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Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal — IT looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, jogged onto a San Francisco stage to shake hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder, to help him unveil …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Apple Blew Its Chance To Own AdMob For $600 Million (AAPL, GOOG) — Apple had a chance to own mobile advertising company AdMob for $600 million, but blew it, the New York Times reports. — In a story detailing the rancor between Apple and Google, Brad Stone and Miguel Helft report Apple …
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New Version of Digg Revealed — At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dead iPad battery? Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99 — Whoa, Nelly! Isn't this something? Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service at all. Check out the company's opening line:
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax — On Saturday night, Twitter rang out with news that Conan O'Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. The only problem? It was a huge hoax. — AUSTIN, Texas—Did you hear that Conan O'Brien, fresh off his ugly divorce with NBC …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Ping: Labels Balk at Services to Stream Music to Various Devices — THE Apple iPad, which goes on sale April 3, will access video, applications and Web sites wirelessly — no cords or cables needed. But to move your trusty old music collection onto this wonder gadget and take it with you to work …
David M. Cummings / Los Angeles Times:
Haven't found that software glitch, Toyota? Keep trying — An electronics problem isn't to blame for the sudden acceleration, say the carmaker's engineers. That's nearly impossible to conclusively determine through laboratory tests. — There has been a lot of speculation recently …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft set to launch beta of Silverlight for Symbian — In March 2008, Microsoft and Nokia announced their commitment to make Silverlight available for certain Nokia phones running the Symbian operating system. Microsoft is finally ready to make a beta of that code available.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Clarifying a couple points — [Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion. I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.] — Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders.
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Spoonful of Medicine:
Pharma faces a character count conundrum — There's growing concern over how pharmaceutical companies use social media and the Internet to market their products. Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration held a hearing on the topic, and many were worried over how marketing mediums …
Anand Giridharadas / New York Times:
Africa's Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis — Could wiki technology find Osama bin Laden? — Imagine if any Pakistani could send an anonymous text message to the authorities suggesting where to look. Each location could be plotted on a map.
Kim Hart / Hillicon Valley:
Sen. Franken stars on YouTube in bid for Google fiber networks — Funnyman Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is now a pitchman to bring Google's new fiber networks to the midwestern cities of Duluth and Superior. — Before being elected to Congress, Franken played the role of Duluth's Answer Man …
