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FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials — Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements — The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep …
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Yes, new FTC guidelines extend to Facebook fan pages — Prominent users of Twitter and Facebook won't be exempt from controversial new Federal Trade Commission guidelines that keep tabs on blogger freebies and giveaways, according to Richard Cleland, associate director for the FTC's advertising division.
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A Dangerous Federal Intervention in Social Media
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Palm: Free Apps For The Web, Free Development For Open Source, And Free Phones! — I'm here in San Francisco for a meeting Palm has called to give its newest employees, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, who both came over from Mozilla, a chance to talk a bit about the state of the webOS platform.
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There's No Excuse For This — I really didn't want to beat up on WinMo here, because at this point it just feels tired. But man, come on Microsoft, you're giving me no choice. Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't just a letdown—it barely seems done.
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Microsoft Debuts Mobile Backup Service ‘My Phone’, Adds Premium Features — Coinciding with the introduction of the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, Microsoft has upgraded and launched its free phone backup service My Phone - previously in beta - and added a couple of useful premium features to it.
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Review: First look at Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 on the HTC Pure cell phone — Microsoft is moving into the modern age of cell phones today as it launches its Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system for cell phones and other gadgets. I tried it out on the new HTC Pure phone from AT&T …
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Building Applications for the iPhone with Flash — This morning during the day 1 keynote at Adobe Max 2009, Adobe announced that the next version of Adobe Flash (Flash Professional CS5) will include support for creating stand-alone applications for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
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PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop — This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen a computer do. — What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage? — Well, it's possible.
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FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records — When Aaron Swartz, a 22 year-old programmer, decided last fall to help an open government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he'd end up with an FBI agent trying to surveil his house.
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Bell, Telus to launch iPhone next month — Move will break Rogers' year-long stranglehold; telcos set to launch next-generation wireless network ahead of schedule — BCE Inc.'s BCE-T Bell Canada and Telus Corp. T-T will begin selling the iPhone next month, breaking the stranglehold …
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New Verizon ad campaign takes a direct swipe at AT&T's network — A new advertising campaign from Verizon Wireless starting tonight during the big Monday Night Football game will take a direct swipe at AT&T's network, playing off the successful Apple iPhone commercials.
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Apple and Windows Computers Living Together Under One Roof, According to New NPD Report — Nearly 85 Percent of All Apple Households Also Own a Windows PC
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Startup pinpoints the good, bad and ugly of wireless networks — Fretting about dropped calls in Ballard, missing text messages in Belltown or poor network coverage in Bellevue? If so, a new application from Root Wireless might be for you. — The Bellevue company, which is coming …
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A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health — The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are really made by individuals …
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Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor's Perspective — This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better.
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Gateway's Windows 7-boasting EC18T tablet images, specs leak onto the screen — Hey, what's this attractive looking dude? Well, from the looks of it, it's Gateway's not-yet-announced or previously spied tablet PC. A tipster with access to a seemingly infinite number of photos of this bad boy …
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European import 7digital takes on iTunes in the U.S. — 7digital, an online music retailer formed five years ago in Europe, launched its U.S. outlet today — the latest MP3 store to challenge Apple's iTunes juggernaut. The most obvious difference between the two stores …
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How Happy Are We? — Every day, through Facebook status updates, people share how they feel with those who matter most in their lives. These updates are tiny windows into how people are doing. They're brief, to the point, and descriptive of what's going on this week, today or right now.
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Google, Verizon plan Tuesday press conference — Google and Verizon Wireless plan to hold a joint press conference Tuesday morning on the eve of the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment Show, they announced late Monday night. — Details were scarce, and a Google representative declined to comment on the nature of the conference.
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Apple Leaving Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Change Stance — Apple Inc. is pulling out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the chamber's strident criticism of plans to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, the computer giant said Monday. — In a letter to the chamber of commerce's president …
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Social Media: The Next Great Gateway for Content Discovery? — In the beginning there were ISPs, which then gave way to portals aggregators of content and links which then led to the rise of “search” as the dominant form of Internet navigation or, how we get to where we we're going on the web.
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AVG goes toe to toe with MS in consumer security fight — US gets discount, as usual — AVG is putting an emphasis on increased speed with a revamp of its free and paid for security suites. — The latest revamp - AVG 9.0 - boasts 50 per cent faster speed and increased ease of use.
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Microsoft Research shows off multitouch mouse prototypes — Rather odd timing, given some recent developments in the Apple camp, but Microsoft Research has just surfaced some of its incredibly wild multitouch mouse prototypes. Each one uses a different touch detection method …
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Over-the-air downloads come to BlackBerry — Online music provider 7digital is bringing over-the-air music downloads to recent BlackBerry phones, such as the Storm, Bold, and Tour. The rumors have been circulating for several months now. On Tuesday the company is set to launch its application …