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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know — iPhone 3.0 OS, the next generation operating system for the iPhone, iPod touch, and whatever Apple device comes next. New features, new apps, here you will find all the information you need. — NEW IPHONE OS 3.0 FEATURES
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPhone OS 3.0 first impressions and photos — Developers late Tuesday evening are downloading a widely distributed beta of Apple's new iPhone 3.0 software, installing it on their handsets, and weighing in with some first impressions and screen shots, all of which follow.
Apple:Apple Previews Developer Beta of iPhone OS 3.0
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:App Store: 25,000 apps, 800 million downloads
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:iPhone 3.0 to include peer-to-peer support, push notification (photos)
Robert Valpuesta / Bloomberg:
IBM Is in Negotiations to Buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 Billion, WSJ Says — International Business Machines Corp. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. — IBM may pay at least $6.5 billion …
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Ben Worthen / Digits:
IBM's Flirtation with Sun: the Next Volley in the Data Center War — IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems, marking the beginning of what is likely to be a new wave of acquisitions in the tech industry over the next 18 months. — It's the logical consequence of the all-out war for the data center …
InfoWorld:
Sun challenges Amazon for cloud dominance — Move over, Amazon. The leading provider of cloud services is about to get some serious competition from Sun Microsystems, which made its entrance into cloud computing Wednesday with plans to offer compute and storage services built on Sun technologies, including OpenSolaris and MySQL.
Jason Toff / Google Chrome Blog:
Google Chrome has a new beta — Since we took the “beta” tag off Google Chrome in December, we've been updating two release channels: developer and stable. With our latest release, we're re-introducing the beta channel for some early feedback — and if you're reading the brand new Google Chrome blog …
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Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
Breaking News: CIO Vivek Kundra is Back on the Job [updated] — Vivek Kundra, the federal government's new Chief Information Officer, has been spotted at his desk, doing his job. We're hearing that his temporary leave of absence, in the wake of last week's arrest of two individuals individuals running …
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Jared M. Spool / UIE:
The Magic Behind Amazon's 2.7 Billion Dollar Question — Since its release in 2007, the last volume of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has garnered 3,286 reviews from Amazon.com customers. While response has been overwhelmingly positive for the book …
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Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
How to Tweet Your Way Out of a Job — I saw this exchange on Twitter, which is a painful lesson in how NOT to use Twitter in this tough economy. — A lucky job applicant tweeted the following: … This tweet caught the attention of Tim Levad, a channel partner advocate for Cisco.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
As Jurors Turn to Web, Mistrials Are Popping Up — Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge's instructions and centuries of legal rules.
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David de Kloet / Gmail Blog:
A small (but helpful) change to ‘mark as unread’ — Gmail's threaded conversations are useful because they keep your messages in context — you don't have to look for previous messages to see what people are talking about. But sometimes, when many people are replying to the same conversation …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Why Microsoft continues with search: it's still not solved — Ars learns a little more about Microsoft's strategy for search thanks to a chat with Stefan Weitz, one of the members of the Live Search team. — I recently had the pleasure of having a long discussion with Stefan Weitz …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon Shutters Unpopular Alexa Site Thumbnail Service — Amazon Web Services is discontinuing the Alexa Site Thumbnail service, which has been providing developers with programmatic access to millions of thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites that were stored in Alexa's index since July 2006.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd — Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications …
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Palm Pre vs iPhone 3.0: A Feature-by-Feature Comparison — The Palm Pre is going to be a hot item when it launches this summer—possibly hot enough to tackle the iPhone. One reason it's gaining so much traction is that the Pre's features weren't designed to compete against the current iPhone, but the next generation.
Sophos:
Credit card skimming malware targeting ATMs — From time to time, because they know I work for SophosLabs, my friends ask me about different malware types and forward me warnings of alleged malware outbreaks, which often turn out to be just standard hoax emails.
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry 9630 Hands-On Hardware First Look! — A CrackBerry.com Hands-On First Look at the BlackBerry “Niagara” 9630... The Full Qwerty BlackBerry CDMA Carriers & Users Have Been Waiting For! — Didn't we say when it rains it pours? As you likely surmised from the previously leaked images …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
IE 8, Silverlight 3 on tap for Microsoft's Mix — A correction was made to this story. See below for details. — The expected release of Internet Explorer 8 is likely to be the biggest headline out of Microsoft's Mix conference this week, though the company is likely to spend at least …
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Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Facebook Co-Founder Joins General Catalyst — Chris Hughes has more professional accomplishments at 26 year-old than most of us will have in a lifetime. He helped co-found Facebook, before leaving in 2007 to help the fledgling Obama campaign launch an online media strategy.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Fail You Can't Blame Twitter For: ABC's McCain Interview — Inevitably, as Twitter bubbles up higher and higher into the mainstream, we're going to see more misguided stunts like these: George Stephanopoulos of Disney's ABC News (DIS) interviewing Senator John McCain today, using the newfangled technology.
