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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.
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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Prosecution Alters Pirate Bay Charges in Bid to Win Conviction — Special correspondent Oscar Swartz reports. — STOCKHOLM - The Pirate Bay prosecutor altered the copyright-infringement charges Tuesday to make it easier to convict the four defendants who co-founded the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker.
Sundar Pichai / Google Public Policy Blog:
Browsers powered by user choice — Last month the European Commission confirmed that it had sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about the tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which it said “harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
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Kevin J. O'Brien / International Herald Tribune:Microsoft fears EU fine over browser
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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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Caius / Random Genius:Safari 4 Hidden Preferences
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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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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.
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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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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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.
Bloomberg:
Ballmer Says He Doesn't Want to Become ‘Jerry Yang’ of Web Search Market — Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is pushing Yahoo! Inc. for an Internet- search alliance, even as he goes after Yahoo's top talent. — The two companies should pool resources …
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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.
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.
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.
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 sent to some staffers on Sunday. — I have also confirmed Boerries' departure with company insiders familiar with the situation.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple updates Apple TV software to version 2.3.1 — Apple overnight released a minor software update for owners of its Apple TV set-top media box but it's not clear whether the patch delivers any new features. — As of this morning, the company has yet to update its Apple TV software updates page …
IDC:
Worldwide Server Market Contracts Sharply in Fourth Quarter as Market Revenues Decline to $53.3 Billion in 2008, According to IDC — According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market declined 14.0% year-over-year to $13.5 billion …
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 …
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Michael Moritz: Lessons from a Long-Ball Hitter — The journalist-turned-venture capitalist was early to ring the alarm bells about the weakening economy, but he remains optimistic — In 1984 a young British journalist named Michael Moritz wrote a short piece in Time magazine …
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Associated Press:
Google pays for e-mail outage with 15-day credit — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. is making amends for an e-mail outage by giving 15 days of free service to businesses, government agencies and other subscribers who pay for an expanded version of the product.
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BBC:
UK government backs open source — The UK government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software in public services. — Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows.
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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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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders (Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Kevin Rose And More) — The World Economic Forum has just published its annual list of Young Global Leaders, recognizing “between 200 and 300 outstanding young leaders from around the world …
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