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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T: New iPhone will be hot, son — We can't tell you where or who, but pretty high up in AT&T's food chain, the following was reported to be said: … For clarification, the above is 100% confirmed. — Thanks, Stephanie!
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9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, Electronista, iPhone Savior, Unwired View, Engadget, Edible Apple, The iPhone Blog and Neowin.net
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Arn / MacRumors:
Next Generation iPhone: 7.2Mbit, Video Camera, More? — Last week some more details about the next iPhone revision continued leaking out. — First, there were spottings of new Apple device IDs found embedded within the iPhone 3.0 firmware. Silicon Alley Insider then claimed that the next iPhone …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February, Now No. 4 Video Site In U.S. — Hulu jumped two spots to become the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, according to the latest data from comScore VideoMetrix. Hulu drew an audience of 34.7 million people who watched 332.5 million video streams.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
The business model begins: Twitter to promote FM and Microsoft-backed ExecTweets — If you've used Twitter's website in the past couple of weeks, you've probably noticed a small rectangle promoting its widgets and Twitter Search. It's no accident that it looks like an ad unit, because it actually is an ad unit.
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Silicon Alley Insider, John Battelle's Searchblog, Mashable!, FM Blog, Neowin.net and AppScout
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Richard Stallman / The GNU Operating System:
The Javascript Trap — You may be running non-free programs on your computer every day without realizing it—through your web browser. — In the free software community, the idea that non-free programs mistreat their users is familiar. Some of us refuse entirely to install proprietary software …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple discontinues iPhone Bluetooth Headset [u] — Apple this weekend appears to have discontinued its iPhone Bluetooth Headset, a possible sign that the company could be planning to introduce an updated model alongside new iPhones a bit later this year or cede the market segment to third parties.
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PC World, Gizmodo, Technologizer, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, I4U News, Crave, iPhone Buzz and Pocket-lint.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Now Means Business, Friends the SIP World — Updated: Skype, a division of beleaguered eBay, is going corporate. The company today announced that it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). According to The Wall Street Journal …
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Epicenter, eWeek, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Download Squad, Skype Journal, CNET News, TechCrunch, vnunet, Communications …, Mashable!, Alec Saunders SquawkBox, Disruptive Telephony, Network World, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, Gadgetell, Reuters and Sidecut Reports, Thanks:omfut
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers' Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers (Updated) — The danger of storing your data in the cloud, part n. VC-backed online backup and storage provider Carbonite has lost data of 7,500+ customers who relied on the company to keep their files safe, The Boston Globe unveiled over the weekend.
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Data Center Knowledge, Cloud Computing Journal, Television Archiving, Xconomy and Boston Globe
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Rivals Say I.B.M. Stifles Competition to Mainframes — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — I.B.M. has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, services and financing related to the machines.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
iPhone game developer Ngmoco raises second round of funding — The iPhone game publisher Ngmoco is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding — in its ninth month as a company. — The funding — led by Norwest Venture Partners and put together in a matter of weeks …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Fox Breathes New Life Into Redlasso — Redlasso, the troubled video startup that was effectively sued into oblivion last year by major networks including NBC, Fox, and CBS, is back from the dead. The site has just closed a deal with Fox, allowing it to offer embeddable video content to bloggers for the first time since last July.
Byron Acohido / Technology Live:
Microsoft: Internet Explorer is faster than Firefox — Microsoft never took its Internet Explorer web browser for granted — even in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when IE commanded a 95% market share and its features didn't advance much. So says Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows product management.
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes — In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,” and she posted it on YouTube.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Oracle to acquire Relsys — Oracle on Monday announced plans to acquire Relsys, which develops drug safety and risk management applications. — The acquisition, which is expected to close by June, is designed to bolster Oracle's Health Sciences Global Business Unit, formed last summer.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Vuze Integrates with iTunes, Xbox 360 and PS3 — Over the past year, Vuze has been slowly transitioning to an all-in-one BitTorrent application where users can search, download and play videos from the Vuze network and other torrent sites. The latest addition to the client takes yet another step forward.
BBC:
Big websites urged to avoid Phorm — Seven of the UK's biggest web firms have been urged to opt out of a controversial ad-serving system. — Phorm - aka Webwise - profiles users' browsing habits and serves up adverts based on which sites they visit. — In an open letter, the Open Rights Group …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Food Delivery Service GrubHub Secures $2 Million In Series B Funding — Food delivery search engine GrubHub.com has secured $2 million in Series B funding led by led by Origin Ventures and Leo Capital, with earlier investor Amicus Capital participating as well.
PC World:
Play Xbox Games on Your Cell Phone — Imagine playing what looks like an Xbox 360 game — on a $100 cell phone. That, according to Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, is exactly what could be possible as soon as winter 2009 with its new higher-end Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Obama administration sides with RIAA in P2P suit — The Obama administration has sided with the recording industry in a copyright lawsuit against an alleged peer-to-peer pirate, a move that echoes arguments previously made by the Bush administration. — A legal brief filed Sunday in a case …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0 — Last fall, Microsoft rolled out version 1 of its installer for its Web-platform stack of software. At Mix '09 last week, the company refreshed the installer in the form of a new beta for Web Platform Installer 2.0 and a new gallery of third-party Web apps.
BusinessMirror:
Acer said to introduce Android-equipped smartphone in September — Acer Inc., the world's third-largest personal-computer vendor, will introduce a mobile phone in September that runs on Google Inc.'s Android operating system, an official at the Taiwanese company said.
Kevin Farnham / ProgrammableWeb:
Microsoft Releases Machine Translation API — If you've ever wanted to programmatically translate text from one language to another directly from code, there's a new web service from Microsoft Research you might want to try. It's the recently announced new Microsoft Translator AJAX API and web widget.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel postpones the launch of new Menlow Atom CPUs to mid-April — Intel has postponed the launch of its Atom Z550 and Z515 CPUs for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) to mid-April, according to sources at MID makers. — The Atom Z550 and Z515 CPUs will feature core frequencies at 1.2GHz and 2GHz …
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Mag:
Samsung N110 — Samsung's updated 10-inch netbook continues to beat the competition with an improved touchpad and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Price as Reviewed: $469.00 — Review Contents: — The Samsung NC10 rose to the top of our favorite-netbooks list when it first hit …
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Liliputing, Boing Boing Gadgets, CrunchGear, Gadget Lab, Switched, I4U News, Obsessable and Engadget
John Kell / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Names New Marketing Chief — Yahoo Inc. named Elisa Steele to its newly created role of chief marketing officer on Monday, as the Internet giant looks to boost its brand. — Chief Executive Carol Bartz, who succeeded Jerry Yang in January, made the decision to re-establish the position …
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Intel Seeks OK To Reprice Worthless Employee Options — Intel (INTC) is asking its shareholders to approve a program that would allow its employees to exchange their out-of-the-money employee stock options for new options with lower strike prices. In a proxy filing with the SEC this morning …
