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Christopher Cox / Facebook Blog:
Responding to Your Feedback — Since we launched Facebook's home page design, we've received thousands of e-mails, Wall posts and comments from you along with direct feedback from all of our friends and family. If you've already given us feedback, thank you.
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Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Nokia sends $70m mobile payment to Obopay — There are signs the mobile payments market is really taking off at last with Nokia announcing a substantial investment in service provider Obopay today. — The amount, understood to be in the region of $70m, is being put in by Nokia itself rather …
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David Lieberman / USA Today:
Blockbuster unveils on-demand deal to transmit movies to TiVo users — NEW YORK — Blockbuster's effort to establish itself in the fast-growing Internet video-on-demand business will get a boost today when the No. 1 video rental chain unveils a deal to transmit movies and TV shows to TiVo digital video recorders.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Blockbuster partners with TiVo, says Apple products in sight
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Wikileaks:
Police raid home of Wikileaks.de domain owner over censorship lists — Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday the 24th of March 2009, seven police officers in Dresden and four in Jena searched the homes of Theodor Reppe, who holds the domain registration for “wikileaks.de”, the German name for wikileaks.org.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
AT&T first to test RIAA antipiracy plan — Update: Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. PDT: To include quotes from AT&T and information about Comcast and Cox. — AT&T, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, confirmed on Tuesday the company is working with the recording industry to combat illegal file sharing.
Rory Maher / paidContent.org:
Spark Capital To Offer Seed Funding For Digital-Media Companies — VC fund Spark Capital today announced a new program called Start@Spark that will provide entrepreneurs with up to $250,000 in seed financing to get their companies through the development stage.
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The White House:
Open for Questions: President Obama to Answer Your Questions on Thursday — Today, the President invited everyone to use a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov called “Open for Questions” to ask a question about the economy and rate other questions up or down. Then, on Thursday morning …
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Guy Kawasaki Can Handle Being Called a Spammer — To kick off his keynote speech at SES, a marketing conference in New York, Guy Kawasaki asked how many people in the audience were on Twitter at that moment. Hands shot up across the packed ballroom. — Thomas Hawk/Flickr — Guy Kawasaki
Aaron Wall / Learn. Rank. Dominate.:
Danny Sullivan Highlights Google's 2 Tier Justice System (it is only ‘spam’ if you are poor!) — Danny highlighted how many aggregators of aggregators and content cesspools are bogusly clogging up Google's search results with sites that would be viewed as spam if the owner was not socially well connected:
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Sprint Highlights ‘4G’ Launch Plans - Launch will largely mirror Clearwire deployment... Not too surprisingly, Sprint's 4G phone buildout is largely going to mirror that of their spun-off Clearwire mobile WiMax venture, according to a press release issued by the company this morning.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple close to unveiling guarded Snow Leopard UI overhaul — While developers have been privy to pre-releases of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system for quite some time, those distributions have been stripped of several features including a major UI overhaul that the company is now preparing …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i now official — Yep, Canon just went live with that Rebel T1i DSLR that leaked a bit earlier, and it's looking like a hell of a response to the Nikon D90: an XSi body jacked with a sensor matching the 50Ds 15.1 megapixels, 1080p HD video recording, and a $900 price tag.
CBC News:
Criminals love the BlackBerry's wiretap-proof ways: police — MP wants wireless devices to be intercept-ready — Wireless messages sent on a BlackBerry are so hard to intercept that the smartphones have become the device of choice for both criminals and law enforcement, police say.
Luca Zanolin / Google Mobile Blog:
Look Ma, No Hands - Google Mobile App for Blackberry now with Search by voice and My Location — Remember the last time you tried to search for “Marks & Spencers London SW1W” on your Blackberry and ended up with 10 extra characters in the spelling of “Spencers” before you gave up on the “London” bit?
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Shuttering Travel Bargains Site FareChase Today — Yahoo is cutting more fat today by closing its travel bargains website FareChase, which it originally acquired back in July 2004 and re-launched two years later. The company will be announcing the shut-down later today …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
“Lancing the f***ing boil”: how digital killed Big Music — Steve Knopper takes a close look at the music business in his new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. Ars digs into the book, which argues that the major labels' collapse wasn't caused (mostly) by P2P.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
OnLive video games on demand service shakes loose a competitor — OnLive's announcement of a ground-breaking video on demand service has become the buzz of the game industry this week at GamesBeat 09 and at the Game Developers Conference. — But it has also shaken loose a competitor.
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Jeremy Clarkson / Times of London:
Facebook, Bebo and MySpace ‘to be monitored by security services’ — Government plans to track the correspondence of millions on social networking sites have been met with fierce criticism — The private correspondence of millions of people who use social networking sites could be tracked and saved on a …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Last.fm Silences Third-Party Mobile Apps — Hot off an announcement that they'd be charging for radio access outside the US, UK and Germany, Last.fm has said that all non-official mobile clients will be banned. This isn't going over well. — The change comes with a new developer API …
N. Evan Van Zelfden / VentureBeat:
How Curt Schilling started a game company — “It's been about 28 years since I started gaming,” baseball star Curt Schilling said at GamesBeat 2009. He started with the first Apple computer he ever saw. — “For the last decade, [massively multiplayer online games] have been the focal point of my gaming,” he said.
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APC:
New worm can infect home modem/routers … It is suspected that the botnet originated in Australia, as the first activity from the botnet was detected here. Australian IT consultant Terry Baume first observed it infecting a Netcomm NB5 modem/router. You can read his full analysis here.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Pixazza “Product in the Picture” Service: AdSense for Images — Pixazza is looking to turn Web photos into money. It might just work. — The startup, staffed by Netscape veterans with a $5.75 million — Series A venture capital round, on Wednesday is unveiling a service …
Staska / Unwired View:
Orange Android blitz: Sony Ericsson, Motorola Android phones, HTC Hero, Cupcake updates and more — While vendor enthusiasm (at least verbal) for Android platform is very high, it's adoption from mobile operators has yet to be confirmed. — Yes, many of them already launched HTC G1/Dream …
Erik Sherman / BNET Technology:
Tech Layoffs on Big Q1 Upswing, Far Outpacing Average — When outsourcing consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas released its figures on job cuts in January and February, the numbers were depressing, with the two months figure almost double the same period in 2008 and close to the number …
