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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Apple's iPhone App Refund Policies Could Bankrupt Developers — We reported yesterday about Apple's alleged delay in payments to iPhone app developers, but there is more alarming news from iPhone developers about Apple's refund policies. Apparently, if iPhone users decide that they want a refund for an app …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Giz Explains: How a Brainy Worm Might Jack the World's PCs on April 1 — It's lurking in millions of PCs around the world. It's incredibly sophisticated and resilient, with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology. It revels in killing security software. On April 1, the Conficker worm will activate.
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Suggested Users — About a month or so ago we noticed a certain percentage of new users were signing up and then not following anyone. When you don't follow any other accounts on Twitter the product is not as relevant as it could be. To improve the user experience, we started suggesting some accounts to follow.
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Stevemar / Development Unfiltered:
Moving Toward an Open Process on Cloud Computing Interoperability — Moving Toward an Open Process on Cloud Computing Interoperability — From the moment we kicked off our cloud computing effort, openness and interop stood at the forefront. As those who are using it will tell you …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
@BarackObama Updates His Twitter! — Barack Obama, Twitter's second most popular user (CNN has passed him), updated his Twitter account today for the first time since taking office. — The update is to promote the President's online town hall, which encourages citizens to submit questions via The White House website.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
iGoogle gets video game makers in on the action — SAN FRANCISCO—Google on Wednesday unveiled the latest addition to its iGoogle start page service: a collection of themes designed by video game publishers. The search giant has partnered with nine publishers to come up with a little under …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubles At Imeem, But Company Says No Shutdown Imminent — Imeem, the free streaming music site backed by Sequoia Capital, Warner Music and other prominent investors, is rumored to be in serious trouble. — Music insiders are saying a shutdown of the company is imminent after a failed attempt to sell the company or raise more cash.
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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Demystifying Interaction Design — If interaction design isn't about influencing behavior...then what exactly are you doing? — Interaction Designer Robert Fabricant recently gave a talk called Behavior is our Medium at the 2009 IxDA conference. In his talk he makes the assertion interactive designers …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Create Flowcharts & Diagrams in Google Docs — You can now add drawing objects like flowcharts, arrows, callouts, banners and even freehand scribbles to your documents in Google Docs using the new “Insert Drawing” command available from the menu bar. — This new feature in Google Docs is like the …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Top Google execs: $1 salary, no bonus, no options — Wall Street executives feeling harassed by taxpayers outraged at their pay might take note of how Google's ruling triumvirate fared in 2008: $1 in salary each, no bonus, no stock grants, and no stock options.
Engineering Windows 7:
Touching Windows 7 — We've come a long way in engineering Windows 7 since we first provided an engineering preview of Windows 7 and the work we are doing to support the touch interface paradigm back at the D: All Things Digital conference. We chose to kick-off the discussion …
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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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Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine gets a new data center — It's housed in a 20-foot-long metal shipping container — Computerworld) The Internet Archive today announced that it has a new computer behind it its library of 151 billion archived Web pages.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Deadfish iPhones send users into deep freeze — When cool isn't cool enough for WiFi — Free whitepaper - Virtualization: optimized power and cooling to maximize benefits — Some iPhone and iPod Touch users who've upgraded to the latest 2.2.1 firmware are reporting problems connecting to WiFi …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Confirms Paid Pro Accounts On The Way — More revenue for Twitter on the way: The company confirms — for the first time we've seen, at least — age-old theories that they'll sell commercial accounts to power users or companies using Twitter. — In exchange for a fee, companies could get …
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Apple:
About the MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 — You should download and install the MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware Update 1.0 on your MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009) computer. The update addresses the possibility of vertical lines or distorted graphics on the display. — Products Affected
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
What Do Your Minutes Cost? You Can't Tell by the Cellphone Bill — There's a good reason many people don't bother to closely read their cellphone bills. They're a mess. — Even if you have a so-called bucket plan that's meant to simplify things — 450 minutes for $40, say …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Number of US Facebook Users Over 35 Nearly Doubles in Last 60 Days — Don't look now, but the number of Americans over 35, 45, and 55 on Facebook is growing fast. In the last 60 days alone, the number of people over 35 has nearly doubled. Developers and marketers may want to think about how to serve this group of new users.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Verizon Alias2 leaks out, features dynamically changing button layout — Verizon's original Alias U740 dual-hinge phone may not have rocked any worlds, but it was a clever attempt to provide the best of both a QWERTY keypad and a standard clamshell number pad in a single device …
Electronista:
Western Digital ups slim My Books to 2TB — Western Digital today gave all of its single-disk My Book external hard drives new 2TB capacity levels. The upgrade is equivalent to about 241 hours of full-bitrate HD and is particularly described as useful for Mac users or frequent shoppers from iTunes.
Phil Hollows / FeedBlitz News:
A FeedBurner Alternative: Blitz Your RSS! — FeedBlitz today has opened up a brand new RSS management service to the public. Previously in private beta, the service is designed for publishers, marketers and bloggers who need: — Greater choice in the RSS management service market;
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Intel CEO says Sun was shopped around — During an employee Webcast earlier this week to discuss Intel's stock options program, the chip giant's CEO, Paul Otellini, shed a little background on Sun Microsystems' pursuit to find a buyer. — When queried by an employee about his thoughts regarding …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FTC: We'll “come calling” about deceptive DRM — The Federal Trade Commission held its long-awaited Seattle conference on DRM. As expected, agreement was hard to come by, but the agency made clear that it has had enough of hidden DRM schemes and companies that pull the plug on authentication servers …
Frank Davies / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley execs meet with politicos — WASHINGTON — More than 100 tech heavyweights from Silicon Valley and elsewhere trekked to Congress and the White House during a one-day lobbying blitz Wednesday, celebrating recent victories and excited that the Obama administration is on their wavelength.
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Rajat Mukherjee / The Official Google Blog:
Google, at your service — It used to be that creating a webpage was a pursuit reserved for the truly tech-savvy, requiring a geek's expertise in HTML, Java, or C++ coding. — These days, it's a different story. Working with a hosting service has made things a great deal easier …
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Alex Kochis / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Pro — Starting this week, we will begin deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP. In addition to the usual updates to validation that improve WGA's ability to detect the latest stolen or fake product keys and other attempts …
