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Michael Leggett / Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Undo Send — Sometimes I regret sending a message the morning after. Other times I send a message and then immediately notice a mistake. I forget to attach a file or email the birthday girl that I can't make her surprise party. I can rush to close my browser or unplug the Internet …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Nokia E71x landing at AT&T locations across the country; pricing revealed — What's better than a picture of a sexy black Nokia E71x headed to AT&T this month? A picture of four sexy black Nokia E71x's headed to AT&T this month, of course. Since we scooped it like grandma's mashed potatoes …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Requiem for a frog: SpiralFrog shuts down — SpiralFrog, the pioneering ad-supported music service, quietly closed down on Thursday. — A source close to the company told CNET News that SpiralFrog has ceased operations and assets have been surrendered to the company's senior secured note holders.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript — After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars. — JavaScript, which lets developers create everything from basic Web site menus …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Is Cisco really going to take on Apple? Not quite. — Cisco's acquisition of Pure Digital, maker of the Flip camcorder, has sparked a lot of discussion about the networking giant's intentions. One theory is that Cisco is looking to compete with Apple—especially in the digital living room.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Flip Video: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong And Then So, So Right.
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BBC:
Google pulls some street images — Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service. — The street-mapping facility launched amid a fanfare of publicity but now the firm has been forced to pull some of the images after complaints. — It is thought the pictures …
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Chris Remo / Gamasutra:
Microsoft's Greenberg: ‘PS3 Business’ Is ‘Hemorrhaging At Retail’ — stumble it! — Following the release of NPD sales figures, Microsoft trumpeted its significant 53 percent year-over-year Xbox 360 sales boost — and slammed primary competitor Sony. — Speaking to Gamasutra …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Sony Ericsson warning stuns ailing mobile sector — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Sony Ericsson sparked fresh fear of crumbling consumer demand on Friday when the world's No 4 handset maker said it would sell barely half of the phones it sold last quarter. — Shares across the wireless sector dropped sharply …
John Leyden / The Register:
Indian call centre credit card ‘scam’ exposed — Symantec renewal details end up on black market — Free whitepaper - Trend Micro Smart Protection Network - Security made smarter — An undercover investigation by the BBC has exposed evidence of the theft of credit card details by workers …
Joe Wilcox / Apple Watch:
Steve Ballmer: Mac Buyers Pay $500 for Apple Logo — Steve answered questions early yesterday posed by Business Week editor-in-chief Steven Adler. Microsoft's CEO was in New York for McGraw-Hill's 2009 Media Summit. It was there, Steve delivered his latest Mac slap down: … GOT A TIP OR RUMOR?
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BBC:
Online game gets banking licence — Online game Entropia Universe has been granted a licence to be a bank. — Issued by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, the licence means the game can be more closely tied to the real world finances of players.
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Douglas Bowman / Stopdesign:
Goodbye Google — home — Stopdesign is the creative outlet of Douglas Bowman. read more — Today is my last day at Google. — I started working in-house at Google almost three years ago. I built a team from scratch. I was fortunate to hire a team of a very talented designers.
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John Markoff / Bits:
The Conficker Worm: April Fool's Joke or Unthinkable Disaster? — The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is: Will it prove to be the world's biggest April Fool's joke or is it the Information Age equivalent of Herman Kahn's legendary 1962 treatise …
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:A search is launched for Conficker's first victim
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Ed White / Associated Press:
Michigan iPod repairman charged with fraud — DETROIT—Apple Inc. appears to be the victim of a real shuffle. — Prosecutors filed fraud and money laundering charges against an independent iPod repairman who is accused of acquiring more than 9,000 replacement Shuffle music players by entering serial numbers into Apple's Web site.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Download Torrents Remotely With Pirate Bay's Personal RSS — Downloading torrents remotely can come in quite handy when you're at work, in a record store or at a friends place. With a new feature at the Pirate Bay, you can do this with relative ease. — Instead of downloading the torrent directly …
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Apple proves: It pays to be late — ...And ignore the mobile networks — Free whitepaper - Management strategy for network-critical physical infrastructure — This week Apple threw the kitchen sink at its iPhone/Touch software stack (details outlined here), removing most of the most irritating nuisances at a stroke.
Nikon Rumors:
Nikon D400 is here? — Stay tuned for more - the screenshot is from Nikon Germany web site - I am still confirming this rumor with my sources and verifying its authenticity (Nikon websites were down yesterday): — What we can see is CMOS-Sensor (15,3 MP), 6 frames/sec, ISO from 200 to 6400, Full HD movie mode...
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MySpace introduces FotoFlexer's editing tools — The new image-editing tools on MySpace. — (Credit: MySpace) — MySpace has brought on board some Web-based image-editing tools from FotoFlexer so that members can fool around with the photos they've uploaded to the site. — It's no Photoshop.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Government Employees Banned From Using The Social Networking Tools They're Told To Use — Last year, we wrote about how it seemed like a mistake to us that the government in Montenegro had decided to block access to Facebook on government computers. While many disagreed in the comments …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
MIX09: Windows Mobile 6.5 shows more polish — During the opening day of Microsoft's MIX09 conference yesterday, Loke Uei Tan - senior product manager for Windows Mobile gave a presentation titled “Windows Mobile 6.5 overview” where he showed off one of the latest builds of the OS running on a HTC Touch Pro.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Intel CPU-level exploit could be tempest in a teapot — On Thursday, Invisible Things Labs released details on a new, CPU-level exploit that could be used to execute software on a permission level far below that of any standard operating system. Is this a major problem for Intel, or an issue of merely academic interest?
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