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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Live Documents enters the Office suite ring — Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now, Bhatia wants to bite the hand that fed him. He formed a new company, InstaColl, and is joining Zoho, ThinkFree, Google …
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Microsoft's Hotmail founder goes for the (wrong) Office jugular with Live Documents — Sabeer Bhatia, one of the co-founders of Hotmail (bought by Microsoft for $400 million ten years ago), is on a mission to lobotomize Microsoft's $20 billion Office business. He has an uphill climb.
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Facebook takes some hits from MoveOn.org for violating privacy of online purchasers... Since Wednesday, Facebook has taken a beating on its policy of publicizing purchases made online. Here's MoveOn.org's release: — As Holiday Shopping Begins, MoveOn Calls On Facebook To Stop Making People's Private Online Purchases Public
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Facebook Really Censoring Search When It Suits Them? — Earlier this month I wrote a blog post showing that a search for presidential candidate "Ron Paul" in Facebook Groups yields zero results. Facebook blamed the problem on a bug (unofficially, via comments by employees to that post), which was later corrected.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
The BIG iPod touch review — A few weeks ago I got my hands on two 16GB iPod touch devices. Having spent a lot of hands on time with these devices it's time for a comprehensive review. — The iPod touch was for me the first Apple device to come out when I eagerly awaited the release day.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately — There's a certain amount of crowing associated with hacking the blog of a security team - which might be why a hacker, apparently Russian, broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team at the Light Blue Touchpaper blog.
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Cliff L. Biffle / Cliff Hacks Things:
ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations — For my birthday, I bought myself an ASUS eeePC. Now, I've been lusting after very-small-form-factor laptops for some time (ever since I saw the Zaurus C series), and this is quite the small one. It also ships with Linux, which (I thought) …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Nokia N810: unboxing and first impressions — My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was delivered yesterday. After fondling it for most of the day, I'm relatively impressed. The N810 is a bit smaller than the N800, which makes it more comfortable to use and easier to tote around in a pocket.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked — Last month a leaked email from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - revealed that they had plans …
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Ben Hall / Financial Times:
France plans to cut off internet pirates — Internet users in France who download music and films without paying for them could find their web access shut down by a government body, under a ground-breaking industry agreement backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns — The Motion Picture of Association of America is urging some of the nation's largest universities to deploy custom software designed to pinpoint students who may be using the schools' networks to illegally download pirated movies.
Frank Pasquale / madisonian.net:
Real Online Competition: The Right to Exit — There has been a lot of news coverage of Google's "openness initiatives" over the past few weeks. The "Open Handset Alliance" promises to break the carriers' appliancization of cell phones. OpenSocial is designed to put its imprint …
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
O2 has Wigan-sized iPhone problem — Exclusive Everyone wants a Wii or an Eee this Christmas. They're the hottest technology items in town, but there's none to be found for love nor money. If you want an iPhone, however, supplies remain plentiful. — Reliable channel sources tell us …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
IAC To Spend $100 Million In China, Ask.com China Coming As Well — IAC is planning on spending $100 million on new ventures in China and is also looking to launch a Chinese version of Ask.com — According to the Wall Street Journal, IAC CEO Barry Diller said the new push into China …
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Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
Japanese Researchers Recycle Old Cell Phone Parts into PCs [Recycled Parts] — Recycled cell phone parts are being used alongside circuit boards to make pocket-sized PCs. A team of engineers at Hokuto System is behind the idea, which will be available in Japan before the end of the year, and is known as DVIEW.
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Thursdayclub / Travels With My Overnight Bag:
Exercise for the Reader: Facebook Member Stats — [Update: before you get too far into these numbers, you might like to check out this updated post, which gives a more accurate breakdown of genders - the country totals remain the same] — Out of interest I went through the Facebook ad platform …
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