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Mark Franchetti / Times of London:
Russians dent Google's world domination — How a bunch of young upstarts humbled the search-engine giant — THE Russian mathematician was 24 years old when he first saw a personal computer, one of only a dozen in the whole Soviet Union. That was in 1984.
Ciaran / jaiku invites:
Jaiku is NOW on the Google App Engine — The long awaited move for Jaiku has finally begun. Last night they took down the home page and took all services off-line and replaced them with this message ... Now I can confirm that they have moved to the Google App Engine and will be hosted there when they come back up.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google finally ready to take Jaiku seriously? — When Google bought Jaiku in October of last year, there was some thought that it would overtake Twitter as the go-to lifestreaming/status update site of choice on the Internet. Instead, Google completely and utterly neglected the service …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record — By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward …
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Preferring the Web Over Watching TV — Parents who worry that their children watch too much television can take heart: a bigger concern may be children spending too much time online. — For children ages 10 to 14 who use the Internet, the computer is a bigger draw than the TV set …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case — For those of you not closely following the drama between social network platform Ning and a popular widget provider called WidgetLaboratory, you can read the background here. On Friday Ning unceremoniously shut down their access to Ning, making all those widgets vanish.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Uncovering The Dark Side of P4P — P4P is touted as the new and improved P2P. The technology has the potential to lower bandwidth costs for ISPs and speed up downloads for P4P enabled filesharing clients. There is a dark site to this new technology though.
David OReilly:
iHologram update — *my hosts have taken down this site for the last day... they say the attention from digg overloaded their servers, please take it easy guys...* — The iHologram has become one of the All time most popular videos on Vimeo in the space of a day, and is currently …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Google: “No Trespassing” signs won't stop Street View — Google has once again managed to stir up debate about the existence of privacy in our highly connected culture as it argues that the “No Trespassing” sign in your front yard is just for show. — Back in April, a Pittsburgh couple sued Google …
Michael Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Turning Point for Touch Screens — BREAKTHROUGHS often beget other breakthroughs, and Apple's slick use of touch technology on its iPhone has set touch-screen makers to salivating. An industry once relegated to niches now sees the potential for riches. — The market for touch screens …
Eric / Photography Bay:
Canon 50D Photos With 18-200mm IS Kit Lens — The Canon 50D has been revealed with an EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS kit lens option. The image to the left is an official image from Canon, which appeared on this page from Canon Japan a third party site. … Below you will find more official images of the Canon 50D.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops — SEATTLE—Imagine your laptop is stolen. — Set aside for a second the likelihood that if it was you wouldn't be able to read this story and think instead about how you might go about tracking it down.
