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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others — This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Amazon Says It Will Stop Deleting Kindle Books — By deleting two unauthorized Orwell books from the Kindle devices of readers who had purchased them, Amazon highlighted how poorly real world expectations apply to the digital world. — Amazon on Thursday began e-mailing a few hundred owners …
Hugh / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management — In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the protagonist Winston Smith labors in obscurity to make information appear and disappear at the whims of the Ministry of Truth: … The Ministry of Truth would have truly appreciated DRM and tethered devices.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: What Phones Do People Dump For iPhone? — What phones are Apple's iPhone buyers throwing away? A lot of Motorola RAZRs. — Some 29.4% of iPhone 3G buyers were upgrading from Motorola devices, according to Nielsen's Q2 2009 Mobile Insights Survey.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Web Video Viewers Forget About Michael Jackson — Remember when Michael Jackson was one of the biggest things on the Web? So 10 days ago. — So says video views tracker TubeMogul, which illustrates its argument via a nifty interactive chart at the bottom of this post.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hulu's Content Owners Are Missing A Major Opportunity This Summer — It's no secret that summer is the season of terrible television, when networks flock to broadcast cheap reality TV and game shows that actually will turn your brain into a slippery pile of goo.
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Sorry Google, 'There's A URL For That' Doesn't Have The Same Ring — At yesterday's MobileBeat conference in San Francisco, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Engineering VP Vic Gundotra said the app store trend is just a fad and at some point powerful browsers will take over as the main mechanism for delivering services to the phone, reports FT.com.
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Is Yahoo launching a cloud storage solution : MObStor — While rest of the world is busy with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo might be preparing to launch MObStor which they tout as the “Unstructured Storage for the Internet”. — While comparing MObStor to the various Cloud computing storage …
Alexia Tsotsis / Style Council:
Is All of Hollywood the Bitch in Twitter “Sex Tape,” or Just P. Diddy? — Regardless of what you think of Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington's ethics, what has been revealed via the Techcrunch #twittergate is some of the most fascinating information to have hit the mediasphere in a long time.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Blockbuster selling Archos 10 netbooks at retail stores, we're not sure why either — Looking for a place to buy a netbook? Have you tried any of the thousands of online shops that offer them? Oh, they don't look quite desperate enough for you? Perhaps you'd rather go somewhere that really needs your money: Blockbuster.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Q2 venture investing looks like it's 2005 (and that's a good thing) — Hey, that wasn't so bad. Dow Jones VentureSource has released its data on venture capital investments during the second quarter of 2009, and while the numbers might look bleak in most years, given the broader context, they look ... okay.
Chris Taylor / Fortune Small Business:
Getting Things Done guru goes digital — David Allen's time-management system helped his disciples get things done, but it required reams of paper. Now, at last, software comes to the rescue. — (Fortune Small Business) — I am obsessed with personal-management systems.
Zee / TheNextWeb.com:
The EV-Files: Your chance to stop Arrington from publishing more documents! — The Ev-Files is a lighter take on the Twitter/TechCrunch saga. An amusing online game from Entrepreneur/Developer Alex Tew, founder of viral hits MillionDollarHomePage, Sock and Awe and most recently PopJam.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon — Wikipedia users will be getting new tools for uploading, editing, and viewing video very soon. According to a Beet.TV interview with Erik Moller, who is the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, we'll see all of these things shortly.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Slouching Toward a Coddled and Toothless Blogosphere — Remember when blogs were going to be fiercely independent firebrands who, purified of old media insidery stench, would pull no punches against traditional power structures? So much for that. Today's laptop media is shaping up to be nothing but lapdogs.
Jeff Smykil / Ars Technica:
Apple strips devs of promo codes for apps rated 17+ — In a controversial move, Apple has taken away the ability for developers to give promotional codes to reviewers if their App Store offerings have a rating of 17+. This has caused quite a stir in the development world since the news broke yesterday …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Patch Media CEO Brod Now Heading AOL's Venture Unit — In yet another appointment of an exec close to AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong, Patch Media CEO Jon Brod (pictured here) has taken over the new venture arm of the Time Warner (TWX) online unit. — AOL confirmed the appointment to BoomTown.
Staska / Unwired View:
Google to monetize Voice via ringback advertising auctions? — The newly announced Google Voice looks like a great service that should ease your communication problems on multiple devices significantly. — And Google is already thinking of the ways of monetizing Voice. In a way it knows best - through advertising.
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Ex-Microsoft manager's Web startup, Sampa, shutting down — A year after receiving $1 million from angel investors, Redmond Web startup Sampa is shutting itself down. — Sampa was a social networking/photo and web hosting site aimed at extended families.
Jordan Golson / GigaOM:
Fearless Feedback! Tech Workers Dish Dirt on Their Employers — Thinking about making a move to another company? Sure, the economy is in tatters and layoff announcement have become commonplace, but it's always nice to know whether or not people at other companies are as miserable enjoying their jobs as much as you.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Apple's former real estate chief now working on Microsoft stores — Looks like Microsoft will have some very well-informed assistance as it tries to replicate the success of Apple's retail stores. Former Apple real estate chief George Blankenship, who helped lead the early rollout …
