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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20 — She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has become the public face of Google, which was incorporated 10 years ago today. — The Internet giant's first female engineer …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The Omnigoogle — “Some say Google is God,” Sergey Brin once said. “Others say Google is Satan.” — The confusion about Google's identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep. The company, which today celebrates the tenth anniversary of its incorporation …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier — People have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring the files to their other computers and mobile devices. — This has not happened nearly as much with DVDs, for both practical and legal reasons.
Ted Dziuba:
A Web OS? Are You Dense? — People are calling Google Chrome a “Web Operating System” and a “Cloud Operating System”. Some are even calling it a Windows killer. — I think it's time to nip this horses**t in the bud, before it gets out of hand. — How Does Arringtons Know What Operating Systems Is?
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
One Bad Apple — Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors. — From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008 — A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs's once told me something surprising about his ex-boss. “Steve is a monopolist at heart,” he said.
Daniel Boffey / Daily Mail:
Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, but he's still not getting any money — Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod. — Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper — The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Applications, coming soon to a Mesh near you — If you think Live Mesh is just about syncing some TPS reports across a couple of computers and maybe a mobile phone or two then you're a very narrow-minded person. — Bit and pieces of information about what else Mesh can do has been scattered …
BBC:
‘Tough choices’ for UK broadband — The cost of taking fibre-based broadband to every UK home could top £28.8bn, says a report. — Compiled by the government's broadband advisory group, the report details the cost of the different ways to wire the UK for next generation broadband.
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers — NEW YORK - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Discussion in Facebook Groups and Pages is Public and Searchable — While discussion on Facebook Pages has always been publicly accessible to the world and indexed by search engines like Google, wall posts and discussion within Facebook Groups have historically been “off limits” to search engines.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Law prof warns against coming ISP privacy apocalypse — Anyone who reads Ars knows that we have concerns about ISP monitoring and the deep packet inspection that often goes along with it, but Colorado Law School prof Paul Ohm takes these worries to the next level—then hauls them thirty floors …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal — Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the Attorney General from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multi-state antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal. — The Association of National Advertisers announced Sunday …
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