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Archive for November 6th, 2008

LiveBlogging Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg At Web 2.0: Revenue … (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LiveBlogging Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg At Web 2.0: Revenue, Fundraising, Growth and Products  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon, at about 2 pm.  —  Like Jerry Yang yesterday, Zuckerberg has a lot to talk …

Craigslist Agrees to Curb Sex Ads (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Brad Stone / New York Times:
Craigslist Agrees to Curb Sex Ads  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The online classifieds company Craigslist said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general and agreed to tame its notoriously unruly “erotic services” listings.  —  Prostitutes and sex-oriented businesses …

Twitter’s Evan Williams: Making money through corporate accounts? (Caroline McCarthy/The Social)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Twitter’s Evan Williams: Making money through corporate accounts?  —  SAN FRANCISCO—In a panel at the Web 2.0 Summit, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams wouldn’t concretely answer one of Silicon Valley’s biggest unanswered questions: how the company plans to make money.

AT&T Fuze hitting shelves November 11th for $299 (Kelly Hodgkins/Boy Genius Report)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Fuze hitting shelves November 11th for $299  —  Looks like the Fuze may be hitting sooner than initially anticipated.  An anonymous tipster just dropped some official AT&T documents on us that show the Fuze dropping on November 11th.  Start saving your dough now as the Fuze …

AT&T-sanctioned 3G tethering on the way for iPhone (Greg Kumparak/MobileCrunch)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
AT&T-sanctioned 3G tethering on the way for iPhone  —  In an interview with Michael Arrington at the Web 2.0 Summit, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega let it be known that an official, AT&T sanctioned method of using the iPhone as a 3G modem for a laptop is on the […]

Ballmer dismisses Google Android (Suzanne Tindal/CNET News)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Suzanne Tindal / CNET News:
Ballmer dismisses Google Android  —  Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed the Android mobile operating system, saying he believed that building it was financially unsound for Google.  —  Speaking at Telstra’s annual investment day, Ballmer said designing Android wasn’t easy for Google.

AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon (Harry McCracken/Technologizer)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
AT&T: Tethering Coming to the iPhone Soon  —  Here’s a bit of cheery news from the Web 2.0 Summit: AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph De La Vega just told interviewer Michael Arrington that the company is working with Apple to let the iPhone serve as a tethered wireless modem for […]

AT&T to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport (Dawn Kawamoto/CNET News)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
AT&T to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport  —  AT&T announced plans on Thursday to acquire Wi-Fi network provider Wayport in a $275 million cash deal.  —  The acquisition will expand AT&T’s network of free U.S. hot spots by an additional 20,000 locations, adding such select hotels as Wyndham …

John Doerr’s Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
John Doerr’s Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy  —  At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Wednesday, billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr was interviewed by John Heilemann, a contributing editor at New York magazine who came in from Chicago, fresh off the Obama campaign trail.

Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked (Robert McMillan/PC World)

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Robert McMillan / PC World:
Once Thought Safe, WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked  —  Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.  —  The attack, described as the first practical attack on WPA …