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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft's Massive in-game ad business takes hits among 3,000 overall layoffs — Microsoft announced a new round of layoffs today as it struggles to right itself after reporting tepid results last month. We've learned that Massive, the company's in-game advertising business, suffered something like 75 percent layoffs.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft sends second wave of layoff notices to 3,000 — Microsoft on Tuesday notified more than 3,000 workers that it was eliminating their jobs. — The software maker said in January that it would cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. It made 1,400 cuts at the time.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Ballmer's layoff mail to the troops fails to rule out more cuts
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AT&T:
AT&T Introduces Free ‘Mywireless Mobile’ Application on Apple App Store — iPhone Customers Can View Data and Voice Usage, Manage Bill Payments, Add New Wireless Features and More
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Etan Horowitz / Etan on Tech:AT&T releases iPhone app to help you track minutes and manage your account
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Roberto Baldwin / Mac|Life all:
Source: 10.5.7 Hitting Your Mac on Friday — If you've been champing at the bit for the magic of 10.5.7, according to a super-secret Apple source, your champing can cease on Friday. The newest version of Leopard is slated to fix a slew of networking, syncing and bluetooth issues.
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Rest in Peace, RSS — It's time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter. RSS just doesn't cut it anymore. The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it's not worth swimming in if you get my drift. — I haven't been in Google Reader for months.
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Jim Spanfeller / paidContent.org:
What Google Can Do To Make The Web Less Of A ‘Cesspool’ — Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com. He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. — After years of debate about the value of the near monopoly owned …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Forbes.com CEO Spanfeller Attacks Google, Stumbles Into His Own Cesspool — Another publisher is complaining that Google isn't giving them their “fair share” — this time Forbes CEO Jim Spanfeller. Google makes $60 million off the Forbes brand, he claims (with no proof), and boosting …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Looky What Apple's Promoting: QuickPWN — If you own an iPhone or iPod touch you've probably at least heard of QuickPWN, the jailbreaking tool. You'd think Apple doesn't want you know know about it, because it allows you to open up your iPhone to use apps outside of the App Store ecosystem.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Must Buy Twitter — Microsoft (MSFT) is about to finally consummate a search deal with Yahoo — and that's great. But if Redmond really wants to carve into's Google search business over the next 10 years, it needs to offer whatever it takes — $800 million? $1 billion? more? — to buy Twitter right now.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Some Intel chips don't support Windows 7 ‘XP mode’ — A small brouhaha is erupting over Windows 7 and Intel processors. The hubbub is centered on which Intel processors will not support “XP mode” in Windows 7 and, by extension, which PCs will not support XP mode.
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is here! — As we previously announced, today the Windows 7 RC is now available for anyone interested in giving it a spin! Typically, a release candidate is the last development milestone before release to manufacturing (RTM), signifying that engineering …
David / TmoNews:
Visual Voicemail Coming! — Well I bet at least a few of you will be more than interested in getting your hands on this feature and while the above picture lacks any real detail, an approaching release date is interesting enough. Visual voicemail is a feature the iPhone popularized …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple sued over reputed fire hazard of MagSafe power adapter — Apple is again the target of a class action lawsuit over power adapters, this time stemming from complaints about the company's MagSafe power adapters for its MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air computers.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3.0 Firmware Taking Better Pictures than 2.2.1? — The iPhone's camera resolution leaves much to be desired, but there's more to image quality than just resolution. And according to one series of tests, the firmware 3.0 is taking better photos than its predecessor.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sony OLED Walkman impressions — Considering that we're holding a Japanese unit in our hands, our impressions of Sony's OLED Walkman will be somewhat limited. That said, we figured it prudent to pass along our initial judgments until the US model shows up sometime between tomorrow and next century.
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Net neutrality and bandwidth caps don't matter — Comment They have nothing to do with the Internet — THERE HAS BEEN a lot of talk lately over usage quotas on cable modems and how some are fair and others are not at all. The problem that most people don't get is that the numbers …
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Evidence points to 3G radios in MacBooks, Tablets? — From the rumor mill to the evidence mill.... I heard from an Apple source last month that Apple laptops were going to get a slight update this summer. There was speculation that update might be a 3G wireless radio added to MacBooks.
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Stu Woo / Digits:
Craigslist Meets Attorneys General Over Ad Flap — Law-enforcement officers have long criticized Craigslist for not doing enough to prevent illegal activity among its users. The popular classified-ad Web site went on the defensive again last month after a 22-year-old medical student …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
US Senate Votes Now Available in XML - Bring on The Mashups! — Today is an important day in the history of politics and technology - the US Senate voting record is finally available in machine-readable XML (extensible markup language) format. Mashups, vote tracking and comparison applications …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
IBM in Post-Sun Rebound Acquisition — Looks like IBM found another use for some of the $6.5 billion it had considered using to acquire Sun (JAVA). This morning the company said it is acquiring Exeros, a data relationship discovery company that it plans to roll into into its business analytics unit.
Gary Allen / ifoAppleStore:
Report: Water-Damaged iPhones Now Swappable — Careless iPhone owners who have flipped their handset into a swimming pool-or glass of beer-can now reportedly save themselves the expense of purchasing a new handset under a new Apple store policy allowing the replacement of a liquid-damaged handset for $199.
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Rumored Microsoft 3D Wii killer: we think we played with it — The rumors, leaked images, and speculation are only going to get worse as we move closer to E3, and now it's Microsoft's turn to bear the scrutiny of the gaming press. A report making the rounds, along with a “leaked” …
Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
announcing the boxee app dev challenge — the new boxee API enables developers to build and publish apps for boxee users. while people are working on a variety of boxee apps, we thought it would be a good idea to provide some extra incentive for the developers.
Gina Keating / Reuters:
California judge blunts Internet false advertising law — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California judge on Monday threw out a $45 million false advertising lawsuit against online advertising company ValueClick Inc, in a decision that defense attorneys said could blunt the most aggressive state law regulating commercial email.
