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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Methodist University Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs Liver Transplant — Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare today issued a brief press release confirming that Steve Jobs did receive a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. The release was issued …
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Jobs and Hospital Answer the Critics — Facing mounting criticism that Apple CEO Steve Jobs acquired a donated liver somehow through unethical means, the hospital where Jobs had the operation took the extraordinary step of confirming the surgery, and offered the reasons why Jobs was a prime candidate for the organ.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple's Secrecy — This whole Jobs liver transplant story really hits the sweet spot for two of my obsessions: Apple (duh) and journalism. It's the journalism angle that I find the most intriguing. The Wall Street Journal's story Friday night was a huge scoop for them …
Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
boxee for windows, moving up to the Major Leagues — We have a few exciting announcements today (which makes for our longest blog post ever). — #1 - Boxee for Windows — We are finally releasing a public alpha of boxee for Windows. We are looking forward to getting feedback from PC users …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Boxee Swings For The Fences: Windows Support, MLB, Digg, Tumblr And Current All Launch Tonight — Boxee is holding an event in San Francisco tonight to declare a winner of its App Dev Challenge, in which third-parties created apps for the media platform. But the real winner tonight will be Boxee …
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Everything You Need to Know About TV Everywhere — You're going to hear the phrase “TV Everywhere,” well, just about everywhere tomorrow. As Om reported earlier this evening, Comcast and Time Warner Inc. (not Time Warner Cable) are holding press conference tomorrow morning to announce …
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Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
AT&T: iPhone Coverage Getting Better, Faster Soon — The iPhone 3GS has been a huge hit for AT&T, and although they aren't saying how many customers they've stolen from other carriers, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega said they had “hundreds of thousands” of pre-orders.
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The Official Google Blog:
Let's make the web faster — From building data centers in different parts of the world to designing highly efficient user interfaces, we at Google always strive to make our services faster. We focus on speed as a key requirement in product and infrastructure development …
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Waldo Jaquith / Virginia Quarterly Review:
Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism — In the course of reading Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources.
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Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Microsoft leaps into home energy management game with Hohm — As we've reported, the big boys are jumping into the smart grid space just in time for the stimulus funds to rain from the sky. Google introduced its home energy management system PowerMeter in February; Intel has been hard …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft, Outlook Is Broken, Says 6,000 Tweets (And Growing). Fix It. — While it is pretty much the standard email client, Microsoft Outlook has long had problems rendering HTML correctly in emails. And the latest version, Outlook 2010, due sometime in the next several months …
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft hires not one but three more former Yahoo engineers — Everyone got a chuckle yesterday when Microsoft said it had hired yet another Yahoo executive, Kevin Timmons, to lead its data center group. He joined a growing number of engineers and executives who have gone to Microsoft …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
As The Sun Sets on MySpace - Who Will Beat Facebook? — The year was 2013. Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg was still the social network's public persona, but he had a young family and new-found loves of world travel, exotic regional cocktails and faux-native art.
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Qik For Android Alpha leaks, Immediately Hits The Market — Uh-oh. Looks like the race for live video streaming on Android is on. When we got footage of Kyte running on Android last week after hearing next to nothing on the matter from the competitors, we guessed that it might …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
RealPlayer SP Rips, Converts, Shares and Syncs Internet Video — Real's new RealPlayer SP software, currently in beta, adds functionality to rip YouTube and other streaming videos from the Internet and get them onto whatever handheld you choose. It works well enough, but it's also crammed full of unnecessary features.
Michael Gartenberg / Engadget:
Entelligence: Netbooks, R.I.P. — Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry …
Peter Sciretta / /Film:
Facebook Movie is An Adaptation of The Accidental Billionaires — Yesterday it was revealed that David Fincher is in “advanced talks” with Columbia Pictures to direct The Social Network, the story of the creation of Facebook, as written by Aaron Sorkin. But apparently almost everyone …
Robert McMillan / PC World:
High Profile Twitter Hack Spreads Porn Trojan — Former Apple Macintosh evangelist Guy Kawasaki [cq] posts Twitter messages about a lot of different thing, but the message he put up on Tuesday afternoon was really out of character. — “Leighton Meester sex tape video free download!”
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The Tiger-Resistant Laptop — Don't believe manufacturers' claims. We put Panasonics's Toughbook through real survival tests. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Call it the James Bond of laptops. — We dropped the Panasonic CF-30 “Toughbook,” kicked it, stood on it and tried to back over it with a Volkswagen JettaTDi.
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Esme Vos / MuniWireless:
Boingo awarded patent for hotspot access — Boingo Wireless has been awarded a patent covering the method and apparatus for accessing networks through a mobile device (patent No. 7,483,984). … “This patent represents a huge addition to Boingo's intellectual property,” said David Hagan …
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Efficient Frontier Insights:
Bing Gains More Ground — Almost two weeks ago, we reported that Bing's first week lift in Microsoft's share of paid clicks was up slightly more than 8% compared to the week before the launch of Bing. While Microsoft's click share remains at less than 5% and continues to lag Yahoo! …
Dennis Fisher / Threatpost Blog:
Google Fixes Critical Flaw in Chrome Browser — Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser, which includes a fix for a serious buffer overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability in Chrome lies in the way that the browser handles certain responses from HTTP servers.
Ubergizmo:
WildCharge: Wireless Charging for iPhone and iPod Touch — WildCharge, manufacturer of the WildCharger Pad, is launching today its WildCharge Skins for iPhone and iPodTouch. The pad has to be plugged to a power outlet and your mobile phone equipped with the corresponding skin, the device is charged simply by placing it on the pad.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Return of Fake Steve Is a Vote of Confidence in Real Steve — Fake Steve Jobs is back. Dan Lyons, author of the piercingly funny satire blog, insists his return may be temporary. But he wouldn't be having this much fun with Jobs' illness if he still worried about the Apple CEO's death.
Matthew Dalton / Total Telecom:
EU regulators lay out limits on privacy for social networks — Brussels to ensure that even social networks based outside Europe conform to regional privacy laws. — European privacy regulators have laid out operating guidelines for Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking companies …
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Nikki Finke's $10 million payday — Who says you can't get rich blogging? Showbiz reporter extraordinaire Nikki Finke did — to the tune of eight figures. — After fielding “many offers from major corporations and media companies,” Finke, a former reporter for Newsweek …
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Wall Street Journal:
Military Command Is Created for Cyber Security — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates created a new military command dedicated to cyber security on Tuesday, reflecting the Obama administration's plans to centralize and elevate computer security as a major national-security issue.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL's AIM iPhone App Is Getting Awesome, Disruptive To AT&T — While our government scratches its chin over the evils of overpriced cellphone text messaging, technology is fighting the battle faster. — Specifically, Apple's new “push notifications” system — and others like it …
