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Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Google and Partners Seek a Television Foothold — Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of televisions and set-top boxes. — The move is an effort by Google and Intel to extend their dominance …
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Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Intel, Logitech and Sony team up for Android-powered Google TV
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Charles Starrett / iLounge:
Apple bans protective screen film from Apple Store — Apple has banned protective screen film from its retail and online stores, iLounge has confirmed with several separate companies, a policy that will affect both cases and individual film packages beginning in May.
Sprint:
Nexus One from Google Coming to Sprint; Availability Date Announced Soon — Nexus One(TM) is planned for the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network with twice the network coverage of AT&T and ten times the network coverage of T-Mobile, both by square miles; Expands Sprint's Android(TM) portfolio
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Grant Gross / PC World:
FTC Member Rips Into Google's Privacy Efforts — Several major U.S. Internet companies, including Google and Facebook, need to “step up” and better protect consumer privacy or face tougher penalties from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a commissioner said Wednesday.
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Emily Steel / Digits:
Google Buzz Exemplifies Privacy Problems, FTC Commissioner Says — Citing the recent launch of Google's social-networking service, Google Buzz, outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour said technology companies are setting a dangerous precedent of publicly exposing consumer data …
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Umair Haque / Harvard Business Review:
Twitter, SXSW, and Building a 21st Century Business — So, how was your week? Mine's been interesting. In case you haven't heard, I interviewed Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the keynote at this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference on Monday in Austin, Texas.
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely — More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
What Drove Yahoo's Purchase Of Citizen Sports — To buy or to build? That's the question that drove Yahoo's decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, according to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) media head James Pitaro.
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Google Mobile Blog:
Google Maps for Android: Search 'n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More — Making sense of a fast paced and changing world is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you're on the go, it's even harder. With the new Google Maps for mobile 4.1, we're introducing a few features …
Abhishek Bapna / Google Enterprise Blog:
Now it's easy to switch to Google Apps from Microsoft® Exchange — Today we're making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company's email …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Lenovo Rethinks Design and Price of the ThinkPad — Lenovo is rethinking the ThinkPad. — For years, the iconic laptop brand, originally created by IBM, has been known for solid construction and great keyboards, but with a boxy black design and relatively high prices.
Juliana Gruenwald / Tech Daily Dose:
Microsoft Blasts Google's Ad Policies — Microsoft's deputy general counsel Wednesday chided rival Google, claiming the search giant's policies hurt advertisers by blocking them from being able to move their data to a competing platform. — In prepared remarks to the Association …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
URL Shorteners Slow Down The Web - Especially Facebook's FB.me — It's hard to imagine a Web sans URL shortening services nowadays but you can rest assured that they're here to stay - for better or worse. Question is: how do the likes of bit.ly, TinyURL and Goo.gl score in terms of speed and availability?
New York Times:
A Rift at Amazon on E-Book Prices — Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two industry executives with direct knowledge the discussions.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Complaints Against Yelp's “Extortion” Practices Grow Louder — Yelp has been hit with another lawsuit, the third in a matter of a few weeks. Similar to the previous complaints, this lawsuit filed by Boris Levitt, the owner of Renaissance Furniture Restoration in San Francisco, claims that Yelp's …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
AOL Sets Up $10 Million Venture Fund To Back Local Startups — AOL (NYSE: AOL)—which is doubling down on its own local efforts—is now setting up a $10 million venture capital fund to invest in the local space. The company cites the “increasing number of startups” in the market as driving …
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
New MacBook Pro, Air and Mac Pro pricing potentially leaked by Apple ads and online store (updated) — Could this be another example of online advertising presaging the onset of a hardware upgrade from Cupertino? Apple's ads on Australian tech pub PC Authority have been spotted displaying …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Beware the new Facebook password reset scam — This is what the Facebook password reset scam e-mail looks like. — If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a scam.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
G.M. Tinkers With Augmented Reality System for Cars — The navigation element of General Motors' enhanced vision system could help drivers find their destination by pointing to an exact building. — In foggy or dark conditions, the system helps define the edges of the road and points to upcoming road signs.
Chris Pendleton / Bing:
new bing maps application: worldwide telescope — About 2 years ago, I posted the announcement of Microsoft Research's WorldWide Telescope (WWT) - a project to map out the stars, planets, solar systems and anything not on the Earth (see WorldWide Telescope Now Available!).
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Latest Version of Google Chrome Adds Auto-Translation and New Privacy Features — Google just launched a new stable version of Google Chrome, the company's increasingly popular browser, which introduces a number of new features and more advanced privacy controls.
Doug Tsuruoka / IBD Click:
In China, Internet Fast Replacing TV — The U.S. media were rife with stories in the 1950s and 1960s about how TV, also known as the boob tube, was changing U.S. family lifestyles forever. — Well, the same thing seems to be happening with family Internet use in China these days.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Nokia's Kallasvuo: We Must “Move Even Faster” — The CEO of the world's No. 1 cell-phone maker discusses dealmaking, a partnership with Microsoft, and the pace of change at Nokia — Nokia is the global cell-phone leader, with sales of 329 million units in 2009.
Ben / Open Video Alliance:
Let's Get Video on Wikipedia! — Today the Open Video Alliance is launching an important project: a mass campaign to bring video to Wikipedia. Moving images can communicate ideas in ways that text can't. We think this is the next step in Wikipedia's evolution.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Palm Grasps at Relevance Ahead of Earnings — The news Thursday from Palm will be bad. — We know that because the company pre-announced its earnings a few weeks ago. The company's credibility problem from both a marketplace and managerial perspective is serious; and investors who enjoyed …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
IT's ‘love affair’ with Windows XP ending, says survey — Admins divorce aging OS, hook up with sexier Windows 7 trophy — Computerworld - Businesses are finally prying their hands from Windows XP as they warm to Windows 7, a research company said today.
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Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Revised cybersecurity bill introduced in Senate — Bill ‘seminal,’ should be passed, one industry executive says — Computerworld - A revised version of a cybersecurity bill first proposed last year was introduced again in the U.S. Senate today, notably without a controversial provision …
