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Thursday, March 6, California. Apple reveals its plans for the iPhone. It opens this platform to developers releasing the same SDK its people are using to develop iPhone applications. It is a full disclosure, but without a caveat: the distribution of this new applications will be exclusively through the new AppStore. All this from June [...]

UPDATE: After all complaints against their far-from-perfect account-erasing system, Facebook seems to fix the problem…read more here. Following the trend at the OII, I feel like blogging about Facebook (see Jonathan Zittrain and Ian Brown‘s posts on it). My perspective is, however, a bit different. It is more related with the stickiness of this successful [...]

UPDATE: Google has reacted to Microsoft offer by a post from David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. Yes, it is big news. Yesterday, Microsoft offered $44.6 billion for Yahoo in its campaign to beat Google in the online hegemony battle. The offer is of $31 dollars per share, a premium [...]