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John Paczkowski / D8 Conference:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the Privacy Hot Seat at D8 — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was last on the D stage-at D6 in 2008-the company was still reeling from the privacy backlash over its Beacon advertising system. Months earlier, Zuckerberg had apologized for Facebook's disregard …
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John Paczkowski / D8 Conference:
D8 Video: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Privacy — As expected, Facebook's privacy controls and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's views on privacy figured prominently in his Wednesday appearance at D8. Is the company violating its members' expectation of privacy? Is it pushing them to overshare?
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Up close with the Dell Streak — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—The tablet parade at D: All Things Digital continued into Wednesday afternoon, with Dell doing a brief onstage demo of its 5-inch Dell Streak device. — The Android-powered gadget is bigger than any smartphone but smaller than nearly all other tablets.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Dell Streak: $500 unlocked in US, available next month — We've just learned at D8 today that Dell will be offering the Streak to US customers direct from its website — unlocked — starting next month for $500. That's later than the June 4 date that UK customers will be enjoying …
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft unveils Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 — After unveiling what's next for the most popular Windows Live client application, Messenger, and the most popular Windows Live web service, Hotmail, Microsoft is now ready to zero in on (most of) the remaining client applications in the Windows Live Essentials suite.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP CEO: “We didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business” — You'd think spending a billion dollars on a smartphone company would indicate a desire to, say, make and sell smartphones, but you'd apparently be thinking wrong: HP CEO Mark Hurd just told investors at the Bank …
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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
HP CEO Mark Hurd talks datacenters, networking and Palm — A day after Hewlett-Packard outlined plans to invest $1 billion into its enterprise services unit and cut a net 3,000 jobs, CEO Mark Hurd elaborated on the thinking behind the move, next-gen datacenters and the company's networking prospects.
Google Mobile Blog:
Google Search for mobile now includes mobile app results — As mobile apps continue to proliferate in stores like Android Market and the iPhone App Store, finding relevant information on the web about these apps is becoming more important to help you decide which apps to download.
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App Advice, Download Squad, 9 to 5 Mac, Search Engine Land, Unwired View, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, Electronic Pulp, Fortune, Android Phone Fans, Erictric, The Next Web, Droid Life, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, MobileCrunch, mocoNews, Mobile Entertainment, Google Operating System and AndroidOS.in
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T warns customer that emailing the CEO will result in a cease and desist letter — Sure, Steve Jobs might be a one-man email PR machine, but his pal Randall Stephenson at AT&T doesn't appear to be quite as gregarious — as reader Giorgio Galante found out today, sending AT&T's CEO two emails …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
First look: BlackBerry Curve 9300 images! — First look at the next generation of low-cost BlackBerry Curve, the 9300... Back on April 8th we outted a new BlackBerry device model by finding it's UAProf xml document up on BlackBerry's website, and now we've got the first solid photos of it here for you to enjoy.
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I4U News, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, PhoneDog.com, Phones Review, Engadget, Ubergizmo and SlashPhone
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T's New Data Plans — Good: The big plan, “DataPro”, now costs $25/month and gives you 2 GB per month. That's $5 cheaper than the previous “unlimited” plan, and, according to AT&T, 98 percent of their current smartphone customers use less than 2 GB per month.
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CNET News, ZDNet, New York Times, Mobile Entertainment, Digital Society, MobileContentToday, Gizmodo, Zatz Not Funny!, GigaOM, Free Press and MobileCrunch, Thanks:atul
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Erica Sadun / TUAW:
Candid answers from AT&T on the new iPhone data plans
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E-Commerce Times, Life On My Mobile, MacRumors, EverythingiCafe, Geek.com, iLounge, Velocity, Switched, PR Newswire and The Loop, Thanks:rawmeet
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 tablet prototype preview — So, there may never be a Windows 7 Phone tablet, but that device above looks pretty darn close to what one may have looked like. In actuality that's just the tablet that Microsoft has been using at Computex to demo …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Verizon Has No Plans for Apple Support in the “Immediate Future” — LOS ANGELES - Despite relentless speculation about the imminent support of the iPhone and iPad in the U.S., there is no immediate plan for Verizon to support the Apple mobile devices, John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Beet.TV in this video interview.
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Bruce Newman / Mercury News:
Woz, Jobs and ... Wayne? Apple's forgotten founder still wandering in the desert — PAHRUMP, Nev. — It's usually past midnight when Ron Wayne, co-founder of Apple — colossus of the tech world, and Silicon Valley's most adored franchise — leaves his home here and heads into town.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Kazaa/Skype founders return to online music with Rdio social startup — Rdio — pronounced r-dee-o — has some spelling problems. But it is a very ambitious startup that hopes to liberate consumers from some annoying restrictions when listening to online music.
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Music Ally, Fast Company, Domain Name Wire, New York Times, Computerworld, Rdio Blog, Softpedia News, hypebot, Business Week, Epicenter, GigaOM, Gizmodo and MacNN
Marvin Ma / DigiTimes:
First Chrome OS notebook to be available in fall of 2010, says Google VP — The first notebook equipped with the Google-developed Chrome OS is expected to be launched in the fall of 2010, according to Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Kno dual-screen tablet appears at D8, we go hands-on — Kno promised to launch a double-screened Linux-based e-reader designed for students at D8, and the undercover startup didn't disappoint — believe us when we say it came out in a big way. That's big as in freaking big …
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Skype: millions downloaded new iPhone 3G app in days — (Reuters) - Millions of consumers have downloaded a Skype Web telephony application that launched Sunday, allowing users of Apple Inc iPhone to use privately held Skype's service over the cellular network for the first time, a Skype mobile executive said on Wednesday.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
doubleTwist Launches A Slick Media Player For Android Devices — doubleTwist, the ‘iTunes for Android’ software that lets you sync your media files with dozens of devices, including Android phones, is one step closer to being a full-fledged solution for media sync on Android.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The FriendFeedization Of Facebook Continues: Bret Taylor Promoted To CTO — Facebook has a new chief technology officer, Bret Taylor. The FriendFeed co-founder and initial product manager of Google Maps came to Facebook with the $50 million acquisition of FriendFeed last year.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why IBM, Chipmakers Are Backing an Open Source Linux Company. Hint: Intel — ARM, IBM, ST Ericsson, Samsung, Freescale and Texas Instruments are banding together to back a not-for-profit open source company, Linaro, which will develop tools, packages, processes and a Linux kernel …
Naoko Komura / Wikimedia blog:
New Wikipedia interface to nine more languages — We'd like to thank users for all the feedback and comments about the new user interface which was enabled to English Wikipedia on May 13, 2010. The summary of feedback will be published soon. — I'd like to address a few of the points you've made here …
