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Archive for July 5th, 2009

Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) (Sarah Lacy/TechCrunch)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said)  —  Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are launching their much-anticipated $300 million venture fund this evening, aptly called Andreessen Horowitz.  —  The fund will make investments of $50,000 to $50 million …

Nokia turns to Android in phone wars (Richard Wray/Guardian)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Richard Wray / Guardian:
Nokia turns to Android in phone wars  —  Finnish mobile phone giant changes strategy to increase share in the only growing market  —  Nokia is understood to be developing a mobile phone that runs on Google’s Android software platform in a strategic U-turn for the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer.

4chan may be behind attack on Twitter (Harrison Hoffman/CNET News)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Harrison Hoffman / CNET News:
4chan may be behind attack on Twitter  —  Update: Twitter has reacted to this raid by removing the term from its trending topics, but evidence can still be found on Twitter Search.  —  Twitter saw a huge influx of fake accounts on Sunday, pushing the NSFW trending topic, #gorillapenis, all […]

MI6 boss in Facebook entry row (BBC)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

BBC:
MI6 boss in Facebook entry row  —  Personal details about the life of the next head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, have been removed from social networking site Facebook amid security concerns.  —  The Mail on Sunday said his wife had put details about their children and the location of their flat on the […]

Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox … (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Since March, Internet Explorer Lost 11.4 Percent Share To Firefox, Safari, And Chrome  —  The new browser wars on on.  More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger.  Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 …

How I Tweet: Just the FAQs (Guy Kawasaki/How to Change the World)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
How I Tweet: Just the FAQs  —  General  — Question: How can you follow so many people?  —  Answer: I don’t read the timelines of all the people that I follow.  Instead, I only deal with @s, Directs, and tweets that contain “guykawasaki” and “alltop.”

IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life (David Sarno/Los Angeles Times)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life  —  Buyers are finding that the device has trouble making it through a workday without a rest stop at the electrical outlet.  —  The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life — but its battery […]

The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray. (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray.  —  One thing I hated about being a corporate lawyer at Wilson Sonsini back in the day - we got to work on really cool deals (the last deal I worked on before leaving for a startup was the AOL/Netscape merger), but […]