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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?
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
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O2 Blog, D8 Conference, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Unwired View, Android Phone Fans, Erictric, EuroDroid, Electronic Pulp, Fortune and PhoneDog.com
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 …
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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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TechCrunch, The Windows Blog, CNET News, Softpedia News, The Register, Erictric, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Electronista, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo, Engadget, ReadWriteWeb, The Microsoft Blog and MSDN Blogs, Thanks:rawmeet
Jon Nevitt / DoubleClick Advertiser Blog:
Investing in exchange bidding — We're happy to announce that we've acquired Invite Media, an innovative start-up based in New York and Philadelphia. — The team at Invite Media has developed technology that enables advertisers and agencies to use “real time bidding” to buy display ad space …
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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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Computerworld, AppleInsider, App Advice, MacRumors, Download Squad, Search Engine Land, 9 to 5 Mac, www.pocketgamer.biz, Unwired View, FierceMobileContent, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, Fast Company, Electronic Pulp, Fortune, TechCrunch, MobileContentToday, Android Phone Fans, Erictric, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Droid Life, mocoNews, MobileCrunch, Mobile Entertainment, AndroidOS.in and Google Operating System
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.
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:
Court examining Gizmodo devices for iPhone info — Authorities have finally begun examining the computers, server, and other electronic gear seized from a Gizmodo editor as part of the investigation into a missing iPhone prototype. — Stephen Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney for San Mateo County …
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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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
First look: BlackBerry Curve 9300 images! — First look at the next generation of low-cost BlackBerry Curve, the 9300... ** images removed per request ** — Back on April 8th we outted a new BlackBerry device model by finding it's UAProf xml document up on BlackBerry's website …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Ballmer and Ozzie at D8 (live blog) — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.—Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie are slated to speak at the D: All Things Digital event on Thursday morning. — Check back around 8 a.m. PDT for live coverage from the event.
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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The Register, Download Squad, Music Ally, New York Times, PC World, Domain Name Wire, Rdio Blog, Fast Company, Electronista, AppScout, Business Week, Softpedia News, hypebot, Epicenter, GigaOM and Gizmodo
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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MacRumors, VentureBeat, Techland, Electronista, San Francisco Chronicle, O'Grady's PowerPage and Phones Review
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.
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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Geek.com, Tech Eye, Techland, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Gearlog, Gadgetell, Bits, Ubergizmo, Electronic Pulp, CrunchGear, OSNews, Silicon Alley Insider and Crave
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Cracking Down on Rogue Apps with New Verification Program — Facebook is launching a new security measure that is clearly a response to the threats caused by the numerous rogue applications spreading virally across the social network in recent weeks.
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The Register, CounterMeasures, Facebook Developer Blog, Security Watch and Inside Facebook
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Diaspora's Final Tally: $200,000 From Nearly 6,500 Backers — When Diaspora set out to raise money to build an open Facebook alternative site, they had a pretty modest goal: $10,000. Of course, they were raising the funds through a less than traditional means — using Kickstarter, an online fundraising site.
