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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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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Another Security Tip For Twitter: Don't Use “Password” As Your Server Password — With all the chatter about the current security issues surrounding Twitter, its workforce and the cloud-based Google apps they use, a new security issue has popped up that makes it trivially easy for anyone to access the Twitter servers directly.
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Electronista:
Apple drops to 5th in US computer sales — Apple has sunk a full position in the US computer market during the spring, according to early estimates by IDC. The Mac producer is expected to have dropped from fourth place in the winter to fifth in the spring as it should have shipped 12.4 …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Dell, HP neck and neck in second quarter U.S. PC shipment race …
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The Seattle Times
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 …
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Twitterrati, VentureBeat, DealBook, thylmann.net, MarketingVOX, the Econsultancy blog, mocoNews, Silicon Alley Insider, ZDNet Government and Gawker, Thanks:gsharma
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Apple demanded Microsoft to stop its Laptop Hunters ads — According to a Microsoft executive, Apple legal isn't too happy with Microsoft's Laptop Hunters ads. — Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, told partners during his Worldwide Partner Conference keynote …
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple Locks Palm Out of iTunes — Reports are coming in that Apple's latest update to its iTunes software has locked out Palm's Pre. Precentral had the first reports on the matter that I saw, and now Apple is confirming the matter itself: “iTunes 8.2.1 is a free software update that provides …
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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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Joshua Siegel / Google Mobile Blog:
Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0. And All that Jazz — I recently visited NYC where I met up with my friend Joanne, a jazz singer with a wonderful 1920's throwback style. I wanted to find a jazz club close to my hotel on the west side for us to meet.
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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.
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry OS 5.0 to have tabbed browsing — You know us; we have nothing for love for RIM but it seems that its case of ADD is a lot worse than previously thought. For the better part of a week we've been playing around with a new beta build of OS 5. and noticed that it has a new feature …
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Google's Chiller-less Data Center — The equipment yard at the Google data center in Belgium features no chillers. (Photo from Google) — Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve …
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The Register
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Reader's Social Evolution — For more than a year, Google Reader has been struggling to add social features and almost all the new features were contrived, difficult to use and only cluttered the interface. — Originally, Google Reader's only social feature was sharing items in a public page.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life:
Green shoots in the music industry? — Is it possible that the music industry has finally spotted the light at the end of the tunnel - and it's not the flashing light on the oncoming Pirate Express locomotive? — This week a big piece of research has come up with two startling conclusions …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration? — While it's too early to tell exactly what this means, Facebook engineer Blake Ross today posted a “test” tweet from a Twitter application called “Penguin FB” that resides on Facebook development servers. One interesting possibility …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is There Really a Recovery in the Works? Time to Check with Google — Is the ad market really starting to rebound? Or is the (muted, cautious) happy talk we were hearing this spring just happy talk? Time to take a peek at Google's quarterly earnings this afternoon, which might give us some insight.
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 1 — “Bits of destruction” is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of “creative destruction” brought on by digitization. We hear a lot about the destruction wrought on the newspaper business.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
12% of e-mail users have actually tried to buy stuff from spam — Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has? If you're like most of us at Ars, you can't fathom why anyone would respond to most of the messages we get, but a new study released …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
LG's BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild — alongside a kid sibling — The more we see of LG's latest Black Label handset — the mysterious BL40 — the more we want to touch it, play with it, talk on it, and put it (or, at least try to put it) in our pockets.
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.
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Jessica Shambora / Fortune:
New iPhone no threat to the Flip camcorder — Apple's iPhone 3GS has video capabilities, but Cisco's Flip still dominates point-and-shoot camcorders. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — With the launch of the Flip video camera in May 2007, the camcorder market has never been the same.
Schneier on Security:
Laptop Security while Crossing Borders — Last year, I wrote about the increasing propensity for governments, including the U.S. and Great Britain, to search the contents of people's laptops at customs. What we know is still based on anecdote, as no country has clarified the rules …
