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Mat Balez / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Latitude. Now for iPhone. — I'm a big fan of the iPhone. I'm also a big fan of the web. So, naturally, I'm excited that today we're finally releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web application running in Safari. — Our Latitude web app provides …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native App? Because Apple Said So. — We briefly pointed this out in our longer post on Google Latitude launching on the iPhone, but it's worth pointing this out separately. In its post today, Google made an unusual admission about its service …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Launches “Twitter 101″, Step One Of The Business Plan — The first step of Twitter's business plan is something called “Twitter 101,” which the company plans to launch either tonight or tomorrow, co-founder Biz Stone revealed at the Fortune Brainstorm Conference in Pasadena this evening.
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Enhancing Value for Customers and Businesses — Many are seeing a wide variety of businesses using Twitter in interesting ways to create value for customers and consumers. As a result, we're often invited by businesses and organizations to talk about Twitter and how it can be used to better engage with customers.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Twitter to Debut a New Main Homepage Next Week — Twitter will unveil a new main homepage next week at Twitter.com, said co-founder Biz Stone, in order “to better show who we are.” — In an interview with BoomTown this afternoon, Stone said the current page is essentially confusing …
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses — Apple claims that hundreds of thousands of iPhones are being used by corporations and government agencies. What it won't tell you is that the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Fourth-Quarter Results — The company delivered operational efficiency and innovation in a difficult environment. — Income Statements — Segment Revenue/Operating Income (Loss) — Financial Highlights — View the PowerPoint — Listen to the Webcast Earnings Release
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Palm fires back at Apple, fixes Pre sync with iTunes — Just a week after Apple killed the Pre's ability to sync with desktop music management client iTunes, Palm has responded with webOS 1.1 — a software update that again enables Palm's phone to access media from the current version of iTunes.
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Richard Perez-Pena / New York Times:
A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web — Taking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it …
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
The AP Puts A Gun To Its Head. And A Grenade. And A Rocket Launcher. … via A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com — Software attached to each article? Brilliant! Sounds so friendly and seamless. I'm sure it will work great.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Exclusive: New Features of iPod Touch, Nano Revealed in Dozens of Cases … What's the worst kept secret in China? — The features and dimensions of Apple's new iPod Touch and iPod Nano, which are hush-hush here in the U.S. ahead of their expected September unveiling, but are well-known in China.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon's Bezos Apologizes For The “Stupid” And “Thoughtless” Kindle Incident — Last week, Amazon sent a shiver down the spine of the Internet when it remotely deleted copies of the books “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from users' Kindles. As just about everyone was quick to point out …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
AT&T chief: iPhone won't be exclusive forever — PASADENA, Calif.—It's not realistic to believe AT&T will have an exclusive on the iPhone forever, CEO Randall Stephenson said Thursday. — “There will be a day when you are not exclusive with the iPhone,” Stephenson said, speaking at Fortune's Brainstorm: Tech conference here.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HTC Hero review — The HTC Hero has been an object of lust for some time now for gadget enthusiasts. Even from the earliest days of leaked hardware shots and blurry demo videos of its UI, smartphone fans seemed to agree that the company had finally achieved what has been missing in the world of Android.
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Board to Meet on Microsoft Search Deal — Yahoo Inc. directors plan to meet Thursday for an update about a potential search partnership with Microsoft Corp., according to people briefed about the meeting. — The meeting follows several Yahoo board calls in recent days …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:Yahoo-Microsoft deal unlikely this week, source says
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Google's Android To Invade Homes — Manufacturers are putting the Web giant's Android software in home management devices and remote controls. — In a sign that Google's Android mobile platform has a future far beyond cellphones, San Francisco-based start-up Touch Revolution says a string …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Online Payment Wars Continue: PayPal Officially Announces Flexible API — While Ebay's Q2 earnings yesterday showed that its marketplace business was slow, the company's revenue was boosted by continued growth in its online payments business, including PayPal and BillMeLater.
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Apple has 91% of market for $1,000+ PCs, says NPD — Move over Microsoft. Apple can claim big, big market share numbers, too. According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple. Mac revenue market share in the “premium” price segment was 91 percent, up from 88 percent in May.
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google, Microsoft E-mail Synchronizer Cemaphore Acquired — Table of Contents: — Cemaphore Systems, which makes software to help customers migrate their e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft to Google, or vice versa, confirms it has been acquired.
Delvy / SpinVox Blog:
SpinVox's response — Statement … An article entitled ‘Voice technology firm under fire’ was published by the BBC this morning written by Rory Cellan-Jones. It is the latest in a series of previously fair and accurate articles the BBC has written about SpinVox, but on this occasion …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Ronny Conway Joins Andreessen Horowitz — Ronny Conway, an Associate at Google Ventures, has resigned from Google and joined the newly formed Andreessen Horowitz, we've confirmed. Conway, the son of prominent angel investor Ron Conway, has worked at Google for the last six years …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Service Offers to Retrieve Stolen Data, For a Fee — A former cyber cop in the United Kingdom is heading up a new online portal that claims to offer a searchable database of about 120 million consumer records that have been phished, hacked or otherwise stolen by computer crooks.
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Thom Holwerda / OSNews:
Linus: “Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease” — So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a “cancer”. Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Relents, Lets You Change Your Username — Last month, Facebook finally announced that they would allow users to pick out custom usernames for use in vanity URLs that read www.facebook.com/username. At the time, users were advised to “choose wisely” because the username they selected would be stuck with them for life.
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
YP.com Begins Self Reinvention — Earlier this year AT&T acquired the domain YP.com from LiveDeal for roughly $3.8 million. The brand-related reasons for the acquisition were obvious. But today, in a little bit of a surprise to me, AT&T/Yellowpages.com is relaunching YP.com …
