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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Snow Leopard: Pogue dodges a bullet — So the fecal matter hit the spinning blades for our good friend and loyal fanboy David Pogue (in photo above, pleasuring himself with a MacBook) this week. Today, Clark Hoyt, the “public editor” at the Times, published a piece about Pogue that basically says yeah …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Losing Its Religion: The New York Times Compromises — Two things that would end hypocrisy and make the world a better place: Priests should be allowed to get married, and the New York Times should update its Ethics Policy. — The venerable and vulnerable newspaper finally starts talking about the …
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Alex Pell / Times of London:
Tech news: For the smarter kind of bookworm — Asus, inventors of the netbook, is about to shake up the ebook world with the arrival of the world's cheapest digital reader — The world of ebooks is about to start a new chapter with the arrival of the cheapest digital reader on the market.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Breaking: Spotify App Goes Live on iPhone and Android — Streaming music service Spotify has launched on the iPhone and Android devices for its premium subscribers only. You can download it from Apple's App Store here and the Android Market. Though plans to launch there are in play …
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Zee / The Next Web Blog:
Spotify iPhone App: First Impressions — Well, it finally made it onto the iPhone. The Spotify mobile app, quite possibly one of the most hyped mobile application releases yet. — After watching the preview video (embedded at the foot of this post), I had my doubts as to the actual quality of the application.
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Yahoo boss Bartz earns $2m from share sales — CEO and her team of executives have sold large tranches of stock while internet search engine struggles — Investors are questioning the long-term loyalty of Carol Bartz, who was parachuted in to run Yahoo nine months ago …
Richard Wray / Guardian:
iPhone makes worldwide loss, says report — While Orange and T-Mobile compete with O2 to sell the iPhone in Britain, a report by Denmark's Strand Consult reveals how it makes a loss for providers and struggles against other phones — Apple's iPhone is not the profit generating must …
David Segal / New York Times:
Gadget Makers Can Find Thief, but Don't Ask — For decades, when an item was lost or stolen, a consumer went through three stages of grief: anger, mourning and acceptance. You would be miffed, then sad and then you would move on, in large part because moving on was the only option.
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
What Now? Q&A with Ex-Google China Chief Kai-Fu Lee — Kai-Fu Lee, who last week resigned as president of Google China, has launched Innovation Works, an incubator for Chinese IT startups. It has been funded with $115 million, including from lead investor WI Harper Group and individual backers …
Stephen Brook / Guardian:
News Corp launches global internal wire — NewsCore system will make content from all company's TV stations, papers and sites instantly available to the rest — News Corporation is launching a global service that will make all its news stories and videos instantly available to its entire network of TV, print and online news outlets.
Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business — These days in the halls of IT departments around the world there is a growing realization that the next wave of outsourcing, things like cloud computing and crowdsourcing, are going to require responses that will forever change the trajectory …
Jennifer Johnson / HotHardware.com News:
Are Open-Source Cameras The Way Of The Future? — Scientists at Stanford are working on an open source camera that could change the world of photography by giving programmers the power to change and add features to a camera via software updates. If the technology catches on …
