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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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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
FTC regulates our speech — The Federal Trade Commission just released rules to regulate product endorsements not just in advertisements but also on blogs. (PDF here; the regs don't start until page 55.) — It is a monument to unintended consequence, hidden dangers, and dangerous assumptions.
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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eWeek, L.A. Times Tech Blog, the Econsultancy blog, NBC Bay Area, Ars Technica, Agence France Presse and Maximum PC
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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9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, techno.blog, Engadget, all things Palm Pre, PreCentral.net, Daring Fireball 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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9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, [Geeks Are Sexy] …, Sidecut Reports, Digital Daily and Engadget
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
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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Engadget Mobile
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, Adobe, TechCrunch, internetnews.com, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Technologizer, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors and The Loop, Thanks:chrismessina
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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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Boy Genius Report, iPhone Savior, 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable!, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, Edible Apple, Alec Saunders SquawkBox and Engadget
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.
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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Inside Facebook, San Francisco Chronicle, The Social, VentureBeat, Mashable! and The Web Life, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Now Tracking Gross National Happiness; Continues Hoarding Data
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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PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, Between the Lines, The Microsoft Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Macsimum News, CNET News, I4U News, Gizmodo and Mashable!
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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Web Analytics World
Dana Oshiro / ReadWriteWeb:
Ask.com Puts Shopping Deals Directly in Search — In an attempt to provide further incentive to users, Ask.com just launched Ask Deals. The new service already offers more than 1 million discounts from national and local merchants across the country. From clothing sales to restaurant discounts …
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Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land, Bits, CNET News, Search Engine Journal and Epicenter
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 …
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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Screenwerk
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.
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 …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog
New York Times:
Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC — SAN FRANCISCO — The high-tech industry has been working itself into paroxysms of excitement lately over an idea that is not exactly new: tablet computers. — Quietly, several high-tech companies are lining up to deliver versions of these keyboard-free …
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Bits, GottaBeMobile.com, The Mac Observer, Ars Technica, Computerworld, PC World, Fast Company, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, MacNN, BoomTown, Silicon Alley Insider, I4U News and Electricpig.co.uk
Nielsen Wire:
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.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
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 …
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 …
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Microsoft's Project Pink Might Be Dead In The Water — To say we were unimpressed with the first leaked shots to come out of Microsofts “Project Pink” would be a bit of an understatement. This was Microsoft's first in-house foray into the mobile hardware space, and we'd been hearing tales of it for years …
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 …
Boy Genius Report:
AT&T to start selling HTC Tilt 2 starting October 8th — AT&T officially said sometime in the “coming weeks” as far as the Tilt 2 release date was concerned, but we've got that translated out for you — October 8th. Since we also got our hands on the internal training document …
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WMExperts
John Poirier / Reuters:
Four U.S. states win first broadband mapping grants — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California and three other states were among the first recipients of more than $6.8 million in grants to map broadband use in U.S. homes, the Commerce Department said on Monday. — The mapping program …
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