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March 20, 2008
Verizon Wins Key FCC Auctions (Corey Boles/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 11:10pm

Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wins Key FCC Auctions — Verizon Wireless was the biggest winner of communications spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission's recently concluded auction, the agency's chairman said Thursday. — The company, which is jointly owned by Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group Plc …
FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what? (Larry Dignan/Between the Lines)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 10:45pm

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
FCC: Verizon Wireless a big 700 Mhz auction winner; Now what? — Updated: Verizon Wireless was the biggest winner in the Federal Communication Commission's 700 Mhz auction. — FCC Chairman Kevin Martin revealed Verizon Wireless as the biggest winner of spectrum.
Amazon's Newest Web Service: Shipping Center APIs (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 10:20pm

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon's Newest Web Service: Shipping Center APIs — Amazon wants to do for physical product shipping what it's done for web storage and computing power - leverage its surplus infrastructure built up by Amazon.com to offer cheap and easy infrastructure for all kinds of other activities.
Our Most Fulfilling Web Service Yet (Amazon Web Services Blog)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 8:45pm

Amazon Web Services Blog:
Our Most Fulfilling Web Service Yet — The Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) allows merchants to tap in to Amazon's network of fulfillment centers and our expertise in logistics. Merchants can store their own products to our fulfillment centers and then, using a simple web service interface, fulfill orders for the products.
Firmware v2.20 bringing BD-Live to PS3 (Eric Lempel/PlayStation.Blog)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 8:25pm

Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog:
Firmware v2.20 bringing BD-Live to PS3 — Hi again everyone. Here's a quick preview of the next PLAYSTATION 3 system software update coming up in the next few days. Firmware v2.20, introduces a number of features to further enhance your PLAYSTATION 3 as the hub of your entertainment center.
Mike Arrington's dream team has wrong goal (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 8:20pm

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Mike Arrington's dream team has wrong goal — Something about Mike Arrington's post yesterday has been bugging me. This morning it hit: Mike has the wrong goal. — What is his goal? To beat CNET. — But does a great business or movement EVER get built on top of a goal like that? — No.
HTC names Google phone, 'Dream' (Dan Nystedt/InfoWorld)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 7:40pm

Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
HTC names Google phone, ‘Dream’ — San Francisco - The mobile phone High Tech Computer (HTC) has been developing to run on the Android software from Google will be called “Dream,” have a large touchscreen and full QWERTY keypad, a person close to the situation said Thursday.
PS3 firmware 2.20 bringing BD-Live interactive Blu-ray this month (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 7:40pm

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
PS3 firmware 2.20 bringing BD-Live interactive Blu-ray this month — The Blu-ray 2.0 spec (or BD-Live) is just days from launch. Sony just announced that the next PlayStation3 firmware updated — v2.20 — will add the new interactive features to your PS3.
BoomTown Decodes TechCrunch's Dream Team Memo (So You Don't Have To) (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 7:05pm

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes TechCrunch's Dream Team Memo (So You Don't Have To) — So what prompted TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington to pen a pugnacious piece on how blogs should not be raising so much venture capital and instead roll themselves into a “Dream Team,” with the unusual title of “More Bloggers Raising Money.
AOL: Many Senior Managers Were Against Bebo Buy (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 7:00pm

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL: Many Senior Managers Were Against Bebo Buy — Many senior AOL (TWX) managers did not want to buy social-networking site Bebo, sources tell us. Among the concerns, they did not (and do not) believe Bebo will hit the revenue and profit targets used to justify the $850 million purchase price.
Bezos: Sorry for the delays, more Kindles on the way (David Carnoy/CNET News.com)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 6:30pm

David Carnoy / CNET News.com:
Bezos: Sorry for the delays, more Kindles on the way — If you happened to have visited Amazon's Web site today, you might have noticed that a large message from Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, was plastered across the home page of the site. Basically, it was a big fat apology for Amazon's inability …
HTC Calls Android Phone Dream, Feels Like One Already (Addy Dugdale/Gizmodo)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 6:25pm

Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
HTC Calls Android Phone Dream, Feels Like One Already — More details of HTC's Google phone are emerging, it seems. The handset is to be called “Dream”, will be touchscreen and have a large QWERTY keypad. So, what else do we know? And, more importantly, when is it coming out?
Diigo 3.0: The all-powerful personal and social bookmarking service (Rafe Needleman/Webware.com)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 5:20pm

Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Diigo 3.0: The all-powerful personal, social bookmarking service — I was impressed by the preview I got in September of the bookmarking and Web annotation tool Diigo 3.0. It's taken the company until this morning to release this version to the public. In the interim the team has added features and tweaked the design.
The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media (Knowledge@Wharton)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 4:05pm

