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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple retail sheds 1,600 full-time positions — Apple's retail group shed about 1,600 full-time equivalent workers during its second fiscal quarter. — Apple's second fiscal quarter was a blowout considering the state of the economy, but executives noted that the retail division took …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple Stores: The big chill — Is there an Apple Store near you? Count yourself lucky, because the days of Apple's (AAPL) aggressive expansion into the branded retail space are over — at least for now. — After opening more than 250 company-owned stores in eight years …
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Windows 7 RC (7100) out early on torrent trackers — While the partner page Microsoft put up a few days back announcing the availability of the Windows 7 RC turned out to be another minor slip-up, the results in Mininova's index are a bit more real. — You guessed it - the Windows 7 RC build (7100) has been leaked.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Go test drive Windows 7 RC (7100) today — If you're like me and watched from a distance leaked builds of Windows 7 fly past like water balloons in a water balloon fight, then the time to join the fun is now. The highly anticipated release candidate (RC) build of Windows 7 has been leaked and its authenticity is entirely undisputed.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Van Natta Confirmed as CEO of MySpace-The Full Press Release — Former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta has finally been officially named as CEO of MySpace, as BoomTown reported yesterday, according to a press release from News Corp. — He will replace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe, who stepped down from the job earlier this week.
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Simon Pope / Apple:
Apple's Revolutionary App Store Downloads Top One Billion in Just Nine Months — Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded one billion applications from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The one billionth app, Bump created by Bump Technologies …
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Billionth iPhone App Downloader Scores Freebies; Developer Wins Too — Nine months after Apple began selling apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, 13-year-old Connor Mulcahey of Weston, Connecticut downloaded the billionth application from the iTunes store. — Poetically, it was a free app.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Cable: DPI is good for us; Congressman: it's frightening — While the cable industry told Congress that deep packet inspection technology was great for consumers, Rick Boucher (D-VA) expressed some doubts. DPI's “privacy intrusion potential is nothing short of frightening,” he said …
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Grant Gross / Techworld.com:Deep packet inspection could be outlawed in US
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Ted Ullyot / Facebook Blog:
Results of the Inaugural Facebook Site Governance Vote — Today, the Facebook site governance vote ended after a week in which you were able to voice your opinions as to which documents should serve as the foundation for governing the site. On behalf of everyone at Facebook …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Facebook governance vote is a homework assignment no one did
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide — Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace. The focus of the study was on the differing opinions between generational groups.
Renai LeMay / CNET News:
Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X — Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Snow Leopard Server to offer low cost, secure mobile access to iPhone — Apple will leverage the popularity of the iPhone to deliver business users new Mobile Access services in Snow Leopard Server to securely deliver corporate email, contact, calendar, and intranet web services to iPhone …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Gamefly: USPS handles DVD rentals with kid gloves, ignores us — Gamefly has filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission accusing the US Postal Service of improper sorting, leading to many games being broken in transit. The game rental service also alleges that its competitors are given better service by the USPS.
Dan Roberts / Guardian:
Meet the ‘Bill Gates of Bangalore’ — Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, shares his views on open markets and the failure of public systems — The man who inspired the slogan “the world is flat” has a small revision to make in the light of recent events.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Eats World: Global Visitors Shoot Up To 19 Million — Twitter's march towards world domination continues apace. This morning comScore released its global numbers for March, 2009. Worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increased 95 percent in the month of March from 9.8 million to 19.1 million, according to its estimates.
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Bill Gertz / Washington Times:
Obama's BlackBerry — President Obama will soon get his souped-up, high-security BlackBerry for use in and around the White House and during presidential travel, according to Obama administration officials. The top-secret BlackBerry 8830 is in the final stages of development …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Wikipedia lawsuit could put it on the wrong side of fair use — Wikipedia uses plenty of copyrighted material and trademarks under the doctrine of fair use. But a trademark infringement lawsuit against a couple of artists would put the Wikimedia Foundation on the opposite side of the fair use fight.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Can A Sports Organization Claim Copyright On Stuff You Filmed Yourself? — Earlier this year, we noted that with the rise of the ability to film and broadcast video directly from mobile phones, it was only a matter of time until we ran into some legal battles about fans filming and “broadcasting” a live sporting event.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Opscode Gets $2.5M to Automate the Cloud — Opscode, Inc., a cloud infrastructure company led by veterans of the data center teams from Amazon and Microsoft, has closed a Series A funding round of $2.5 million led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the company said today.
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Fred / A VC:
Geocities — Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities. That is sad news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first “mega deal” when it was sold to Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.5bn (including the value of the options Yahoo! assumed).
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Bkis Blog:
New worm bypasses Gmail's CAPTCHA — On April 22 2009, Bkis Honeypot system discovered a new worm, which we named W32.Gaptcha.Worm. The worm automatically signs up and creates random Gmail accounts for spamming purposes. To do so, it must be able to break Google's CAPTCHA first.
