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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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MacRumors iPhone Blog, MobileCrunch, Mobile Roar, Macsimum News, InformationWeek, Engadget Mobile, Phone Scoop and PhoneNews.com
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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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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
RSS readers modeled after email clients are fundamentally broken — Farhad Manjoo has an article on Slate entitled Kill your RSS reader which captures a growing sentiment I've had for a while and ranted about during a recent panel at SXSW. Below are a few key excerpts from Farhad's article that resonate strongly with me
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
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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 …
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Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Windows 7 Fail — Windows 7 RC is out today. — This is great news. — Because surely by now they've fixed Windows Explorer. — You see, in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista, Explorer used to Hide extensions for known file types. And virus writers used this “feature” …
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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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.
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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IntoMobile, WMExperts, Electronista, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, WMPoweruser.com and Engadget Mobile
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Microsoft Layoffs - Cinco de Fire-O — Well, if ever you wanted to console yourself with some tequila, today might be your day. Phase Two of the big Microsoft 2009 layoff engages today. — Microsoft continues layoff plan, eliminates thousands more jobs - TechFlash Seattle's Technology News Source
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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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MediaMemo, Microsoft Pri0, TechFlash, Between the Lines, Digits, eWeek, TG Daily and Xconomy
Julie Rivera / Crave: The gadget blog:
Behind-the-scenes Palm Pre advert leaked...and stars Facebook? — We've already seen Palm and Apple clash when it comes to print advertisements, but now details of what could be the first Pre TV advertisement have leaked. Photographer and film maker Jaime Gonzalez had been tweeting …
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” …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ignore the Twitter Buyout Rumors: Here Are the Facts in Five Beyoncé-Madonna-Approved Steps — Was it more than a month ago that Google was rumored to be in “late-stage negotiations to acquire Twitter”? — Not so much late-stage, I guess, with a gestation period that seems interminable …
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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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PC World, The Register, Insanely Great Mac, CNET News, Gizmodo, Electronista, AppleInsider, I4U News, Ubergizmo, Edible Apple and MacDailyNews
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
The Webby Awards Remain the Best Scam Going — For a dozen years, the Webby Awards have tried to make the Web glamorous. But what they've really done is distill the hucksterism of the Internet into its purest form. — Among the inside crowd, the Webby Awards were always a joke …
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.
Scott Duke Harris / Mercury News:
IPO pipeline has turned into a sieve — If Rosetta Stone was a Silicon Valley company, the local venture capital crowd might be feeling a bit more chipper these days. The Virginia-based company makes language teaching software, with 31 languages available on CD-ROM.
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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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
A Tech Company's Campaign to Burnish Its Brand — AD AGENCIES usually hang on their clients' every directive. But when Intel was developing its biggest advertising campaign in years, it handed a carefully thought-out brief to the ad agency Venables Bell & Partners, which said Intel's idea …
Will Oremus / Mercury News:
Facebook to vacate downtown Palo Alto in May 14 move — Facebook's long-planned move to new headquarters in the Stanford Research Park will begin May 14, the company said Monday. — The social networking firm's new home will bring together all of its more than 850 local employees …
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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.
Charles Stanish / Archaeology:
Forging Ahead — Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love eBay — A little over a decade ago, archaeologists experienced a collective nightmare—the emergence of eBay, the Internet auction site that, among other things, lets people sell looted artifacts.
Rachael King / Business Week:
Hungry for iPhone Business Apps — The iPhone is gaining wider acceptance at companies, but the selection of useful business apps is still paltry — David Lin is traveling lighter for business lately. Ever since the software marketing exec bought an iPod Touch, he's often able to leave his notebook computer behind.
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
McAfee: New botnets dwarf Conficker threat — The Conficker worm, which has sent off many a recent security alarm bell, may just be a small fry, compared to the growing number of botnets, viruses, and worms infecting cyberspace. — According to a report released on Tuesday from security vendor McAfee …
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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.
BBC:
Could piracy blacklist backfire? — Internet law professor Michael Geist on how the US has angered allies with its list of the world's worst piracy offenders — Each April, the US releases the Special 301 Report, which examines the intellectual property laws of its main trading partners.
