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Wei Yi Lim / Dow Jones Newswires:
Apple Plans To Launch Netbook With Touch Screen - Sources — TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to launch a netbook computer with a touch screen monitor as early as the second half of this year, two people close to the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.
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PC World, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, Byte of the Apple, Ars Technica, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, GottaBeMobile.com, TheAppleBlog, InformationWeek, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Local Mobile Search, Computerworld Blogs, 9 to 5 Mac, Boy Genius Report, Homotron.net, jkOnTheRun, Silicon Alley Insider, Electricpig.co.uk, Electronista, I4U News, The Toybox, VentureBeat, Gearlog, SlashGear and Engadget
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Tweetie 1.3 Rejected by Apple for Returning “Offensive Language” in Search Results (NSFW-L) — So, who could it be running the approval process for the iTunes App Store at Apple? Hmm. Tough one. Let us put on our little thinking caps here for a moment.... SATAN?!
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Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
High interest in broadband stimulus spurs public meetings — WASHINGTON—Two government agencies have 19 months to distribute $7.2 billion in stimulus funds for broadband deployment projects in all 50 states—and already thousands of potential grant recipients are knocking at their doors.
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Ulysses Shi / Outdustry:
The Chinese iTunes Gift Voucher Trick — While there are some legitimate digital music download sites in China - including 9Sky, Top100 and the recently launched Wawawa - digital music is proving to be a tough sell in the P.R.C, partly because of the market dominance of Baidu's free mp3 search.
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Chinese hackers selling $200 iTunes vouchers for $2.60 — Chinese hackers have cracked the codes used for iTunes Store vouchers using key-generators, and as a result are selling $200 voucher codes for as little as $2.60 online. That's according to a report on the blog of Chinese music industry consultancy Outdustry.
Microsoft:
Growing Notebook Market Spurs New Accessories From Microsoft — Hardware Group expands into new product category and updates top-selling Arc Mouse. — REDMOND, Wash. March 10, 2009 Notebook sales are now outpacing desktop PCs three to one,1 and to meet that growth, the Microsoft Hardware Group …
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CrunchGear, Industry Standard, Silicon Alley Insider, Neowin.net, DVICE, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, MobileDevicesToday, GottaBeMobile.com and TechSpot
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Darren Murph / Engadget:Microsoft does the unthinkable, reveals own Notebook Cooling Base
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Ars Technica, NEWSFACTOR, Softpedia News, Electronista, Gearlog, Brier Dudley's blog, Gizmodo and Crave
Bull3t's Blog:
The mysterious Norton cover-up and pifts.exe — Apparently something big is happening. A mysterious program known as pifts.exe is attempting to contact a server in Africa and seems to be associated with Symantec's anti-virus system, Norton. There is virtually no information …
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Swa Frantzen / SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:
conspiracy fodder: pifts.exe — Several readers wrote in with samples of a file PIFTS.exe that seems to be related to a Norton update and gets flagged for its behavior. — The file has been confirmed to call home to stats.norton.com . — The truly bizarre are the mentions that the support forums …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
27 Huge Publishers Join To Replace The Banner — 27 publishers with a reach of about 109 million unique visitors per month — that's 66% of the total U.S. Internet audience — have agreed to try one of three new online ad formats sometime before July. The publishers are all members of the online publishers association (OPA).
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm: Put a Sock in It, McNamee. … Roger McNamee's hyperbolic predictions about iPhone-to-Pre conversion rates didn't go over too well at Palm. Appalled by McNamee's inflated, indecorous claims about its forthcoming smartphone, the handset maker on Monday filed a Free Writing Prospectus …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:Palm distances itself from investor's boasting
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, eWeek, Pulse2, Silicon Alley Insider, IntoMobile, MobileDevicesToday and jkOnTheRun, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Bill Gurley / abovethecrowd.com:
How To Monetize A Social Network: MySpace And Facebook Should Follow TenCent — Everybody had to pay and pay" — The consensus seems to be that social networks have a monetization problem. On this topic, both the leading technology industry blogs and the world's top news organizations agree.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Jobs not at Disney meeting; Shareholders talk contingencies — Update: Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn't turn up after all at the Disney shareholder meeting, but he was a frequent topic of discussion. The biggest worry: Jobs' 7.4 percent stake in the company would hit the open market if something happened to him.
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CNET News, MacRumors, Digital Daily, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Jobwire, The Mac Observer and MacNN
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Juan Carlos Perez / Computerworld:
Gmail down; outage could last 36 hours for some — Google calls outage ‘minor’ — IDG News Service) Google Inc.'s Gmail e-mail service is down for an undetermined number of users, and while the outage has been partially fixed, some people could be locked out of their accounts for many more hours.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony cuts deal with NBC Universal for film/TV shows on PlayStation Network — Sony's PlayStation Network is getting a boost today as the company announces its deal to add movies and TV shows from NBC Universal to its nascent online video store. — This development follows the addition …
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DealBook:
Google and Cisco Eyed as Possible Dow Candidates — Google and Cisco are viewed as top contenders to enter the Dow Jones industrial average now that two constituents are trading below $2, making their status as blue chips tenuous, Reuters said. — The Internet companies are among a variety …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Layoffs In Progress — As expected, many AOLers in Dulles started receiving “the email” yesterday afternoon. The email asks them to attend an “important meeting” this morning—at which they will be fired. — This is the way AOL's layoffs have been handled over the past several years, with depressing regularity.
Adriana Lee / PhoneDog.com:
Rumor: Samsung A877 to launch 3/29 for AT&T — This just in ... According to an anonymous source, it looks like Samsung A877 will be launching through AT&T on March 29. If you're in the market for a sweet messaging phone, this might be one worth waiting for. — 3.2" WQVGA AMOLED touchscreen
Alina Dizik / Wall Street Journal:
Windows Into Lives After a Layoff — Rachel Levy had 10 years of marketing experience and an M.B.A. from a top business school when she was laid off in July. Rather than keep her feelings about the situation private, Ms. Levy started a blog to chronicle her life post-layoff.
Jane Wakefield / BBC:
Last.FM joins Google's rights row — Online music service Last.fm has waded into the row between YouTube and the Performing Right Society. — Founder Martin Stiksel said he hoped a resolution can be found to avoid illegal services from taking over. — He urged both parties to find a …
Robert Buderi / Xconomy:
Paul Graham on Why Boston Should Worry About Its Future as a Tech Hub—Says Region Focuses On Ideas, Not Startups — Robert Buderi wrote: — For entrepreneurs and investors alike, it was a sad day back in January, when Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced he would stay …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-006 - Critical — Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958690) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Broadband Gap: Why Is Theirs Faster? — This is the first in a series of three posts looking at the lessons for the United States from broadband deployment in other countries. — Bits readers have a serious case of broadband envy. I've been writing about the debate …
