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Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
Bloglines Offline for Hours (and Outsourced to China) — Things aren't looking good today at Bloglines, the popular web-based service I've been using for years to read RSS feeds. The site has been offline for at least eight hours and isn't even responding to web requests with an error.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitterrific Comes Roaring Back Into The iPhone Twitter App Wars — During the past several months, a war has been brewing between Twitter apps for the iPhone. But it's been largely two-sided. You were either in the Twitterfon camp or the Tweetie camp. And if you were using any other app …
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TUAW, Twitterrati, TheAppleBlog, 9 to 5 Mac, The iPhone Blog, Mashable!, The Iconfactory, iLounge and Download Squad
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX's Savior — Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse of the Kindle DX, Amazon's upcoming E-book reader that has taken the original Kindle's nearly prohibitive $359 price tag and bumped it up to an even more exorbitant $489 for good measure.
Thanks:bobcaswell
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Fights In The Google Monopoly Debate Miss Key Points — The noise about whether Google is a monopoly that needs to be controlled continues to ramp up, with Google itself releasing a “charm offensive” set of slides after its lobbying using those slides was outed by Consumer Watchdog.
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Webmetricsguru, The Noisy Channel, WebProNews, Consumer Watchdog, Industry Standard, eWeek and ZDNet Government, Thanks:atul
Om Malik / GigaOM:
T-Mobile to Launch Many Android Devices Later This Year — T-Mobile USA is looking to introduce Android-based devices from three different manufacturers, Cole Brodman, chief technology officer of the company, said in a conversation with me earlier today. Android is a mobile OS developed …
Thomas Crampton:
Reporter to NY Times Publisher: You Erased My Career — Hell hath no fury like a reporter deleted. — I have a major personal and professional gripe against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. — For more than a decade, as you know, I enjoyed a wonderful and globe-trotting career at both newspapers.
John Ozimek / The Register:
Aussie censors implement six degrees of separation policy — Links to links now banned — Free whitepaper - Cooling strategies for ultra-high density racks and blade servers — The Australian Government yesterday broke new records for web censorship by requiring the takedown …
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ZDNET.com.au
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
AT&T And Verizon Wireless Buy Each Other's Assets To Comply With Regulatory Approvals — AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) are swapping assets to comply with regulators who said the two must divest some properties as part of their recent acquisitions.
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AT&T, TECH.BLORGE.com, Engadget Mobile, Boy Genius Report, dailywireless.org, Bloomberg, Phone Scoop and paidContent.org
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
An iPhone App Developer's Take on Piracy: Work With Pirates, Not Against Them — The creator of iCombat weighed in with his thoughts on newly-popular piracy of iPhone apps with an interesting conclusion: It's not worth the trouble to police the pirates, and they might even prove helpful.
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iCombat
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
EC wants software makers held liable for code — Software companies could be held responsible for the security and efficacy of their products, if a new European Commission consumer protection proposal becomes law. — Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva have proposed …
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Slashdot
Erik Palm / CNET News:
Pirate Bay attorney outlines arguments for appeal — The judge had a conflict of interest—that's one argument that will be used in appealing the Pirate Bay verdict, an attorney of one of the defendants told CNET News on Friday. — Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij …
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TECH.BLORGE.com
Alexandra Alter / Wall Street Journal:
The Next Age of Discovery — In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures. — In the process, they're uncovering unexpected troves of new finds …
