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Apple:
How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware — A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender “anti-virus” software to solve the issue.
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Steven Sande / TUAW:
Apple: Mac OS X update coming to block MacDefender malware
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Geeky-Gadgets, The Loop, Computerworld and ReadWriteWeb
Wall Street Journal:
Google to Unveil Mobile Payments Platform — Google Inc. on Thursday is expected to disclose details about how consumers will be able to make store purchases, redeem coupons, and get loyalty points by waving Android-powered smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter, said people familiar with the matter.
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Rob Hof's Blog, Fast Company, Reuters, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, PalmAddicts, Mobile Marketing Watch, AndroidOS.in, SocialTimes.com, Electricpig.co.uk, The Register, Googling Google Blog, AllThingsD, mocoNews, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, Digital Trends, Between the Lines Blog, This is my next, TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Electronista
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Commerce Chief: We're Making A Huge Bet On NFC As A Company
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Android and Me and I4U News
Om Malik / GigaOm:
Reed Elsevier Leads $6M Investment in GigaOM — Reed Elsevier Ventures — the London-based venture arm of Reed Elsevier, one of the largest publishing companies — is leading a $6 million investment in the parent company behind GigaOM, GigaOM.tv, GigaOM Events and GigaOM Pro.
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VentureBeat and silicontap.com, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:sameerpatel
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GigaOm Raises Another $6 Million At $40 Million+ Valuation — Tech blog and research startup Giga Omni Media (GigaOm) has raised another $6 million in venture capital, on top of the $8.33 million previously raised. New investor Reed Elsevier Ventures led the round, with participation …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Zynga About to File for IPO — Zynga is poised to file for its initial public offering, according to sources close to the situation. — The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission could come as early as this week, or next week at the latest.
Anya Kamenetztoday / Fast Company:
Peter Thiel Gives Whiz Kids $200K To Quit College, Start Businesses — It sounds like a reality show pitch: The legendary Facebook investor, PayPal founder, and thorn in the side of college deans everywhere announces what happens when 20 people, picked to live among mentors and innovation experts …
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ZDNet, Bits, Business Week, TechCrunch and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:noahr
Royal Pingdom:
Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. These three companies rule webmail with Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, the three largest email services on the Internet. — What might escape a lot of people, though, is just how important email services …
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ZDNet, Digital Trends, eWeek, silicontap.com and MediaPost, Thanks:pingdom
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Exclusive: Microsoft loses last Xbox founder, mobile PC visionary — It's the end of an era at Microsoft today. — Otto Berkes, the last of the original Xbox founders still at the company, submitted his resignation this afternoon. — Berkes went on to lead development of a new category …
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TechFlash, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Gamasutra, Edge Online, Neowin.net, mocoNews, WinBeta, VG247, Electronista and AllThingsD
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Sony says hacker stole 2,000 records from Canadian site — IDG News Service - The problems keep coming for Sony. On Tuesday the company confirmed that someone had hacked into its website and stolen about 2,000 customer names and e-mail addresses. — Close to 1,000 of the records …
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BGR, BBC, Toronto Star, Agence France Presse, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph, Neowin.net, Naked Security, Boing Boing and Yahoo! News
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Sony Goes Silent As Its Hacking Spree Snowballs
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Marketing Pilgrim, DailyTech, fierceonlinevideo.com …, RCR Unplugged, The Register, THN, CNET News, TG Daily, Globe and Mail, Gawker and msnbc.com, Thanks:wrecktify
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Nokia's Smartphone Chief On Microsoft Alliance, Future Windows Devices — Ask Jo Harlow how it feels to have one of the most difficult jobs in the mobile industry and you're likely to get a good-natured laugh in return. As Nokia's recently-appointed head of Smart Devices …
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pocketnow.com, Reuters, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, PhoneArena, Fudzilla, I4U News, MobileTechWorld and Electronista
Shea Bennett / AllTwitter:
Twitter About To Hit 500 Employees (And 5% Of Them Still Have The Default Avatar) — Back in February I wrote about Twitter's escalating employee count, which back then was closing in on 400 members of staff. Way back in May 2009 - when Twitter was black and white and made out of wood - that number was just 69 (dude).
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
How Tech Legend Bill Gross Blew The TweetDeck Deal — With today's news that Twitter has acquired TweetDeck for ~$40 million, it has become clear: UberMedia's Bill Gross - the Bill Gross who's famous for inventing search advertising as we know it - seems to have blown it this time around.
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BGR India, lalawag, IntoMobile and PC World
Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
Amnesty for web firms over ‘cookie’ privacy law — The data protection watchdog has given web companies an extra year to comply with new privacy laws designed to give users control over how they are tracked and profiled online. — The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham
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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Eat Your Cookies: EU Privacy Directive Takes Effect Wednesday
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Digits and The Register
Gregg Keizer / InfoWorld:
Microsoft backpedals from Ballmer's Windows 8 comments — One analyst, betting on late 2012, early 2013 release, says Microsoft has “one chance” to get next version of Windows right — Microsoft backed away from comments made yesterday by CEO Steve Ballmer, who had told Japanese software developers …
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Softpedia News, AppleInsider, I4U News, O'Grady's PowerPage, RazorianFly, Electronista, WinBeta, Neowin.net, PC Magazine, CNET News, Geeky-Gadgets, Bink.nu, CodenameWindows and ITworld.com
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Russian forensic experts break iOS 4 encryption — Apple has worked hard to gain the trust of its smartphone users, introducing a number of tighter security measures on its iPhone OS. But a crack team from Russia has found a way to circumvent Apple's iOS force field, though …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 “lion's den,” rips into lions — “I just arrived at the Tuileries for the #eG8, already a hoot. Unfounded smugness to rival the World Economic Forum.” — John Perry Barlow—EFF co-founder, Grateful Dead lyricist, and, improbably, now a rancher …
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New York Times, Slashdot and Boing Boing
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Exclusive: SEC wasted $1 million on data storage, watchdog says — WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Securities and Exchange Commission wasted $1 million on virtual data storage it bought in 2008, the agency's internal watchdog said, part of a series of investigations into the agency's procurement practices.
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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Start-Up BlueStacks Raises Cash to Bring Android Apps to Windows PCs — A couple years back, Rosen Sharma, Suman Saraf and colleagues had founded a startup, BlueStacks, to work on virtualization. They just hadn't figured out the right use of the technology on which to focus.
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Inquirer, BetaNews, Crave, 9to5 Google, PalmAddicts, Guardian and silicontap.com
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple MacBooks top all Consumer Reports laptop categories — If you were wondering how good Apple's MacBook line of portable computers are, the answer is simple — they are the top computer every category on Consumer Reports. — Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air scored a 62 out of 100 taking the top spot in the small laptop section.
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9 to 5 Mac, Fortune, AppleInsider, Electronista and TUAW, Thanks:mwickens
