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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know — A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.
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Digital Trends
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Meet ‘Disco’, The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google — It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have. — The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google bought at Domainfest last year for $255K.
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VentureBeat, Reuters, IntoMobile, @alexia, mobiputing, The Domains, Mashable!, SAI, WebProNews, Softpedia News, Engadget and textually.org
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
First Look: With Disco, Google Also Joins The Group Messaging Dance (Care Of Slide)
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LAPTOP Magazine and Geekosystem
Jillian C. York:
Microsoft Fixes Bug; Re-enables HTTPS for All Users — Yesterday, I blogged that users in Iran, all Arab countries, Burma, Nigeria, and the Central Asian nations had been blocked from turning on HTTPS encryption within Hotmail. This was true. — According to Microsoft …
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The Register and @timoreilly
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
OS X Lion Already Nearing “Golden Master” — Release Around WWDC? — It has been one month since Apple unveiled a developer preview of their latest operating system, OS X Lion. And while the initial deployment was a bit rocky, Apple appears to have worked through their initial Mac App Store distribution issues.
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, Apple Bitch, Neowin.net, TUAW, Softpedia News, MacStories, Electronista, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and iClarified
David Humphrey / Bread and Circuits:
Dear Twitter, — I really like you. It took me some time before I was willing to give you a chance. I didn't ‘get’ you and your curt replies for the first few years, even though my friends raved about you. I joined in order to prove myself right, and that you were a waste of time.
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
High-tech industry on hiring binge in California; Google, Facebook and Zynga lead the pack — It's the Silicon Valley hiring boom being felt all over California. — California added nearly 100,000 new jobs in February, and the state's unemployment rate dropped by two-tenths of a percentage point …
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New York Times
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
THE SEEDY SIDE OF REDDIT: Porn, Racism, And Nazi Memorabilia — Reddit is an amazing creation. — The news aggregator is a great startup success story. It's also a great community site that often bands together in support of worthy causes. It's also a live interview site …
Nitasha Tiku / New York Magazine:
4chan Using Fake OkCupid Profiles to Lure Pathetic Singles to Times Square — 4chan has been known on occasion to pick worthy targets for its “malwebolence.” This is not one of those times. As part of a campaign to launch an “involuntary” flash mob, 4chan users and people on Reddit's 4chan forum …
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Know Your Meme, Urlesque and TechEye
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Color Founder Bill Nguyen Explains Why You're All Wrong — It Really IS A $41 Million Idea — Color founder Bill Nguyen feels misunderstood, but he admits it's partly his own fault. — The launch of his stealth startup yesterday was overshadowed by news of the surprisingly huge $41 million investment it received.
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StartupMuse, Mashable!, Fast Company, The Digital Letter, broadstuff, Daring Fireball and SAI
Elisabeth Osmeloski / Search Engine Land:
Zuckerberg In Zion: Speaks To Senator Hatch, Students At BYU — You might wonder what in the world could bring the Harvard dropout and under-30 founder of Facebook together with the 77-year-old conservative Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to talk to students and attendees at Brigham Young University earlier today.
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BYU News, @elisabethos, Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune
Kevin Murphy / DomainIncite:
ICANN asks the US to cut it loose — ICANN has officially requested the loosening of its contractual ties to the US government. — In a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (pdf), ICANN president Rod Beckstrom said the US should finally make good on its promise …
Bloomberg:
Kodak Wins a Round in $1 Billion Apple, RIM Patent Dispute — Eastman Kodak Co. (EK) won the latest round in its patent dispute with Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), a victory with the potential to generate more than $1 billion in new licensing revenue for the camera company.
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PC World, Bloomberg, CNET News, Fortune, Reuters, Digital Trends, Tech Trader Daily, Imaging Insider and Slashdot
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Samsung Hires ‘Actors’ To Pretend To Be Happy Galaxy Tab Testers? — I'm still waiting for Android tablet computers to catch up to the iPad in terms of usefulness, and I'm guessing there's probably still another year or so to go (if the phone market is any predictor).
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Digital Trends, Technologizer, SAI, @harrymccracken, @charlesarthur, Daring Fireball, GottaBeMobile, LIVEdigitally and Technologizer
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Fritz Nelson / InformationWeek:
Samsung Galaxy Tablet Not Thinner Than iPad 2, But Who Cares
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Electronista, Techie Buzz, AppleInsider, The Raw Feed, PC World, MacDailyNews, GottaBeMobile, Techland and Slashdot
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
At Google, Page Seeks to Cut Red Tape — As Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page prepares to reclaim his role as chief executive on April 4, he has already taken steps to assume greater command of the Internet company. — Since Google said in January that longtime CEO Eric Schmidt was stepping aside …
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Edible Apple, VentureBeat, The Healthcare IT Guy, Chrome OS Site, Mixed Media, Gawker and SAI
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