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Leland Rechis / Twitter Blog:
Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips — We've always been big fans of trusty SMS messaging. In fact, sending a text was originally the only way users could tweet. This is why Tweets are 140 characters — they need to fit into a text message. — We value SMS because it's simple, instant and universal.
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ArabCrunch English, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Erictric, Gizmodo and The Next Web
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey (UPDATED) — ANALYSIS — In 2007, when the Android OS was still vaporware, Google made a gutsy $4.6 billion bet on mobile net neutrality. While they never had to pay out the money, that all-in move forced the FCC …
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Guardian, The Atlantic Online and Boing Boing, Thanks:rawmeet
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How Google & Apple Sold Out The Cell Phone Revolution — “Where's the revolution,” I asked when Google launched its Nexus One phone earlier this year. There had been plenty of rumblings that Google would shake up how cell phones were sold in the US. Google's Eric Schmidt once predicted we'd all be using free phones paid for by ads.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Meet the Prankster Brothers Behind “Jenny,” the Whiteboard-Using, Farmville-Exposing, HPOA Girl — Yesterday, everyone on the Internet loved Steve Slater, the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job by cursing out his passengers and bolting out of his plane using the emergency slide.
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theCHIVE, Mashable!, CNET News, Switched, Gawker, Boing Boing, All Facebook, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Blog.games.com, Geek.com, Dealbreaker, BoomTown, accmanpro.com and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
A Threat to Startups — We believe that Google and Verizon's proposed policy principles to preserve an open Internet came out of a good faith effort to bring some clarity to the market for Internet applications and access. But we fear that this agreement is a compromise that does not serve the next great startup enterprise well.
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David Gelernter / New York Times:
Call It ‘Net Irrationality’
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Technology Liberation Front
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Twitter Launching Official Tweet Buttons This Week [EXCLUSIVE] — Twitter is launching an official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared, according to documents Mashable has obtained. The Tweet Button could launch as soon as this Thursday.
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The Blog Herald and NewsGrange
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Amazon Is Said to Look at Hardware Beyond Kindle — If you look at the job board for Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for the Kindle e-reader, you will see a flurry of listings related to electronics hardware, with titles like Supply Chain Project Program Manager, Hardware Engineer and RF Systems Engineer.
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Kindle Review, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Electronista and Engadget
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP tells employees webOS tablet coming Q1 2011 — We've been trying to find out when HP would launch a webOS tablet since the company first bought Palm, and we're now hearing from several trusted sources that it'll be calendar Q1 2011. We're told Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley mentioned …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook's Foursquare competitor is imminent — The long-rumored geolocation “check-in” feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET. — It's going to take the form of an application program interface (API) for third-party companies …
Theodoric Meyer / The Dalles Chronicle:
On Google's Terms — The Dalles' Internet giant calls the shots on information despite government rules — Two data centers present a study in contrasts — PRINEVILLE, Ore.— High on a plateau above this struggling city's downtown, Facebook is busy building its first data center.
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Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Zynga Pulls FarmVille Off MSN Games — Zynga has removed its hit game FarmVille from MSN Games, one of the bigger game portals around, we've learned. Zynga first added FarmVille to MSN in February. — This is not the first time that Zynga has pulled a game from a platform.
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VentureBeat and TechFlash
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Netflix to Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Add Films to On-Demand Service — At a cost of nearly $1 billion, Netflix said on Tuesday that it would add films from Paramount Pictures, Lions Gate and MGM to its online subscription service. — It was a coup — albeit a costly one — for Netflix …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
It's Official: EPIX, Netflix Announce “Multi-Year” Deal For Streaming Movies
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Thibault Imbert / ByteArray.org:
H.264 GPU Decoding in Flash Player on Mac OS X is live — We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called “Gala”. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player.
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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, InsideRIA, Daring Fireball, Ryan Stewart, CrunchGear, Gizmodo and MacStories
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Stats: The Age of the Internet of Things Has Dawned — The nation's two largest carriers added more connected devices last quarter than postpaid subscriptions, according to data released this morning by Chetan Sharma, a wireless analyst. Carriers added 2.6 million connected devices and 1.2 million contract customers.
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ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, Electronista and Internet Evolution
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What New Features Will Google Reveal at Mobile Event Thursday? Some Think It Should Be Integrated Video Calling. — Today, Google sent out a notice that it would be holding an press event Thursday morning at its San Francisco offices, where the search giant would “be unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features...”
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Gizmodo, Electronista, Ubergizmo and Neowin.net
Ina Fried / Crave: The gadget blog:
Plastic Logic cancels Que e-reader — In a move that will probably surprise few, Plastic Logic announced Tuesday that it's canceling plans for its pricey Que e-reader. — Plastic Logic had already delayed the Que several times after showing early versions of the product for years.
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Financial Times, Plastic Logic, VentureBeat, TechFlash, paidContent, Engadget, BetaNews, Geek.com, Tech Trader Daily, MediaMemo, Between the Lines Blog and Electronista, Thanks:beet_tv
Christian Rudder / Gizmodo:
iPhones Users Have Twice as Much Sex as Android Users (Plus! Sexiest Cameras) — According to 11 million plus images indexed by users of dating site OK Cupid, iPhone users get laid twice as often as Android users. — If you're anything like me, you usually think of your pics in terms of content: Here's me smiling.
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CNET News, TechCrunch, Google Android News …, OkTrends, TiPb, CrunchGear, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, BerryReview.com, Startup Meme, Gawker, Examiner, Gadget Lab, Daring Fireball, The Awl, MacDailyNews and TG Daily
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Hotmail still not working? Use Chrome to fix it, says MS — Advises unhappy users to switch to Google's browser — Microsoft has advised Hotmail users struggling to access their email accounts to surf via Google's Chrome browser in order to successfully connect to the recently overhauled service.
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All about Microsoft Blog, GeekSmack, Neowin.net, thechromesource and The Next Web
The Smoking Gun:
Turns Out 4Chan Boards Not As Lawless As They Seem — Nearly overlooked during the recent criminal trial of the Tennessee man who hacked Sarah Palin's e-mail account was the testimony—as a government witness—of the founder of 4chan.org, the anarchic message board.
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GamePolitics News, Silicon Alley Insider, Erictric and Techland
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Brightcove Dumps Limelight for Akamai — Brightcove is announcing today that it is transitioning to Akamai's content delivery network and working with the cloud services provider to roll out new features to its clients based on Akamai's HD network. The move will come as a big blow to Limelight …
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VentureBeat and Brightcove Blog
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years — The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case …
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Techdirt and Washington Post
Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy:
Is Boston Becoming a Hub for Female Tech Entrepreneurs? Maybe, and Here's Why — When most people think of the New England tech startup scene, they probably don't think of a bunch of women. Like most places I've visited or lived in, the Boston technology community tends to feel pretty male-dominated.
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