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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model — I had a chance to sit down with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams at Foo Camp last weekend and talk about the overall state of the company. The first part of the conversation focused on their acquisition of Summize …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter has its search, now it's time to embrace mobile — The lack of any search functionality within Twitter has been, quite frankly, ridiculous. The company itself said it would be coming shortly last fall, and yet it never came. Meanwhile others, including FriendFeed added the ability to search tweets (Twitter messages).
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:Back on Track — Now that Twitter has gone public …
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Nintendo and Sony Underwhelm at E3 — LOS ANGELES — The Japanese video game titans, Nintendo and Sony, announced wide-ranging, if not entirely breathtaking, constellations of new games and services at the E3 convention here on Tuesday, but did not appear to significantly alter …
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Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Sony cutting price of PS3, adding video downloads — LOS ANGELES - In a bid to regain lost ground in the fiercely competitive gaming business, Sony announced Tuesday that it will cut the price of its high-end PlayStation 3 console by $100. It also will introduce downloads of movies …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
The New Apple Walled Garden — Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 — An insider let slip that two new Amazon Kindle models will hit stores this holiday season, with the first coming as early as October. — The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Pandora Usage Stats Prove It's iPhone's Killer App — Pandora's internet radio has always been one of those sites that was really cool in concept, but too inconvenient to ever go mainstream. The service was long tied to computers only, and while it eventually expanded to special internet radios …
Aviram / SecuriTeam Blogs:
Finding the name behind the gmail address — Ever wondered what name is behind some obscure gmail address? Maybe your preferred gmail address was taken and you're wondering who took it? — Here's a cute vulnerability in the gmail system that comes from the strong tie-ins between gmail …
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
Seeking Mass Market Acceptance, Apple Stresses Cost Reduction for iPhone 3G — The new iPhone 3G sports an evolutionary design that favors cost reduction instead of cutting-edge features, supporting Apple Inc.'s goal of expanding its market share and achieving a worldwide presence for the product …
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Set Up Push Email, Contacts, and Calendar on Your iPhone for Free — One of the coolest features available in the new iPhone 2.0 software update is the ability to get new email messages, contacts, and calendar events pushed to your device automatically. The catch: If you don't want to shell …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Blinkx ‘Red Label’ opens video-search interface — Blinkx, whose technology lets people search for videos hosted elsewhere on the Internet, is making it possible for other Web sites to incorporate its search results and share any resulting revenue. — Through a program called Red Label …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
AMD Keeps Clocking Losses — Advanced Micro Devices is set to report another big loss Thursday as its larger rival Intel continues to keep the pressure on. — The scrappy computer processor specialist is expected to report a second-quarter loss of $318 million, or 52 cents a share …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:Intel posts record-breaking Q2 earnings
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Reuters:
NY man gets 30 months in prison for spamming AOL — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Google Sued For Selling Ads On Parked Domains — A class-action lawsuit alleges that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions. — Google on Friday was sued for fraud, business code violations …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Look Out Below: GM Cutting Ad Spending — Not unexpected, but bad news nonetheless: GM, the country's fourth-largest advertiser, is cutting its ad budget. The WSJ ($) doesn't have details on the scope of the cuts, but does point out who gets hurt: — Newspapers
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BBC:
Mapping health — A system of electronic mapping which allows many different types of data to be layered onto a single image is being used to improve healthcare across Rwanda. — The digital maps, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are designed to compile information …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? — You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world - being social is becoming an important full time job.
Sunshine / LiveSide:
Live Mesh Is Indeed Now Open — Where we were wondering before, we can now confirm that Live Mesh is indeed open to anyone with a valid Windows Live ID. Open to anyone in the US without having to adjust a thing, and open to anybody elsewhere in the world willing/able to adjust their OS'es region and language setting to EN-US.
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Lawmakers Target Second ISP for Web-Tracking Tech — ISPs seeking to find new ways to make money by profiling their customer's online habits are likely reconsidering after powerful House lawmakers turned their anti-tracking ire on a second large telecom in recent months.
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