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Archive for July 1st, 2009

Child Porn Is Apple’s Latest iPhone Headache (Updated) (Brian X. Chen/Gadget Lab)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Child Porn Is Apple’s Latest iPhone Headache (Updated)  —  (Updates with Apple pulling the application Thursday)  —  A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has turned up in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple’s inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content.

Child Porn Is Apple’s Latest iPhone Headache (Brian X. Chen/Gadget Lab)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Child Porn Is Apple’s Latest iPhone Headache  —  A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple’s inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content.  —  The image appears in the free app BeautyMeter …

bringing a bit of twitter to bing (Bing)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Bing:
bringing a bit of twitter to bing  —  There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter.  We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.

May The Tweets Be With You - The ecosystem growing around Twitter … (Biz/Twitter Blog)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Biz / Twitter Blog:
May The Tweets Be With You  —  The ecosystem growing around Twitter is something we very much believe in nourishing and supporting.  There are lots of really awesome services and applications out there like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tweetie, BackTweets, Tweetboard, and others that we absolutely love as do many users.

Pirate Bay’s Weird New Business Plan (Mark Scott/Business Week)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Mark Scott / Business Week:
Pirate Bay’s Weird New Business Plan  —  The new owner of the swashbuckling Swedish peer-to-peer outfit will bundle up the collective Internet bandwidth of its users and resell it to ISPs  —  When the founders of file-sharing Web site Pirate Bay were given a year’s prison sentence in April … […]

Apple already dropping NVIDIA chips? (Electronista)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Electronista:
Apple already dropping NVIDIA chips?  —  Apple and NVIDIA may be engaged in a fierce dispute that could exclude NVIDIA graphics chips from future Macs, according to sources reportedly aware of the talks.  They claim to SemiAccurate that Apple views NVIDIA’s proposals for renewed deals as …

Microsoft’s Bing search wins share from Google (Reuters)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Reuters:
Microsoft’s Bing search wins share from Google  —  LONDON/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp’s new Bing search engine gained U.S. market share in its first month in operation but still trails dominant rival Google Inc, according to data released on Wednesday.

Facebook for iPhone 3.0 - Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon. (Joe Hewitt/Facebook)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Joe Hewitt / Facebook:
Facebook for iPhone 3.0  —  Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon.  I can’t predict an exact date when I will submit to Apple, but I can say that I am about 98% done.  So what’s new in this update?  —  1. The “new” News Feed  —  2. Like  —  […]

O2 wins Palm Pre exclusive (Richard Wray/Guardian)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 wins Palm Pre exclusive  —  Network already has Apple’s iPhone and move would strengthen its position in UK smartphone market  —  American gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 which will see the mobile phone network become the exclusive UK partner for […]

O2 wins exclusive Palm Pre deal (Richard Wray/Guardian)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 wins exclusive Palm Pre deal  —  Network already has Apple’s iPhone and move would strengthen its position in UK smartphone market  —  American gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 which will see the mobile phone network become the exclusive UK partner […]