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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple May Not Have Bought Nuance But... This past November, the blogosphere was briefly set on fire when a comment Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak made in passing stated that Apple had acquired the voice recognition company Nuance. Wozniak quickly came out and corrected that comment …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes — ALL right, class, here's your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat. — That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the “Facebook Class.” — No one expected what happened next.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Joe Hewitt, Mobile Guru Leaves Facebook — On paper, he was just another developer at Facebook. In reality, his influence on Facebook and its future is much larger. Joe Hewitt, who built the initial version of Facebook for the iPhone, left the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social networking company Friday.
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Joe Hewitt:
Creative Tools — Today was my last day at Facebook. Normally when I leave a job I go out cursing the management and wishing I had left much sooner. In the case of Facebook, I sent heartfelt emails to all of my managers thanking them for the privilege of letting me work there, and I genuinely meant it.
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Takeshi Numoto / The Microsoft Office Blog:
Email: So yesterday? — According to some news reports, teens and the tech-savvy don't care for email so much these days. Some recent headlines may even have you think that the death of email is imminent, now that social networking, instant messaging, texting, and other tools are ever-present.
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
What It's Like When Steve Jobs Chews You Out For A Product Failure — In 2008, when Apple launched MobileMe, its own advanced email system, it was dud. — It cost $100 annually, but there were syncing issues, and emails were being lost. The Wall Street Journal's legendary tech guru …
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Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
Fortune goes Inside Apple — Fortune's Adam Lashinsky goes Inside Apple to detail how the world's most secretive and successful [computer] consumer electronics company is run, from Steve Jobs... down to the janitor. And it's a doozy of an article. Over the course of some 22 pages, we learn:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Google News “Osama Death” Sample Highlights Some News Coverage Woes — Today, Google News did a post about the death of Osama bin Laden. Disappointingly, it offered no statistics on what was most read, shared, topics most covered. The post did share a “sample” of 100 links to coverage …
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Krishna Bharat / Google News Blog:
Google News and the Coverage of Bin Laden
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Exclusive: Sony Considers Offering Reward To Help Catch Hackers — Still coping with the after-effects of a pair of attacks that has compromised as many as 100 million accounts and which caused two online gaming services to be taken offline, the Japanese electronics giant Sony …
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JC Fletcher / Joystiq:
PSN reactivation delayed for ‘further testing,’ likely not coming back this week
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Michael McWhertor / Kotaku:
Report: Next-Gen Xbox Already at EA; EA: That's a ‘Total Fabrication’ — Now that Nintendo has revealed its plans to jump into the next-generation with a successor to the Wii, will Microsoft and Sony follow suit? A report earlier today from Develop says that not only is Microsoft working …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Appears To Be Testing A Sparse, Ugly New Results Page — Whoa there tipsters, slow down. We've just been bombarded with tips coming our way that Google has rolled out a new-look search results page. Scanning Twitter, it looks like there are in fact a lot of people seeing this.
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Google, Facebook: “do not track” bill a threat to California economy — Google and Facebook are warning legislators of dire consequences if California passes a “do not track” bill. The proposed law would require companies doing online business in the Golden State to offer an “opt-out” privacy mechanism for consumers.
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Chris Nerney / ITworld.com:
Android emerges as clear leader in U.S. smartphone platform market — Google's mobile OS surges past RIM's BlackBerry, comScore reports — More than one-third of U.S. smartphone subscribers now own devices powered by Google's Android mobile operating system.
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