Knowledge@Wharton:
The Experts vs. the Amateurs: A Tug of War over the Future of Media — A tug of war over the future of media may be brewing between so-called user-generated content — including amateurs who produce blogs, video and audio for public consumption — and professional journalists …
FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects (Declan McCullagh/The Iconoclast)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:35pm

Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects — Screen snapshot: This now-defunct site is reportedly where an FBI undercover agent posted hyperlinks purporting to be illegal videos. Clicking the links brought a raid from the Feds. — The FBI has recently adopted …
How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being a F**king Jackass (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:35pm

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How Leander Kahney Got Everything Wrong by Being an Irredeemable Jackass — A decade ago, Wired was my favorite magazine. Today, they print mind-numbing tripe like Leander Kahney's 3,500-word cover story, “How Apple Got Everything Right by Doing Everything Wrong”.
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks (Louise Story/New York Times)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 1:15pm

Louise Story / New York Times:
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks — AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law.
Gartner Changes Its Enterprise iPhone Recommendations (Ken Dulaney/Gartner)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 12:05pm

Ken Dulaney / Gartner:
Gartner Changes Its Enterprise iPhone Recommendations — The iPhone will soon be tailored for enterprises. Gartner recommends “appliance-level” support status once firmware 2.0 and improvements are released. iPhone will become a popular tool alongside BlackBerry and Microsoft devices.
Adobe realizes SDK not enough for Flash on iPhone (Tom Krazit/One More Thing)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 11:45am

Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Adobe realizes SDK not enough for Flash on iPhone — Adobe has admitted it can't bring Flash to the iPhone just because it thinks that would be a neat idea. — Comments made Tuesday by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen were widely interpreted this morning as confirmation that Adobe and Apple …
Google Queries Decelerated in February--Comscore (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 9:30am

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Queries Decelerated in February—Comscore — More fodder to support Google (GOOG) Q1 revenue concerns: Comscore's February report says U.S. query growth decelerated again in February. — The good news for Google fans is that it did much better than Yahoo (YHOO), where queries actually declined (per Comscore).
AMD makes massive layoffs (Charlie Demerjian/Inquirer)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 9:20am

Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
AMD makes massive layoffs — Five per cent cull — AMD IS QUIETLY cutting five per cent of its workforce. Pink slips have been handed out now. The cuts are going to be across the board, not targeted at any specific group. — Whispers also say that this is because the chip maker …
Y Combinator Demo Day - which one will be the next Google? (Don Dodge/Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 6:55am

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Y Combinator Demo Day - which one will be the next Google? — Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and the Y Combinator gang held their Demo Day yesterday for 21 hopeful startups. In most cases these “companies” are only 3 months old, have two or three founders, and are just launching a beta product/service.
VC confab: Please, no more social networks (Stefanie Olsen/CNET News.com)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 6:05am

Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
VC confab: Please, no more social networks — REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—The consensus here at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week seems to be that the world doesn't need another social network. — That's considering that the advertising model for even the largest social networks …
2nd UPDATE: Verizon Wireless Unveils Open Network Specs (Roger Cheng/CNN)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 5:40am

Roger Cheng / CNN:
2nd UPDATE: Verizon Wireless Unveils Open Network Specs — (Recasts first paragraph, includes additional background and executive comments from Verizon, Motorola and Sony, plus the move's impact on consumers.) — Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- In unveiling …
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy? (Michael Rose/The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:15am

Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy? — Update 9 pm ET: Our comrade David Chartier from Ars Technica points out that the 7.1.3 firmware itself may not be necessary for the new functionality to work; he says he tested a 7.1 AEBS with a machine running Time Capsule & Airport 1.0 …
Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API (Official Google Blog)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 2:55am

Official Google Blog:
Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API — Whenever we're asked “how do people use Google spreadsheets?”, we always struggle with where to start. It's not that we can't think of examples, it's just that the examples are all so different, so unique.
Supernova - I'm writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara ... (Port 25)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 2:20am

Port 25:
Supernova — I'm writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I'm going to announce the beginning of Microsoft's collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. — This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the Open Source Software Think Tank 2007) …
comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings (comScore)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 1:40am

comScore:
comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches …
Yahoo turns to radio ads to lure Google Web searchers (Elinor Mills/CNET News.com)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 1:25am

Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo turns to radio ads to lure Google Web searchers — Updated 10 a.m. PDT with quotes from radio ad. — Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google's.
Fast is better than slow (Robert Hamilton/Official Google ...)

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 12:50am

Robert Hamilton / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Fast is better than slow — A few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps (e.g. finding the browser application …
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