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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
All U.S. Android phones to receive Android 2.1, but some will require a wipe — Considering over 80% of our readers with Android phones are running an outdated version of the operating system, I think most of you will find this interesting. — There has been some confusion over which phones …
Malcolm Moore / Telegraph:
Apple admits using child labour in China — Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the Chinese factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones. — At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Steve Jobs rocks a 3.1.2 OS iPhone — So Mike from Macsoda wrote us saying he got a response from Steve Jobs to his email wondering about the future of Final Cut Pro (40 Final Cut Pro developers were recently let go). Typically brief, Steve Jobs said: — No worries. FCP is alive and well.
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Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:iTunes Prize Winner to Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?”
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
It's Time to Put These Olympics Behind Us (As Far As Web Coverage Goes) — With the 2010 Winter Olympics wrapping up this weekend in Vancouver, I hope we can put the past behind us. That is, the past of crappy U.S. online coverage of a major global sporting event, with the key offender being exclusive distributor NBC.
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
Wisconsin senator critical of NBC handling of online access to Olympics — (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Gene J. Puskar, AP / February 26, 2010) — WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic senator criticized NBC on Friday for its handling of online access to the Vancouver Olympics, calling it unfair and restrictive.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Google's Nexus One coming to Verizon on March 23 — Verizon will release Google's Nexus One Android device on March 23 according to sources familiar with the matter. — The Nexus One, originally released on T-Mobile in January, has passed FCC inspection for use on Verizon's CDMA network …
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Ancient Secret Service Computers Overtaxed — System Is ‘Fragile’ and Cannot Sustain Tempo of Current or Future Operational Missions — A classified review of the United States Secret Service's computer technology found that the agency's computers were fully operational only 60 percent …
Larry Downes:
The Italian Job: What the Google Convictions are Really About — I was pleased to be interviewed last night on BBC America World News (live!) about the convictions of three senior Google executives by an Italian court for privacy violations. The case involved a video uploaded to Google Videos …
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Cellphones Let Shoppers Point, Click and Purchase — Shoppers will soon be able to stand outside the designer Norma Kamali's boutique in Manhattan, point a phone at merchandise in the window and buy it — even late at night when the store is closed. — Ms. Kamali is at the forefront …
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
More than 100 companies targeted by Google hackers — IDG News Service - The hackers who broke into Google two months ago have gone after more than 100 companies, according to an estimate by security vendor Isec Partners. — Researchers have been closing in on the unidentified criminals responsible …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Palm's webOS 1.4 Update Is Live With Video Recording and Flash — You know that webOS 1.4 update for Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus and Pixi Plus that we've been talking about since January? The one with video recording and Flash 10 beta and some other stuff? It's live. [Palm]
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
PayPal To Restore Bank Withdrawal Service In India On March 3rd — About three weeks ago, eBay's electronic payments daughter PayPal suddenly started blocking personal payments going in or coming out of accounts from Indian customers, resulting in a flood of online complaints from the latter …
