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Remo Knops / MobilityMinded:
Microsoft Facebook Application for Windows Mobile Phones Step-By-Step Overview  —  Back at CTIA 2009 Microsoft made several announcements of which one was the creation of a new Facebook application for Windows Phones.  Luckily I was able to test this application and the article below …
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Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Asus Eee PC T91 launching by June!  —  The Asus Eee PC T91, the first touchscreen convertible netbook from the Taiwanese tech giant, will be twisting its way over to the UK within a month, and we now know how much for.  Read on for the full scoop.  —  Although the Asus Eee PC T91 was unveiled …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler.  Twitter Dominates Results.  —  There's a new trend that starting to sweep the web: Real-time.  Everyone wants access to information as it happens instantaneously.  FriendFeed recently went real-time and now Facebook is starting to embrace it.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Magnetometer in next iPhone confirmed?  —  We just got a couple images from one of our Apple ninjas and it appears to show a compass option in one of the debugging menus.  Our source says this is obviously for a built-in magnetometer in the upcoming iPhone hardware revision and with what's already been reported, we'd have to agree.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
A compass for the iPhone?  —  Ever since Apple (AAPL) …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Central and GMSV
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Wikipedia hoax points to limits of journalists' research  —  A sociology student placed a fake quote on Wikipedia, only to see it show up in prominent newspapers, revealing that a lot of the press doesn't go much further than most 'Net users when it comes to researching a story.
Discussion: Pulse2
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Why Raising The Pay Wall May Be An Impossible Dream  —  The worsening advertising climate is forcing many publishers, facing only modest online gains after a decade of digital investment, to consider charging for content.  News Corp is considering a strategy that may involve e-readers …
Discussion: TeleRead and Techdirt
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year  —  A growing number of game makers on Facebook are making money from virtual goods — from poker chips to virtual clothes that users can buy or earn while playing gaming applications with their friends on Facebook.
Discussion: Lonely CEO Media and TechCrunch
Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy:
From MIT Blackjack Team to Amazon Acquisition: The Lexcycle Story  —  Gregory T. Huang wrote:  —  Neelan Choksi says he has an “addictive personality.”  That might explain why he carefully orders an orange juice at the espresso bar, while I jack up my caffeine intake with another 12-ounce latte.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Google's Schmidt And His Dismissive Attitude  —  I mean this with all due respect, but is Google's CEO Eric Schmidt whacked?  —  Over the past several weeks, I and others have begun questioning his dual roles on both Google's Board of Directors, as well as Apple's.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
YouTube May Be Solving Its Ad Problem-Slowly  —  YouTube is the world's biggest video destination.  But it has yet to generate a penny of profit for Google, which paid more than $1.6 billion for the site in 2006.  —  That's because the site is very expensive to run-YouTube served …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Elgato Video Capture records analog video to MPEG-4, H.264  —  Elgato on Friday introduced Elgato Video Capture, a new device that enables Mac users to transfer analog video to H.264 or MPEG-4 video files.  It costs $100.  —  Elgato Video Capture includes a USB 2. interface that enables …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Electronista and Engadget
Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
iPlayer uncovered: What powers the BBC's epic creation?  —  During peak hours, BBC iPlayer pumps out 12GB of data every second, and seven petabytes of data every month.  It's insanely popular on Apple's iPhone — but mostly after midnight — and the next version of iPlayer will land this year, with some exciting new features.
Nigel Kendall / Times of London:
Google heading for global trademark storm  —  The internet search engine giant Google has announced that it will extend to 194 countries a scheme that allows companies to use their rivals' trademarks for online advertising.  Google will no longer consider requests from brand owners to take down …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple opens developer forums to Snow Leopard discussion  —  Signaling an new open approach to its operating system development plans, Apple has announced new threads for discussing the forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system on the developer forums available to Apple Developer Connection Premier and Select members.
Discussion: MacRumors, TUAW and Softpedia News
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Analyst: Google will start walking away from bad AdSense deals like MySpace  —  Are the days of silly AdSense deals with the likes of MySpace and AOL over for Google?  Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay seems to think so.  The analyst upped his price target to $600 for Google shares on the theory …
Discussion: paidContent.org
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Windows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozy  —  The first documented bug in the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is a doozy.  —  Yesterday, Microsoft published Knowledge Base article 970789, which provides details of a problem that affects the 32-bit (x86) English-language version of Windows 7 build 7100.
Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Sphinx - text search The Pirate Bay way  —  Like MySQL.  But it can scale  —  Free whitepaper - Best practices in the call center  —  In 2001, Andrew Aksyonoff had an itch.  He ran a website that indexed song lyrics and allowed users to search them.  At the time, none of the open source options for text search worked.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T and Verizon: Is the smartphone growth train slowing?  —  J.P. Morgan analyst Mike McCormack raised a bit of a ruckus with a downgrade of AT&T and Verizon largely based on “on deteriorating wireless fundamentals, specifically in the higher value postpaid subscriber base of each company.”
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
California open source digital textbook plan faces barriers  —  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has an ambitious plan to reduce the cost of education in California.  He intends for the state to develop digital open source textbooks for high school math and science classes.
Discussion: Techgeist
bijan sabet:
User Interface & Design - east vs west  —  A few weeks ago, Claire Miller from the NYT stopped by our office.  We talked about about a bunch of stuff.  —  One thing that often comes up when I speak with reporters is the east vs west topic.  How are VCs different, how are entrepreneurs different?
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Q&A: FBI agent looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal  —  In September 2008 police began arresting alleged members of Dark Market, an underground Internet forum for buying and selling credit card data used for identity fraud.  The sting wouldn't have been possible without the work …
Discussion: digg.com
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Microsoft search to be powered by open source  —  Microsoft for years has been warning the world not to use open-source software.  Apparently, its Kumo search team didn't get the memo.  —  Kumo will weigh heavily on open source.  —  (Credit: Screenshot by Ina Fried/CNET)
Discussion: CNET News and The Register
Michael Scherer / Time:
Obama and Twitter: White House Social-Networking  —  The first tweet the White House Twittered was not about the weather.  It had nothing to do with how the President was feeling, what he was doing or what he wanted for lunch.  The First Dog, Bo, failed to receive even an oblique mention.
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