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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
It begins: The Dell Adamo spotted at SXSW, coming tomorrow, $1,999 — Brian Solis, the “next-gen” PR dude, just got some hot shots of the Dell Adamo. Color us impressed. His photos show a laptop with the sex of a MacBook Air with a little more of the hard edged aesthetic familiar …
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Dan Zehr / Austin American-Statesman:
Laptop marks debut of Dell's Adamo luxury brand — Dell Inc. plans to launch a new line of luxury products today with the official introduction of a thin and light notebook it briefly showed off earlier this year. — The company's launch of the 13-inch laptop, which it previewed in January …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Seattle Paper Shifts Entirely to the Web — The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper will produce its last printed edition on Tuesday and become an Internet-only news source, the Hearst Corporation said on Monday, making it by far the largest American newspaper to take that leap.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Seattle P-I to publish last edition Tuesday — The Seattle Post-Intelligencer will roll off the presses for the last time Tuesday, ending a 146-year run. — The Hearst Corp. announced Monday that it would stop publishing the newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and cease delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers.
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Hearst Corporate Site, Publishing 2.0, Seattle Times, paidContent.org, TechFlash, Electronista, Boing Boing and Techdirt, Thanks:atul
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Apple iPhone 3.0 event tomorrow might reveal a tablet — The Apple iPhone 3.0 event tomorrow might have more surprises than are immediately apparent. Especially in relation to a tablet. Here's my hypothesis why: — I've got a pretty good idea that Apple is going to be releasing more iPod touch/iPhone platform devices.
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jkOnTheRun, DailyTech, Macworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Technology Questions, Webomatica, PhoneDog.com Cell …, VentureBeat, Edible Apple and GottaBeMobile.com
Brad Stone / Bits:
Passwords of 8,000 Comcast Customers Exposed — A list of more than 8,000 user names and passwords for customers of Comcast, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, sat unprotected on the Web for the last two months. — Kevin Andreyo, an educational technology specialist in Reading …
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Security Watch, DSLreports, CNET News, Between the Lines, Switched and Neowin.net, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Esteban / Design Matters:
“Pocket Yoga” Concept — Guest blogger, Johnson Li, Director of Lenovo's Beijing Inovation Center, speaks out about a concept that recently emerged on the tech blogs. I want to thank him for sharing this concept with the Design Matters audience. David — Last week some buzz was created …
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SlashGear, Computerworld Blogs, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, UMPCPortal, CrunchGear, PC World, PC Joint, Engadget and Industry Standard
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Electronista:
Lenovo teases Pocket Yoga touchscreen netbook — (Updated with new photos) Lenovo this morning confirmed the existence of its mystery netbook by posting teaser images on its photo feed. The system is now called the Pocket Yoga and has both the ultra-wide, VAIO P-like display and leather-bound shell of leaked photos.
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Gearlog, MobileDevicesToday, Local Mobile Search, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and Boing Boing Gadgets
Humberto Saabedra / PhoneNews.com:
Exclusive: Sprint 2009 Roadmap — PhoneNews.com has obtained Sprint's device roadmap for the rest of the year. From the Samsung Touch Mini and Lucello dual slider all the way down to the appearance of the Touch Pro2 with dual mode EVDO Rev. A and GSM/EDGE/HSDPA for international roaming.
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Mark Slee / Facebook Blog:
Opening More Control for Everyone — One of the top priorities at Facebook is offering privacy controls that let you choose exactly what you share with whom. We have largely focused on enabling you to give access to your profile to people you confirmed as friends and people in your networks.
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, PC World, Inside Facebook, Between the Lines, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts and All Facebook, Thanks:atul
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
How to Juice AOL: A Spin-Out, Of Course, But Also a Reunion at Dulles HQ? — As soon as he got his new job last week, new AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong sent out a rather hopeful email to the troops-his first communication as the latest leader of the ragtag online service.
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InfoWorld:
Cisco competitors downplay new blade server — As Cisco entered the blade server market with its hotly anticipated Unified Computing System Monday, competitors lined up to dismiss the new technology, saying it raises the problem of vendor lock-in and is too limited in scope to address broad customer needs.
