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Robert Johnson / Facebook Engineering:
More Details on Today's Outage — Early today Facebook was down or unreachable for many of you for approximately 2.5 hours. This is the worst outage we've had in over four years, and we wanted to first of all apologize for it. We also wanted to provide much more technical detail on what happened and share one big lesson learned.
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Inside Facebook, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Techie Buzz and CenterNetworks
Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless Readies Tiered Data Pricing — Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg said the company's wireless arm expects to introduce its own form of tiered pricing, possibly over the next four to six months. — But Mr. Seidenberg said Verizon Wireless's offering …
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Verizon CEO hints iPhone not coming soon — NEW YORK - Comments from Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Ivan Seidenberg on Thursday left little room for the possibility of a Verizon version of the iPhone any time soon. — Speaking to investors at a Goldman Sachs conference …
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Reed Hastings / The Official Netflix Blog:
Apologies — My Big American Foot in is my mouth. Yesterday, I made an awkward joke with a reporter in Toronto about Americans (like me) being self-absorbed relative to Netflix pricing in Canada. I was wrong to have made the joke, and I do not believe that one of the most philanthropically-minded nations …
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
What Netflix CEO hopes U.S. won't notice
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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
iPhone vs. Windows Phone 7 (Video) — In this video, we compare the interface of Windows Phone 7 with that of the iPhone. Previously we showed you a web browser and email comparison between iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7. This is a closer look at how the iPhone differs from Windows Phone 7.
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Fone Arena, Startup Meme, Product Reviews Net, The Next Web and WMPoweruser.com
Pascal Finette / Mozilla Labs:
Concept Series: Seabird - A Community-driven Mobile Phone Concept — Since Mozilla Labs launched the Concept Series with an open call for participation we've had thousands of people join in, share ideas and develop concepts around Firefox, the Mozilla projects and the Open Web as a whole.
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Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, iClarified, TechCrunch, Erictric, IntoMobile, Gizmodo Australia, Ubergizmo, Fone Arena, Engadget and Gizmodo, Thanks:atul
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
More Hotmail updates on the way — We've kept ourselves busy this summer. A few months ago, we released a re-invented Windows Live Hotmail designed around what people said they wanted—a more efficient service to help them manage clutter with features like Sweep and one-click filters …
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Keith Dsouza / Techie Buzz:
Hotmail Adds Package Tracking, Facebook Chat, Sub Folders and More
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LiveSide.net and webpronews.com
Derek Andersen:
Can we trust Michael Arrington? (AngelGate) — Like everyone else I've been reading and watching Mike's latest ‘AngelGate’ story unfold for the last few days. It's interesting to see lines so clearly and predictably divided on who is to be believed. If you're an entrepeneur you believe Arrington.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook Phone: All You Need To Know + New Details — Of all the recent technology news, the one that's held most of my interest is the existence of the Facebook phone. Why? Because I'd been aware of a project to build a phone based on Facebook for quite some time, though I hadn't been able to confirm it from multiple sources.
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Bloomberg:
Facebook Said to Be Working on Phones With INQ for AT&T
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Here it comes: ‘Super WiFi’ — Microsoft, Google and other tech companies won a key victory in Washington, D.C., today as the Federal Communications Commission moved to open up vacant spectrum between television channels for unlicensed use by wireless devices — a development expected to lead …
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
FCC Votes to Open Vacant TV Airwaves for $4 Billion Wireless Market by U.S
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Passes PetroChina to Become Second-Largest Stock — Apple Inc. overtook PetroChina Co. to become the second-biggest company in the world by market value, lifted by investors betting on growth prospects for the iPhone, Macintosh and iPad. — Apple, valued at $265.8 billion …
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile G2 Pre-Order Is A Go For Tomorrow, Release October 6th! — We'll just make this a super quick post but the T-Mobile G2 with Google will be available for pre-order starting tonight and running through October 4th with a release date on October 6th. I can't say how happy I am …
David Heinemeier Hansson / Signal vs. Noise:
Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 — Facebook is an amazing success as a social network. Anyone who can get 500 million people to connect, share photos, and click on little cows in Farmville deserves major kudos. — But the bulls**t monopoly-money evaluation merry-go-round has to stop.
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Daring Fireball, All Facebook and TechCrunch
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Netflix May Launch Streaming-Only Plan in the U.S. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings doesn't usually reveal future plans, but he decided to throw us a bone today after two days of bad publicity, hinting at the option of a cheaper subscription plan that comes without any physical DVD rentals in the U.S.
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Digg.com redesign alienates users — The Internet can be a fickle creature, but if there is one lesson that seems to consistently ring true it's this: don't alienate your core users. — It's a lesson that digg.com is learning the hard way. Having been a paragon of social bookmarking …
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Fast Company, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb and The Huffington Post
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hey Cable Guys! Cord Cutting is Real, and It's a Problem, Says Verizon CEO — The party line from cable executives is that the “cord-cutting” phenomenon-consumers swapping cable subscriptions for Internet video-is a myth. Or, at best, greatly exaggerated. Not so, says Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg.
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Backstage at Apple's Ping Launch, No Record Labels Allowed — Apple negotiated with Facebook for more than 18 months to launch Ping, its new music social network. The talks were crucial, though ultimately unsuccessful, for Apple, which aimed to create a vibrant online community by porting users …
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Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Will Nokia build Windows phones? — According to a trusted source, Nokia is now likely to use Windows Phone 7 as an additional platform for its phones. Also, Nokia's board has given new ex-Microsoft CEO Stephen Elop the green light to change the company's strategy if needed, a source familiar with these matters said.
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Fone Arena, IntoMobile, WMPoweruser.com, Nokia Conversations and All About Symbian
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Instapaper Goes From Hobby to Start-Up — On Tuesday Marco Arment, the chief technology officer at the social networking site Tumblr, announced that he would be leaving it to tend to a personal project: Instapaper. — I caught up with Mr. Arment on the phone on Wednesday to find out what was next from his personal project.
Qinming Fang / Chromium Blog:
New features for the Chrome Web Store developer preview: Google Checkout integration & previewing for your apps — We're excited to share with you some new features that we just added to the developer preview of the Chrome Web Store: — Starting today, you can sign up for a Google Checkout …
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Brad Stone / Business Week:
Facebook Sells Your Friends — How Facebook plans to leverage its 550 million users into the greatest advertising juggernaut since ... O.K., only since Google. That's still huge — There were two obvious winners at the FIFA World Cup this summer. Spain took home the 13-pound …
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring shrunken audio jacks for even smaller iPods — In its continuous pursuit to create smaller, more compact devices, Apple has shown interest in creating headphone jacks for iPods and iPhones that will take up even less space inside a device. — A new patent application …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Mulve - The Nightmare-Scenario Music Downloading Tool — As pressure on file-sharing continues to mount, many people are searching for ‘safer’ methods to acquire music. Today we bring news of an application that seems to be almost too good to be true. With a huge database of songs …
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Markus Spiering / Flickr Blog:
New! Browser-based uploads on Android 2.2 — Flickr wants you to share photos from anywhere, including that cool new Android phone. Up till now you've only been able to upload-by-email which allows you to send photos to Flickr from your phone without having an app.
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Bloomberg:
‘Apple Peel’ Inventors in China Defend Device Turning IPods Into IPhones — Pan Lei and Pan Yong, the Chinese brothers who invented a device to convert Apple Inc.'s iPod Touch into an iPhone, say they are innovators, not copycats. — Their Apple Peel 520 is a case including a circuit board …
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IntoMobile, Go Rumors and CNET News
