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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo's Historical Hit: The Obamas On Election Night — Barack Obama's longtime campaign photographer David Katz took 82 pictures of the soon-to-be first family election night. Later, Katz uploaded them to Yahoo's (YHOO) photo-sharing site, Flickr. Gawker's Ryan Tate puts it in perspective:
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
If You Think Apple and IBM Were Never Rivals, Steve Jobs Has a Funny Story for You — This is pretty funny. — Mark Papermaster, the 26-year IBM (IBM) veteran being sued by his employer for taking a job at Apple (AAPL), is convinced Big Blue's suit is entirely without merit. Why?
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Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight — Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake? — Everything. — Until a very short time ago, copyright was an industrial regulation. If you fell under copyright's domain, it meant that you were using a piece …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites — China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked.
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Radhika / Newlaunches.com:
Microsoft makes you work from the moment you step on the bus! — If you thought BlackBerry was a curse because of accessibility then wait till you get a load of this. Executives of Microsoft just lost out on the most famous excuse for being late... “Stuck in the Traffic Jam” …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google at 10: Searching Its Own Soul — AS Google recently turned 10 years old, some analysts and investors began to say the company was suffering from early signs of maturity. Google's growth rate, while still brisk, has slowed significantly and is expected to slow more because of the economic slowdown.
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Jacqueline Emigh / BetaNews:
Analyst: Blu-ray prices will nosedive for the holidays — Blu-ray vendors will be forced to drop their prices so as to compete with standard DVD, unless they adopt differentiators such as Netflix movie downloads, new research suggests. — Holiday prices for Blu-ray drives could fall further …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Web 2.0 Summit: Al Gore on how the web can solve the climate crisis — Al Gore just finished his talk on the topic of “What Now?” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco — and yes, the content was as wide-ranging as the title implies. — Despite being an adviser and board member …
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Kevin Fogarty / eWeek:
H-1B Visa Reform Takes Shape to Address Fraud, Procedural Nightmares — Table of Contents: — In the wake of a report claiming up to 20 percent of H-1B applicants may be fraudulent, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services will look more closely at H-1B visa applications.
Nick / Rough Type:
Zuckerberg's Second Law — There's something about the crisp autumn air that brings out the philosopher in Mark Zuckerberg. At this week's Web 2. Summit, the Facebook founder mused, according to Saul Hansell of the New York Times, “I would expect that next year, people will share twice …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Halliburton Tries To Patent Form Of Patent Trolling — We see all sorts of ridiculous patent applications and patents, but my favorites tend to be the patents that have to do with patents themselves (such as the patent app on a method for filing a patent). However, the folks over at Patently-O …
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Worst. Bug. Ever. — It turns out the bug in Android I wrote about yesterday was worse than we thought. When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on to that shell. Thus every word you typed …
Robert Vamosi / Defense in Depth:
Security expert talks Russian gangs, botnets — In February of 2005, a Miami man sued Bank of America for not adequately protecting him against a $90,000 fraudulent wire transfer to the Parex Bank in Latvia. Joe Lopez was the first online user to sue his financial institution for not protecting his assets from a computer hacker.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
BitTorrent Sacks Half Its Staff — As an open-source technology protocol, the file-sharing system BitTorrent is going strong, representing about half the world's Internet traffic by some measures. But the San Francisco company, BitTorrent, is showing signs of serious trouble while it tries to commercialize the technology.
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Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
Review: Control your HTPC with Air Mouse for iPhone — In my living room, I have an HTPC hooked up to my rear-projection television. At one point, it was a DVR box running Windows MCE, although it has since been relegated to Hulu and Netflix duty after I made the switchover to HD cable.
Franklin Paul / Reuters:
Las Vegas offers surprise hotel bargains for CES — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gadget geeks, used to booking hotel rooms way in advance for the annual Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, may be one-upped by lazier peers this January. — With just two months to go before the January 8-11 show …
Brigid Gaffikin / GigaOM:
Amazon Web Services Not Just for Early Adopters — Amazon Web Services' platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies. Case in point is the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, whose seven finalists are a diverse group of companies, among them Knewton …
Tiffany Wu / Reuters:
AT&T to buy rural phone co Centennial for $944 mln — NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (T.N) plans to buy rural phone company Centennial Communications Corp (CYCL.O) for $944 million in cash to expand its wireless network in Puerto Rico and other regions of the United States.
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