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BBC:
No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe — European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. — Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. — The company said it would make it easy for PC makers …
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Paul Meller / Computerworld:Microsoft trying to set own antitrust remedy, says Opera CEO
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Todd Wilder / Apple:
Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days — Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world's fastest …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Twitpocalypse? Nah. — Grabbed from Twitpocalypse.com. — Are we in for a massive Twitpocalypse that will destroy the fabric of our fragile 140-character universe? Not likely, says the guy who originated the semi-hoax. — Martin Dufort, CEO of Canadian application developer Wherecloud …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today. — Twitter users, the Twitpocalypse is upon us. — Twitpocalypse is the name given to a bug that's about to be exposed. Apparently, it's similar to the Y2K bug in its nature, and stems from the fact that every tweet sent out has a unique numeric identifier.
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Ars Technica, CNET News, Mashable!, Twitter API, Gawker, The Social Times, Gadgetwise, Pulse2, TUAW and broadstuff, Thanks:cozz
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought — Running MySpace, new CEO Owen Van Natta and News Corp. (NWS) digital head Jon Miller are beginning to realize they have taken on a much bigger challenge than they initially thought, sources close to both executives tell us.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Against real-time: Facebook to sort of bring back the old site design — Facebook is backing away from its March site redesign, a source tells me. That's the redesign the one that focused users' homepages on a quickly updating “stream” of status updates — and was trying to take on microblogging service Twitter, as the source put it.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business — The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: — In denial. — There are murmurings on the edges about how longstanding business models will come under pressure …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
New study shows iPhone users to be in a class by themselves — iPhone users are richer, younger, and perhaps even more productive at work than those who use competing smartphones, according to a new study released Friday. — The study ($750 fee) from independent market analysis company …
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Best Buy to offer Apple's iPhone 3G S with insurance — Those who want added protection for their new iPhone 3G S units on launch day will have the option of queuing up at Best Buy to purchase both Apple's device as well as a rare accident insurance plan, albeit one which may cost almost as much as the phone itself.
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Wall Street Journal:
Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone — The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a “fringe benefit,” spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea. — The Internal Revenue Service proposed …
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Electronista, FierceWireless, MobileCrunch, Between the Lines, mocoNews, Washington Post, MobileBurn.com, DailyFinance and deal architect
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:When the Cell Phone Is the Office Phone, Taxing It Is Wrong
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Mobile Messaging 2.0
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Social game company Zynga says it's not planning for IPO — Rumors circulated earlier today that leading social game company Zynga could have an initial public offering within 18 months. Here's what chief executive Mark Pincus says in response: “Zynga is a young company focused …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:Zynga Could IPO In 18 Months
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DELL-Stefanie N / Direct2Dell:
@DellOutlet Surpasses $2 Million on Twitter — There was some buzz back in December around Dell generating over $1 million in revenue by posting offers and responding to questions on Twitter.com/DellOutlet— there's still mention of it on Twitter even today.
Joe Mandese / MediaPost:
RSS Feeds Nielsen Online Ire, Glitch Inflated Times, USA Today, Fox Numbers — RSS is an acronym that stands for the online publishing term really simple syndication, but it recently proved to be anything but simple for online audience researcher Nielsen. In an especially embarrassing glitch …
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
AT&T Says Forget About Cheaper Data Rates For The iPhone 3G S — AT&T (NYSE: T) may want iPhone sales to continue at a fast clip, and it may want to extend its exclusive contract with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but it is not willing to drop data plan rates for the phone in order to do that.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Internal Startup Exec To Leave — Sanjay Parthasarathy, the Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) corporate vice president who oversees the company's Startup Business Accelerator group—which was set up last year with the charter of building new businesses for the company—is leaving Microsoft, paidContent has learned.
Google Mobile Blog:
Snack time with the new iGoogle for Android and iPhone — We like iGoogle because it lets us “snack” on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at the weather forecast, and then do a Google search.
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InformationWeek, iTnews Australia, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Local Mobile Search, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Journal, geeksugar, Google Operating System, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, FierceMobileContent, Android Central, MobileContentToday and CellPassion, Thanks:atul
Robert D. Hof / Business Week:
Google's Grab for the Display Ad Market — The search king aims to unseat Yahoo and Microsoft with new, ultratargeted banner ads. Will Web publishers and online ad agencies bite? — For all its success selling text ads alongside search results, Google (GOOG) can't seem to make a go of it anywhere else in the ad world.
Larry Magid / CNET News:
Bing modified to enable porn filtering — After plenty of coverage about how its Bing search engine makes it all too easy for kids to find and view porn, Microsoft has made some changes that will make it easier for parents to block or monitor what their kids are viewing on the site.
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
China's Filtering Software Contains Pirated Code — Does ‘Green Dam’ steal code from CyberSitter? And what are PC OEMs to do? — Post a — The “Green Dam” filtering software that the Chinese government is reportedly requiring for all PCs sold there contains pirated code, a U.S. software manufacturer claimed Friday.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
“Spam King” Sanford Wallace Files for Bankruptcy as Judge Rules Facebook's Lawsuit Can Proceed — Earlier this year, we first covered the news that Facebook had filed a federal lawsuit against famed “Spam King” Sanford Wallace, Adam Arzoomanian, and Scott Shaw for crimes under the CAN-SPAM Act …
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon.com settles with Toys “R” Us, will pay $51 million — Amazon.com has settled its longstanding lawsuit with Toys “R” Us and will pay the toy company $51 million, Amazon said in a regulatory filing Friday. The two companies formed a major ecommerce alliance in 2000 but the partnership dissolved …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Vanity URLs Will be Available to Pages With Under 1,000 Fans in 2 Weeks — The Facebook username landrush starts tonight at 12:01am EDT, and with it comes potentially the best one-time opportunity for businesses to improve their Facebook identity and SEO by getting a good Facebook vanity URL.
