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Doug Bowman / Twitter Blog:
So a bar walks into an app... Last month, we released an update to Twitter for iPhone and iPad containing a number of features that made finding friends and sharing information on Twitter even easier. The iPhone app also contained a new feature we wanted to test named the QuickBar.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Twitter Kills The #Dickbar
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@dickc, BGR, NBC Bay Area, Techie Buzz, Betabeat and SAI
Mark Milian / CNN:
Google making app that would identify people's faces — Santa Monica, California (CNN) — Google is working on a mobile application that would allow users to snap pictures of people's faces in order to access their personal information, a director for the project said this week.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
He Said/She Said Between Google & CNN On Face Recognition Story — This morning I read the CNN story that said Google was finally going to incorporate facial recognition technology into its Goggles app or another mobile application. I then wrote an opinion piece that argued Google was courting …
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CNN, @markmilian and @jonfingas
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Now Has 250 Million Mobile Users (And A New Unified Mobile Website To Match) — For years now, Facebook has offered quite a few ways to access the site from mobile devices, and they've proven immensely popular. In February 2010 the site had 100 million mobile users per month …
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Mashable!, mocoNews, Inside Mobile Apps, Redmond Pie, BlogsDNA, All Facebook and NetworkEffect
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Lee Byron / Facebook:
One Mobile Site to Serve Thousands of Phones
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iClarified and GigaOM
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hollywood Rolls Out $30 Rentals. Smart. — Would you pay $30 to rent a movie? — Hollywood thinks you may. Four of the big studios are rolling out a “premium VOD” offering, where renters at home can pay extra to see films that were just in theaters but aren't yet out on DVD.
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Variety, Gizmodo, NBC Bay Area, TechSpot, GigaOM, Geekosystem and TechCrunch
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
CHART OF THE DAY: How Many Users Does Twitter REALLY Have? — How many people use Twitter? Many fewer than Twitter would lead you to believe. — According to its “about” page, Twitter has 175 million registered users. But “registered users” is a funny term. What it really means is the number of accounts.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
The Rise of the “Second Internet” and What It Means — What is the thread that ties together the rapid rise of companies as different as Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, The Huffington Post and Quora? Wedbush Securities, a brokerage firm that analyzes the valuations of private companies …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
HTC ThunderBolt outselling iPhone 4 at Verizon Wireless stores, analyst claims — BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk says HTC's latest beastly smartphone for Verizon Wireless is going toe to toe with the iPhone 4, and is even outselling Apple's iPhone at many Verizon Wireless store locations.
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Droid Life, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, MobileWhack and DroidMatters.com
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
eBay reveals its iPad 2 sales data — While the wait continues for the official number of iPad 2s sold by Apple since its launch earlier this month, eBay this morning is sharing a peek at two weeks of iPad 2 buying activity from its U.S. site. — Unsurprisingly the hard-to-get tablet …
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Examiner, PC World, Bits, App Advice, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, CrunchGear, Digits, Business Wire, 9 to 5 Mac, PE Hub Blog, GigaOM, Screenwerk, everythingiCafe and GMSV
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Massive SQL injection attack making the rounds—694K URLs so far — Hundreds of thousands of URLs have been compromised—at the time of writing, 694,000—in an enormous and indiscriminate SQL injection attack. The attack has modified text stored in databases, with the result that pages served …
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Dancho Danchev's Blog, Security Labs, Neowin.net, Help Net Security and The Register
James Kanter / New York Times:
Google Plays Down Microsoft's Antitrust Complaint in Europe — BRUSSELS — Google played down the significance of an antitrust complaint filed by one of its main rivals, Microsoft, on Thursday and said its discussions were continuing with European Union regulators.
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BGR, MobileBurn.com, Brave New World, Softpedia News, The Microsoft Blog, Techland and The Register
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring multi-camera iPhone systems for 3D picture taking — Apple has toyed with the idea of adding two or more rear-facing cameras and sensors to a device like an iPhone, allowing pictures to be taken and displayed in 3D. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week revealed …
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App Advice, Neowin.net, TiPb, The Next Web, MacStories and SlashGear
Bloomberg:
Amazon.com Said to Be Considering Mobile-Payment Service for Smartphones — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is considering the introduction of a service that would let consumers pay for goods in brick-and-mortar stores using their mobile phones, according to two people with knowledge of the project.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Exclusive: Apple Global Marcom VP Allison Johnson Leaving Company — Allison Johnson, who has served as Apple's vice president of worldwide marketing communications since 2005, is leaving the company, according to several sources. — The reason? — To co-found a new marketing …
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PC World, CNET News, SAI, Xconomy, MediaPost, GottaBeMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, NBC Bay Area, GeekSmack, MacStories, TUAW, Edible Apple, MacNN and iClarified
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Time Warner Pulls Channels From iPad App — Time Warner Cable on Thursday abruptly removed several channels from its app that replicates the TV viewing experience on an iPad. — The cable company yanked the channels, including MTV and FX, after receiving complaints from three major media companies …
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9 to 5 Mac, Time Warner Cable Untangled, Gizmodo, CNET News, Engadget, paidContent, The Wire, TG Daily, AppleInsider and MacDailyNews, more at Mediagazer »
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut — Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a number of ambitious websites, most notably Data.gov, that were dedicated to offering public and government data to the outside world. The stated intention was to foster transparency …
Cari Tuna / Digits:
Intuit, Salesforce.com Team Up to Target Small Businesses — Intuit and Salesforce.com are teaming up to take more small businesses to the cloud. … The two companies on Friday are set to announce a partnership that marries Intuit's accounting software for small businesses …
Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Introducing Page Speed Online, with mobile support — At Google, we're striving to make the whole web fast. As part of that effort, we're launching a new web-based tool in Google Labs, Page Speed Online, which analyzes the performance of web pages and gives specific suggestions for making them faster.
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louisgray.com, ReadWriteHack, InfoWorld, Mashable!, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News and Techie Buzz
David Gilson / All About Symbian:
Nokia publish Symbian source code — Nokia has just posted that it has completed putting the Symbian source code online at symbian.nokia.com. This means that both company-supported and independent developers can now access the Symbian source code again, after the effective closure of the Symbian Foundation.
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eWeek, symbian.nokia.com, The H Open Source and Forum Nokia Blogs
Joshua Fellman / Bloomberg:
Foxconn International Net Loss Widens More Than Estimated — Foxconn International Holdings Ltd., the Hong Kong-listed unit of the Foxconn Technology Group, posted a full-year net loss that was wider than analysts estimated as costs increased and sales shrank. The shares fell.
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Wall Street Journal, Engadget, GeekSmack, Electronista and Softpedia News
Evelyn Rusli / New York Times:
Bessemer Venture Partners Closes $1.6 Billion Fund — These days, owning a slice of Facebook or Groupon — two of the most popular and valuable companies on the Web — is worth at least some bragging rights in Silicon Valley. — But at least one firm has attracted significant capital by avoiding the frenzy.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Boxcar Pushes Its Way Onto The Mac — My love of Boxcar should be pretty clear at this point. Because I'm an information junkie, it's probably the app I use the most on my iPhone/iPad besides Safari. And earlier this year, they brought the notification goodness to the web as well.
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PC World, MacStories, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, SAI, MacNN and TUAW
