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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google's Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration — Andrew McLaughlin, Google's head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin's plans. — Mr. McLaughlin will be deputy chief technology officer …
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Securing Our Digital Future — Melissa Hathaway, Cybersecurity Chief at the National Security Council, discusses securing our nation's digital future: — The globally-interconnected digital information and communications infrastructure known as cyberspace underpins almost every facet …
Art Brodsky / Public Knowledge:Obama Defends Net Neutrality; Is Anyone Listening?
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Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:Obama announces creation of “cyber czar” post
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pre Review — We know, we know. You wanted the review sooner. Well, you know what? It's here now and we've busted through this handset like a Japanese tourist with an SLR in Times Square. So how does the Pre stack up against the competition? Can it contend with the top …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Let's talk about Windows 7 Starter — There has been a lot of talk recently about Windows 7 Starter, so I thought I'd dive a little deeper into what it means to have this edition of Windows 7 running on a small notebook PC (a.k.a. a netbook). — Today, the Starter edition of Windows …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition
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Arn / MacRumors:
New Comparison Photo of Matte iPhone Enclosure? — In February, the first images depicting the back casing of an unreleased iPhone began circulating around the Internet. The images showed a matte finish to the casing, but looked otherwise identical to the current iPhone enclosure.
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AppleInsider:
A glimpse at Snow Leopard's more subtle refinements — While many of the changes present in betas of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been discussed at length by Apple followers, one tester has taken to the web with observations on some of the more subtle refinements spread through the most recent build of the next-gen operating system.
Joe / joestump.net:
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter — It was bound to happen sooner or later. Spam-based viral applications, first made popular on Facebook's platform, have come to Twitter in the form of Spymaster. The #spymaster tag is trending on Twitter's search right now and, judging by my own stream, a bunch of people are playing it.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
It's Heeerrre: ‘Pay With Facebook’ Is In The Wild — Earlier today, we wrote about Facebook updating its terms to get ready for the roll-out of its payment system. Well guess what, it's already here. — The application GroupCard is currently testing the new payment system live for all accounts that have it installed.
Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif. — The idea of creating a Mac clone complete with Mac OS X is not a new concept. However, one company is taking its entry into the clone market a step further by opening a retail store in the Los Angeles area.
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint responds to Verizon CEO's comments concerning Palm Pre — Following some comments yesterday from Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam, the Internet exploded. The highlight of course was the un-revalation that Verizon would be adding the Palm Pre to it's portfolio once Sprint's exclusivity expires.
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Roger Cheng / Dow Jones Newswire:Sprint Has Palm Pre Exclusive Through 2009
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AppleInsider:
Apple briefs staff on wireless iPhone movie and TV downloads — The iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content from the iTunes Store, according to people familiar with Apple's internal training materials.
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Sprint's Palm Pre ‘War Room’ — For the phone's launch, the carrier plans to create “situation rooms” to troubleshoot problems. — Sprint is approaching its June 6 launch of the Palm Pre with military strategy. — The introduction of the hotly anticipated handset will be Sprint ( S …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet — Steve Ballmer did as good a job as he could have yesterday in balancing optimism about Microsoft's (MSFT) new “Bing” search service with the reality that it doesn't have much of a chance.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:What Just Happened? Thursday Was Supposed To Be Bing Day.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Is Wave Bloatware? — Google has published a video of this morning's demo of Wave-its radically ambitious upcoming service which aims to be what e-mail should be and meld it with IM, allow for real-time document sharing, provide instant photo sharing, revolutionize spell checking …
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
Statement Correcting Factual Errors in New York Post Story on FBI Computers, Dated May 29, 2009 — A published report in The New York Post on May 29, 2009, regarding the FBI's external, unclassified computer network contains factual errors and inaccuracies.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Walking Dead: Yahoo 360 Officially Closes, Again — Yahoo 360, which was supposed to close early last year, is finally officially shutting its doors on July 13, according to a blog post written on the site today. The social network/blogging service that nobody really used (except in Vietnam) …
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David Wilkes / Daily Mail:
Facebook forced to lift ban on breast cancer victim's ‘sexual and abusive’ mastectomy scar photos — After having a mastectomy, Sharon Adams decided to raise awareness of breast cancer by posting photographs of her scar on Facebook. — They were accompanied by a description of the mother …
Vincent Vanhoucke / Google Mobile Blog:
Nearby Intersections on GOOG-411 — It is amazing how much information can be displayed on even the smallest map, yet we sometimes forget that geographic content is not always available visually. — If you're out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Page Likes And Comments Become Public Information — At some point in the past 48 hours Facebook has made public profile comments and likes public information. Earlier this week I was browsing through public profiles (aka. Facebook pages) and noticed that comments and likes were not public information.
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Mike Snider / USA Today:
Jay-Z and Eminem spin a musical game out of ‘DJ Hero’ — The upcoming DJ Hero video game just landed two heavy hitters as MCs: Jay-Z and Eminem. — Both rappers are bringing their music to the newest offshoot of Activision's successful $2 billion Guitar Hero franchise.
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Darren Gladstone / PC World:
Dell Exits Gaming, Alienware Invades with New M17x Notebook — The PC game machine maker lifts the lid on a sleek new design and talks about the next level in the Alienware-Dell relationship. — Recommends — Ever since Dell bought a stake in Alienware, people have been wondering: What becomes of Dell's gaming-friendly XPS line?
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Jay Adelson / Digg the Blog:
Welcome Chas Edwards, Digg's new CRO — Some exciting news here at Digg today. I'm thrilled to welcome Chas Edwards to Digg as our Chief Revenue Officer. Chas will oversee all current and future revenue generation activity for the company. Chas is known in the industry and his experience …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
MTV's ‘Alexa Chung’ tunes in to Facebook, Twitter — This story has been updated. See below for details. — Can you really take everything that's going on with movies, TV shows, music, Internet memes, and social media, and wrangle it all into an hour of live television?
