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Patrick Hoge / bizjournals:
Tech blog titan Michael Arrington's next big thing: Hardware — In four years, Michael Arrington has gone from knowing relatively little about the Internet or journalism to presiding over the hugely popular, influential and profitable Palo Alto-based TechCrunch network of blogs.
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Derek Kravitz / Washington Post:
Woman Shot in Apple Store at Clarendon's Market Common — An employee of an Apple store in Arlington was shot and wounded this morning during an attempted armed robbery in a back storeroom as more than three-dozen shoppers and other employees milled about the showroom.
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WJLA-TV, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, CNET News, MobileCrunch, VentureBeat, Technologizer, The Loop, MacRumors Page 2, WTOP.com, TUAW and Mashable!
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads — Pesky monkey still creating (some) havoc — Join our expert panel in discussing application security — Mozilla Foundation notched up five million downloads in the first 24 hours after it released Firefox 3.5 earlier this week.
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Andrew Thomas / TG Daily:
Firefox, IE. Tech journalists are a disgrace — Opinion: Let's imagine for a moment that we're in a strange parallel universe. Many things appear the same, but there are subtle differences. Today, for example, Microsoft launched the new version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8...
John Cook / TechFlash:
Seattle data center fire knocks out Bing Travel, other Web sites — A fire last night at Seattle's Fisher Plaza data center has knocked out service to some top Web sites, including Bing Travel and Authorize.net. — We first got word of the fire early this morning from the online real estate service Redfin …
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TechFlash, Technologizer, Data Center Knowledge, Kyle Mulka's Blog, CNET News, Seattle Times, Fresh Thinking, BetaNews, VentureBeat, LiveSide, Mashable! and ITworld.com
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Authorize.net Goes Down, E-Commerce Vendors Left Hanging — Talk about a serious outage. Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands …
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SoftwareProjects, Favorite {fvrit} Blog, nathan.cheeley, DSLreports, Mashable!, CrackBerry.com blogs and shawnimals.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We'll Give You Advertising — Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management. — In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rabid fans and tech press.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice? — Three months ago we reported that Ads Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word “sponsored” was only appearing on the site in error. Now the “sponsored definitions” of certain Twitter “concepts” …
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George Hotz / On the iPhone:
I make it ra1n — Yes, this is what you've all been waiting for. A jailbreak for the iPhone 3GS. And it's awesome. To get started right now, go to purplera1n.com. Download it. Make sure you have windows(but not 7), the latest iTunes installed, and an iPhone 3GS with 3.0 firmware.
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iPhone Buzz, GeekSmack, Silicon Alley Insider, TheAppleBlog, The iPhone Blog, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, eWeek, Gadget Lab, Crave, Redmond Pie, 9 to 5 Mac, TechSpot, NEWSFACTOR, Macworld, Pocket-lint.com, Unwired View, TweakTown News, ithinkdifferent, Geekword, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, iPhone 3GS Cases …, QuickPWN, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Engadget, Boing Boing Gadgets and CrunchGear
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Financial Times:
Free fails to live up to its billing as economic model — Chris Anderson has built a career out of making bold pronouncements that the economics of Silicon Valley - the way in which software and digital technology are built and distributed - are likely to spread to, and ultimately conquer, the rest of the economy.
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Schneier on Security:
The Pros and Cons of Password Masking — Usability guru Jakob Nielsen opened up a can of worms when he made the case for unmasking passwords in his blog. I chimed in that I agreed. Almost 165 comments on my blog (and several articles, essays, and many other blog posts) later, the consensus is that we were wrong.
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Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites — During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Engadget and Chip.de …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Are “deleted” photos really gone from Facebook? Not always — In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean.
Paul / GeekSmack:
CONFIRMED: Windows 7 RTM To Be Announced July 13th — UPDATE: ComputerGuy2010 from VinylZine has pointed out to me that Microsoft has issued a press release stating that the RTM code will be given out to partners on “the second half of July” which further backs and pretty much 100% validates the story that we have broke.
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Electronista, Ars Technica, Geekword, DailyTech, Neowin.net, Download Squad and blogs.chron.com
Samsung mobile:
EXCLUSIVE! SAMSUNG OMNIA 2 i8000 VIDEO REVIEW ITA/ENG by Hdblog.it! — Ci siamo! Ve lo abbiamo promesso ed eccolo qua ... ha richiesto tempo e dedizione ed abbiamo cercato di condensare il tutto in 11 minuti... poche parole... ora solo immagini... A voi i giudizi! — VERSIONE ITALIANA:
ABCNEWS:
Gotta Go? iPhone App Tells Moviegoers When to Pee — RunPee Tells Moviegoers the Best Times to Duck Out to Go to the Bathroom — Soda. Coffee. Water. Next time to you go to the movies, chug 'em all down. — As long as you have a new iPhone app by your side, you'll know when you can escape …
Nick Halstead / TweetMeme Blog:
More Buttons, More Retweet — We never rest on our laurels here at TweetMeme HQ and have been beavering away on a range of improvements. I wanted to give you a sneak peak at a few new buttons launching next week. — Firstly one big change we have already made is to remove the (via @tweetmeme) from the end of any retweets.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter — Has Twitter spam gotten a little out of hand? According to today's top story on Techmeme, it has. Apparently, marketers are calling for Twitter to filter out spam and other adult content from the microblogging service.
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Mashable!, I4U News, Shooting at Bubbles, Web Strategy and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
