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Business Week:
New Gear from Apple and Verizon Wireless? — The companies are in talks to develop two iPhone-like handhelds that could be unveiled as soon as this year — Verizon Wireless is warming to the idea of an Apple (AAPL) partnership. Verizon Wireless is in talks with Apple to distribute …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Two New Devices from Apple: Category Defining ‘Media Pad’ and ‘iPhone Lite’? — Apple and Verizon partnership rumors seem to have taken on a life of their own with multiple reports that the companies are planning to work together as early as 2010. Businessweek provides the most intriguing report yet …
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids — It's been awhile since Microsoft introduced a game-changing social Web application, but Vine — a service that's debuting today with a beta test in Seattle — could be a contender. — Vine is a hyperlocal, personalized message and alert system.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-Book Application for the iPhone — Update | 4:06 p.m. Added quotation from Lexcycle blog post about the deal. — Update | 4:04 p.m. Added comment from Amazon.com. — Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle …
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Jason Scott / ASCII:
Geocities: Lessons So Far — The Geocities-is-going-away thing broke wide a short while ago. The “Jason is Saving Geocities” thing is breaking wider by the day, so I guess we need an update. — After my initial call-out, a nice selection of folks showed up to the Archive Team IRC channel …
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Hugh / hughstimson.org:
Jason Scott Is In Your Geocities, Rescuing Your Sh*t — Some time back, Jason Scott — the computing documentarian who hughstimson.org readers may remember from King of Kong controversy — “got angry like a fire gets burning” because AOL hometown was shutting down and leaving its users without many options to save off their home pages.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook's Privacy Settings Present Intrinsic Limitations To The Platform — I've written countless times about Facebook's “privacy facade” and how it could develop potential problems in their global expansion. Today, some developers and bloggers were disappointed that Facebook did not open …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Despite New Openness, Facebook Remains Fundamentally Closed — What are people saying on Facebook about the swine flu? Facebook knows, but they won't tell you. The company made a major move today to open up some of the data on the site in some interesting ways - but the conversation …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Don't get confused: Facebook's open stream approach isn't like Twitter's
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Home Office ‘colluded with Phorm’ — The Home Office has been accused of colluding with online ad firm Phorm on “informal guidance” to the public on whether the company's service is legal. — E-mails between the ministry and Phorm show the department asking if the firm would be “comforted” by its position.
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Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Phorm chief labels critics ‘serial agitators’ — Phorm, the online advertising company, has launched an extraordinary personal attack on two of its leading critics - claiming that they are “serial agitators” and that they could be supported by its rivals. — Leading privacy activists …
Ray C. He / Facebook Developers:
The Facebook Open Stream API — Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform. For the first time, we're opening the core Facebook product experience — the stream — with the new Facebook Open Stream API.
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Eric Schmidt on Google's New Plan for the News — The upper crust of Hollywood swirled about the vestibule and dining room of Arianna Huffington's Brentwood mansion on Friday night at a party for author Kathy Freston, and to kick off this weekend's L.A. Times Book Festival. (More on this later.)
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The White House:
President Obama Announces Members of Science and Technology Advisory Council — WASHINGTON - Today, during remarks at the National Academy of Sciences, President Barack Obama announced the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The full membership of PCAST is below.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple sued over legal threats to wiki operator — It's possible to use Apple's iPods and iPhone with third-party software, and BluWiki's users wanted to make sure the world could find out how. Apple, however, was not fond of the situation and threatened BluWiki with legal action if the information was not removed.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
With no $10 laptop in sight, India buys 250,000 OLPCs — India has purchased 250,000 XO laptops. This move will boost the One Laptop Per Child project and could help the deflating effort get back on its feet. — The government of India has signed an agreement with the One Laptop Per Child …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MLB Nearing $1 Million In iPhone Revenue — Major League Baseball's At Bat iPhone app is a hit — and a money maker. — The league tells us it's sold 130,000 copies of the $10 app so far this year. That translates to about $1.3 million in gross revenue.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
IBM challenges partner Cisco — IBM is adding a new chapter to the high-tech industry's long history of “coopetition.” — Big Blue is expected to announce on Tuesday that it plans to resell Ethernet switching equipment from Brocade, a much smaller rival to Cisco Systems.
Alan Travis / Guardian:
Government wants phone and internet providers to track users — Home secretary rules out state-run ‘super-database’ but firms would store details of calls, emails, texts and web browsing — The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, today ruled out building a single state “super-database” …
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
One week later, it's time for Firefox 3.0.10 — It's only been six days since the emergence on the scene of Mozilla's Firefox 3.0.9 — ostensibly a major security and bug-fix update to the world's #2 browser — and already the organization is preparing another update.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
What's Apple Building in There? — Apple has fleshed out its chip design group with another key hire. The company has recruited Bob Drebin, former CTO of AMD's Graphics Products Group, as a senior director. — Apple (AAPL) won't say what it is exactly that Drebin's going to work on …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Cablevision Goes for U.S. Broadband Speed Record — While it may not match the very best broadband deals in other countries, Cablevision will start offering the fastest home Internet service in the United States next month. — The new service will offer download speeds of 101 megabits per second …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
SeeqPod CEO: Acquisition Imminent — SeeqPod CEO Kasian Franks, pictured here with a 2005 iteration of the technology behind SeeqPod (courtesy of lbl.gov) — Music search engine SeeqPod is on the verge of being acquired by a major new media company, CEO Kasian Franks told wired.com Monday …
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Clive Thompson on Puzzles and the Hive Mind — Recently, Jonathan Blow issued a plea to his audience: Don't use a walkthrough to play my videogame. — A walkthrough is a set of step-by-step instructions that fans write to help one another make their way through a complex game.
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
HP ProBook S-Series: Businesspeople Can Have Sassy Red Laptops Too — HP today revealed its new business laptops, the ProBook s-series. The 14.1", 15.6", and 17.3" ProBooks are all about pragmatic performance, affordability, and inoffensive design. They're the Toyota Camry of laptops.