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Ken Denmead / Geekdad:
Boxee iPhone App: A Little Late, but Worth the Wait — Boxee is the scrappy little home media software that continues to win the hearts and minds of geeks all over. These days, old computers aren't tossed into the recycling heap; they're turned into home media centers using Boxee …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Behind the Scenes at Mininova — Most visitors to Mininova will be completely unaware that this is not your regular torrent site. Unlike many private torrent sites - operating on the fringes of legality and trying to keep a fairly low profile (whilst gathering donations in order to stay alive) …
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Juliet Chung / Wall Street Journal:
Reservation Web Site to Close — TableXchange, a Web site that let diners buy and sell reservations at sought-after restaurants, will close April 1, the company said. — The site, touted by its founders as a way of making it easier for diners to get tables but criticized by restaurateurs …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Mac, iPod Sales Lousy In February, As Expected — Apple (AAPL) had a rough February, as expected: Mac and iPod sales both fell significantly year-over-year, according to data from research firm NPD Group analyzed by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
Apple, vendors confirm iPod headphone-chip rumors — Apple's third-generation iPod shuffle no longer includes the familiar control pad of previous models, instead providing a slim, three-button remote controller on the headphone cable. As we reported last week, this means the new iPod shuffle …
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Gadget Lab, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Boing Boing Gadgets, Edible Apple, iLounge, GartenBlog, AppleInsider, Techdirt, CrunchGear, SlashGear, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Ars Technica and Technologizer
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Gazillion to launch series of major online games with Marvel Comics characters — Online game startup Gazillion Entertainment is announcing today a major partnership with comic book king Marvel Entertainment to build a series of online game worlds with Marvel's comic book characters.
Y Combinator:
Y Combinator: Party Like it's 2009 — Y Combinator is celebrating the recession by expanding. We're so convinced recessions are good times to invest in startups that we're increasing the number we fund, and we're raising $2 million from Sequoia Capital and several prominent angels to help us do it.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
AnySource Raises $3.2M for Web Vid on TV — AnySource Media, a company that manages the delivery of web video directly to TV sets, announced today it has secured $3.2 million in Series A funding from NextStage Capital, Murex Investments and individual investors from the cable TV and VOD industry.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Loudcrowd Marries Gaming And Music In A Virtual World — Startup Conduit Labs has launched Loudcrowd, a online community that integrates a virtual world with social gaming and music. Loudcrowd users can create their own virtual world with avatars and access music playlists while playing a series of music-themed games with friends.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AdMob Is Working On An iPhone App Exchange To Swap Ads For Traffic — With more than 20,000 apps available for the iPhone, standing out from the crowd is becoming harder and harder for app developers. There are only so many slots in the the top apps lists in the iTunes Store.
Glenn Fleishman / Ars Technica:
UWB group shutters, sends tech to Bluetooth, USB groups — The ultrawideband trade group, the WiMedia Alliance, is shutting its doors, but the group's chief claims that's due to its basic success. A technology transfer will let USB and Bluetooth groups work to bring UWB for high-speed, short-range networking fully to market.
Telegraph:
Google Earth used by thief to pinpoint buildings with valuable lead roofs — A thief stole £100,000 worth of lead from the roofs of buildings after identifying them with Google Earth. — Tom Berge used the popular internet tool, which shows aerial photographs of towns across the world …
Miguel Bustillo / Wall Street Journal:
Best Buy Confronts Newer Nemesis — With Circuit City Gone, Electronics Retailer Arms Its ‘Blue Shirt’ Sales Force to Take On Wal-Mart — Finally victorious over longtime archrival Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. is now gearing up to fight an even more powerful foe: Wal-Mart.
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Richard Owen / Times of London:
Google lawyers seek to halt Italy trial — The internet search giant may attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of Italian authorities in a landmark internet privacy case — Lawyers for Google are expected to challenge Italy's right to try Google executives at a hearing on Tuesday …
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Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Twitter Rolling Out House Ads — Just saw this on my Twitter home page: — I've seen one for Twitter widgets and one for Twitter search. They're “house ads” now - i.e. only for Twitter's own services. But perhaps these are a precursor to future advertising.
PC World:
Nintendo, Microsoft Prevail in Joystick Patent Lawsuit — A judge in the U.S. state of Texas has thrown out a lawsuit filed against Nintendo and Microsoft that alleged the two companies infringed on a patent covering an interface for joysticks. — The suit was filed in 2007 …
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