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Lessig Blog:
On why I am not running — With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08?
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InfoWorld, MediaShift, Techdirt, AppScout, Salon, The 463, Vindu's View from the Valley, The Lede, Social Media and techPresident
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Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:Long odds lead Lessig to decide against run for Congress
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Threat Level
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover — PHOENIX — Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang knew exactly what was on everyone's minds at the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday. — In their first public appearance since Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo …
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CNN:
Questions over extent of YouTube blockade — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Conflicting reports emerged out of Pakistan on Tuesday over the duration of a Pakistani government block on the video-sharing Web site YouTube for showing a “highly blasphemous Dutch” video.
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iPhone Savior
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AppleInsider:
New MacBook Pro part numbers surface in inventory systems — The seemingly endless wait for a new line of professional notebooks from Mac maker Apple Inc. appears to be nearing an end, with part numbers and pricing for new MacBook Pro models cropping up in inventory systems worldwide over the weekend.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces New Reporting Standard for Digital Campaign Performance: Engagement Mapping — New approach allows advertisers to map and assign value to various touch points, gaining a more complete picture of a campaign. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Engagement Mapping …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out — Adobe's AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser. Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it's time to look at some of the AIR apps you can use today.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:AIR Goes Live: The Best Things About Adobe's AIR Platform
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Microsoft Watch, Download Squad, Digital Trends, The Universal Desktop and CenterNetworks
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DivX Shuts Down Popular Piracy Site Stage6 — We covered Stage6, a DivX-owned site, in October 2006 as part of a roundup of up and coming video sites. The site, which allowed users to upload video in the high quality Divx format, streams video that makes YouTube look shabby in comparison.
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Silicon Valley Watcher, Gizmodo, The Business Of Online Video, Electronista and gHacks technology news
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Dear ABC, You Don't Compete With TiVo By Making A Product Worse — About a year and a half ago, an executive at Disney-owned ABC-TV talked about how the network was experimenting with ways to block people from fast forwarding through commercials. The exec in question even claimed …
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Megan Johnston / FinancialWeek.com Breaking …:
Apple's cash: It's one sour cider — Whopping $18.4 billion now idles on balance sheet, fermenting grumbles that Steve Jobs can do better — Talk about your apple juice: The computer company's current cash position is $18.4 billion, up an astounding 20% in a single quarter.
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Byte of the Apple, Infinite Loop, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacDailyNews and Macsimum News
Hal Varian / Official Google Blog:
Our secret sauce — I was recently a guest columnist on the Freakonomics Blog. There were several interesting questions from the readers, but one was quite striking: … It seems that a lot of people are trying to figure out why Google has done so well.
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Google Operating System, VC Ratings, Freakonomics, Joe Duck, InformationWeek Weblog and Clickety Clack
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials said on Monday that they were considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from discriminating against content providers …
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IP Democracy, Wall Street Journal, paidContent.org, Salon, DSLreports, GigaOM, Ars Technica, CNET News.com, Webware.com, Digital Daily, VentureBeat and Valleywag
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Mobile applications, RIP — Summary: The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices. The problems are so bad that the mobile web, despite its many technical drawbacks, is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
VMware vuln exposes the perils of virtualization — Security researchers have discovered a bug in VMware desktop virtualization applications that allows attackers to take complete control of the underlying PC, including the execution or modification of files on the host operating system.
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Kristopher Kubicki / DailyTech:
Sun Leaks 6-core Intel Xeon, Nehalem Details — Sun confirms what Intel has been dying to tell us, at least off the record — Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures.
Reuters:
Taliban issue ultimatum to Afghan mobile operators — KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents on Monday gave Afghan mobile phone operators three days to shut down their networks at night or face attack, as the rebels said international forces used the cellphones to track them down.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Jon Stewart, Bored With Oscars, Pulls Out iPhone — Never before has the futility of watching films on such a tiny screen been so well encapsulated as when Jon Stewart enjoyed Lawrence of Arabia on the Oscar stage last night. If you missed it, we won't spoil the joke for you.
