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Mic Wright / Electricpig.co.uk:
New iPod Touch: 5MP camera and FaceTime incoming? Britain's top sellers say so — The new iPod Touch will come packing a 5MP camera with HD video shooting skills, according to John Lewis which has just spilled the new specs at its Xmas in July event in central London.
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Pirate Bay Hack Exposes User Booty — Security weaknesses in the hugely popular file-sharing Web site thepiratebay.org have exposed the user names, e-mail and Internet addresses of more than 4 million Pirate Bay users, according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook acquires local, travel recommendations startup NextStop — Facebook is adding another talent acquisition to the mix. It has acquired Nextstop, a San Francisco-based startup for recommending things to do or places to go. — “This was a difficult decision for us,” the company said in a statement.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook's Location Feature Gets More Hands on Deck With Acquisition …
Adam Z Lein / pocketnow.com:
Actually KIN Sold More Than 503 Devices — There's a rumor being perpetuated by Daring Fireball that Microsoft only sold 503 KIN devices. Many other sites are picking up this posting as though it were true. What I find interesting is that the KIN registers its Facebook app on Facebook …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone Developer Brags: $1,400 In iAd Revenue In One Day At $150 eCPM — Apple's iAds have started rolling out, and at least one iPhone developer is enjoying early returns, boasting of making $1,400 in ad revenue on the first day. — San Diego-based Jason Ting started selling an app yesterday …
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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies … The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.
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Facebook Touts Selling Power of Friendship — In Bid to Boost Revenue, Site Pitches ‘Social Context’ Ads to Major Marketers — Facebook Inc. is trying to rev up its advertising business with a little help from your friends. — The social-networking site is aggressively pitching …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Is It Time to Stop Blogging and Start an Email Newsletter? — When entrepreneur Jason Calacanis shut down his blog in 2008 and replaced it with a subscription-only email newsletter, his move seemed to be more of a personal response to abusive reader comments rather than a leading indicator of a trend …
Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:
Microsoft Lays Claim To iPad's Page Curling Feature — The Courier may be dead, but we are still getting to see the innovations built by Microsoft back when development on Courier was still in its prime. A patent application filed by Microsoft back in January 2009 describes the page curl feature …
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine — What is your search engine of choice? Google? Yahoo? Bing? Try Twitter. — According to cofounder Biz Stone, who spoke yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter now reaches some 800 million search queries per day.
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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
CNN's Octavia Nasr Leaving Network After Controversial Hezbollah Tweet — In the latest case of new media (or oversharing) gone wrong, CNN's Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr is leaving the company following the controversy caused by her tweet in praise of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
comScore: Android Continues To Gain Smartphone Market Share — ComScore just released its smartphone market share numbers for March through May, and unsurprisingly the trend continues from previous months. Android phone saw the most significant growth in market share in May …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Skype's Innermost Security Layers Claimed To Be Reverse-Engineered — Internet telephony giant Skype may well have a significant security issue on its hands, TechCrunch has learned. — Someone claims to have reverse-engineered the proprietary encryption protocols Skype has put in place …
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
Hulu May Launch Ad-Free Premium App — The TV streaming service Hulu, which recently launched a paid subscription product, Hulu Plus is not averse to the idea of launching an even more expensive ad-free version, CEO Jason Kilar told me on Wednesday in a chat.
Tom Wilde / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu, Google TV, And The Brewing TV “Desktop” Storm — The last twelve months has been one of the most remarkable times I can remember in terms of sheer innovation and disruption in the digital video market. The long awaited “watch what you want , where you want, when you want” …
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Michael Iams / MapQuest Blog:
MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone Adds Spoken Street Names and Supports iOS 4 — Last week we announced the new MapQuest.com and today we've got some big news for mobile: MapQuest 4 Mobile iPhone version 2.0 debuts! We listened to all your feedback and now this new version speaks street names aloud …
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Yahoo CFO Aims to End Buy-High, Sell-Low Track Record on Deals — Yahoo! Inc. Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse, aiming to boost profitability while adding Internet content and services, says he plans to reverse the company's pattern of overpaying for acquisitions.
Andy M. Zaky / AppleInsider:
Apple to enter a new golden age in 2010 with 70% earnings growth
— In the four years I've followed Apple (AAPL) grow from a mere mid-sized tech stock to becoming the second largest corporation in the United States in terms of market capitalization, I never imagined that it or any other company …
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Mia / YouTube Blog:
YouTube Leanback offers effortless viewing — A click here, a search there, a browse on this page — sometimes it can take more than a few flicks of the wrist and finger taps to get your daily dose of video. Luckily, YouTube Leanback wants you to conserve your energy for actually watching more videos.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iSuppli: OLED panel shortage a concern for Android smartphone makers — Everyone wants an OLED display on their cellphone, right? Ok, maybe not everybody, especially when compared to regular AMOLED, but we certainly want, no demand, a 4-plus inch Super AMOLED on our next Android smartphone.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
U.S. Venture Capital Fundraising Up 13 Percent In First Half Of 2010 To $7.5B — There's good news for venture fundraising this morning. Following the recessionary drought of fundraising for venture funds in 2009, the amount raised has increased by 13 percent in the first quarter of 2010 …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
NexTag Buys Product Reviews Site Wize — NexTag, the big comparison shopping site, is buying product reviews site Wize. Wize aggregates product reviews from around the web and provides product recommendations based on specific attributes people say they are looking for in a product (i.e. “vacuums” for “suction strength").
