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Preston Gralla / Computerworld:
Steve Ballmer admits Microsoft is “number five” in the mobile race — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to know full well just how far behind his company is in the mobile market. At the All Things Digital D8 conference this morning, he admitted that Microsoft is number 5 in the mobile race …
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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.
John Paczkowski / D8 Conference:
D8 Video: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Google
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Shel Israel / Global Neighbourhoods:
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Step Down — First off, my congratulations. The company—and team—you have created are very likely to be remembered as the most important—and successful—new company of this decade. — You have taken Facebook from fraternity row at a few elite campuses to everywhere.
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Therese Poletti / MarketWatch:
Facebook CEO has a Richard Nixon moment — Commentary: Mr. Social doesn't really want to share so much — RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Facebook Inc.'s 26-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, literally squirmed in his seat, took off his famous hoodie sweatshirt …
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Mark Evans Tech, Switched, MediaPost, Sydney Morning Herald, VentureBeat, D8 Conference, Velocity and Guardian
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
AT&T apologizes to the guy they threatened to C&D for e-mailing their CEO — If you spend any more than a few minutes a day on the Internet, you've probably already heard the story of Giorgio G.: Upset with AT&T about his iPhone eligibility dates, he e-mails the company's CEO.
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Engadget, PC World, Switched, the Econsultancy blog, Maximum PC, Lockergnome Blog Network and EverythingiCafe
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
AT&T: No iPhone-iPad tethering — We have some bad news for the clever geeks who were hoping to take advantage of the newly announced iPhone tethering capability in the U.S. to provide an Internet connection for their iPad, avoiding paying for an iPad-specific data plan. Looks like that won't be happening.
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PadGadget, The Next Web, Engadget, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, MacStories and EverythingiCafe, Thanks:steverubel
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Yelp and OpenTable Join Forces — On Thursday evening, Yelp.com, the user-generated review Web site, and OpenTable.com, the restaurant reservations site, announced an integration that will allow Yelp users to make a restaurant reservation directly from a Yelp.com review page.
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Yelp Official Blog, SFGate, Screenwerk, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, TechFlash and Gizmodo
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is Too Closed — Jason Snell calls for Apple to allow sideloading native iPhone apps: … Personally, I'd welcome such a move, but I don't think it would have the effect Snell envisions. Snell's argument is that Apple should do this to nip the argument that the iPhone is too closed.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Unveils A New HTML5/Web Standards Showcase — Safari Required — Under fire for its App Store not being more open, recently, Apple's response has been that there is a portion of its devices that is totally open: the web. If developers don't like some of the App Store's restrictions, they should make a web app, Apple reasons.
Financial Times:
Google to hand over intercepted data — Google will begin handing over to European regulators the rogue data it intercepted from private WiFi internet connections within the next two days, in an effort to defuse growing controversy over its latest privacy blunder.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Screenshot Hints At YouTube “Live Stream” Option — YouTube has been dabbling with its own live streams for almost two years now. It's live streamed presidential speeches, healthcare debates, cricket matches, and a U2 concert. But so far it's stayed away from opening up live streaming to the general YouTube populace.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP says it's in the smartphone market, after all — HP CEO Mark Hurd certainly caused a few sad faces yesterday when he told investors and analysts that HP “didn't buy Palm to be in the smartphone business,” and now the company is trying to walk that back a little — rest easy, folks …
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PreCentral.net, Erictric, PhoneDog.com, Boy Genius Report, MacNN, Gizmodo, EverythingPre and MediaPost Raw, Thanks:hpnews
Mac Slocum / O'Reilly Radar:
How Facebook satisfied a need for speed — Remember how Facebook used to lumber and strain? And have you noticed how it doesn't feel slow anymore? That's because the engineering team pulled off an impressive feat: an in-depth optimization and rewrite project made the site twice as fast.
Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
How iTunes Genius Really Works — An Apple engineer discloses how the company's premier recommendation engine parses millions of iTunes libraries. — Ever since the feature debuted in 2008, there's been a lot of speculation about how iTunes Genius accomplishes its playlist-building magic.
Leroy Stick / Street Giant:
Leroy Stick - the man behind @BPGlobalPR — My name is Leroy Stick and I am the man behind @BPGlobalPR. First, let me begin by explaining my name. — When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood.
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Groundswell, Fast Company, the Econsultancy blog, Paul Chaney, Mashable! and Future Tense, Thanks:chrismessina
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google To Change Gmail, Add “Normal Email” Option Instead Of Just “Conversations” — Google is planning to offer a standard email option in Gmail in the next few months, two executives at the company say. — Currently, Gmail presents email in a “Conversations” format …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The End of Malware? — How Android, Chrome, and the iPad are shielding us from dastardly programs. One day in April, David Green, the president of a party supply firm in Oklahoma, needed to authorize a bank transfer. Green's company has a policy about online banking: Never do it on a Windows machine.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's supply of Mac minis dwindle ahead of new models — Supply of Apple's existing Mac mini lineup has become increasingly constrained over the past two weeks as the company prepares to introduce refreshed models that may serve as a harbinger for some new I/O technology on the Mac.
Robert Scoble / TechCrunch:
Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos — Editor's note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He's one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 friends on Foursquare.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Zynga Buys Austin-Based Challenge Games — Zynga, the online gaming powerhouse, has acquired Austin, Texas-based Challenge Games. — The social game start-up will be renamed Zynga Austin and be focused on product development. — Backed by Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
The Fastest Mobile Networks 2010 — It's a boom time for 3G. Where Americans were once happy with hotspots, now they're demanding to be connected anywhere—whether it's with their smartphones, iPads, or laptops. And 3G is beginning to turn into 4G, as wireless carriers start …
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Bloomberg, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, Technologizer, TNW, Bits, WMExperts, Digits, Boy Genius Report and App Advice
Chris Clark / Release Candidate One:
A Services Menu for iPhone — Say you download a document from your company's intranet to proofread. You look up a few words as you go, and you make some edits before sending it to your boss. If you're anything like me, the task involves Safari, Pages, Dictionary, Finder, and iChat …
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Report urges more education about online safety — An online safety committee created by Congress will recommend on Friday that educators and government leaders focus on teaching children and parents about safe Internet practices while recognizing the limits of filtering technology in protecting young people.
Will Richmond / VideoNuze:
MeFeedia Unveils HTML5 Analytics for All Player — Search engine MeFeedia is announcing this morning a new real-time analytics suite for HTML5 video viewed using the company's All Player. — Content providers using All Player will be able to track a variety of data for video consumed across …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
LinkedIn Looks To Almost Double Headcount In 2010 — LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner just dropped by our office. — He tells us that the company remains healthy, profitable and on-track for an eventual IPO. — Headcount, which was just under 500 when the year began, will reach 900 by year's end.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Apple will Have a Powerful Search Engine for the “AppWorld,” John Battelle — LOS ANGELES — Despite the explicit denial by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on plans to build a search engine, the company is doing exactly that, says John Battelle. — On Tuesday night, during his on-stage dialogue …
