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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
WolframAlpha launch runs into ‘a small snag,’ says creator [UPDATED] — Updated, 4:00 p.m.: WolframAlpha says it is “counting down” and will go ahead with the soft launch tonight despite earlier problems. The project expects to be at full capacity by Monday.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Serious About Background App Support For iPhone 3.0 — Apple (AAPL) is serious about letting more iPhone software — beyond its native apps like phone, iPod, and Mail — run in the background, we've heard from sources in the mobile industry. This could potentially happen as soon …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Indeed Talking About Opening iPhone Background Tasks — As great as the iPhone is, it has one glaring weakness: The inability to run third-party applications in the background. That badly cripples certain types of apps, such as those that do instant messaging, music streaming and location-based services.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:Rumors Regarding Background App Support in iPhone 3.0
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple execs disclose options for boosting iPhone market share — Apple executives said this week they believe the iPhone remains in its infancy and went on to — somewhat uncharacteristically — reveal a series of strategic measures they may employ in the near term to help grow the handset's share of the booming smartphone market.
Phone Arena:
Project Charlie - three secret AT&T devices bound for Best Buy — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — Keep in mind that the information in this article is not official. — We've received some news from a Best Buy insider about some new phones that may be on the horizon for the electronics retailer.
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget Mobile:
Exclusive BlackBerry Storm 2 shots! — What's this we have here? A trusted source just hit us with a slew of beauty shots of the Storm 2 that leaked a little bit ago. Not much else to say at this point until we can get one in our hands — the photos really speak for themselves.
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Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:
Update to U.S. ad text trademark policy — Imagine opening your Sunday paper and seeing ads from a large supermarket chain that didn't list actual products for sale; instead, they simply listed the categories of products available - offers like “Buy discount cola” and “Snacks on sale.”
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Mark Cuban / blog maverick:
How Twitter and Facebook Now Compete with Google — Last year I wrote a blog post entitled “If the news is important it will find me”. The point was that we all live in so many social networks, that someone will send us an update if something in the world happens that we would be interested in.
Sheamus / Twittercism:
47 People Who Work At Twitter (And What They Do) — The shenanigans of the past couple of days on Twitter have provided us with a couple of key pieces of information: one, that Twitter really needs to work on its PR, and two, that the leadership provided by Jack Dorsey (@Jack), Evan Williams …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
New York Times Considers Two Plans to Charge for Content on the Web — By the end of June, The New York Times will come to a decision on how to charge for some of its content on the Web, The Observer has learned. — Executive editor Bill Keller said at a meeting with staff on Wednesday …
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John Cook / Gawker:
Twitter's Real-Time Uselessness Proven by (Mistaken) Gay Marriage Hysteria — Because people are irredeemably stupid and nobody pays attention to anything, thousands of Twitter users rejoiced today at the news that the California Supreme Court just overturned the state's gay marriage ban. One year ago.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Hulu Questions Count of Its Audience — Does Hulu, the Web's most popular place for TV viewing, reach nine million people a month or 42 million? — Millions of dollars in advertising revenue may hinge on the answer. But no one seems to know for sure how big the site's audience is.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists? — Is venture capital becoming obsolete for Web start-ups? — Yes, according to Robert Hendershott, a professor of private equity and entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.
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news.teamxbox.com:
Microsoft Working on Digital Entertainment Handheld — When I got the first piece of information regarding a Microsoft digital entertainment handheld last year, I wanted to be sure it wasn't just a wild gossip. In a time when people is afraid of losing their jobs because of the global recession …
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Joe Wilcox:
Is Twitter @replies Change Ashton Kutcher's Fault? — Analysis. My immediate reaction is “yes,” after reading Dare Obasanjo's post “Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature.” OK, so maybe CNN and Oprah, also members of the “million-followers club,” share the blame.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Quietly, Google Updates Its Blog Search Algorithm — There's no official announcement (yet), but Google tells Search Engine Land that it's made several improvements under the hood of Google Blog Search. — In an email conversation, Google's Jeremy Hylton — head of the search quality group …
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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Between the Lines:
Jeff Bezos, meet Tony Hsieh. Zappos Moving into Electronics. And More. — As I said this morning, you should rule the world!!! How about starting by giving seminars? You could start with Wall St., then banks, how about the auto industry, then there's the airlines.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
crackho.com DNS prank ruffles Sarah Palin's feathers — Is it really copyright infringement if all you're doing is redirecting one of your own domains to an official government one? The Alaska attorney general doesn't seem to understand the complications of DNS, but he does know one thing: Sarah Palin ain't no crack ho.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon's upcoming BlackBerry releases: Tour, Pearl Flip, Atlas Storm 2 info — So check it. We just got a tip from a new ninja but this information looks really credible so we're running it... Here's the random bits of info we received: — All Verizon BlackBerry handsets launched after the BlackBerry Tour will have Wi-Fi
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Federated Media Will Search for New Leader Says Founder and CEO Battelle (Plus a Web Squared and Double-D Video!) — John Battelle (pictured here), the founder, chairman and CEO of Federated Media Publishing, told his staff this morning that he will begin a search for a new top exec to take the company into its next stage of growth.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Pushing the App Store price envelope — For people who had been waiting since January to watch TV on their iPhones, price doesn't seem to have been an object. — Within a day of its release Wednesday, SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone had shot to the No. 10 spot on Apple's (AAPL) closely watched Top Paid Apps list.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product — Want to call your Facebook friends via video chat? Soon enough you'll be able to. Earlier today one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook's cached JavaScript files which reveals a number of clues as to a soon to be released video chat service.
