Staska / Unwired View:
iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3.0 or iPhone Nano - a clamshell/flip phone? — When talking about how Apple is gonna take over mobile phone industry, one of the things that is very rarely talked about, is iPhone form factor. — There's a reason we have mobile phones in tens of shapes and sizes, and a number of form factors.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Early Yahoo Postmortem, And Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Prospect Of MicroHoo — If the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo does happen the "postmortems" on Yahoo will come fast and furious. Perhaps the first of these is from the Mercury News, which recounts the history of Google …
Reuters: Google says Microsoft's Yahoo buy might hurt Internet — BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world's leading search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo Inc.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Microsoft Adopts Flash Lite For Windows Mobile As a Stopgap Measure — Flash Lite for mobile phones might not be good enough for Steve Jobs, but Microsoft is less picky. It is licensing Flash Lite for Windows Mobile. This is an acknowledgment of two things: there are a lot of developers …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch: 10 Things I Warned Microsoft About Windows Vista — The imminent real release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is reason enough to broach the question. SP1 is an important milestone for an operating system that bloggers and other critics consistently ridicule.
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:NEW! China blocks YouTube, Yahoo! over Tibet — China has closed down access to several of the world's most popular websites in an apparent attempt to censor international coverage of the violence that is unfolding in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. — YouTube, the video-sharing website which has become …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: CBS to bloggers: Install our widgets, and we'll split the profits — CBS Television Stations has launched a new program to get its local news headlines onto blogs and social-media sites, the CBS division said Monday. — Called the CBS Local Ad Network, it's a way for participating region-focused blogs …
Dan Goodin / The Register:NEW! eBay dumps ValueClick — ValueClick pays FTC $2.9m over misleading ads — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — eBay is dropping ValueClick's Commission Junction as the manager of the affiliate programs for eBay's auctions and Half.com sites.
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC: Web creator rejects net tracking — The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Chris Williams / The Register: BT confesses lies over secret Phorm experimentsRichard Thomas / FIPR: Open Letter to the Information CommissionerRichard Defendorf / CNET News.com: Berners-Lee wary of unsolicited Web tracking—of any kindDarren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life: Phorm's devil is in the detail?Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: Would You Fire Your ISP Over Privacy?Alan Patrick / broadstuff: NEVER MIND DATA PORTABILITY, SOLVE DATA PRIVACY FIRST!Mike Gunderloy / Web Worker Daily: Online Privacy - a Nice Dream?Becky / The Open Rights Group: Phorm update — It's difficult to tell which of today's developments …Frank Smith / Contentinople: News Bits: China Blocks YouTubeNick O'Neill / All Facebook: Tim Berners-Lee Doesn't Like BeaconAudley Jarvis / TechRadar.com: Web inventor attacks net trackingLeo Blanco / 901am: WWW inventors says "NO" to Internet tracking
Google Makes DoubleClick Employees Apply To Keep Their Jobs — Nothing like a short honeymoon. A secondhand source reports that Google has devised a new way to welcome employees of acquired companies into the fold: Make them apply to keep their jobs. — Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times: Dusting Off the Archive for the Web — As magazines and newspapers hunt for the new thing they need to be to thrive in the Internet era, some find that part of the answer lies in the old thing they used to be. — Publications are rediscovering their archives, like a person learning …
Kit Eaton / Gizmodo: Toshiba Dynabook SS RX1 Laptop First to Have 128GB SSD, Apparently — Toshiba's Dynabook SS RX1 now has an optional 128GB solid state drive built in, which Toshiba is claiming as a world first. It certainly beats the MacBook Air's SSD option, and is similarly slender, plus it squeezes in an optical drive.
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