Search Doesn't Mean Beating Google — A headline that kicked around the blogosphere this weekend made no sense to me: “Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google.” — The post — written by Nova Spivack, the chief executive of Radar Networks …
Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Social networking and blogs now more popular than email, says Nielsen — Two thirds of us now use “member communities” — and their popularity is being boosted by the growing use of mobiles for internet access — A Nielsen Online report says two thirds of us now use what it calls …
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Obsessable, The Register, Mashable!, VatorNews, Digital Daily, the Econsultancy blog and dailywireless.org
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft tries to entice startups to make Windows Mobile apps — Many mobile-software developers are focusing heavily on Apple's iPhone App store, but Microsoft is looking to steal some of that thunder by getting more of them making programs for Windows Mobile in advance of its own application store's launch later this year.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Foxit PDF viewer open to attack, say researchers — Unlike Adobe Reader, patch for free Foxit is available now — Computerworld) Security researchers today warned of several vulnerabilities in Foxit, a free PDF document viewer that has been recommended as an alternative to Adobe Reader …
Reuters:
Inventor says Google settles patent claim — LONDON (Reuters) - Google has agreed to settle an intellectual property claim brought by serial inventor Judah Klausner, who has won settlements in the past from Apple, Skype and LG Electronics, Klausner said on Monday.
openpresswire.com:
The mystery behind FOLLOW and UNFOLLOW on Twitter revealed — It looks like the cat is out of the bag today. If you live and breathe Twitter like I do you probably saw that the accounts: @PoliticalUpdate, @ThreeOclockPot and @twtr_us were suspended. It seems these accounts …
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InfoWorld:
Anti-virus vendor: ID theft Trojans on 1 in 100 PCs — Perhaps as many as 10 million PCs are infected with sneaky programs designed to steal sensitive financial information, anti-virus vendor Panda Security reports. — The company found that just over 1 percent of systems belonging …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Amazon Kindle is the Great White Hope for Monetizing Print Media — Thank you for making so much content available for free online for 15 years. I am sure you're eager to monetize it all beyond ads. — The good news is your great white hope has arrived. It's the Amazon Kindle.
Dong Ngo / Crave: The gadget blog:
Seagate demos 6Gbps hard-drive transfer speed — The next generation of SATA hard drives offers twice the speed cap of the existing SATA2 interface. — (Credit: Seagate) — In collaboration with AMD, Seagate announced Monday its demonstration of a new hard drive Serial ATA (SATA) …
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Electronista, eWeek, Ars Technica, PR Newswire, InformationWeek, Computerworld, Neowin.net, DailyTech, Gadgetell, Softpedia News, Gizmodo and internetnews.com
Jen McLean / The Technorati Weblog:
Since You Asked: The Technorati Attention Index — Linking is arguably the truest measure of a blog's influence, and more importantly, in a world without filters or controls, linking is the control. The blogosphere is defined by Widipedia as the collective community of all blogs.
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
GOP.com Web Proposal: ‘Crap’ — The savviness of the Obama team at using the Internet and new media technology is widely credited with helping the once Senator from Illinois beat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Now, the Republicans are belatedly trying to get in the game …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Ad Recession Brings on the Belly Fat — Sites Stop Fighting Those Ubiquitous Direct-Response Ads as Publishers Reluctant to Forego Revenue — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The recession is having a slimming-down effect on media businesses, but it's feeding the proliferation of pot bellies and muffin tops across the web.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Sources confirm Apple laid off salespeople last week — Despite public statements to the contrary, Apple did lay off around 50 enterprise salespeople last week, CNET News has learned. — Sources who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal confirmed reports by Valleywag and 9to5Mac.com …
Sara Silver / Digits:
Nokia Stumbles in Patent Dispute — Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker, has lost a legal battle to avoid defending itself at the U.S. International Trade Commission against a patent-infringement lawsuit by InterDigital. — InterDigital, of King of Prussia, Pa. …
