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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product — Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it's known as Project Titan.
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Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Gmail Creator says he is not working on new email platform — With nearly 400 million users, Facebook is increasingly challenging the traditional Web overlords like Google and Yahoo on all fronts. — So the reports on Friday that Facebook was developing its own Web-based email …
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Sling: We didn't ‘work’ with AT&T for 3G streaming to iPhone (Updated) — AT&T made headlines Thursday by announcing that it had decided to allow SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone to stream video from a Slingbox over its 3G network. AT&T's CEO claimed in the announcement that Sling Media modified …
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App Advice, Macworld, DSLreports, Engadget, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Gizmodo, InformationWeek, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, The iPhone Blog, MacRumors, AT&T and Electronista
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
An Apology To Our Readers — On Monday evening I received a phone call from someone I trust who told me that one of our interns had asked for compensation in exchange for a blog post. Specifically, this intern had allegedly asked for a Macbook Air in exchange for a post about a startup.
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Gawker, SiliconANGLE, Loic Le Meur Blog and Technology Liberation Front, Thanks:bobcaswell
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Daniel Brusilovsky / Weblog of Daniel Brusilovsky:
The Line Was Crossed — In the nine months that I've worked at TechCrunch, I've enjoyed every single moment of it. I couldn't be more thankful to Michael and Heather for giving me this opportunity to work with an amazing organization, and with an amazing group of individuals.
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog, VentureBeat, Geek News Central, SiliconANGLE and Silicon Valley Watcher
Bing / Search Blog:
Enhanced Cooperation with Facebook on Search — Facebook has been a close and valued partner of Microsoft for a number of years. We have worked together on several fronts all designed to create great experiences and services for our users. As we begin 2010, we are stepping up that collaboration yet again.
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Bloomberg, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, eWeek, The Register, PC World, paidContent, TechFlash, Tech Trader Daily, Seattle Times, LiveSide.net, ClickZ, bub.blicio.us, TG Daily, TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, CNET News, MarketingVOX and Seeking Alpha, Thanks:atul
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:More social, please: Facebook nixes banner ads
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Gizmodo:
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps on Amazon — Amazon's ebook pricing structure has crumbled. Hachette's the third major publisher to push for the agency model, following MacMillan and HarperCollins: They'll set the ebook prices (higher, natch) and the bookseller takes a cut.
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Epicenter, MediaMemo, TechFlash, eWeek, Macworld, Gadgetell, Ars Technica, Mashable!, The Register, TheAppleBlog, GMSV, DailyTech, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider and The Apple Core, Thanks:bobcaswell
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Apple's A4 chip: Engineers correct stupid journalist — I have no clue about computer chip design and manufacturing. So I trolled VentureBeat's readers with a challenge: Explain to me how Apple's switch from third-party chip manufacturers to its own in-house design for the A4 chip that powers …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited — The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
David Drummond / Guardian:
Google: We will bring books back to life — We at Google could make that wealth of knowledge available at a click. And authors would earn too — If you love books and care about the knowledge they contain, there is a problem that needs to be solved. Somewhere in the region of 175m books exist in the world today.
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Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint:
iTablet launches from UK company — Like the iPad but with USB ports, Flash, multi-tasking, choice of OS, HDMI... In its own words “hot on the heels of Apple's latest product launch”, UK company X2 Computing has launched the “iTablet” range of Windows- or Linux-based tablet PCs.
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Gizmodo, Electricpig, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, The Next Web, Erictric, Liliputing and Geeky-Gadgets
MacNN:
Apple prohibits App Store devs from using location-based ads — Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location-based information for mobile advertising. The company claims the GPS data can only be used to provide “beneficial information.”
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VentureBeat, Guardian, Technologizer, 9 to 5 Mac, GPS Review, TechCrunch, MacRumors iPhone Blog, AppleInsider, Download Squad, TUAW, O'Grady's PowerPage, the Econsultancy blog, yardley.ca, The iPhone Blog, The Equity Kicker, TG Daily, Softpedia News, Silicon Alley Insider, FierceMobileContent and Erictric
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Full Details on the New Nook 1.2 Firmware Going Out Now — A B&N employee (who'd just updated their store's Nooks) sent us all the details of the new Nook firmware 1.2 update that, according to the date on this memo, should hit later today. UPDATE — • Enhanced in-store seamless connectivity …
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SlashGear, Engadget, CrunchGear, Kindle Review, Maximum PC, Erictric, Obsessable and Crave
Chris Putnam / Facebook Blog:
Faster, Simpler Photo Uploads — Facebook is the largest photo-sharing site with over 2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month. In order to make sharing photos even easier, today we are announcing a new and improved photo uploader. — Recently we've received feedback …
Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Xbox Press:
A Letter From Marc Whitten: Discontinuation Of Xbox Live For Original Xbox Games — On April 15 we will discontinue the Xbox LIVE service for original Xbox consoles and games, including Xbox v1 games playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals. I want to start by saying this isn't a decision we made lightly …
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Boy Genius Report, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, The Microsoft Blog, BetaNews, Obsessable, Neowin.net, Maximum PC, GeekSmack, DigitalBattle.com, DailyTech, Erictric, Techland, GameLife, Geeky-Gadgets, PC World, Digital Trends, Engadget, ITworld.com, eWeek, The Toybox, CNET News, TechFlash, SlashGear, VG247, Pocket-lint, SlipperyBrick.com, TechSpot, Tech Eye, Electricpig.co.uk, Lockergnome Blog Network and Electronista
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security — Malware hidden in two extensions threatens Windows users — Computerworld - Mozilla confirmed late Thursday that it failed to detect malware in a pair of Firefox add-ons, which may have infected up to 4,600 users.
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CNET News, PC World, internetnews.com, Mozilla Add-ons Blog, Download Squad, Help Net Security, The Register and Hardware 2.0
Handset Operating System / Mobile Advertising:
Android moves ahead of iPhone in new Smaato Mobile Advertising Metrics - Symbian still on top — Google Nexus One and Motorola Droid effect? Smaato Metrics for January suggest that new Android devices are revolutionizing mobile advertising performance measured by CTR (click-through-rate).
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
YouTube Calls on IPv6 — The first telephone numbers in the latter part of the 19th century were short and simple, made up of no more than a few digits. Calls would be routed through operators and these operators would then manually patch these calls into the lines of their intended recipients.
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AT&T:
AT&T FamilyMap App Launches on App Store — App Brings Peace of Mind to Families On-the-Go; Keeps Schedules, Events and Whereabouts Accessible, Centralized on iPhone
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Siri launches an iPhone personal assistant that actually works — The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it's always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assistant would do, such as organizing your emails.
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David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Four Square Fatigue and the Evolution of Privacy — Over the last few weeks I've started to suffer from Four Square fatigue. After all, Four Square is a lot of work. To get the benefits of Four Square, you need to proactively check in wherever you go. And, while each checkin requires …
Thanks:atul
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Matt Asay's big break is a big one for open source — I have a confession to make. — I'm a huge Matt Asay fan (right). Always have been. — Matt is the Anthony Bourdain (below) of open source. By that I mean he cooks better than most cooks, writes better than most writers, and he has made himself a big time brand.
