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Engineering Windows 7:
A few more changes from Beta to RC... Hey folks, just wanted to provide another update (building on the recent post on some changes since Beta) on some of the changes you will see in the Release Candidate. Again, there are many and this is not an exhaustive list.
David Wood / Symbian Foundation Blog:
Introducing the Release Plan — There's a lot of activity underway, throughout the software development teams for all the different packages that make up the Symbian Platform. — These packages are finding their way into platform releases. The plan is that there will be two platform releases each year.
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Kumo home page — We've seen a number of screen shots of Kumo.com, but this is the first one we've seen of the home page: — Note the pager at the bottom right. — We like this idea of deploying Kumo internally, so that MS employees who apparently don't read LiveSide, and “didn't get the memo” …
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Technologizer, Ars Technica, Microsoft Pri0, Search Engine Land and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Googlers Shocked By Armstrong Defection — We've been calling and emailing our sources at Google, AOL, and the ad agencies to gauge the industry's reaction to news that Google US sales boss Tim Armstrong would replace Randy Falco as AOL CEO. — Most of our sources asked to remain anonymous …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Rules Apply To Everyone — The Elliot Spitzer phenomenon is part of being human. For whatever reason, people who obtain power can convince themselves that the very rules they create and enforce don't apply to them. Elliot Spitzer and his prostitutes. Al Gore flying carbon-spewing private jets.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Stewart slams Cramer with Apple video — The highlight of Thursday night's appearance of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — which both NBC and Comedy Central had done their best to promote as the grudge match of the century — turned out to be a two-year …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook's New Public Profiles: Good for Businesses, Bad for People — Over the past couple of days, Facebook has been rolling out a revamped home page to all its users which delivers several major changes including real-time updates, new filtering controls, a new share box (called …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Juno” — Apple on Thursday evening made available to its developer community yet another pre-release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, which stands to be the seventh maintenance and security update to the company's Leopard operating system in less than 18 months.
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Roberto Mateu / Opera Labs:
Opera Turbo — At Opera, we love speed. We work hard to make our browser faster with features that speeds you up, but your connection also plays a big role on how fast you can go. — Some people have fast connections, a lot have slow connections. Many are always on the run from one place …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Amazon Uses DMCA To Try To Block Other Ebooks From Getting On Your Kindle — Slashdot points us to the rather unfortunate news that Amazon has sent a DMCA takedown notice to MobileRead, concerning a link that site had to a small piece of software that would allow ebooks purchased elsewhere (other than Amazon) to work on the Kindle.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Google exec: ‘Twitter-like service’ more interesting with more data — The essence of Google's product strategy is to “follow the data,” said the company's Seattle site director, Brian Bershad, during a presentation about the future of search at a Technology Alliance event this morning.
Mobile Today:
O2 drops price on 3G iPhone ahead of new Apple device this summer — Stocks cleared as new Apple iPhone set for July release — O2 is poised to tweak prices on the 3G iPhone in May, ahead of what is believed to be a new Apple mobile phone in June or, most likely, July, Mobile can exclusively reveal.
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Wall Street Journal, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ars Technica, FierceWireless, GPS Obsessed, World of Apple, mocoNews and Music Ally
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Your mom is leaving MySpace for Facebook (but you aren't) — MySpace has been maligned for what appears to be stagnant if not declining traffic in its core U.S. userbase. But the story is more nuanced, and not so dire. Sure, MySpace's overall traffic has taken a big hit over the last year …
Michael Weiss-Malik / Google LatLong:
Live from Mars! — Just last month, we released Mars in Google Earth 5.0 and finally satisfied the long-standing demands of our Martian userbase. However, much to our delight, Mars has also proven popular among Earthlings, so today we're pleased to announce several new features for Mars …
Elizabeth Montalbano / Computerworld:
Report: Microsoft U.S. search share hits 12-month low — Google continues to dominate as Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL lag far behind — IDG News Service) Microsofts Corp.'s share of Internet searches in the U.S. fell to a 12-month low according to a ComScore Inc. report on Internet search queries for February.
InfoWorld:
Amazon, Microsoft improve their cloud computing game — Amazon has introduced EC2 Reserved Instances, which allow you to obtain a reduced hourly fee for an upfront payment that varies according to which level of EC2 server you use. So, for example, with an upfront payment of $325 …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Mike Abramsky and the Holy Pre — Palm hasn't yet set its price or launch date, but it already has a winner on its hands in the Pre. That's the word from RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky, who gave the device one hell of a write-up this morning. Seems Abramsky, who had previously been neutral on Palm …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPod touch—not lies—sets kid's pants on fire; parents sue — “Liar liar, pants on fire!” One kid from Cincinnati won't be able to listen to that one again after allegedly having an iPod touch actually set his pants on fire, resulting in melted underwear and second degree burns on his leg.
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Crave, TechSpot, Gizmodo, The Toybox, Gearlog, Pulse2, Pocket-lint.com, GottaBeMobile.com and digg.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Getting Serious About Vanity URLs — Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start - users love vanity URLs. When you tell someone your MySpace page, you just say myspace.com/[user/brand/band/ etc.] (I'm myspace.com/mikearrington). On Facebook it has always been more difficult.
Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
It was 20 years ago today: The Web — History in the making: Berners-Lee's original schematic for a client/server model for a distributed hypertext system. — Is it already 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee authored “Information Management: A proposal” and set the technology world on fire?
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Reuters, Scientific American, Industry Standard, GMSV, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, CNET News, Obsessable, Gawker, Technologizer, TED Blog, dailywireless.org, Engadget, Digital Daily, Between the Lines, Neowin.net and Imaging Insider, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
‘Bridge to Microsoft’ Is One of Puget Sound Prizes in Stimulus — Microsoft Corp., which has $20 billion of cash in the bank, is among the first in the Puget Sound area to benefit from the investment in roads and bridges through President Barack Obama's stimulus plan.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Top Search Terms on Twitter Since July 2008: Sleep.fm, Ezinearticles, and GaryVee — Twitter users clearly love the social alarm clock Sleep.fm, the Vaynerchuk brothers, Chris Knight, and ezinearticles. At least, according to search analytics firm Compete, which aggregated …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic — The bird on Twitter's home page, familiar to millions, is small, cute and fun, and implies communication and anticipation. One might say it's the perfect graphic for Twitter. Yet the company paid its designer at most $6, without attribution.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
ABC News to interview John McCain — on Twitter — One of the biggest complaints about Twitter is that its 140-character limit is simply not enough to say what you need to say sometimes. Of course, this limit works both ways — it can also stop people from going on for too long about something.
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internetnews.com:
Adobe: ‘Open’ But Not Always Open Source — Adobe says it sees openness as a way to grow interest. But not every one of its products is ready for open source. — With technologies like Flash and PDF pervasive across the Web, Adobe has established itself as one of the leading forces …
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
Kundra takes leave of absence from federal CIO post — The move follows allegations of bribery in DC office he ran — The fallout from Thursday's arrests of a District of Columbia IT security official and contractor quickly raised questions about the fate of Vivek Kundra …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Nokia “Piranha” touch smartphone, others coming to AT&T? (Updated: probably just the E71x) — We've just been graced with a new trunkload of tentative — very tentative — release dates on AT&T, and while most of the devices were already rumored for launch, one is definitely sticking out here: the Nokia Piranha.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
FanSnap Is The New Kayak For Event Ticket Searches — Event tickets are a big business and startup FanSnap is entering the game with a compelling ticket search engine. FanSnap is launching the public beta of its nifty Kayak-like live ticket search engine for sports, concerts, and theater events.
