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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
In Our Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents — Here's a dilemma: The guy ("Hacker Croll") who claims to have accessed hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees, is releasing those documents publicly and sent them to us earlier today.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Our Reaction To Your Reactions To the Twitter Confidential Documents Post — Wow, that's quite a reaction to our post earlier this evening saying that we will publish some of the confidential Twitter documents we've been forwarded. Nearly 200 comments in a little over an hour, mostly saying we shouldn't publish.
Michael Eisenberg / Seeking Alpha:
Twitter Theft: It's Really All About Google — Lost in the brouhaha Michael Arrington stirred up on Techcrunch about the ethics of posting to Techcrunch the documents stolen by a hacker from Twitter, is a most important nugget that Arrington brings out in the comments:
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS — To Bill Gates, Google's Chrome OS looks a lot like a familiar foe: Linux. — “There's many, many forms of Linux operating systems out there and packaged in different ways and booted in different ways,” Gates said in an interview with CNET News this week.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Gates: Natal to bring gesture recognition to Windows too — Microsoft doesn't just want to bring gesture recognition to the Xbox with Project Natal. It also wants the technology in Windows, according to a very good source—Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. — In an interview with CNET News this week …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Bill Gates offers the world a physics lesson — It's been a year since Bill Gates left full-time work at Microsoft, but he's found plenty to keep him busy. — In between trying to eradicate polio, tame malaria, and fix the broken U.S. education system, Gates has managed to fulfill a dream …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Meet Google, Your Phone Company — Can Google be your phone company? The answer is yes. I came to that conclusion after I met with Vincent Paquet, co-founder of GrandCentral (a company acquired by Google) and now a member of the Google Voice team. Earlier today he stopped by our office …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Are Here — Google Voice, previously called Grand Central, is rolling out the first mobile apps for the service this evening. The main function of the apps is to make it easier to use your Google Voice phone number by automatically routing …
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The Official Google Blog:
Google Voice mobile app for Blackberry and Android — It's been an exciting few months since we announced Google Voice. The feedback from early users has been terrific, and the requests for invites have been flowing in. We started sending invites a few weeks ago and will keep sending them daily.
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BetaNews, DSLreports, Download Squad, Google Mobile Blog, Between the Lines, mocoNews, Local Mobile Search, Unwired View, Google Voice Blog, Lifehacker, CrackBerry.com blogs, Mashable!, PalmAddicts and PSFK, Thanks:atul
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Now Connecting 250 Million People — As of today, 250 million people are using Facebook to stay updated on what's happening around them and share with the people in their lives. The rapid pace of our growth is humbling and exciting for us, and it affirms that people everywhere are realizing …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Facebook adds 50 million users in 3.5 months, now up to 250 million actives
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Brandon Sterne / Mozilla Security Blog:
Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 — Issue — A bug discovered last week in Firefox 3.5's Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler was disclosed publicly yesterday. It is a critical vulnerability that can be used to execute malicious code. — Impact
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 lets developers work over WiFi (Updated) — Apple released an update to the iPhone OS 3.1 beta tonight, making the new version of the software available to registered developers. According to several developers speaking to Ars, beta 2 enables them to connect …
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Sang Tang / TUAW:IPCC tethering trick no longer works in iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2
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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Getting Noticed on the iPhone App Store — In a megastore as big as Apple's iPhone App Store, the secret to success is getting noticed. With more than 65,000 apps in 20 categories, app developers have come up with different strategies to accomplish that. — Infomedia
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Onion Said To Be Negotiating Sale — The Onion this month told staff that resisting advertiser pressure is a “losing game.” But it seems the humor publication isn't just keen to sell its soul to sponsors; we hear The Onion is talking about selling everything.
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Clay Shirky / Cato Unbound:
Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval — In his lead essay, Clay Shirky argues that the old models of journalism are broken primarily because in today's online environment, self-created publics can parse the news however they like. The biggest failure of journalism in the online age is the failure …
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Amazon sued for cracking Kindles, $5-plus million sought in class action — You've heard about cracking open a book, but how about cracking open a Kindle? — Apparently this is happening to some owners of Amazon.com's electronic book who also bought the optional, $30 protective cover …
BBC:
Windows 7 flies off virtual shelf — The latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system, Windows 7, is available for pre-order in the UK. — Amazon said that sales of Windows 7 in the first eight hours it was available outstripped those of Windows Vista's entire 17 week pre-order period.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
iTunes 8.2.1 now available for download — Apple released an incremental update to its iTunes software Wednesday afternoon, bringing it to version 8.2.1. The company did not provide any details on changes offered by the new version. — “iTunes 8.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple may extend antiglare display option to more Macs — Apple made a bold move roughly two years ago to begin transitioning its entire Mac product line away from matte displays and towards glass-enclosed glossy ones, but the company may be nearing a concession that these shiny, highly-reflective screens may not be for everyone.
David Martin / CNET News:
Apple cops to OS 3.0 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth problems — A rash of Wi-Fi connectivity and signal strength complaints have cropped up after Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 software update. Some users complain that their iPhones and iPod Touches drop from Wi-Fi unexpectedly; others that they can't connect to the Internet at all.
Bing / Search Blog:
BingTweets Debuts — As part of our ongoing efforts to explore options in real-time search, we've partnered with Federated Media and Twitter to create BingTweets which fuses Bing search results and real time content from Twitter in an interesting new interface.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Acer Will Launch Their Android Phone in September — Acer said they'd churn out one Android phone by the end of the year; that was all the way back in April, and they've since taken their relationship with Google's OS to the next level. (But not too far!)
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:Acer to launch four smartphones in 2H09, say sources
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abovethecrowd.com:
Bill Gurley On The “Free” Business Model — Filed under: Internet, Venture Capital, Web/Tech, advertising, online video, video | I have been intrigued by the back and forth between Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, and Mark Cuban on the topic of “Free” as a strategy and business model.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iTunes goes retro with digital 45s — As a throwback to the old days of the two-song 45 rpm vinyl record, the iTunes Store launched a new “D45” section Tuesday, featuring discounted prices on packs of two digital song downloads. — Just like old 45s, the iTunes D45 selection includes a popular single accompanied by a B-side song.
Warren Lee / AdAge:
What Sunk Veoh and Joost? Too Much Cash Too Soon — The Same Scourge Will Claim Dozens of Other Media and Advertising Startups — In the past few months, two of the highest-profile and most heavily-funded online-video startups — Veoh and Joost — have given up trying to compete with Hulu …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
YouTube pulls audio from greatest music video ever — This is really quite sad. — Citing copyright concerns, YouTube has deleted the audio from a hosted video that depicts the Internet meme “Keyboard Cat” showing up in a vintage TV after-school special and then embedded in the foreground …
Laura June / Engadget:
ASUS Eee PC T91 review — We've had our eye on ASUS' first full touchscreen tablet netbook, the Eee PC T91, since way back in January, when the hardware was on display while the software had yet to appear. Since then, we've seen quite a lot of the T91, and now it's finally making its way onto the US retail market.
