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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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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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Survey: 84% won't upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year — Most enterprises will eventually migrate to Windows 7 — Microsoft's (MSFT) newest version of the world's dominant PC operating system — but they're not in any hurry to do so. — And half are thinking about switching to a non-Windows system, such as Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X.
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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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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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BBC:
EC starts legal action on 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.
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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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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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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 …
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? Though 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 …
Nikon Press Center:
NIKON'S D5000 DIGITAL SLR CAMERA EXPANDS POSSIBILITIES FOR PHOTO AND HD VIDEO CREATIVITY WITH D-MOVIE MODE, VARI-ANGLE LCD MONITOR AND 19 AUTOMATIC SCENE MODES — Nikon Inc. today introduced the new D5000, a digital SLR camera with a host of features and capabilities that deliver superior performance …
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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 …
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.
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 …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Job posting points to single-click Windows Mobile updates — A second job posting further hints at Microsoft wanting to revamp how updates work on Windows Mobile with the release of version 7 next year. — Last month there was a job posting on March 12 that quickly led to speculation around whether …
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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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows XP Mainstream Support retired, but no need to worry — Microsoft today retired Mainstream Support for Windows XP and Office 2003. Both products are now under Extended Support and will continue to be until April 8, 2014. — As planned, Microsoft today retired Mainstream Support for Windows XP and Office 2003.
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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 …
Jay Parkinson M.D. / Clusterstock:
Google Health Will Belly Flop — About two weeks ago, e-patient Dave sent me a link to his blog post about his Google (GOOG) Health information sucked out of the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. It finally made the Boston Globe this morning. — Here's the problem.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
NBC Again Will Limit Live Olympic Broadband Coverage To Pay TV Subscribers — While Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has been talking up TV Everywhere, NBC quietly has been planning once again to limit live broadband viewing of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver to pay TV subscribers—but with tougher authentication.
Derrick Harris / GigaOM:
How Technology Won the Presidency, Part I — Command of the issues, cool confidence and disarming smile aside, Barack Obama might just owe his campaign's success to his team's ability to harness the technology at their fingertips. Social networking, broadband and data management …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Blogger Critical of South Korea Faces 18 Months in Prison — South Korea's democracy seems to be deteriorating by the day — this time with the proposed 18-month incarceration of a blogger critical of the South's economic policy. — The 31-year-old blogger's crime: falsely reporting …
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Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
OpenSecrets.org Goes OpenData — Award-winning website from the Center for Responsive Politics now provides 20 years of downloadable money-in-politics data—for free — WASHINGTON — Politicians, prepare yourselves. Lobbyists, look out. Today the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics …
