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Federal Trade Commission:
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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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
FTC Cracks Down on Blogger Payola, Celebrity Tweets — Rules on Endorsements and Testimonials Extended to Social Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on blogger payola. — The agency, which protects consumers from fraud or deceptive business practices …
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Mike Chambers:
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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Computerworld, Business Wire, John Nack on Adobe, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Adobe, TechCrunch, internetnews.com, Technologizer, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors and The Loop, Thanks:chrismessina
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
The iPhone finally gets Flash apps — but not Flash websites — When Adobe announced the latest version of its Flash technology, a bunch of writers (including me) jumped on the fact that Flash 10.1 would eventually work on most major smartphones, except Apple's iPhone. Looks like we spoke too soon.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
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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all things Palm Pre, PreCentral.net, Daring Fireball, Engadget, Electronista and EverythingPre
John Cook / TechFlash:
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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npd.com:
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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Adam D. I. Kramer / Facebook Blog:
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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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Now Tracking Gross National Happiness; Continues Hoarding Data
Simon Avery / Globe and Mail:
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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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
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.
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Breaking: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online — Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online. — An anonymous user posted details of the accounts …
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internetnews.com:
FCC Chair Says Net Neutrality Benefits Musicians — Genachowski pitches Net neutrality as a means of empowering artists. — WASHINGTON — Julius Genachowski knew he was stepping into the firing line when he announced his plan to tighten up the Federal Communications Commission's rules on Net neutrality.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Why Charles River Ventures sat out on Twitter's latest round — When Twitter raised its most recent round of funding at $1 billion, a few players were conspicuously absent, including Union Square Ventures and Charles River Ventures. — Why did Charles River sit out? Size and strategy.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
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 …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Psystar sells Snow Leopard virtualization to third-parties — In spite of an ongoing legal dispute with Apple, clone Mac maker Psystar Monday announced plans to license its virtualization technology for Mac OS X to third-party hardware vendors. — The new Psystar OEM Licensing Program …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Creates A New, Simplified Ad Unit For Local Business — In December 2007 Google promised to develop a radically simplified version of AdWords targeted at the mass of small businesses who could not or would not take the time to set up an AdWords campaign. The working name of the program was “Simple Ads.”
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TechCrunch:
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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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
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 …
Matt Rosoff / CNET News:
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 …
Stephanie Clifford / Media Decoder:
Condé Nast's Executive on Why the Company Closed Four Magazines — In an interview at Condé Nast headquarters Monday morning, chief executive Charles H. Townsend explained why he had made the cuts he had. The simple answer: the magazines were losing money.
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Laura June / Engadget:
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 …
