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Alex Brooks / World of Apple:
Kevin Rose Weighs in on iPhone OS 3.0 [Update: Added Video] — Ahead of Apple's preview of iPhone OS 3.0 Kevin Rose has revealed some details that he believes will be present in the major iPhone software upgrade. — During the live Diggnation at SXSW in Austin, Texas last Rose gave details …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Second generation Surface coming — A second generation of Microsoft's Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard. — Developer Joe Olsen, whose company Phenomblue writes applications for the Surface, said he had been told the device was still in the development stage.
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Hitachi to Replace President, Separate Units After Forecasting Record Loss — Hitachi Ltd. will replace its president and separate two businesses after the Japanese company forecast a record loss. — Takashi Kawamura, 69, will replace Kazuo Furukawa starting April 1, the Tokyo-based company said today.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Adding Capacity At SXSW To Deal With iPhone Crush — AT&T (T) tells us it's adding wireless capacity in downtown Austin to deal with “unprecedented” demand (that's resulted in service that's flaky at best). This, of course, a result of thousands (tens of thousands?) …
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VoIP Watch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TECH.BLORGE.com, The Web Life, Edible Apple, Electronista, GigaOM, CNET News and jkOnTheRun
Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
boxee iPhone remote app available on the App Store — took a while, but we finally got our iPhone remote app approved. — should be good news for anybody who lost their tiny Apple remote.. : ) — it is very basic, but we think it's a good start. — based on your feedback we'll add more functionality to it.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Poken: Tiny RFID thingies that share all your personal data with others — I was on the SXSW Meatbus last night and I met a charming young lady from England, Renate, who introduced me to the Poken. Poken is a tiny USB key with an embedded RFID reader/transmitter.
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
HP Offers Low-Cost NonStop Servers with NS2000s — HP's new NS2000 completes the company's multicore NonStop lineup of fault-tolerant servers by giving SMEs the same high performance that larger enterprises get, but for a lower price. The move by HP is the latest by vendors looking to bring …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Yahoo Reverses Its Web Strategy With Web Videos — For Yahoo's original video strategy, this will be Take Two. — On Monday, the Web portal will announce the latest in a series of niche Web shows. The short segments about celebrity mothers, titled “Spotlight to Nightlight,” …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet Someone Who Still Wants to Invest in Startups: Founders Fund's Dave McClure — It's a whole lot harder for the startups buzzing around South by Southwest to find someone to back them than it was a year ago. A decimated Dow makes it a lot harder for people to take fliers on even the most promising startups.
Thanks:davemcclure
Darren Waters / BBC:
Social networks ‘are new e-mail’ — Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard. — “We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0,” David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer said.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
A nervous FCC announces game plan for new DTV day — Attention full power TV stations: the FCC says that you must notify viewers if your digital TV signal will reach fewer homes than the analog signal did. — The Federal Communications Commission on Friday laid out the rules for the remainder …
Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Allies Square Off in a Tech Turf War — With a big product launch set for Monday, Cisco Systems Inc. is propelling the technology industry into a new era: Giant companies that once prized profitable cooperation are invading each others' turfs. — Cisco plans to announce it will start building …
