News to know: Google Voice; Dumbphones; Rigged podcasts; Boxee
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Ryan Naraine: Rigged podcasts can leak your iTunes username/password
Sam Diaz: Google upgrades Grand Central, launches Google Voice
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft given month reprieve in EU browser-bundling case
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: When The Smartest Phone Is A Dumb Phone
Larry Dignan: The war for mobile developers is on: Do you have to pick sides?
- Foley: Microsoft seeks to lure mobile developers with un-Apple-like perks
- Nokia fights to keep to smartphone edge
- Matthew Miller: Windows Mobile does better than iPhone in 4th quarter 2008
- Qik announces Ovi Share integration and Ovi Store feature
- Is Nokia's focus on services keeping them out of the US?
- Nokia announces three new music-focused phones for Q3
- Gallery: Copernic Mobile: View Windows files from your phone (right)
Brian Sommer: The ROI needed to sell software/services
Michael Krigsman: Will downtime rain on the cloud computing parade?
Facebook: Welcome to Your New Home Page
NYT: The Officer Who Posted Too Much on MySpace
Silicon Alley Insider: Valley Exec Twitters Through Home Break-In
Jason Perlow: Puget Systems: Independent PC Building is Very Much Alive
Andrew Nusca: Boxee for Windows debuts, sort of
Oliver Marks: Sharepoint as a Gateway Drug to Greater Efficiency...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft gambles that "Starter" edition dissatisfaction will boost revenues
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
- Dignan: Berners-Lee: Deep packet inspection compromises Net integrity
- The Register: Phorm CEO clashes with Berners-Lee at Parliament
- Sam Diaz: If Facebook, Twitter gain on Google for referrals, will marketing dollars follow? [Poll]
- Foley: Microsoft's PR agency releases Twitter trend-tracking tool
- Andrew Mager: Jimmy Fallon pushes Twitter to the masses
- Dennis Howlett: SAP, Sybase, mobile apps: shrug?
- Apple updates--and shrinks--iPod shuffle
- Andrew Nusca: The problem with Apple's new iPod shuffle? Humans
- Kingsley-Hughes: Apple lifts lid on new-look "talking" 4GB 3G iPod shuffles
- Gallery (right)
- Fast Company: The Gross Inconvenience of the New iPod Shuffle
Plantronics aims to solve 'last 10 feet' problem with unified communications
Jason O'Grady: Rumor: Apple ordering 10-inch touchscreens for Q3
- Dana Blankenhorn: Avalere research demonstrates business model point
- Open source is not charity