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New York Times:
With a Cellphone as My Guide — Think of it as a divining rod for the information age. — If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a historical monument, and with the press of a button the phone will display information …
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Spencer Reiss / Wired News:
His Space … Perched on the edge of a bright white power sofa on the supernaturally quiet eighth floor of the News Corporation's global headquarters, the last thing Rupert Murdoch looks like is a fire-eyed revolutionary. Starched cuffs. Courtly manner. A month past his 75th birthday.
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
NBC Taps Popularity Of Online Video Site — Online video company YouTube Inc. said yesterday that it will promote NBC's fall television lineup and sponsor a contest related to a popular network show, signaling a wave of marriages between old-media firms and fledgling video Web sites.
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Chris Noon / Forbes:
Wright's NBC In Deal With Video Site YouTube — LONDON - — Boob Tube? Judging by the "Top Favorites" section on Sequoia Capital-funded video-sharing site YouTube, Internet users like watching students performing robot dances, teenagers playing electric guitar versions of Pachelbel's Canon …
Simon Freeman / Times of London:
Virus hackers held in UK and Finland — Three men suspected of bombarding business computers with e-mail viruses were arrested today following an investigation into internet fraud involving police in Britain and Finland. — The trio - a 63-year-old from England, a 28-year-old from Scotland …
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Jeremy Wagstaff / the LOOSE wire blog:Suspected Fraudsters Behind the Sony DRM Virus Arrested
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Richard Clayton / Light Blue Touchpaper:
Ignoring the "Great Firewall of China" — The Great Firewall of China is an important tool for the Chinese Government in their efforts to censor the Internet. It works, in part, by inspecting web traffic to determine whether or not particular words are present.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
California launches "mandatory" cellphone recycling program — The Golden State has always been fairly legislation-happy when it comes to keeping things green, and now they're trying to "Keep California Beautiful" with a new program to require cellphone recycling.
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Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Linden Lab to Create De Facto Tiered Service — As we wrote about earlier on 3pointD, Linden Lab, creators of the virtual world of Second Life, has been met with an outcry over recent changes to their registration system, which no longer requires billing information or real-world identifying data of any kind.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
TED conference releases its video, awesome stuff — Really great video content was just released by the TED conference. I've never been to this conference, but it has a huge reputation and if you look at the speakers you'll see why. Hans Rosling, for instance, has an amazing data visualization talk.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zlango's Icon-based Language for SMS — Zlango is a new Israeli startup (there is a lot of innovation going on there) that has created a very interesting new language and associated application that could change the SMS landscape (as well as, eventually, email and IM).
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Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Sun says open-source Java possible in 'months' — Logistics such as maintaining compatibility still being worked out — A Sun Microsystems Inc. executive said Tuesday said the company is "months" away from releasing its trademark Java programming language under an open-source license.
Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times:
A $31 Billion Gift Between Friends — The friendship between Warren E. Buffett and Bill Gates has been forged over a shared passion for such homespun American treats as cherry Coke, burgers and college football. They delight as well in loftier pursuits, like playing bridge and solving complex math problems.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Is Google Objective? Manual Edits in Search Results — Google claims that their search results "are generated completely objectively and are independent of the beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google." Elizabeth Van Couvering, at the Berlin search engines workshop Monday …
CNET News.com:
Gliffy, the online Visio killer — Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. — Like other online applications, it has inherent advantages over traditional software.
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Matt Mondok / M-Dollar:
Windows Genuine Advantage could lock pirated copies of Windows — It's been known that the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) phones home for quite some time now. For most of us, we've come to live with Microsoft's decision to relegate the software to only contacting the company's servers once every few weeks .
Associated Press:
Top Internet Providers Hope to Combat Child Porn With Image Database — NEW YORK — Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meebo Extension for Flock — A UK developer who goes by "Tones" has created a Flock-specific extension that puts Meebo, and therefore Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and MSN IM, directly into a sidebar in the Flock browser (the extension also works for Firefox). Since Flock and Meebo are two startups I use, this looked interesting.
Robert Summa / Joystiq:
Pink is the new DS Lite — As if the DS Lite weren't hip enough with its iPod-like coolness, now Nintendo is going the RAZR route and dressing up their little handheld darling in pink — you know, for the ladies. So far, only available in Japan starting on July 20, it's only a matter …
Xenon / Surfin' Safari:
Introducing Drosera — I would like to introduce a new addition to the WebKit open source tools—a JavaScript debugger. Drosera, named after the largest genera of bug eating plants, lets you attach and debug JavaScript for any WebKit application—not just Safari.
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