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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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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.
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 …
Dave Heiner / Microsoft On The Issues:
Competition Authorities and Search — Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — Government competition agencies are increasingly focused on Google's growing power in search and online advertising. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:Microsoft To Google: Grow Up And Deal With The EC
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Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
iTunes Prize Winner to Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?” — When Steve Jobs personally called Woodstock, Georgia native Louie Sulcer to tell him he'd won Apple's iTunes Store 10 Billion Song Sold contest, Sulcer first thought was that he was being pranked.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Mike Dano / FierceWireless:
Checking out Symbian^4: Nokia's response to the iPhone — During last week's Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, I had a very interesting discussion with the folks at the Symbian Foundation. Long story short, I got a very brief look at what appears to be Nokia's answer to the iPhone.
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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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James Dao / At War:
Military Announces New Social Media Policy — Many months behind schedule, the Department of Defense on Friday issued a new policy that, on the surface, seems likely to expand access to popular social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter by troops using military computers.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Digg Found a Way to Make Money — Social networking behavior — endless repetitive page views, unvetted content — isn't a great fit for traditional forms of online advertising. Early attempts to bring search or brand ads onto sites like MySpace and Facebook had pathetic results compared …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nexus One coming to Vodafone UK in April, says Telegraph — Without citing its sources, the Telegraph is reporting matter-of-factly that the Nexus One will launch on Vodafone in April for a to-be-determined price, though it's “likely to be priced very similarly to comparable smartphones such as the iPhone.”
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix — The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it's been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens. Today, the saga comes to an end because Apple has acknowledged the issues and offered their support.
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Jeremy / Yelp Official Blog:
Lady Justice Needs a Lawsuit Filter.... In light of recent news, I wanted to share some thoughts about the lawsuit that was filed against Yelp this week. — There has been a long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around with reviews in exchange for money.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Finally: Facebook Silences App Notification Spam — Facebook is about to become a quieter, less annoying place for users. The company just announced that it has deprecated “application notifications” and will require apps to use other, less intrusive methods of sending news to users.
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Jay Yarow / The Wire:
Apple Stacks The Deck Against Amazon's Kindle App (AAPL, AMZN) — When Apple's iPad goes on sale in a few weeks, its iBookstore will have a distinct user-experience advantage over e-book competitors like Amazon's Kindle App. — That is, the iBookstore will let you seamlessly buy books …
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