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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients For Privacy And Monetization Violations, Trademark Infringement — We'll this is interesting. According to this post, Twitter has suspended UberTwitter and twidroyd for violating its policies. It's unclear how the clients violated Twitter's policies …
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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Twitter, I love you man, but ... I'm not an investor, I have no right to tell you what to do. — I'm not an advisor & I'm not privy to any internal information at your company. You have to make the tough judgment calls. — I'm not omnipotent so I can't use market power to influence your behavior.
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Quora:
Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter? — Answer (1 of 7): Twitter told us today that they suspended our applications for three reasons: — 1. Twitter said that in UberTwitter and Twidroyd we use a tweet-elongation service named tmi.me that allows people to write more than 140 characters …
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GigaOM, PC World, Guardian and @scobleizer
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Interview: Bill Gross Talks About Twitter's Clampdown — Bill Gross is like a ghost from the Internet's past. In the first Internet gold rush, he started Idealab, a dot-com factory of sorts — and he also came up with the idea for paid-search advertising, which eventually turned Google into a cash gusher.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Obama's Silicon Valley “Tech Supper” - Who Sat Where? Why Was He There? — Why was he there? Who wasn't invited and why? What did they talk about? Why was he really there? — These are the questions being debated this morning about Obama's visit last night to the home (dare I say …
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Jared A. Favole / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Talked R&D With Jobs, Zuckerberg — Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Barack Obama sat down for dinner with corporate chieftains from Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. — At the home of venture capitalist John Doerr …
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Anil Sabharwal / Docs Blog:
12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer — The Google Docs Viewer is used by millions of people every day to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online. Not only is viewing files in your browser far more secure than downloading and opening them locally …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
If Libya Shuts Down the Internet, What Happens To .ly Domains? — As we all know by now, there is unrest in the Middle East. You can read about the latest news from worldwide journalists located in all of the countries. The stories are amazing to read and watch.
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Domain Name Wire, BBC, SAI and @dewitt
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Arn / MacRumors:
New MacBook Pros Likely to Launch on Thursday, February 24th — Apple last updated the MacBook Pros almost one year ago with Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors. Apple has been due to refresh the MacBook Pros with the latest Intel Sandy Bridge processors which are said to be a significant improvement over last year's processors.
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple television in the works, Apple job listing hints — Not the Apple TV, but an Apple television. Apple has posted a new job position looking for people to work on next-generation power supply technology. Apple needs people to to “work on the forefront of new power management designs …
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Terhi Kinnunen / Reuters:
Nokia sees Windows phone prices dropping fast — (Reuters) - Prices of smartphones using Microsoft's Windows Phone software platform will fall fast, Nokia's chief executive Stephen Elop said on Friday. — Last week Nokia, the world's largest phone maker by volume, said it would adopt …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Libya Follows Egypt's Lead, Starts Shutting Off Internet Services — @bbc_global — BREAKING: Col Muammar Gaddafi's government in Libya has taken a series of measures, including blocking internet ... http://bbc.in/gUVJNN — 38 minutes ago via twitterfeedRetweetReply
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Missing Native/Web App Link: Google Says Native Client Almost Ready To Go — We've written a number of things about the contrast between native apps and web apps. The common consensus these days is that the two will eventually converge — but that has been happening more slowly …
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Computerworld, Google Code, Chromium Blog, The Register and CNET News
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government — On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety.
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
The AOL Way claims its first victim: Engadget editor Paul Miller resigns — A few weeks ago, in case you've missed the news, AOL released an internal document to its staff that was entitled The AOL Way. The documents contained what could be taken as a manifesto, of sorts, but really showed how AOL was intending to do business.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
AT&T iPhone Beats Verizon in Nationwide 3G Speed Tests — The Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone have gone head-to-head in thousands of broadband tests, and the numbers tell the story you'd expect: AT&T's network is much faster. — More Verizon iPhone coverage on Wired.com: — Review: Verizon iPhone
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Bloomberg:
HomeAway Is Said to Select Banks to Manage $300 Million IPO — Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — HomeAway.com Inc., the vacation- rental website, has selected banks to manage an initial public offering this year of as much as $300 million, three people with knowledge of the plans said.
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Yahoo to open-source cloud-serving engine — Yahoo is developing an internal cloud-serving engine to boost its own productivity, and intends to release the code as an open source this year. — “We're committed to open-sourcing all of our cloud infrastructure, for the simple reason …
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
H-P CEO Apotheker on a Post-Hurd Hewlett — New Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Leo Apotheker inherited a company in tumult. — His predecessor, Mark Hurd, resigned in August following an investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment, which Mr. Hurd denied.
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Joe Mullin / paidContent:
Google Pushes To Keep Reams Of Documents Secret In Major Trademark Case — Rosetta Stone v. Google, one of the most important trademark cases of the digital age, is pending in a Virginia federal appeals court, and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is fighting a remarkable battle to keep thousands of pages of documents secret.
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