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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz — Today's first witness is Tobias Andersson from Piratbyrån and later on the IFPI's CEO John Kennedy will testify, although it's not expected that he will respond to the open letter and peace offering issued yesterday by the ‘Kopimists’.
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Roy Blount Jr / New York Times:
The Kindle Swindle? — BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. But now I am president of the Authors Guild, whose mission is to sustain book-writing as a viable occupation.
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Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, p2pnet, CrunchGear, TeleRead, madisonian.net, The Noisy Channel, open, Glass House and PersonaNonData
Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 — Proving itself a staggering 42 times faster at rendering JavaScript than IE 7, our benchmarks confirm Apple's Safari 4 browser, released in beta today, is the fastest browser on the planet.
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Download Squad, AppleInsider, blogs.chron.com, IntoMobile, RotorBlog.com, Webware.com, Macworld, Electronic Pulp, MacDailyNews and Guardian
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Caius / Random Genius:Safari 4 Hidden Preferences
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Download Squad, Gizmodo, PaulStamatiou.com, Macsimum News, Macworld, Webware.com, Ars Technica, CyberNet, Hardware 2.0, Apple and APC
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Google blames Gmail outage on data centre collapse — Domino effect crashes through the cloud — Free whitepaper - Lessons learned in successful implementation of enterprise learning — Google has apologised for yesterday's major Gmail meltdown after some of its data centres in Europe failed …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage — Oh the humanity — Free whitepaper - Lower security risks and costs by minimizing the time to protection — Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout.
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:Warning: Google Talk Phishing Scam Spreading Like Wildfire
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Zero Day, Digits, Network World, ReadWriteWeb, Bits, GottaBeMobile.com, Bleeding Edge, VentureBeat, NewTeeVee, Black Web 2.0 and Beyond Search
Ryan Spoon:
Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday. Wow. — You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip... You might not consider it important or meaningful... But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
Amazon Web Services Blog:
New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia — We have just released four additional AWS public data sets, and have updated another one. — In the Economics category, we have added a set of transportation databases from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon Exposes 1 Terrabyte of Public Data — Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap “computing in the cloud” business that changed the computing world. This week the company's newest project Public Data Sets …
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. — The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. — It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo — Yahoo's top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. — I have also confirmed Boerries's departure with company insiders familiar with the situation.
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Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent.org, FierceMobileContent, mocoNews.net and Forbes
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple updates Apple TV software to version 2.3.1 [Ux2] — Apple overnight released a minor software update for owners of its Apple TV set-top media box that has thus far been revealed to include a new Network Test function and improvements when using Apple Remote for iPhone.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Members of Congress twitter through Obama's big speech — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Members of Congress twittered their way through President Obama's nationally televised speech Tuesday night, providing a first-of-its-kind running commentary that took users of the social networking site inside the packed House chamber.
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WMPoweruser.com:
Windows Mobile 7 coming next year, says Ballmer — Microsoft has had an conference call earlier today, and Steve Ballmer spoke about Windows Mobile as one of its 7 big businesses. — According to Ballmer, Microsoft has been ramping up expenditure in the Windows Mobile segment over the last few years …
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Bad Science:
“Facebook causes cancer” — I was on newsnight a second ago, debating the rather indulgent claims of Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman about Facebook and Twitter. It's 40 minutes in to the show, which can be seen here as a wmv/rm file or here on iPlayer:
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Christy Pettey / Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue On Pace to Decline 24 Percent in 2009 — Analysts Say the Industry Will Fail to Return to 2008 Revenue Totals Through 2013 — The impact of the financial crisis will result in the semiconductor industry experiencing near record revenue declines in 2009 …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel to launch new CPUs for ultra-thin notebooks — Intel plans to launch two new ultra low voltage (ULV) CPUs by the end of March this year mainly targeting the company's consumer ultra low voltage (CULV) platform for ultra-thin notebook products, according to sources at notebook makers.
Lester Haines / The Register:
Ryanair trades blows with ‘idiot blogger’ — Online booking glitch provokes almighty punch-up — Free whitepaper - Lessons learned in successful implementation of enterprise learning — Hats off this fine morning to Ryanair, which last week traded blows with “idiot blogger” …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
15 online photo editors compared — Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years. We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors—big and small, to see what each one is capable of.
PC World:
PlayStation 3 Price Drop Finally in the Offing? — Remember that $100 PlayStation 3 price drop you've been hearing about for a year or more? The one that keeps not happening? Well it's about to, according to Mike Hickey with investment firm Janco Partners, with Sony set to announce something “in the next couple days.”
BBC:
Texting ‘improves language skill’ — Text speak, rather than harming literacy, could have a positive effect on the way children interact with language, says a study. — Researchers from Coventry University studied 88 children aged between 10 and 12 to understand the impact of text messaging on their language skills.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's Amazon Kindle 2 Review Matrix — You don't wanna wear out your eyes reading superlong Kindle 2 reviews before you get one, right? Well here's our review matrix for quick, easy-on-the-eyes digestion of reviews from tech's biggest names. — We've got reviews here from the NYT's David Pogue …
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GottaBeMobile.com, paidContent.org, VatorNews, Obsessable, Crave, internetnews.com and Brier Dudley's blog
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
RockYou Gears Up to Distribute Content — RockYou, one of the largest developers of applications for social networks, has tremendous reach — 130 million global users and 18 billion page views per month. Though some content creators might consider glitter text and slideshows beneath them …
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
What Sells Online? Unsexy Newsletters — They're not the newest fad, but these daily digests sent via e-mail can generate some much needed ad revenue when there's not much of it to go around — We San Franciscans think New York isn't quite as Web savvy are we are.
