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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Twitter's Co-Founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone Speak! — BoomTown visited Twitter's San Francisco HQ yesterday for a pie-filled tour yesterday. — But I also got a chance to sit down to have a chat with two of its founders, CEO Evan Williams and Biz Stone (pictured here, right to left) …
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Microsoft Help and Support:
Description of the E74 error message warranty extension — View products that this article applies to. — MORE INFORMATION — While the majority of Xbox 360 owners continue to have a great experience with their console, we are aware that a very small percentage of our customers …
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Randall C. Kennedy / Randall C. Kennedy's blog:
Will Windows 7 be panned by enterprise IT? — Randall C. Kennedy mulls over the most recent survey numbers, which show a tepid response from IT shops — Windows 7 will change the world! It will right the wrongs of Vista in the enterprise space while simultaneously winning over the hearts …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
StumbleUpon, A Case Study In The Efficient Allocation Of Resources — So StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking site that lets users browse and discover new websites by clicking a button, was a subsidiary of eBay for just less than two years. The acquisition made the startup's founders extremely wealthy …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
EC starts legal action over Phorm — The European Commission has started legal action against Britain over the online advertising technology Phorm. — It follows complaints to the EC over how the behavioural advertising service was tested on BT's broadband network without the consent of users.
Claire Sung / DigiTimes:
TSMC and subsidiaries to benefit from launch of next-generation iPhone — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and two of its subsidiaries - packaging and testing house Xintec and color filer (CF) maker VisEra Technologies - are likely to benefit from their roles in the manufacturing …
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Xavier Ducrohet / Android Developers Blog:
Getting ready for Android 1.5 — I'm excited to announce that starting today, developers can get an early look at the SDK for the next version of the Android platform. This new version (which will be 1.5) is based on the cupcake branch from the Android Open Source Project.
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Andrea James / Amazon & the online retail blog:
AmazonFail: An inside look at what happened — I've spoken to an Amazon.com employee who works closely with the systems involved in the glitch. The employee asked me not to share his name because of company policies on talking with the media. — On Sunday afternoon at least 20 Amazon.com employees …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Simple backup service Backblaze now available to all Mac users — Backblaze, which remains a strong candidate for the easiest tool out there for backing up your hard drive, is taking the Mac version of its service out of beta testing today, which means it's now available to anyone with a Mac.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
E-book reader market gets crowded as Amazon eyes big screen — Publishers, booksellers, and wireless companies are all looking at getting in on the e-book market, all while the company that enables it all, E Ink, is getting ready to roll out a much larger screen to all takers.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
HD Cloud: Video Transcoding Gets Hip — Been able to make out facial expressions on YouTube lately? Noticed yourself rubbing your eyes less? Thought that show looked just about as good on your laptop as your TV? Given the rapid ascent of online video quality in the last year …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
IBM launches business analytics services unit; Eyes predictive modeling — IBM on Tuesday unveiled a new services unit focused on business analytics and optimization and stumped for the need to use data to make better predictions. — At an event in its Hawthorne, NY research facility …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
App Management System ExtraHop Scores $5.1 Million In Series A Funding — ExtraHop Networks has completed a $5.1 million Series A round of funding, led by the Madrona Venture Group, with participation from angel investors including Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
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Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Tech jobs hammered by recession — Silicon Valley's tech workforce is shrinking at an alarming rate, with job losses in the region's dominant industry outpacing the overall employment decline across the valley. — Seemingly immune to recession for much of last year, the valley has been hit hard …
Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Shop opening times searches: an SEO opportunity? — While perusing this week's fast moving search terms (i.e. the search terms in each category that experienced the biggest increase in volume between last week and the week before), the list for our Shopping and Classifieds category caught my eye.
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
Quantcast Shifts Focus Of Audience Measurement From Users To Brands — At a time when the online advertising world seems to be shifting from an era of measuring content to one that tracks the audiences that consume it, Quantcast is making a play to shift the focus again — this time with a decidedly brand-centric approach.
PC World:
Hands on With Sony's New X-series Walkman — Sony is refreshing its Walkman line with new flagship models that pack noise cancelling, a bright touchscreen display, mobile TV, and the ability to surf the Internet and watch YouTube videos. — The NW-X1000 players will go on sale worldwide beginning …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Microsoft PubCenter Producing Strong Results Via YieldBuild Online Ad Planning Program — Microsoft PubCenter, Microsoft's competitor to Google's AdSense and Yahoo's Publisher Network, is being beta tested through ad network and layout optimization service, YieldBuild, and receiving positive results.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Publishers Can Get Advertisers To Spend In A Recession — How can a Web publisher or ad agencies get advertisers to loosen to their purse strings in the midst of a frightful recession? Simple: copy and paste the rest of this post into email. — The secret to thriving in the recession …
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VentureBeat:
Forget the G1, the Android invasion is landing in Asia — Google's Android operating system has promised to help mobile manufacturers and carriers offer high-quality interfaces for smartphones — if not for netbooks and many other devices. But since its initial release last year …
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Helen Walters / Business Week:
Can Widgets Save the Television Industry? — With Internet Connected television, Yahoo and Samsung try to take a leaf out of Apple's design playbook — Convergence has been the buzzword of the media world for years now. But while mobile might have won many of the recent headlines …
Mike / Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search:
Hitwise: Google Maps passes Mapquest — Compete.com showed Google Maps overtaking Mapquest in visitors in January as did Comscore. At the time Hitwise showed that Maps as nearly passing Mapquest but dropping back. As recently as last week Hitwise indicated that Mapquest was still in the lead but that gap was closing.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
OQO Rumored to Be Looking for Buyer: Expansys Pulls New Model Off Web Site — The title of the smallest full-featured Windows PC is still held by OQO, the tiny pocketable computer that has been around for a few years. I spent a good half hour with the newly announced Model 02+ early this year …
