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6:50 PM ET, February 21, 2010

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Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac:
Video Chat coming in future iPhones/iPads?  —  Some interesting information has come to light this evening that may indicate a future direction of Apple's iPhone OS products.  Below is some pretty definitive evidence that future iPhones and iPads will have video chatting capability.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Why we don't trust Devil Mountain Software (and neither should you)  —  Ed note: We were going to publish this investigation Monday morning after buttoning down a few more key facts.  Given the fact that IDG just severed ties with Randall C. Kennedy over having an alter ego …
Discussion: PC World, Thanks:edbott
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InfoWorld:
An unfortunate ending  —  Due to a serious breach of trust, Randall C. Kennedy will no longer be writing for InfoWorld  —  On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth …
Discussion: CNET News, TechCrunch and Computerworld
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can't use Flash  —  Daniel Eran Dilger  —  Morgan Adams, an interactive content developer who knows a lot about building Flash, wrote in with an interesting perspective on Flash and the iPad.  The remainder of this piece is his comments on the subject.
Felix Salmon:
The NYT's blogs are set to be paywalled  —  Arthur Sulzberger, Janet Robinson, and Martin Nisenholtz of the NYT all took the opportunity of hosting today's PaidContent conference to talk at length about their paywall plans.  Which makes it all the more surprising that their message was so garbled …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
ACTA “internet enforcement” chapter leaks  —  Someone has uploaded a PDF to a Google Group that is claimed to be the proposal for Internet copyright enforcement that the USA has put forward for ACTA, the secret copyright treaty whose seventh round of negotiations just concluded in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Reid Hoffman Explains Putting His Angel Days Behind Him  —  LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman may be the busiest man in Silicon Valley.  Alhough he made former Yahoo exec Jeff Weiner the CEO of his company last June, his role as executive board chairman is very much a full-time gig.  Yet Hoffman now has a second job.
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Buzz No Facebook, Twitter Killer, Google Exec Says  —  Google Buzz is not intended as a challenge to Facebook or Twitter, but as a unique complement to those Web services, the Google executive overseeing Buzz told eWEEK.  While he lamented the Buzz privacy woes, Bradley Horowitz …
Discussion: Mashable!
Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
RightSide Capital Announces New Seed Fund; Will Make 100-200 Investments Per Year  —  RightSide Capital Management is about to shatter the funding landscape.  Led by David Lambert, Kevin Dick and John Lee, RightSide Capital believes that seed-stage capital needs a complete overhaul.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Seattle 2.0
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The New App Store Rules: No Swimsuits, No Skin, And No Innuendo  —  Over the last few days we've been tracking Apple's recent decision to remove all sexual content from the App Store.  It's an alarming move on Apple's part, if only because it shows that the company is willing to throw developers …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook.  Wait.  What?  —  Oh the Associated Press, our most favorite banned news source.  It seems almost monthly they do something that defies logic and/or looks to be a suicidal act.  And today brings another oddity.
Discussion: The Steve Rubel Lifestream and Chris Saad, Thanks:atul
 
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Carmen Gentile / New York Times:
Cries for Help via Text Messages Are Used to Direct Aid to Haiti
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Expands Video Rental Program
Discussion: Softpedia News, Thanks:beet_tv
James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal:
People's Republic of Hacking
Discussion: Thomas Crampton, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jeremy Dean / PsyBlog:
Can You Trust a Facebook Profile?
Discussion: RyanSpoon.com and Techdirt
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Twitter phishing attack in progress — don't click on “lol, is this you??”
Discussion: Mashable! and TechSpot, Thanks:paulboutin
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Speaking Of Creepy Location Features: Google's Opt-Out Latitude Alerts
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Skype-Verizon Deal: More Details
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Subpoena issued in L. Merion webcam case
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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