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7:20 AM ET, May 19, 2010

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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Here's What's New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4  —  Oh yes! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is out and we're tearing it apart to find out what's new so that you don't have to risk your iPhones.  Here's what we've discovered so far.  Updating.  —  The default home screen is different.
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Newest iPhone 4.0 Beta Implies That AT&T Is Finally Ready For Tethering  —  Yes!  Yes!  Yes!  Those sounds you heard moments ago are the horrified screams of your nearest AT&T towers.  Why?  Because iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 brings us a new option in the settings menu: Tethering.
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Yes folks, the official iPhone Twitter app is here (screen shots)  —  We already new it was hours if not minutes away - see TechCrunch US report - and its perhaps no surprise that New Zealand gets the goods ahead of Europe and the US (a bit like New Year's day).
Discussion: TechCrunch
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Say Hello To Twitter For iPhone, Aka Tweetie 3.0
Google Enterprise Blog:
Putting email in context with Gmail contextual gadgets  —  Since launching the Google Apps Marketplace in March, Google Apps administrators have deployed integrated third party apps to more than one million users, and today we're excited to build on this momentum with the launch of a new Gmail API …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Gist brings social email data into Gmail
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Xobni, Mashable! and TNW Apps
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Xobni Puts Gmail Gadgets Into Outlook
Thanks:xobni
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Yahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million  —  Deal Will Shore Up Portal's Content Offerings, Help Produce Low-Cost Media  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yahoo has acquired startup Associated Content for slightly more than $100 million in a deal that gives the portal new technology and a new strategy for producing low-cost media.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
What Is Yahoo Thinking?  Buying Associated Content Opens Up A Whole Can Of Worms
Discussion: PC World and Silicon Alley Insider
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:   Why Buy Associated Content? All About Niche, Says Yahoo
Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Welcoming Associated Content to the Yahoo! Family
Discussion: TNW Social Media
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007  —  May 30, 2007.  Watch Señor Bill Gates describing the future of computing, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs next to him: An iPad-like device being used alongside an iPhone-like device.  Then watch Jobs saying that, actually, the future was the PC.
Sid Murlidhar / Facebook Blog:
Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com  —  Today, we are launching another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere: 0.facebook.com. 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft sues Salesforce.com over patents  —  Microsoft on Tuesday fired a major shot across the bow at Salesforce.com, filing a federal lawsuit against the online software company claiming it infringes on nine patents.  —  The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Bogus is one way to describe Microsoft's patent claims against Salesforce.com
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tension Building At Facebook As Staffers Challenge Zuckerberg's Approach To Privacy  —  Facebook executives have been “hunkered down” for days trying to figure out what to do about the latest privacy backlash, the WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro says.  —  Some executives appear to disagree …
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Facebook to Launch “Simplistic” Privacy Choices Soon  —  Reacting to the latest privacy backlash, Facebook will be rolling out new “simplistic” privacy options for its users in the coming weeks, according to Facebook head of public policy Tim Sparapani.  —  “Now we've heard from our users …
Matthew Miller / ZDNet:
Google Android smacks down Windows Mobile in latest Gartner data  —  The good news for Google's Android operating system and devices continues and as the latest Gartner research data shows Android has now surpassed Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system and moved into fourth place with9.6 percent of market share.
Discussion: Reuters, PC World, Tech Eye, Engadget and BBC
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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 17 Per Cent in First Quarter 2010
Discussion: Fortune and 24/7 Wall St.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O  —  Amazon's cloud storage services are going to be getting another major competitor this week: Google.  We hear that this week during its I/O conference, Google will be announcing a new service that is a direct competitor with Amazon's S3 cloud storage.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline?  Its Co-Founder Thinks So  —  Quora is a great place to find answers about products from prominent people involved with them.  It's also a great place for those prominent people to disagree, publicly.  That's what's happening right now in a thread about the future of Firefox.
Discussion: parislemon
Matt Drance / Apple Outsider:
Cocoa, Flash, and Safari  —  A great deal has already been said about Section 3.3.1 of the latest iPhone SDK Terms and Conditions, and the apparent standoff between Apple and Adobe over the Flash platform.  Adobe has launched an aggressive PR campaign last week in support of their position.
Discussion: Boing Boing
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Twitter expects hundreds of advertisers  —  (Reuters) - Twitter, the rapidly expanding microblogging service, plans to have hundreds of advertisers using its new ad system in the fourth quarter as the company ramps up plans to become a self-sustaining, profitable business.
Discussion: Twittercism
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
LifeLock CEO's Identity Stolen 13 Times  —  Apparently, when you publish your Social Security number prominently on your website and billboards, people take it as an invitation to steal your identity.  —  LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose number is displayed in the company's ubiquitous advertisements, has by now learned that lesson.
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek:
Sprint Says Pre Didn't Work Out, Wants iPhone  —  Sprint's Chief Financial Officer Robert Brust recently assured investors that the nations' third-largest provider of wireless services has seen the worst of its problems and things are looking up.  Brust also accidentally ate his foot …
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Facebook's move to Seattle: The backstory  —  It turns out love was a factor in Facebook opening a Seattle office, perhaps even more than the area's technical talent.  —  The story begins with Ari Steinberg, a Facebook engineering manager, and his wife, Daniela Witten, a Stanford grad student.
Discussion: TechFlash
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
A Look Back at Steve Jobs' 2003 Stock Options Swap Reveals $10 Billion Opportunity Lost  —  MarketWatch takes a look at “what might have been”, examining Apple CEO Steve Jobs' decision to accept a March 2003 offer from the company to exchange his existing stock options for new ones …
Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Google Contacts Trigger Reprimand for White House Aide, Official Says  —  A White House technology adviser hired from Google Inc. was reprimanded for improperly contacting former colleagues in violation of Obama administration ethics rules, a spokesman said.
Discussion: PC Magazine
 
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple scaling Final Cut Studio apps to fit prosumers
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
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John Gapper / John Gapper's Business Blog:
Google is agnostic about charging for news
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
Symantec to buy VeriSign's security unit for $1.3B, reports say
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Google to fight government if AdMob deal blocked
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Jonathan Rochelle / The Official Google Blog:
Simplify common tasks with the new Google Apps Script
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
HP quarterly revenue up 13 percent to $30.8 billion
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
GM teams with Google for maps and apps
 

 
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