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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job — Tim Bray—co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee—has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. — The move puts a personal face on the cultural …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
A very personal Google Android vs. Apple iPhone war just got some more personality — Tim Bray, who co-invented XML and is a well-known blogger, has joined Google's Android team and wasted no time taking on Apple's iPhone. — In a blog post (Techmeme), Bray, also a former Sun Microsystems employee …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple iPad orders drop sharply — A rough three-day estimate, based on an analysis of order numbers: 152,000 units — After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend.
DigiTimes:
HTC shipping CDMA-version Nexus One to Verizon, says paper — HTC (High Tech Computer) has started shipping CDMA-version of the Nexus One Google phones to Verizon Wireless, which will begin to market the smartphones this month or in April at the earliest, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Apps, iPhone Bigger Than Facebook Platform — When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. The company says that today Apple's iTunes app store has over 140,000 applications …
Michael Calore / Underwire:
Gowalla Tops Foursquare at SXSW Web Awards (But Benson Smokes 'em All) — AUSTIN, Texas - Providing further proof that location-sharing services are currently all the rage, Gowalla picked up the award for best site in the Mobile category Sunday at the 13th annual SXSW Web Awards.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare And Gowalla In A Dead Heat In The Location War
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today — Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We'll of course be covering any announcements that will be made by Williams on stage …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Product Manager RJ Pittman Defects To Apple — The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We've been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that said “My last day at Google.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
China Issues Warning to Google's Partners — BEIJING — The Chinese authorities have warned major partners of Google's China-based search engine that they must comply with censorship laws even if Google does not, an industry expert with knowledge of the notice said Sunday.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google May Start Pre-Testing New Buzz Features With Users — This afternoon at SXSW, a panel of Gmail and Google Buzz team members took part in a panel where they discussed what goes on behind the scenes at Gmail. The panel covered a smattering of topics, covering everything from Gmail stickers …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Pew: readers prefer ad-supported news to pay walls — Advertising remains the primary means of support for online news outlets, and there's a long uphill battle facing anyone trying to forge new business models, at least according to a report produced by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Ben Horowitz / TechCrunch:
Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove — Editor's note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones — Steve Ballmer Sours on Apple Product; Work for Ford, Drive a Ford — REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
25 years of .com domain names — On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name. — Although Symbolics.com didn't spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation that has changed the world …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scamville Marches Onto The iPhone, Sneaks Back Into Facebook — In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar downloads and other scams were the center of the controversy.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Microsoft exec says Apple's HTC suit ‘is not necessarily a bad thing’ — Even though Windows Mobile handsets are named in Apple's lawsuit against smartphone maker HTC, one Microsoft executive recently stated that the suit might help to sort out intellectual property ownership issues.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent Accused of Unfairness, Banned by Trackers — One of the most significant changes in the new uTorrent is uTP, the ‘micro transfer protocol’. UTP is a new and improved implementation of the BitTorrent protocol which is designed to be more network-friendly than its predecessor.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
RateItAll helps businesses build their own Foursquare — RateItAll, the review site that has described itself as a “distributed Yelp for everything,” is going mobile. But it's not just by releasing an iPhone app of its own — RateItAll wants to help companies build their own location check-in services.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
One Kindle per child? Non-profit takes Amazon e-reader global — Some U.S. universities are doing pilots with Kindle readers, testing them as a replacement for printouts and textbooks in the classroom. Now a non-profit organization is taking Kindle pilots global, looking to get the Amazon device …
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google, Yahoo & Portals Are Top Online News Sources: Study — Major news portals — like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL, and Topix — are the most commonly used online news sources, beating out the web sites of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times.
