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Arn / MacRumors:
USB Tethering Seems to be Working in iPhone 3.0 — One developer was “hacking around” with some carrier bundle files and iPhone 3.0 and somehow managed to activate the tethering preferences. Not only that, he was also able to actually tether his iPhone 3G to his laptop over USB.
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Why iPhone In-App Transactions Could Be a Disaster — Apple made a big deal about allowing in-app transactions with the new iPhone 3.0 API. It's great news if you're a developer looking to make more scratch, but it's potentially terrible news for users. — Basically, this is opening …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in seconds — [ UPDATE: IE 8 and Safari also falls ] — VANCOUVER, BC — Charlie Miller has done it again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T bringin' sexy back, offering iPhone 3G at no-commitment price, no activation — Time to clear out some inventory, boys! AT&T, starting March 26th, is going to start offering the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3Gs at a no-commitment price. These prices are $599 and $699 respectively.
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Microsoft Ups Ante With New Browser — The Web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on a computer. No longer just a tool for perusing or searching for information, it has become, for many people, their principal communications medium, their photo album, their newspaper, social club, bank and shopping mall.
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft turns up Web browser competition
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
FACEBOOK COULD KILL GOOGLE — Analyst — Ross Sandler of RBC has done what every good analyst should do, which is say something interesting. What Ross has said is that, at its current growth rate, Facebook will surpass Google in size by 2011-2012. — (We expect Facebook's growth will slow …
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AdAge, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Inside Facebook, Newsome.Org, Between the Lines, CNBC.com, Beyond Search, Joe Duck, WebProNews and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft throws Silverlight 3 beta at Adobe — Plugs gaps, and then some — Mix 09 Microsoft's opened a new front in its battle with Adobe Systems, releasing beta code for Silverlight 3 that plugs fundamental gaps in its media player and attempts to out flank Flash.
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Technologizer, Incremental Blogger, Channel 9, next best geek, Beyond Binary, LiveSide, Electronista, Global Nerdy and Tim Sneath
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Sara Nelson / Los Angeles Times:
Sony expands its book download stockpile — With its Reader outmaneuvered by Amazon's Kindle, the firm touts the broad library it will offer. — Reporting from New York — Three weeks after the release of Amazon.com's Kindle 2, Sony Corp. — the first major company to introduce an electronic book device …
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps — I just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension HOWTO page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat: — Here's how to write your own Google Chrome extension in three steps:
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Brier Dudley's blog, Lifehacker, Google Operating System, Download Squad and Computerworld, Thanks:mattcutts
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:Chrome Experiments: Google Launches New Site to Showcase the Power …
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The Official Google Blog, TechCrunch, CNET News, Google Chrome Blog, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, ITworld.com and Google Blogoscoped, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone 3.0 expands the ‘yawning’ competitive gap — While the vast majority of smartphone makers are betting that beefed-up handset hardware alone will attract new feature phone users, Apple demonstrated Tuesday that software stands to be the biggest differentiating factor as the market matures …
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New York Times:
I.B.M., Looking to Buy Sun, Sets Up a Software Strategy — I.B.M.'s interest in acquiring the server computer maker Sun Microsystems for nearly $7 billion may seem at first to be a reversal of its recent efforts to move away from the hardware business. — But analysts say there is more to Sun …
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EE Times, Wall Street Journal, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, Tech Trader Daily, GigaOM, GMSV, Network World and Neowin.net
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Larry Dignan / CNET News:Why an IBM purchase of Sun would make sense
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Tech Sanity Check, eWeek, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, Forbes, GigaOM, Network World, blogs.ft.com, Venture Capital Dispatch and Tech Trader Daily
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to shutter its “Mosh” success story — HELSINKI (Reuters) - To spearhead its push into Internet services, Nokia put users in charge when it opened in 2007 the networking site Mosh, which lets people post anything they want. — Less than two years later the world's top cellphone maker …
Hugh D'Andrade / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
CNET Axes Blogger Who Exposed Whitehouse.gov Privacy Issue — Former CNET blogger Chris Soghoian has produced some of the best coverage on the issue of privacy for users of government websites. His work on the use of YouTube cookies and other tracking technologies on whitehouse …
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Neil Munro / National Journal Online:Google Stands To Gain From Capital Connections
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Early Beta Data From Microsoft Adsense Competitor Encouraging — We are getting reports that Microsoft's PubCenter, a self serve thirty party ad publishers platform through AdCenter, is doing quite well with beta testers. Microsoft began testing PubCenter last summer.
Thanks:atul
Kevinle / Live Services:
Reach your people everywhere, in real time! — For users of the Web, being able to connect to friends and build social networks is becoming more important every day. Today, we are releasing the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit—a set of controls and libraries that enable …
Vishal Kasera / Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews — My email is full of links: my friends send around YouTube videos to try and get a laugh, we share Picasa and Flickr albums with photos from last weekend's camping trip, and we email around the Yelp reviews of restaurants we're considering going to next Friday night.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009 — The 16 startups from Y Combinator's spring session presented their ideas and initial products at Y Combinator's Silicon Valley office this afternoon. Of the 16 startups in this group, 8 have already launched, 6 are in the process of launching and 2 remain in stealth mode.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SXSW: Foursquare Scores Despite Its Flaws — Before this year's SXSW event kicked off, a number of bloggers suggested that this year's breakout hit might be foursquare, a new location-based social application with a gaming twist that was created by the guys behind the now-defunct Dodgeball service.
Windows Azure:
The Windows Azure Malfunction This Weekend — First things first: we're sorry. As a result of a malfunction in Windows Azure, many participants in our Community Technology Preview (CTP) experienced degraded service or downtime. Windows Azure storage was unaffected.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Financial Times Launches Its Own Business News Search Engine (Newssift). — The Financial Times Group, which is owned by the British publisher Pearson, is not exactly the place you'd expect to find the latest search engine. But a startup deep within the bowels of the organization called FT Search …
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
Psystar launches new Mac clone PC … Psystar might be in a heated court battle with Apple over the use of the Apple Mac OS X operating system, but that hasn't stopped the Mac clone company releasing a new Open Computer model on Tuesday. — According to the company the new model, the Open …
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Engadget, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Hardware 2.0, CrunchGear, Macworld, NEWSFACTOR, AppleInsider, Gearlog, Maximum PC all, Softpedia News and Between the Lines
InfoWorld:
Jailbreakers get busy on iPhone 3.0 OS — The iPhone Dev-Team (not the Cupertino version) hasn't wasted anytime in declaring the iPhone 3.0 operating system “jailbreakable.” — Just hours after Apple unveiled the latest iPhone OS, a short notice appeared on the Dev Team blog …
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DealBook:
All That Twitters May Not Be Gold, Analysts Say — Twitter seems to have gone from obscure to mainstream in about the same time it takes to send a “tweet” over the network. — Despite the fact that the three-year-old microblogging service doesn't generate revenue — nevermind profits …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Tech Companies Worried About Unions — It never fails. As the economy collapses, someone thinks that the answer is greater unionization. It happened back in 2000 when the tech bubble collapsed, and it's happening again today, in part due to recently proposed legislation that would make it easier to unionize.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
NBC Boss Explains Why Boxee Users Can't Have Hulu — Why does the TV industry need to keep Web video off your big-screen TV? Not because it hates technology. But because it hasn't figured out how to make money off Web video yet — and needs you to keep watching TV on your TV.
