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How Yelp May Have Further Harmed The App Store Approval Process With Its Easter Egg — Editor's Note: This guest post was written by Matt Galligan, CEO of CrashCorp, a company working on a product called SimpleGeo providing “location as a service” as well as an Augmented Reality SDK for app developers.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet — Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. — They're not much happier …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Report: Are iPhones Really Exploding All Over the World? — We have done some research, and it appears than the rumors of iPhones exploding all around the world—"world" as in “France, UK, and Belgium”—are greatly exaggerated. Here are all the known cases, and Apple's official answer: — In France
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Angel Investor Chris Sacca To Launch $5 million Early Stage Venture Fund — Chris Sacca, a prolific Silicon Valley angel investor, is closing on a new venture fund he'll call Lowercase Capital, we've confirmed. The fund size will be in the $5 million range, and will make investments ranging from $50,000 - $150,000 per deal.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Coupons You Don't Clip, Sent to Your Cellphone — Hunter Gilmore was never big on clipping coupons. “You stick them on the fridge, meaning to use them, and it never happens,” said Mr. Gilmore, a 29-year-old actor and advertising agency recruiter in Manhattan.
Glenn Fleishman / Macworld:
Wake on Demand lets Snow Leopard sleep with one eye open — A new networking option in OS X 10.6 lets you access files on a slumbering Mac — To conserve power and reduce your electrical bill, you should shut down your computer or put it to sleep when not in use.
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How To Beat the Kindle — Study everything the iPod's rivals did. Then do the exact opposite. — You might argue that Sony was visionary. In the fall of 2006, it introduced the first eBook with an E Ink screen—long before Amazon's Kindle rolled out with the same technology.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Hulu Has More Viewers Than Time Warner Cable — Hulu's reach as a video platform keeps growing, now reaching more video viewers than the second biggest U.S. cable company. — In July, some 38 million people watched a video on Hulu, according to comScore.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Do signs from Intel, Dell point to real turnaround? — Intel and Dell are indicating that PC demand may be increasing but it's not clear how sustained or strong this trend is. — The news Friday that Intel raised guidance is not a surprise, according to Ashok Kumar, an analyst at investment bank Collins Stewart.
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The App Store Goes To China — A deal with China Unicom is good news for Apple—and better news for developers. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — The iPhone is going to China, which means more than 100,000 developers will have a chance to hitch a ride along with it.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
China will account for 15-20% of all iPhone sales in 2010, says analyst
China will account for 15-20% of all iPhone sales in 2010, says analyst
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Kevin Anderson / Guardian:
Wolfram Alpha to open data feeds — Wolfram Alpha, a project from the makers of math software Mathematica, will soon be opening up its data sets, opening up new possibilities for data mash ups — Wolfram Alpha launched to much fanfare and a fair bit of confusion earlier this year.
Jon Swartz / USA Today:
More marketers use social networking to reach customers — SAN FRANCISCO — Ford Motor has high hopes for Fiesta, a popular model abroad launching in the U.S. next year. — So how does it introduce the subcompact car to Americans? A massive ad blitz on TV? In-house promotions at dealers nationwide?
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Wall Street Journal:
Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians — As Paper Trails Fade, Digital Material Grows in Size and Complexity; How to Decipher Those 80-Column Punch Cards — The next generation of experiments, like the Large Hadron Collider, above, a powerful particle accelerator beneath the border …
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