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Brian Ussery / beu blog:
GDrive — “Online file backup and storage... GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents... GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device - be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone”.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever — Almost everyday now brings a new hint into what Google is planning for its “GDrive” online storage service. Today, a piece of code found in the Google Pack software bundle includes both a product category and description for GDrive.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
First Official Description of GDrive — Brian Ussery noticed an interesting reference to GDrive in a file used by Google Pack. The file includes “localized information which is sent to translators”. — The product category for GDrive is “online file backup and storage” and there are two lines that describe the application:
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Dell to Make Google and Microsoft Phones - Really? — Just when you thought there are enough not-so-good looking and overrated phones out there, Dell is said to announce two iPhone and Blackberry competitors sometime next month. Code named MePhone (hopefully not the final name) …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Is Dell's Phone Called The MePhone? (DELL) — We've received a few tips from someone who claims to be close to Dell (DELL) about the company's entry into the smartphone market. We don't know if they're true, but they're not unreasonable, so we decided to share them for discussion.
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:Dell Builds Prototype Android and Windows Mobile Phones, May Finally Sell Them
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InformationWeek, Engadget, Boing Boing Gadgets, MobileBurn.com, Electronic Pulp and Pocket PC Thoughts.com
Scobleizer:
Zuckerberg: Facebook's “intense” year — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, in a tie? Oh my. — If you know Mark you know he's a pretty casual dresser. Usually seen in T-shirt, jeans, and sandals. — But not here at the World Economic Forum where we walked around downtown Davos …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Mark Zuckerberg's sentiment engine? — It's sort of cute, really: blogger Robert Scoble went on a nice snowy stroll with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. — Of course, he wrote about it.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Sacrificing security for usability: UAC security flaw in Windows 7 beta (with proof of concept code) — This is dedicated to every ignorant “tech journalist” who cried wolf about UAC in Windows Vista. A change to User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7 (beta) to make it “less annoying” …
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blogs.chron.com, Within Windows, Hardware 2.0, CrunchGear, Windows Connected, Neowin.net, Electronic Pulp and Channel 10, Thanks:longzheng
MediaShift:
Warning: Dependence on Facebook, Twitter Could Be Hazardous to Your Business — You've probably heard how much the micro-blogging service Twitter can help your business, or that being on social networking site Facebook can boost your company's profile. But what you might not have considered …
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TechCrunch:
The Economy According To Mint — Aaron Patzer is the CEO and founder of Mint.com, a personal finance site that helps 900,000 consumers keep track of their spending. Mint's data is a snapshot of the consumer economy. In the guest post below, Aaron parses the data to tell us what the economy looks like from consumer's eyes.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Sales Surge — Snapping the brutal retail slump, Amazon.com Inc. said profit rose 9% and sales surged 18% in the fourth quarter as the Internet giant used its pricing muscle to lure shoppers. — Chief Executive Jeff Bezos's goal of establishing Amazon as the Wal-Mart of the Internet …
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Times of India:
Rs 500 laptop display on Feb 3 — Text: — NEW DELHI: A $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati on February 3 when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Techology is launched.
David Schlesinger / Full Disclosure:
Twittering away standards or tweeting the future of journalism? — I've been tweeting from the World Economic Forum, using the microblogging platform Twitter to discuss the mundane (describing crepuscular darkness of the Swiss Alps at 5 a.m.) or the interesting (live tweeting from presentations).
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
ABC Says Web Viewers Will Tolerate Twice the Ads — How Long Before an Online TiVo? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The web is about to get a little more like TV — minus the ad-skipping. ABC.com has started to peddle research that shows online viewers will tolerate shows such as “Grey's Anatomy” …
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support — Google has added a patch to its latest beta and stable versions of Chrome to make the browser work better with Microsoft's Hotmail site. — With the patch, Chrome tells Microsoft's site it's actually Apple's Safari browser …
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown — A logic bomb allegedly planted by a former engineer at mortgage finance company Fannie Mae last fall would have decimated all 4,000 servers at the company, causing millions of dollars in damage and shutting down Fannie Mae for a least a week, prosecutors say.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Once Again, You Don't Get To Use DMCA Takedowns To Remove Any Content You Don't Like — from the it-has-to-be-copyright-infringement- of-your-content dept — Michael Geist has the latest example of what appears to be a company abusing the DMCA takedown process to try to quiet the speech …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable — It seems that the DRM on Gears of War came with a built-in shut off date: the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009. Now that the game fails to work unless you adjust your system's clock, what's Epic's response?
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A News Corp. Bull Throws In The Towel; WSJ Layoffs Coming? — Pali Research analyst Rich Greenfield loves to tear into media companies — just ask the managers at Time Warner (TWX) or Warner Music Group (WMG). But he's been a longtime advocate for News Corp. (NWS). — No more.
James Sherwood / The Register:
Patent app reveals Microsoft's smart smartphone cradle — Microsoft has asked for a patent to protect its idea for a smartphone docking cradle that would turn your handheld into a mini-laptop. — Microsoft's smartphone cradle — The “Smart Interface System for Mobile Communication Devices” …
Mikako Nakajima / Bloomberg:
NEC, Headed for Annual Loss, to Cut More Than 20,000 Workers to Trim Costs — Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — NEC Corp., Japan's largest personal- computer maker, will eliminate more than 20,000 employees in the largest job cut in Japan since the world went into recession.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
11 Business Plans For Twitter — Start the slideshow — Deadline for entry into our Create Twitter's Revenue Model contest is up and we thought we'd share some of the best entries. We haven't decided on a winner yet, so check them out and let us know what you think.
Thanks:indiatweets
Associated Press:
Swiss police spy marijuana field with Google Earth — ZURICH, Switzerland - Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software. — Police said the find was part of a bigger investigation …
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Wojtek Dabrowski / Reuters:
Nortel Exits WiMax Business — Resource Library: — Nortel Networks is abandoning its WiMax business after declaring bankruptcy earlier this year. In a statement, Nortel says it will also end an agreement with Alvarion to resell that company's WiMax products.
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Dave Morin / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Connect and Apple's iPhoto '09 — At Facebook, we think that photos are one of the most powerful ways to connect and share with friends. Since 2005, Facebook Photos has given users a chance to share rich experiences with their friends who are on and off Facebook.
Roger A. Grimes / Security Adviser:
Browser security wars — Looking for a magic bullet against malware? You won't find it in a browser. Roger A. Grimes tested all the major browsers (and some that aren't so major) and found that the browsers are probably safer than your computing practices are
