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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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New Version of Digg Revealed — Update: Here's our follow-up to this story: “Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson.” — 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 …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 — Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared …
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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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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 …
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Some more thoughts on innovation in eCommerce — I had the chance to speak on a panel about Online Shopping at a NextNY event this week. And after a great discussion, I started talking with some folks about my last blog post (which commented on how little has changed in online shopping since …
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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.
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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.
Eyanir Chinea / Reuters:
Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls — (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
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 …
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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Christian Torres / 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 …
