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Turn your iPod touch into a free phone
techradar.com — Want to make free phone calls to your fellow iPod touch owners? Now you can, courtesy of the recently announced Truphone for iPod touch.More… (Tech Industry News)
Sh0rtstakDigg Hires Andrei Zmievski
gravitonic.com — as Open Source Fellow. This is an exciting opportunity which will let him dedicate more time to PHP and other open source software. (and I appreciate the recursiveness of a post titled "I've been dugg" being dugg)More… (Tech Industry News)
tangledwebAT&T to Cut 12,000 Jobs
online.wsj.com — AT&T is chopping 12,000 jobs, or 4% of its work force, citing economic pressures and a changing business mix. It will also reduce capital spending.More… (Tech Industry News)
badqatWhich Google projects will bite the dust?
blogs.computerworld.com — Thanks to the recession, Google has begun killing projects that haven't made it financially, with CEO Eric Schmidt warning the company will eliminate "dark matter" projects that "haven't really caught on" and "aren't really that exciting." Two are already on the chopping block, with more to follow. More… (Tech Industry News)
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New Google Android phone launches
techradar.com — Google's new mobile operating system, Android, is now available on a handset that isn't the G1.More… (Tech Industry News)
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35 Days Against DRM -- #7: Prince--friends without benefits
defectivebydesign.org — A horror story of being a Prince fan -- a reminder of some of the tricks being pulled on music fans in this DRM age. Here's a story from the bad old days sent in by Mike McCarty, who wins one of our T-shirts and a DRM-free album from Magnatune. We begin with the demise of Prince's DRM-music service, New Power Generation.More… (Tech Industry News)
A Look Inside a Facebook for the Filthy Rich
blog.wired.com — Recession — and social network glut — be damned! Frank DeRose, managing partner of Ferrata Capital Management, plans to invest at least $1 million into Total Prestige, an invitation-only networking site for one of the world's most underserved internet demographics: the super- and super-duper rich.More… (Tech Industry News)
brainnovateGoogle Was 3 Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monopolist
techcrunch.com — When Google pulled out of its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo last month, it was chief legal counsel David Drummond who made the announcement. He cited concerns of a “protracted legal battle,” but only now do we learn that the Justice Department was only three hours away from filing an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal. More… (Tech Industry News)
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How To Watch Movies and Shows on Hulu & Sling from Abroad |
makeuseof.com — There is nothing to download or install, just find what you want to watch, hit the full-screen button and enjoy.More… (Tech Industry News)
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WordPress 2.7 coming tomorrow
downloadsquad.com — It's a bit behind schedule, but WordPress 2.7 is due out tomorrow evening. Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform put out the first release candidate version of WordPress 2.7 More… (Tech Industry News)
Six6MySpace delivers video to mobile phones
reuters.com — MySpace users with mobile phones are about to find out if they can walk and watch TV at the same time. On Wednesday, News Corp's online social network will make video clips from its members' pages available for viewing on mobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro, Motorola Q9, LG Voyager, Nokia N95 and Samsung Instinct.More… (Tech Industry News)
DigSomeMoreWhy Twitter Turned Down Facebook
bits.blogs.nytimes.com — “We explored it, as we should. We took it seriously,” Mr. Williams said. “It definitely made sense — the strategy we talked about with them — but it wasn’t the right time.” Ultimately, he said, Twitter decided that it had too much left to do, beginning with figuring out how to make money.More… (Tech Industry News)
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Movie Industry: London ‘Fake-Free Zone’ by 2012
torrentfreak.com — Touted as the biggest ever anti-piracy collaboration, the MPA and several major anti-piracy groups have announced that by the time the 2012 Olympics begin, they will have made London “a fake-free zone”. This impossible mission to stamp out DVD piracy was launched by Intellectual Property Minister, David Lammy.More… (Tech Industry News)
Wikipedia gets $890,000 to Make Site Non-Geek Friendly
news.cnet.com — Anyone who's ever edited or created a Wikipedia entry can attest to the fact that it's not that self-explanatory. They're in luck--the non-profit anyone-can-edit encyclopedia has received $890,000 from the Stanton Foundation in order to make it easier to use.More… (Tech Industry News)
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Twitter CEO: Revenue coming soon, but I won't tell you how
news.cnet.com — At a Churchill Club event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams brushed off--again--criticisms that the company is slow to turn on its revenue-generating engines. More… (Tech Industry News)
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