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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video Posted] — Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju: — The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Microsoft ‘takes on Goliath’ with Bing ads mocking Google — Microsoft's ‘Bing and decide’ campaign, starting on television this week, attacks ‘information overload’ of rival's results — Microsoft is to launch a multimillion-pound TV ad campaign for its search engine Bing …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
How Pandora Slipped Past the Junkyard — OAKLAND, Calif. — Tim Westergren recently sat in a Las Vegas penthouse suite, a glass of red wine in one hand and a truffle-infused Kobe beef burger in the other, courtesy of the investment bankers who were throwing a party to court him.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love — Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. — There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads …
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Chip Griffin, DVICE, p2pnet, @vanelsas, the Econsultancy blog, HotHardware.com News, Ryan Stewart, Daring Fireball, The Loop, Geek News Central, John Battelle's Searchblog, Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog and Slashdot, Thanks:arjo
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
The First Ever Gloriously Big, Gloriously Detailed Shots of an iPad Game — There has been much talk about gaming on the iPad, but not a whole lot of delivery. — In fact, I can only think of one game that I know of that will be made specifically for the iPad: Trism Spinoff.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
An Apple App Star Explains Why He Won't Work With Android — Smule's Jeff Smith is one of the app revolution's success stories. His start-up has generated some of the biggest hits at Apple's iTunes app store, from novelty items like Sonic Lighter to more ambitious stuff like Leaf trombone.
Thanks:atul
Darren Murph / Engadget:
NewEgg sells 300 counterfeit Core i7-920 CPUs, KIRFers pump their fists — Oops. Over the weekend, it seems as if 300 or so unlucky individuals were shipped a counterfeit processor from the normally reliable warehouses at NewEgg, and Hard| OCP has the images (and video) to prove it.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple's New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter’ Apps: Add More Features Or Perish — In the wake of Apple's sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we've been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications …
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Blockbuster Won't Survive: CEO Says “Conservative Approach” Required For Digital — Eight months ago I wrote a post entitled “Ten Years Later, Blockbuster Still Lacks A Digital Media Strategy” where I outlined some of the ways that Blockbuster has faltered with their strategy for the digital distribution of movies.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
The New York Times is hiring 12 techies and a social media whiz — While pundits climb over each other to predict the death of The New York Times Company, the NYT is looking to hire at least a dozen full-time software engineers and Web designers, plus one social media marketing manager.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs — USB battery recharger status software contains Trojan, says US-CERT — Computerworld - The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday. — According to researchers at US-CERT …
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Dave Rosenberg / Software, Interrupted:
Has business press lost touch with the tech industry? — A new report by ITDatabase that examines tech coverage over the last six months from eight top business news publications raises some questions, in particular: Does the business press factor companies' revenue and profits into their tech editorial agenda?
Aaron Back / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Aims for Upgrade in China — BEIJING—China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. is working with Apple Inc. to introduce iPhones with Wi-Fi wireless Internet capability to China, Unicom Chief Executive Chang Xiaobing said. — Apple and Unicom, one of three Chinese state-owned telecommunications carriers …
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