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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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The Social, Epicenter, dot.life blog, Music Ally, Neowin.net, TechSpot, Industry Standard and digg.com, 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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TechFlash, Technologizer, Silicon Alley Insider, The Register, Between the Lines, BoomTown, WMPoweruser.com, Computerworld, LiveSide, Pocket-lint.com, Neowin.net and AppScout, 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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MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, MacRumors, The iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, techeblog.com and Engadget Mobile
Android Developers Blog:
Software Update Available for the Android Developer Phone — Back in December, the Android Dev Phone 1 (ADP1) went on sale, giving developers access to unlocked hardware for their work. A few weeks ago, consumers with retail devices received an over the air update with the 1.1 release of Android.
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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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mocoNews, Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, Computerworld, Brier Dudley's blog and dailywireless.org
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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 …
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Ars Technica, Between the Lines, Engadget, Computerworld Blogs, last100, VentureBeat, The Register, PMP Today, eWeek, TeleRead, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com and Apple Watch
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 …
Justin Sullivan / Time:
The 10 Major Newspapers That Will Either Fold or Go Digital Next — A San Francisco Chronicle newspaper vendor — Over the past few weeks, the U.S. newspaper industry has entered a new period of decline. The parent of the papers in Philadelphia declared bankruptcy, as did the Journal Register chain.
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, VentureBeat, Unwired View, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, mocoNews, CrunchGear, Mobilewhack.com, Gadgetell, Gadget Lab, SiliconBeat and digg.com
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Super-rugged Dell Latitude E6400 XFR is tougher than you — We've always been drawn to the rugged Latitude E6400 ATG, and now we're even more in love — Dell just announced the second-gen Latitude E6400 XFR. Carrying on in the tradition of the Latitude XFR D630, this newest model is a little …
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.
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.
Jason Pontin / Technology Review:
But Who's Counting? — No one really knows how many people visit websites. A San Francisco startup and Google are both working to change that. — In August 2006, when Roger McNamee invested in Forbes, he did so in part because its Web audience was thought to be huge.
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David / Signal vs. Noise:
How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff? — We've been talking about the basic wonder of putting a price on your product for such a long time that it almost seems trite at this point. I certainly thought that point would have lost propulsion long ago, but I keep being surprised by the contrary.
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Microsoft Touts Silverlight Interop with Eclipse, Java — Touting its commitment to interoperability, Microsoft has highlighted a new plug-in that enables Java developers to create applications that run on the Microsoft Silverlight platform. The Eclipse4SL plug-in from Soyatec enables Java developers …
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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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.
Matt Raskin / KickingTires:
First Turn-by-Turn Navigation App for iPhone: XROADS G-Map Review — The iPhone has unquestionably dominated the mobile phone industry for the past two years. One of its biggest advantages over other devices is the long list of applications of every variety that can be downloaded to it.
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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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 …
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 …
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
NVIDIA announces investment effort for GPU-based computing startups — NVIDIA is known primarily for their PC graphics cards, but they've been in the news recently both for the expansion of their CUDA and PhysX initiatives as well as (allegedly) developing a CPU to challenge Intel and AMD.
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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 …
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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Smoking Apples Blog:
The Cydia Store Shopping Experience — As you might be knowing, the previously announced Cydia Store is now live and active. Sure it currently sells just a single app, but it has taken a huge leap forward in the jailbreak community. So how then is the shopping experience with the Cydia Store?
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.
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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