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Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe — Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.
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Kevin Thau / Twitter Blog:
Cloudhopping — Twitter was inspired by SMS and we continue to embrace this simple but ubiquitous technology. In fact, Twitter's 140 character limit was designed specifically to allow for any tweet to be read in its entirety whether you're using a rudimentary mobile phone, or a more sophisticated Internet enabled device.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Buys Cloudhopper To Bolster Its SMS Service
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Blippy cofounder responds to credit card leak: “It's a lot less bad than it looks” — Earlier today, VentureBeat broke the news that some members of Blippy, a social-sharing site for shoppers, had their credit card numbers published to Google by Blippy's servers.
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Greg / yardley.ca:
The tech press isn't either — Blippy, a service that lets you share your purchases with others, was just called out by Mashable for exposing its users' credit card numbers to a search engine. Since Mashable is widely-read, I start hearing from all over that Blippy released …
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Official Blippy Blog, Black Web 2.0, Erictric, p2pnet, Lockergnome Blog Network and GigaOM
Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Dear Facebook & Google: We Are Not Your Pawns - Enough With The Auto Opt-In! — Over the past few months, both Facebook and Google had followed an alarming trend of opting people into things rather than letting them chose themselves. Fair to say, I've had enough of all that. I don't think I'm alone.
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Markcuban / blog maverick:
Is Facebook the new internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it ? — A question for you. When was the last time you surfed the net ? Can you remember when you just clicked around looking to discover new sites or a site to occupy your time ? Now ask yourself when was the last time you sat …
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All Facebook
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Palm Shake-Up Imminent, Rubinstein May Be Out — Palm right now is a disaster. Its sales are going nowhere, its market share is plummeting, and try as it might, it can't even find a buyer. Industry sources tell us that a major restructuring and management shakeup is imminent and CEO Jon Rubinstein may be replaced.
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PE Hub News, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, Boy Genius Report, Erictric, Electronista, EverythingPre, PreCentral.net and Macworld
Shenaz Zack / Google Public Policy Blog:
Content ID and Fair Use — (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog) — Over the past decade, the evolution of the Internet has altered the landscape for both traditional media companies and the doctrine of fair use, and the media industry has tried to keep up.
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Dan / UNEASYsilence:
CONFIRMED: Fusion Garage SOLD ONLY 64 JooJoo Devices — STUPID STUPID Fusion Garage. When you email your customers use the BCC field rather then the CC field! — This morning, Fusion Garage emailed all their customers asking for their experience using the JooJoo.
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, Techie Buzz, Erictric, I4U News, Gizmodo and Electronista, Thanks:dand
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Gizmodo Caught In Copyright Crossfire — At TorrentFreak we keep a close eye on the DMCA takedown requests that are received by search engines such as Google and Yahoo. These are usually sent out by music and film companies but last week we saw them being joined by the Gawker Media-owned weblog Gizmodo.
Tim Mullaney / Bloomberg:
Foursquare Will Decide Between Sale, Financing in Weeks, CEO Crowley Says — Foursquare Labs Inc., the location- based Web service that reached 1 million users this week, will decide whether to sell itself or raise more venture capital within weeks, Chief Executive Officer Dennis Crowley said.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
For Web's New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point
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VentureBeat, The Register, the Econsultancy blog, The Consumerist, Mashable!, Yahoo! News, The Tech Herald …, The Awl and Silicon Alley Insider
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek Eee Pad to hit channel in July — Asustek Computer chairman Jerry Shen has announced, at a conference in Taiwan, that the company will introduce its tablet PC, the Eee Pad, at Computex 2010, scheduled between June 1-5, and is aiming to launch the device in retail channels …
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UM Newsdesk:
Students Addicted to Social Media - New UM Study — COLLEGE PARK, Md. - American college students today are addicted to media, describing their feelings when they have to abstain from using media in literally the same terms associated with drug and alcohol addictions: In withdrawal …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple TV Will Remain A Hobby Until Someone Shows Apple The Money (Or Apps) — During the Q&A session of their earnings call this week, Apple COO Tim Cook fielded a question that he gets seemingly every earnings call: what's the deal with Apple TV? — The question is a good one.
