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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Twitter, Even More Open Than We Wanted — About a month ago, an administrative employee here at Twitter was targeted and her personal email account was hacked. From the personal account, we believe the hacker was able to gain information which allowed access to this employee's Google Apps account …
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MediaMemo, VentureBeat, Guardian, Silicon Alley Insider, Bloomberg, CNET News, Digits, Mashable!, Continuations and Pocket-lint.com
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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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Network World, Robert X. Cringely's blog, Daring Fireball, Bits, Between the Lines, GigaOM, SiliconBeat, Macworld, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Alley Insider, Twittercism, TomSoft, One By One Media, VentureBeat, Technologizer, SFGate, MediaMemo, TheNextWeb.com, Seeking Alpha, Download Squad, Gawker, Geek In Disguise and InformationWeek, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Financial Forecast Shows First Revenue In Q3, 1 billion users in 2013 — Our negotiations with Twitter (or rather Twitter's lawyers) over our intention to publish a small subset of the 310 hacked confidential documents continue. We published the first document …
Thanks:gsharma
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:
Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life:The Twitter hack and the cloud
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Google Online Security Blog
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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VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Silicon Alley Insider, I4U News, Engadget, DigitalBattle.com, Gadgetell, DailyTech, Electronista, Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, VG247 and TechSpot
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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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The Seattle Times, CrunchGear, Computer Science Teacher, Neowin.net, TierneyLab, Bink.nu, The Register, The Mac Observer and ITworld.com, Thanks:atul
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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Hardware 2.0, BetaNews, Inquirer, Seeking Alpha, eWeek, Digital Daily, Dealscape and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Apple Blocks Palm Pre iTunes Syncing — It has begun. With the release of iTunes 8.2.1 (via TiPb), gut46 tells us, Palm Pre syncing with iTunes is indeed kaput. At least on this Pre user's Mac, iTunes sync isn't working after the 8.2.1 update. * According to Apple's surprisingly forthcoming release notes:
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:iTunes 8.2.1 available, kills sync with Palm Pre
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PC World, Digits, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, The Register, Associated Press, Macworld, Digital Daily, AppScout, Gearlog, MacNN and MacRumors
Arik Hesseldahl / BusinessWeek:Apple To Palm: It's On. The Pre Is Locked Out Of iTunes
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TechSpot
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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blogs.ft.com, internetnews.com, Technologizer, Google Mobile Blog, Search Engine Watch, Macworld, Google Watch, DSLreports, BetaNews, Download Squad, Between the Lines, The Download Blog, Lifehacker, Google Voice Blog, mocoNews, Epicenter, Local Mobile Search, CrackBerry.com blogs, Mashable!, Unwired View and PalmAddicts, Thanks:atul
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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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Voice Apps For Android And Blackberry Are Here
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Boy Genius Report, NEWSFACTOR, Maximum PC all, TmoNews, IntoMobile, DailyFinance, Between the Lines, eWeek, BlackBerry Cool, Lifehacker, Contentinople, AppScout, Electronista, DailyTech, I4U News and ChannelWeb
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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paidContent, CNET News, Inside Facebook, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Daily, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch, Mashable!, All Facebook and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to open retail stores near Apple's this fall — Microsoft is planning to open the first of its planned retail stores next to existing Apple stores this fall. — Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners the news during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote on July 15.
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paidContent, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, The Toybox and Electronista
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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NEWSFACTOR, GigaOM, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News and BlackBerry Cool, Thanks:atul
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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.
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
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 …
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Dow Jones Newswires, TechFlash, Macworld, Fast Company, Gadgetell, Electronista, TECH.BLORGE.com and CrunchGear
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.
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Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, AppScout, the Econsultancy blog, LiveSide and Softpedia News
Josh Cohen / European Public Policy Blog:
Working with News Publishers — Last week, a group of newspaper and magazine publishers signed a declaration stating that “Universal access to websites does not necessarily mean access at no cost,” and that they “no longer wish to be forced to give away property without having granted permission.”
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Search Engine Land
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.
Mobile Today:
Orange and T-Mobile to break O2 exclusivity on iPhone — Apple opens up older iphones to two new networks in six weeks — Apple is poised to open the iPhone 3G to Orange and T-Mobile in a bid to boost sales. — The move is set for as early as September and will end Apple's two year exclusive deal with O2.
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 …
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.
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.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Analyst sees dimming future for AT&T wireless if Verizon gets iPhone — A bottom up view of a cell tower. Credit: Locomotive8/ Flickr. — If Pali Research were to pick its favorite wireless carrier, it wouldn't be AT&T. — The market research firm believes that despite the huge success …
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Phone Arena
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.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another Bing Boost: ComScore Says Microsoft Search Share Up in June — We've seen multiple studies showing a boost for Microsoft's (MSFT) search share since it launched Bing a month ago, and now comScore weighs in and says the same thing. Comscore (SCOR) is the standard when it comes to this stuff …
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The Microsoft Blog, Search Engine Land, Digits, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, eWeek and TechFlash
IHS:
PayPal shuts us down — I had a subscription system running under WP-MEMBER for about a year before that software flaked out on me. Multiple domains caused problems that were irreconcilable. I had donations for our work in Africa coming in (not through wp-member) and a few hundred subscribers to Informer through wp-member.
