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TSA:
New ‘Checkpoint Friendly’ Laptop Bag Procedures — News & Happenings — Starting Aug. 16, TSA will allow laptops to remain in bags meeting new ‘checkpoint friendly’ guidelines. Not all laptop bags are ‘checkpoint friendly’ — (see images below). — To help streamline the security process …
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Thomas Frank / USA Today:
Fliers cheer laptop policy change — WASHINGTON - It's not surprising that Tim Burke is taking an airplane flight Monday, but it is unusual that he's looking forward to it. — The reason: Starting on Saturday, some of the nation's airline passengers will not have to remove their laptops at airport checkpoints.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
TSA makes laptop travel easier - or not? — Just when you think the federal government has come up with a plan to make the security process at airports more efficient, it turns out that the fine line in security is now blurrier than ever and I suspect the wait times at security checkpoints will actually grow longer.
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Glenn Fleishman / PC World:Keep That Laptop in the Bag in the Security Line
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Steve / Netflix Community Blog:
Friday Morning Shipping Update — Let's get right to it. This morning, we're happy to report that all of our shipping centers are resuming normal operations after experiencing three days of significant issues. Throughout the night and as we post this update, our distribution centers …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
An Early GPhone Review: Android Is Powerful, But No iPhone (GOOG, AAPL) — So now we know that the first GPhone is indeed coming this fall. — Will it be a hit? It's hard to tell much from the supposed spy photos we've seen floating around on the Web, like the one to the right.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Launches AdSense for Feeds — I noticed a new option in my AdSense account: AdSense for feeds, a program that displays contextual and placement-targeted ads in FeedBurner feeds. FeedBurner announced in May that AdSense for Feeds will be available to a small number of publishers and now it seems that everyone can use it.
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Royal Pingdom:
The best job interview questions from Microsoft, Google... and IKEA — Tricky, funny and interesting, these are some questions people claim to have been asked at job interviews with Microsoft and Google. And IKEA, sort of... We came across these because we are currently looking for a developer …
comScore:
comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for July 2008 — Travel Sites Continue to See Strong Gains During Summer Months — Retail, Movie and Entertainment News Sites Keep Americans Entertained During July — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Are Macs More Expensive? Let's Do the Math Once and For All — It's of those eternal questions of the computing world that never seems to get answered definitively: Does the “Mac Tax” really exist? Some folks are positive that Macs are overpriced compared to Windows computers; others deny it steadfastly.
Dieter Bohn / WMExperts:
More Treo Pro Pictures (UPDATED with new Details!) — When it rains, it POURS. This time we find them from nomad2000, again in our forums, who found them at treo8. What we know: — 400Mhz CPU , but snappy response — 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM! (Other reports show “In use: 43.96mb, Free 57.72mb")
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:Palm Treo Pro Revealed (Lookin' Good)
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Technologizer, Silicon Alley Insider, Treonauts, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, PalmAddicts, Engadget Mobile, I4U News, WMExperts, IntoMobile and Crave
Matt / Socialthing! blog:
Ok, so yeah...it's true! We got acquired... You my have seen the rumors, the leaks, etc. and while we just had to sit here and watch it all go down, we wanted nothing more than to tell the entire world how excited we are. — This post has been a long time coming and we're very excited …
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Stephanie Condon / The Iconoclast:
Olympic committee rethinks copyright infringement claim on YouTube — The International Olympic Committee has retracted a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown request it sent to YouTube over a Tibetan protest video. — According to Corynne McSherry, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far) — We have been reminded several times lately that Web 2.0 is in no way a synonym for “reliable.” Major services have crashed. Big product launches have fizzled. Users have raised their collective fists in the air. What's going on? Is the Web crumbling?
Jeremy Herron / Associated Press:
New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights — NEW YORK - The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy. — A fledgling Web site called Mygazines.com encourages people to copy and upload popular magazines …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Internet captivated by Bigfoot hunters' press conference — It's the ultimate summer Friday news story: CNN Webcasting a press conference hosted by the men who claim they nabbed a dead body of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot. — Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi held the press conference in Palo Alto …
Phone Arena:
Exclusive: Spy photos of Motorola V70 Retro — Although it announces only boring phones, Motorola seems to be trying to resurrect its headset division, preparing a bunch of yet unofficial models. The latest one in the collection is the V70 Retro (model name is subject to change), which we show you here.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
How to build a network — I was talking with a media exec who started a blog ad network — bless him — but who I thought was taking too high a share of the revenue: at least half. That's a natural reflex, perfectly understandable: Get what you can. Other networks do that.
