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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped — What has been shown in court today is that the prosecutor cannot prove that the .torrent files he is using as evidence actually used The Pirate Bay's tracker. Many of the screenshots being used clearly state there is no connection to the tracker.
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Mashable!, p2pnet, blogs.telegraph.co.uk …, The Monkeys Ball and digg.com, Thanks:salmosri
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Pirate Bay prosecutor tosses infringement charges overboard — Watered down to ‘assisting making available’ — Free whitepaper - The Register Guide: Taking stock of the IT environment — Half of the charges made against the four men behind the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay …
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The Local
Vodafone:
Vodafone and HTC unveil Android-powered HTC Magic — Vodafone extends world-class range of Internet phones with latest Android™-powered smartphone from HTC — HTC Magic smartphone exclusive to Vodafone customers initially in UK, Spain, Germany and France (SFR) and non-exclusively in Italy.
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Unwired View, Neowin.net, InformationWeek, Google Android News …, IntoMobile, Android Authority, paidContent, Phone Scoop and Engadget
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Jason Palmer / BBC:
Second ‘Google phone’ is unveiled — Science and technology reporter, BBC News, Barcelona — A second phone based on Google's operating system Android has been unveiled by Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. — The touchscreen HTC Magic will feature a 3.2 Megapixel camera …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:Vodafone Announces HTC Magic Android Phone
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IntoMobile, Electronista, MobileCrunch, Android Central, CNET News and Pocket-lint.co.uk
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information — A couple of weeks ago, we updated our terms of use to clarify a few points for our users. A number of people have raised questions about our changes, so I'd like to address those here. I'll also take the opportunity to explain how we think about people's information.
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PC World, BoomTown, Informationoverlord, paidContent.org, Bloomberg, Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, Inside Facebook, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, Perez Hilton, New York Times, Pocket-lint.co.uk, Consumerist, Portals and KM, TechCrunch, unstruc chitchatting …, Webomatica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TECH.BLORGE.com, TheNextWeb.com, SiliconBeat, WebProNews, broadstuff, All Facebook, Mashable!, The Monkeys Ball, Pulse2, Industry Standard, The Open Road, MarketingVOX and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Facebook's TOS debacle: Be upset for a better reason — There was some Facebook backlash over the long U.S. weekend that has prompted some calls for boycotts over two sentences that were taken out of the company's Terms of Services agreement earlier this month.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Facebook: Relax, we won't sell your photos
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Conversation Agent, Forbes, Homotron.net, DailyTech, The Stranger and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Marguerite Reardon / Webware.com:
Skype strikes deal with Nokia — BARCELONA—Skype is racking up deals with mobile handset makers here at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009. — On Tuesday, the company, which is owned by eBay, announced a partnership with Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the world, to put the Skype Internet calling software onto its phones.
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The Register, PC World, Reuters, jkOnTheRun, Voice on the Web, Crave, MobileCrunch, VoIP Watch, CNET News and Mashable!
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
At last ... a charger for all mobile phones — The mobile phone industry plans to introduce a universal charger as part of a drive to improve its previously patchy environmental record. — The plan from industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) is just one of a raft of “green” announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER! — Over on Slashdot is perhaps the worst piece on Windows 7 that I've see so far (I find it hard to believe that this one will be beaten anytime soon ...). … OK, just a few points worth making: — Someone messes about with Photoshop in order to crack it …
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Michael V. Copeland / Fortune:
Technology's bargain bin — A lot of tech stocks have taken a beating in this difficult market. Here are three that will bounce back when the economy recovers. — (Fortune Magazine) — If you thought Nortel looked cheap in mid-December at 27 cents a share, you were right.
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All About Nortel
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Offerpal Media Raises $15 Million to Peddle In-Game Ads — For most casual gamers on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, tricking out their avatars is almost more fun than playing the game. — One way to build an impressive inventory of virtual goods is by earning them through hours of game play.
John Markoff / New York Times:
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives — The cellphone is the world's most ubiquitous computer. The four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real world.
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Employment Falls in Silicon Valley — Silicon Valley posted a drop in employment and recorded a decline in per capita income in 2008 for the first time in several years, as the recession caught up with the technology-heavy region. — The findings come in a closely watched annual report …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
AT&T CEO: Dell Will Build a Smartphone — At a panel at Mobile World Congress today, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega just said, “Dell announced they're entering the smart phone market.” That's a quote. — This confirms many rumors that have been floating around …
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nortel to present new business plan in few weeks — BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nortel Networks Corp (NT.TO) aims to present its new business plan on how it will scale down its business operations within the next few weeks, a senior company official told Reuters on Tuesday.
Alertbox:
Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998 … I recently sat through many sessions in which usability test participants attempted to use websites on their mobile phones. What a cringeworthy experience — for both users and researchers. In terms of the user experience quality we observed …
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the Econsultancy blog
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Satellite-hacking boffin sees the unseeable — Lady Di gossip plucked from sky — White-hat hacker Adam Laurie knows better than to think email, video-on-demand, and other content from Sky Broadcasting and other satellite TV providers is a private matter between him and the company.
