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Mark Gomez / Mercury News:
Widespread phone outage in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties — Thousands of residents in southern Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties are without phone service this morning and can't call 911 in case of an emergency, according to law enforcement officials.
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Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:Thousands cut off from phone service
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Sender time zone — Let's say your girlfriend sends you an angry email. It's mostly about how you behaved at the party last night and then left for a business trip without saying goodbye. You read it from the other side of the globe, jet-lagged after a 12 hour flight.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
YouTube in Music Video Deal With Universal — YouTube and Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, said on Thursday that they had reached an agreement to create a new online hub for music videos called Vevo. It will be the latest of many efforts by YouTube, which is owned by Google …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Who Will Be Twitter's Bestest Search Friend? Google and Microsoft Engage in Yet Another Pick-Me Face-Off. — [UPDATED: With added information about range of product discussions.] — In this digital era's version of “Spy Vs. Spy,” Microsoft and Google find themselves in yet another sharp-elbowed battle …
Benjamin Wayne / Silicon Alley Insider:
YouTube Is Doomed — YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise …
Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop:
Bluetooth 3.0 Is Ready for Prime Time — The Bluetooth Special Interest Group is set to announce the Bluetooth 3.0 specification later this month. Bluetooth 3.0 will feature dramatically increased speeds, allowing for the transfer of large video files, music collections and photo libraries wirelessly ‘within seconds’.
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Svetlana Gladkova / Profy:
Twitter Is Huge? Yes. Twitter Is a Popular Marketing Tool? Probably no. — Twitter sometimes looks like it has been here forever with everyone seemingly using it everywhere and for just about every purpose. And of course we have all seen various marketing and promotion techniques employed …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Breaks Up Its Live Labs Group — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is downsizing its high-profile Live Labs group, which was created three years ago to speed up innovation in the company's online business, paidContent.org has learned. — The group, whose mission has been to hatch new ideas …
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
France Rejects Plan to Curb Internet Piracy — PARIS — In a major blow for President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to crack down on Internet piracy, the French National Assembly on Thursday rejected legislation that would have cut off the Internet connections of persistent copyright violators.
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Josephine Lien / DigiTimes:
NAND flash supply to tighten after Apple reportedly places large order — Apple has reportedly placed orders for 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips mostly with Samsung Electronics, which is likely to cause a supply shortage, according to sources at downstream suppliers.
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Business Week:
Sheryl Sandberg on Facebook's Future — In an exclusive BusinessWeek interview, the social networking site's chief operating officer talks about controversies and strategy — Watch the Video... The social networking site Facebook has proven wildly popular, with the company announcing …
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
BOSS Update: Delicious, Advanced Language, and News Capabilities — Today we're adding several new tools to the Yahoo! Search BOSS developer war chest: Delicious content, advanced language capabilities, and news sorting functionality to the BOSS news service.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The price-gouging premiums of Time Warner Cable's data caps — Time Warner Cable is expanding its test markets for paltry Internet data caps. Ars breaks down the obscene price per gigabyte that the company thinks is “fair.” — Time Warner Cable, stung by online criticism of its paltry traffic caps …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone To Get Qualcomm's ‘FLO TV’ Mobile TV — One reason that Qualcomm's FLO TV mobile television division has had a slow start: It's only available on select phones that have a special chip inside them. That's currently about 9 phones of roughly 100-plus in the U.S. market …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Cisco to Buy Tidal as Part of Its Data Center Rush — Cisco this morning said it plans to acquire Tidal Software for $105 million in cash as part of its expansion into the data center. Tidal, which raised venture money from investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Panorama Capital …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2009 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: April 9, 2009 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: April 14, 2009 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on April 14, 2009.
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Tech Alert: Nokia Jumps Into Touchscreens — Nokia(NOK Quote) has finally embraced the touchscreen movement. — The Finnish phone titan has plans to introduce three devices that feature big touchscreens and so-called Qwerty keypads, according to industry sources, say analysts.
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Unwired View, Obsessable, Engadget, Local Mobile Search, Phone Arena, jkOnTheRun and Engadget Mobile
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
12seconds crowd-sources commercials for a business model on top of Twitter — While Twitter itself may not have a final business model yet, the hot thing these days is for third-parties to use the service to create their own business models. Short-form video startup 12seconds is the latest to do this …
John Quinn / Digg the Blog:
Google Juice & Page Views: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DiggBar — As most of you have noticed, we launched the DiggBar last week. This cool little feature streamlines your Digg experience by making it much easier to discover and share stories.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon launches BlackBerry app; Leaves Storm out — Updated: Amazon followed up its iPhone application with one for the BlackBerry, but only folks with trackball devices need to bother with the download. The BlackBerry Storm isn't supported. — The company said in a statement Thursday …
OUT-LAW News:
US outlines secretive international piracy deal — The world's major economic powers are considering whether to involve internet service providers (ISPs) in fighting copyright infringement and how to stop pirated material crossing borders, according to documents released by the US Government.
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Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
Extreme borrowing in the blogosphere — In the past week, both Joshua Schachter and Matt Haughey published articles that were excerpted in the Voices section of All Things Digital, a web site owned by Dow Jones and run by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg of the WSJ.
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Kaspersky Lab Weblog:
The neverending story — Last night the Kido (aka Conficker/ Downadup) botnet kicked into action - what everyone's been on the lookout for since 1st April. — The computers infected with Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Kido (aka Conficker.c) contacted each other over P2P, telling infected machines to download new malicious files.
