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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information — A couple of weeks ago, we updated our terms of use to clarify a few points for our users. A number of people have raised questions about our changes, so I'd like to address those here. I'll also take the opportunity to explain how we think about people's information.
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason — There was some Facebook backlash over the long U.S. weekend that has prompted some calls for boycotts over two sentences that were taken out of the company's Terms of Services agreement earlier this month.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Facebook: Relax, we won't sell your photos
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Windows Mobile 6.5 Hands On: The New Interface Rocks — I like the new Windows Mobile 6.5 interface, specially the new home screen, which is brilliantly executed. Running on the new HTC Touch Diamond 2, everything looked smoother, cleaner, and matched the iPhone's lick factor.
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Kdawson / Slashdot:
Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 — from the just-who-did-you-think-owns-your- machine dept. … Read on for more details of this user's findings. — Re — Photoshop: That Photoshop stopped functioning after we messed with one of its nag DLLs was not so much a surprise …
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Universal mobile phone charger unveiled — The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record. — The plan from industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) is just one of a raft of “green” announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Trial - First Day in Court — The day started this morning at 08:30, with Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (aka Anakata), Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (aka Brokep) and Fredrik Neij (TiAMO) arriving at the court with the S23K bus. The bus will operate as their press-center in the weeks to come.
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Marguerite Reardon / Webware.com:
Skype strikes deal with Nokia — BARCELONA—Skype is racking up deals with mobile handset makers here at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009. — On Tuesday, the company, which is owned by eBay, announced a partnership with Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the world, to put the Skype Internet calling software onto its phones.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life blog:
Game-changers - Google or Apple? — Two years ago all the talk at the Mobile World Congress was of the imminent arrival of the Apple iPhone, and how it was going to change the industry. One year ago, all the talk was of Google's open-source Android operating system, and what a radical impact that might have.
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Oracle Goes on a Recession Buying Spree — While most American corporations pinch pennies, Oracle Corp. is quietly going on a shopping spree. — The software giant completed 10 acquisitions in the past year, ranging from a maker of insurance-policy-writing tools, to a designer of …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Justin.tv Is Redirecting Porn Queries Into Cash — In the down economy, startups are trying everything they can think of to keep a steady flow of revenue coming in. For popular live-streaming video site Justin.tv, it looks like one of these measures is to try to capitalize …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Satellite-hacking boffin sees the unseeable — Lady Di gossip plucked from sky — White-hat hacker Adam Laurie knows better than to think email, video-on-demand, and other content from Sky Broadcasting and other satellite TV providers is a private matter between him and the company.
Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog:
THE DATABASE OF INTENTIONS IS MORE VALUABLE THAN THE DATABASE OF MUSINGS FOR NOW (GOOGLE AND TWITTER) — I've been very curious to read this weekend's stream of people commenting on Twitter's business model and what it will look like. I read this one in Forbes - it talks about how being able …
Agence France Presse:
Bill Gates grant to extend mobile banking to poor — BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) — Microsoft founder Bill Gates has agreed to help fund a massive rollout of projects enabling poor mobile phone users to transfer money using their handsets, an industry body announced Tuesday.
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Peter Galli / Port 25:
Microsoft, Red Hat to Offer Joint Technical Support — Microsoft and Red Hat announced this morning that they have recently signed agreements to test and validate their server operating systems running on one another's hypervisors. — This is deeply significant as it means that customers …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Filtrbox Raises $1.4 Million, Launches Revamped Market Intelligence Tool — Filtrbox, a startup for online brand monitoring and market intelligence that was part of the TechStars class of 2007, has announced that it closed a $1.4 million Series A funding round led by Flywheel Ventures and True Ventures at the end of last year.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Mobile World Congress: One Day, Sixteen New Phones — Phones. More phones. Phones that look a lot like iPhones, except for the ones that don't. Phones that may never show up in the good old US of A. Phones that are full of style, and ones that seem to be devoid of discernible personality.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Apple's Mac OS X update breaks Perl — Never trust a vendor — Apple's latest Mac OS X security update has a knack for breaking Perl, according to Mac users from across the web. — “I've just done the update using Software update and just about everything I look at is working …
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Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Toshiba Agrees to Buy Fujitsu's Hard-Disk Drive Unit to Boost Market Share — Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Toshiba Corp. , Japan's biggest chipmaker, will buy Fujitsu Ltd.'s hard-disk drive business to help narrow its gap with Seagate Technology in the $32.6 billion market.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
TechStars Fills Void Left By Y Combinator With New Incubator In Boston — Boulder, Colorado-based startup incubator TechStars has decided to open a second office in Boston where it will run a concurrent mentorship program starting this summer. — The Boston program …
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Paul Carr:
Can you guess what my column's going to be about this week? … From: Paul Carr — To: Andrew Orlowski
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Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog:
CBS Sports picks Microsoft's Silverlight for March Madness — CBSSports.com has chosen Microsoft's Silverlight media player to stream March Madness games on its site in high quality. — Last year, more than 4.8 million unique users watched March Madness college baskeball games …
