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Anderson Cooper 360:
State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming — Elise Labott — CNN State Department Producer — The halls of Foggy Bottom are ringing with the Tweets coming with Iran and the State Department is working to ensure they keep coming. — Senior officials say the State Department …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors — Yesterday, I got an e-mail from a reader who had seen my story about Twitter users slamming CNN for its initial absence on the post-Iranian election protests, urging me to remove an image in the story. — The rationale?
Sue Pleming / Reuters:U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:Cyberwar guide for Iran elections
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Danger Room, The Huffington Post, ThreatChaos, studio.rizzn == new.media and CyberCrime & Doing Time
Opera Press Room:
Opera Unite reinvents the Web — Cloud computing and Web-based applications will never be the same — Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive Video: Hands-On With Opera Unite (It Rocks) — The web is understandably abuzz with chatter over Opera Unite, the technology platform the Norwegian software company unveiled earlier this morning. It's an intriguing concept, and it could fundamentally change the way we think about how content is shared on the Internet.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MySpace slashes head count by 30 percent — Amid economic woes, stagnant growth, and a management shakeup, onetime social-networking pioneer MySpace has announced that it has cut its head count by slightly under 30 percent in what the company calls a “return to start-up culture.”
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta's Layoff Memo — News Corp (NWS) social network MySpace just announced it was laying 30% of its staff. Here's the memo from new CEO Owen Van Natta: — Everyone, — Today we are making a number of changes to MySpace's domestic organizational structure.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Apple details Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date program — With a new version of Mac OS X on the way, some people might be put off buying a new Mac because they want access to the latest OS as soon as it's out. Fear not, Apple has just released details of its “Up-to-Date” program. — Here's the meat:
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Ars Technica, iTnews Australia, Download Squad, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, 9 to 5 Mac, PC World and The Register
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Snow Leopard features hint at Apple tablet — Though Apple isn't saying whether it's working on a touchscreen tablet, the company may have shown its hand at its World Wide Developers Conference last week. — Of course, the Apple tablet has become the Apple press corp's version of a Bigfoot hunt.
Arn / MacRumors:
‘Layar’ Shows Augmented Reality Possibilities on iPhone 3G S — A new augmented reality app called Layar is making the rounds on the web as an example of what can be done with Augmented Reality. Layer (via 9to5Mac) is described as the world's first mobile augmented reailty browser.
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John Cook / Gawker:
You Don't Have a Right to Anonymity — A British court has ruled that the Times of London is free to unmask an anonymous British blogger, just ten days after the National Review caused and uproar by outing a left-wing blogger named Publius. This is a good thing.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Gmail to Get More Protection From Snoops — A group of 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts is urging Google to do to more to protect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs from snooping. Specifically, the group is asking Google to use a standard encryption technology …
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Alma Whitten / Google Online Security Blog:HTTPS security for web applications
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Dolores M Bernal / NEWS JUNKIE:
Cell Phone Execs Will Face Questions On Text Messaging Price Hikes — Text Messaging Has Gone Up. Photo: NEWS JUNKIE — Those cell phone companies will have a lot of explaining to do Tuesday when they testify at a U.S. Senate committee hearing on rising text messaging costs.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 3.0 Update for iPod Touch Page Appears in iTunes, Not Yet Functional [Updated] — One MacRumors reader has discovered an iTunes page that appears to offer the iPhone OS 3.0 software update for iPod touch for download for $9.95. While iTunes permits the transaction to go through …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Digital Britain: ISPs will have to cut filesharing by 70% — Persistent offenders may be fined or be cut off temporarily under powers Digital Britain report suggests may be given to Ofcom — British ISPs will be required to cut illegal filesharing on their networks by 70% within a year under …
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Kevin Rose:
TweetDeck for iPhone coming soon! — Got my hands on the beta of TweetDeck for the iPhone — I can say now that it's going to replace tweetie as my default twitter iphone app. — Features include: — Column based friend groups! (like TweetDeck desktop)
Amol Sharma / Digits:
T-Mobile's Second Android Phone Expected Soon — and Jessica E. Vascellaro — T-Mobile USA is expected to announce details around a new phone powered by Google's Android operating system next week, say people familiar with the matter. — T-Mobile — T-Mobile is expected to unveil …
Ryan Rea / Neowin.net:
Exclusive: Microsoft's new Anti-Virus, ‘Morro’, revealed — Ever since Microsoft discontinued its “OneCare” Anti-Virus suite, gossip has been flying that Microsoft would be releasing a free Anti-Virus\Anti-Spyware tool codenamed “Morro”. — The software product, codenamed “Morro” …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Want The Kindle Source Code? You Can Have It. — So this isn't new, it's actually been available since late 2007 as far as I can tell, but enough people are tweeting about it today, that's it's worth mentioning again. Amazon has a page where you can download the Kindle's source code.
Ed Baig / Technology Live:
Disney, Asus team up on netbook — If mom and dad bought a netbook, why can't Junior have one? — Disney is teaming up with the Taiwanese computer maker Asus on a Disney-branded netbook called Netpal, targeted at kids 6 to 12 and due out in late July. As you might imagine …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Inc CEO Ann Moore: Let's Put the Digital “Genie Back In the Bottle” [UPDATED] — Poor John Squires. The Time Inc. SVP seems like an affable fellow . So what has he done to deserve this impossible task — figuring out a digital strategy for Time Warner's (TWX) publishing unit?
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox 3.5 ‘Web upgrade’ planned for end of June — Mozilla plans to issue a release candidate for Firefox 3.5 on Friday and the final version by the end of the month, Firefox director Mike Beltzner said Tuesday. — The browser, code-named Shiretoko, began its life as a modest 3.1 upgrade.
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Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
Moore's Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict — El Segundo (CA) - iSuppli most certainly will initiate yet another discussion whether Moore's Law, a forecast made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every 18 - 24 months, can be upheld in the future.
John Oates / The Register:
Pirate Bay launches encrypted private network — Delayed service fires broadside at Hollywood — Free whitepaper - Virtualization: optimized power and cooling to maximize benefits — The Pirate Bay has opened beta testing on its encrypted virtual private network which it reckons …
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? — The budding Web spec just might remove the need for proprietary rich Internet app add-ins — HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Weird Al takes on Craigslist with The Doors — Geek humor abounds. — Parody singer “Weird Al” Yankovic poked fun at Segway riders three years ago with his rap song “White and Nerdy.” — His latest single “Craigslist” skewers the people who can be found swapping wares and scoring dates on the classifieds ads site.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Clearwire Launches WiMax In Atlanta—Its Largest City Yet — Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) launched WiMax in Atlanta today, getting the Kirkland-based company one step closer to its goal of reaching 120 million Americans by the end of 2010. The Atlanta network covers nearly three million people …
