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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Late Night Froyo Treat! Android 2.2 Goes Live On The Nexus One — Sometimes there are advantages to staying up really late at night. I had just laid down in my bed to try and get some sleep before an early flight to New York tomorrow when I remembered I hadn't charged my Nexus One.
Agence France Presse:
Google chief suspects ulterior motive in Pakistan — SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said he suspects suppressing political criticism is a factor behind the move to block YouTube and Facebook in Pakistan in the name of Islam. — “I'm always suspicious of these broad bans …
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Brett / The Official DreamHost Blog!:
Yeah...about that downtime... You may or may not have noticed that yesterday, www.dreamhost.com was offline and unreachable for the better part of 6 hours. We can't let something like that go without an explanation. — I should note that during this time no customer sites were affected …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
First Screenshots of AutoCAD for Mac — Back in April we reported that AutoCAD was probably coming soon to the Mac, considering all the OS X references that were spotted in the SDK. Today we've managed to get the first screenshots of an actual beta, running at 64-bit on Mac OS X.
Bertrand / Erictric:
More Proof of The iPhone 4G's Video Call Capabilities — For those of you still skeptical about the upcoming iPhone 4G's video call capabilities, a couple of screenshot have surfaced today showing off the field test firmware for the new iPhone with references to video conferencing.
Ari David / Yes, But, However!:
Apple Denies Free Political Speech — Rejects Republican Candidate Ari David's iPhone App — LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) - A few weeks ago I hired a company to create an I Phone application for my congressional campaign. My designers told me when we started that Apple would take about two weeks …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
PayPal Wants to Be in Your TV, Your DVD Player and Your Car — PayPal doesn't just want to be in your mobile phone, or behind the transfer of virtual goods in social networks such as Facebook, where it's one of the options for the new Facebook Credit payment system, according to President Scott Thompson.
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley unemployment rate falls in April — Silicon Valley's troubled job market turned a corner in April with a sharp drop in unemployment in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, driven in part by an increase in tech hiring. — “The Silicon Valley economy is growing again,” …
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems — While grandma flips through photo albums on her sleek iPad, government agencies (and most corporations) process mission-critical transactions on cumbersome web-based front ends that function by tricking mainframes …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Facebook confirms plans for ‘simple’ privacy settings — news analysis After one of the most tumultuous months in its young history, Facebook is planning to announce new features that are intended to offer its hundreds of millions of users simpler privacy choices.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy
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Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Seesmic and Evernote bring social memory to your iPhone (and Android, too) — Twitter and Facebook have fundamentally changed the way we interact and communicate with one another. Sadly, both services have a major shortcoming: it's nearly impossible to save something and find it later.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Hires Team Behind Online Travel Guide Ruba (Updated) — According to this blog post, Google has acquired online travel guide and community Ruba. Ruba is a visual travel guide and tour review site that provides travelers with visual guides written by other travelers. The blog post is embedded below.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
“F— those motherf—ers”: YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty — The sad thing about today's new YouTube/Viacom document dump? That the e-mails cited in it were written by adults. — Neither side comes out looking terrific—which was also true the first time the two sides aired their dirty laundry in public.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
AT&T Hikes Smartphone Early Termination Fees, Claims It Has Nothing To Do With iPhone. Right. — The Dow Jones Newswire reports that AT&T is nearly doubling the fees smartphone-toting customers will have to pay if they break their contracts early — bumping the fees from $175 to $325 beginning June 1.
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An Open Letter to our Valued Customers
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Security Issues Could Force Facebook to Slow Down Product Development — A rash of security bugs seem to have hit Facebook within the last several weeks, while a lot of debate continues over changes the company has made to user privacy features. So what's going on?
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Understanding the latest Facebook privacy train wreck
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