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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity — Techmeme is buzzing with the news that Facebook is finally going to provide custom usernames — and hence web addresses — for its 200 million users. The land grab begins in just over three days at facebook.com/username/.
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Blaise DiPersia / Facebook Blog:
Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames — From the beginning of Facebook, people have used their real names to share and connect with the people they know. This authenticity helps to create a trusted environment because you know the identity of the people and things on Facebook.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Thousands rise to rage at iPhone pricing (which is actually not that many people) [UPDATED] — In a reminder that spurned gadget lovers can quickly turn rabid, several thousand angry iPhone owners in the U.S. and U.K. have signed a pair of Twitter petitions to protest pricing regimes for Apple's …
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MacDailyNews:
Unannounced iPhone 3G S feature: Oleophobic Multi-Touch™ screen (skin oil repellent) — Eagle-eyed MacDailyNews reader “GizmoDan” found the following on Apple's “iPhone How To: Cleaning iPhone” page: — To clean iPhone, unplug all cables and turn off iPhone (press and hold the Sleep/ Wake button …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top $100 Million — SAN FRANCISCO — As the newspaper industry and its classified advertising business wither, one company appears to be doing extraordinarily well: Craigslist. — The Internet classified ads company, which promotes its “relatively noncommercial nature” …
Google Mac Blog:
Introducing Google Quick Search Box — When most people think of Google, search comes to mind - and rightly so! Hundreds of millions of people have come to know and love Google.com as their starting point for searching the Internet. About 2 years ago, we introduced Google Desktop …
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Google Enterprise Blog:
Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar — Over the last year, we've had a razor sharp focus on making it as easy as possible for businesses to deploy Google Apps. In the last few months you've seen some of the results, from offline Gmail to user directory synchronization …
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BBC:
Free broadband won't entice all — Some 43% of adults who currently do not have internet access would remain disconnected even if they were given a free PC and broadband connection. — The statistic, part of research conducted by regulator Ofcom will make depressing reading for some.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Schmidt: Bing Can't Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It — CEO Eric Schmidt has weighed in on the Bing launch — and he's not sounding panicked, not that I would expect him to be. But he certainly puts out a conflicted message that Bing isn't a serious competitor and yet argues …
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Pre Recovery Tool Leaks Out, Including webOS Root Image(!) — It's only been a few days since the Palm Pre was released, but one of the biggest breakthroughs for the outside-the-system developer community may have just been made. As noted in our forums, the “webOS Reset Doctor” has leaked out — including the 195 MB webOS root.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Digg's Amazing Business Model, Explained — Now this is where you take out your not-really-that-Easy-Button, and starting jumping on it. Do that while you watch this interview of Digg CEO Jay Adelson, as part of Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman's continuing “3 Days In The Valley” tour.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim “$100M+” RIAA “stole” — Lawyers in this year's two highest-profile file-sharing cases have joined forces, and they plan to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer to claw back the “$100+ million” that the RIAA “stole.”
Emma Heald / Editors Weblog:
iPhone 3GS: advantages for newspapers, advertisers, and citizen journalists — The Apple iPhone 3GS, premiered yesterday at Apple Inc's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, boasts an array of important new features for the newspaper industry and journalism at large.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Smartphone Rises Fast From Gadget to Necessity — In today's recession-racked economy, penny-pinching is a national pastime. But people are still opening their wallets for smartphones. — Sales of BlackBerrys, iPhones and other smartphone models are rising smartly and are projected …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Billboard for WWDC is torn down; startup smells rotten Apple — The co-founders of a small startup suspect something more than a dark subway stairwell prompted a billboard to be pulled from a downtown San Francisco wall before the crowd attending Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference could see it Monday morning.
Duncan Graham-Rowe / Technology Review:
Nokia hopes to create a device that could harvest enough power to keep a cell phone topped up. — A cell phone that never needs recharging might sound too good to be true, but Nokia says it's developing technology that could draw enough power from ambient radio waves to keep a cell-phone handset topped up.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Eye-Fi launches wireless memory card for pro photographers — Eye-Fi has been building out its product line of memory cards that use Wi-Fi to upload photos directly from a digital camera to the Internet. — Now it's going one step further with the Eye-Fi Pro, aimed at professional photographers and enthusiasts.
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Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
AT&T's Network Problems Aren't Just in Big Cities Anymore — The AT&T hate is strong these days, especially following the carrier's inability to deliver two of the most highly anticipated features to the single largest iPhone market in the world. But now even I am beginning to hate AT&T …
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
HP Scales Out With New Cloud Servers — The HP Proliant SL2x170z G6, configured for high performance computing, is part of the HP Extreme Scale-Out line announced today. — HP is stripping down to scale out. Today the company is launching a line of servers and services targeting …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
U.S. Presses Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Book Settlement — SAN FRANCISCO — In a sign that the government has stepped up its antitrust investigation of a class-action settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers, the Justice Department has issued formal requests …
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Nigel Kendall / Times of London:
How Nintendo's boss rewrote the rules of the game — Satoru Iwata reveals how he made gamers out of people who don't play video games, and revived his company's fortunes in the process — Satoru Iwata is not your typical Japanese company president. When he talks about the games his company produces …
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
China dominates NSA-backed coding contest — Chinese student, 18, wins, prompting call for earlier math and science education in U.S. — Computerworld - Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Caterina Fake's Hunch.com, launching Monday, is already redefining ‘decision engine’ — Microsoft's megabucks advertising campaign for Bing.com couldn't have come at a better time for Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake's new consumer advice site, Hunch.com. — With much pomp and circumstance …
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
SAP reshapes strategy for online software — A top executive at SAP is set to outline a new strategy today for delivering software over the internet, as the German software giant struggles to respond to a market that poses a significant long-term threat to its business.
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple — Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook. But even that blockbuster device has failed to do much to boost the company's brand in the United States, a situation the Taiwanese computer maker intends to correct.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
No, Newspapers Don't Need A License To Collude To Survive — At the end of May, I was enjoying a nice Sunday afternoon reading my paper, trying not to think about work, when I came across Tim Rutten's column, “How the Obama administration can save newspapers.”
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Peter Ha / MobileCrunch:
Virgin Mobile USA offers Broadband2Go service with no contract — Using Sprint's EVDO Rev. A network, Virgin Mobile USA announced today the launch of their wireless broadband service, Broadband2Go. — When the service goes live later this month you'll be able to purchase a Novatel Ovation MC760 USB dongle for $150 sans contract.
Joseph Bonneau / Light Blue Touchpaper:
How Privacy Fails: The Facebook Applications Debacle — I've been writing a lot about privacy in social networks, and sometimes the immediacy gets lost during the more theoretical debates. Recently though I've been investigating a massive privacy breach on Facebook's application platform which serves as a sobering case study.
