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Caterina.net:
Hunch! — We've started sending out invitations to friends and people who signed up on Hunch. We're going to be launching the full public site in the coming months, but for now — invitations! — What is Hunch? — Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
After trying it out, I have a good feeling about Hunch — I am an extremely indecisive person. This sometimes frustrates other people, but it frustrates me even more because I absolutely hate wasting time. And being indecisive means I sit there thinking about decisions for far too long.
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Exclusive: Twitter integration coming to OnStar — OnStar users, look out—Twitter is about to become a part of your experience. How so? Well, being an owner of a couple of Cadillacs with OnStar built-in, we sometimes receive surveys or phone calls asking us how we are liking things.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
AT&T stores now offering early upgrade pricing on iPhone 3G — In the latest move aimed at helping Apple clear inventory of iPhone 3Gs ahead of new models anticipated this spring, AT&T retail stores are now offering some customers early upgrades to the Apple handset at subsidized pricing.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Has Apple begun clearing iPhone 3G inventory?
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VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, iPhone Buzz, Mobilewhack.com, DisplayBlog, IntoMobile, geeksugar, TheStreet.com, Silicon Alley Insider, MobileContentToday, Obsessable, FierceWireless, Engadget, TUAW, Macsimum News, Mobility Site, MacNN, The iPhone Blog, TheAppleBlog, DSLreports, O'Grady's PowerPage, iLounge and Gizmodo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Facebook Purposefully Lowballing Its Official User Numbers? — Facebook updates its official user numbers periodically on a statistics page that currently says 175 million users. They say that they update it every 25 million users, but many of us have long suspected that they may trail by much more than that.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Dell Latitude 2100 ‘Welch’ Netbooks Leaked — A tipster just leaked these Dell Latitude 2100 ‘Welch’ laptops to us, which have a 10-inch display and are aimed under $600. The best part are the names: School Bus Orange and Red Apple. — Here are the details: they're a new Latitude notebook design branded …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former AOL Head Jon Miller Heads to News Corp. as “Chief Digital Officer” — BoomTown has confirmed a report by Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily that former AOL head Jon Miller is set to take over as digital head at News Corp., replacing Peter Levinsohn.
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Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
Digital Changes For News Corp: Ex-AOL'er Jon Miller Becomes Digital Media CEO, FIM Prez Peter Levinsohn to “Big Studio Job” — EXCLUSIVE & UPDATED: Sources tell me that former AOL CEO Jon Miller has agreed to join News Corp in a newly created role as CEO, Digital Media.
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Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent.org, TechCrunch, A Second Opinion Weblog, Gawker and Jobwire
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook “Definitely” Raising Capital This Year; Google Considered Acquisition — Last October we wrote about how Facebook's breakaway growth combined with a declining advertising market was forcing the company back to the capital markets. — The company has been all over the place …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
When every student has a laptop, why run computer labs? — Only four freshmen showed up at the University of Virginia in 2007 without a computer of their own, and the school has decided that it's no longer worth the expense of running campus computer labs. — What's the point of running …
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internetnews.com:
Verizon Confirms Plans to Sell Netbooks — If Verizon wants to win the subsidized-netbook battle, it needs to undercut competitor service plan prices. — Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is entering the netbook market with plans to sell 3G-equipped versions of the tiny laptops in its stores as early as next month.
Luis Corrons / PandaLabs:
Don't get taken in by the Conficker panic — Lately it seems everybody is talking about Conficker and its variants. And much more so if we have to take into account the build up fear around the coming day of April 1st. It's been a while since we saw so much coverage in the general media …
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Prosecutor Who Threatened Teens With Child Porn Charges For Taking Pics Of Themselves Gets Sued — Back in January, we got a tremendous response in the comments to a post about some teens in Pennsylvania who were facing the potential of child porn charges from an overzealous local prosecutor.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
JavaScript to get 3x speed boost in iPhone OS 3.0 — Regardless of whatever new hardware Apple might introduce this summer, existing iPhone users will see an average 300 percent speed increase in JavaScript performance in Mobile Safari. The increased speed will be helpful for iPhone-specifc web apps …
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple developing ‘stealth’ biometric security for iPhone — Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition — all without ever having to break from their usual routine.
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Technologizer, Gizmodo, Coolest Gadgets, Mobilewhack.com, IntoMobile, Engadget, CrunchGear, The iPhone Blog and Electricpig.co.uk
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Could Disney Join Hulu? Sources Say Talks Are Serious — Updated: The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company could wind up with an equity stake in Hulu in exchange for adding ABC programming to the NBC Universal-News Corp (NYSE: NWS) joint venture, a source familiar with the situation tells paidContent.
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DVICE, PC World, Electronista, NewTeeVee, MediaFile, SlashGear, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider and AppScout
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T offering refurbished BlackBerry Bold for free — In the market for a new AT&T smartphone? Don't care if it's refurbished? The BlackBerry Bold is about as good as it gets from AT&T right now, and those of you who haven't pulled the trigger yet are in for a treat. How does free sound?
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CrackBerry.com blogs, IntoMobile, The Toybox, InformationWeek, Technologizer, FierceWireless, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Gearlog and Engadget
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us — Update: Amazon will join Microsoft as two big cloud computing players not signing on to the Open Cloud Manifesto. — The manifesto, which has raised a ruckus following a Microsoft blog post, is set to be released Monday with IBM as the ringleader.
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Huawei's U.S. Coming Out Party — The company's North American inroads may mean the end of worries over its Chinese government ties. — Huawei's long march to North America may finally be achieving results. — For years, the Chinese networking and telecom vendor's attempt to expand …
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009 — Another huge addition to the digitization of our planet just hit the web last night - 21TB - all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps (and other Live Search properties). Now, this one isn't huge in terms …
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Nicole Loux / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3.0.8 security release now available — Editor's note: Mozilla released a security and stability update for Firefox 3.x users on Friday, March 27, 2009 at 3:45 pm PT. Check out the Mozilla Developer News announcement, reposted below, for more details.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
Tracking The Online-Only Seattle P-I: Traffic Down 20 Percent — It makes some sense: Cut your editorial staff by 80 percent, and there's at least a decent chance that Web traffic will tumble. And that's just what has happened at the new online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Robert Frank / The Wealth Report:
A Facebook for the Fortunate — The problem with Diamond Lounge, A Small World and other “elite” social-networking sites is that they tout themselves as high end but can't verify people's wealth or income. Inevitably, the online riff-raff spoil the party of the elites.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Imeem restructures, chief marketing officer resigns — Steve Jang has resigned as chief marketing officer at Imeem, the financially troubled social network. — Jang's departure had been planned for some time and was amicable, said Matt Graves, an Imeem spokesman.
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MediaMemo
