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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Putting a Bolder Face on Google — IN late December, Marissa Mayer was vacationing in Africa when her boss, Jonathan Rosenberg, e-mailed her asking if she was leaving Google. — It wasn't a routine query. As the gatekeeper of Google's home page, and one of the company's most ubiquitous …
TechCrunch:
What An Antitrust Case Against Google Might Look Like — Editor's note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The views he expresses are his own, and we present them here to foster debate.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Japanese “hate” for iPhone all a big mistake — A report intending to portray the iPhone as “hated” in the Japanese market turns out to have been built upon fake quotations from industry writers and observers who were misrepresented by remarks attributed to them that they never made.
Discussion:
Boing Boing Gadgets, Daiji Hirata, Smart Mobs, Rick Cogley Central, Slashdot, Gizmodo, Edible Apple and digg.com
Mark Guim / The Nokia Blog:
New York Flagship Store Takes Nokia 5800 NAM Off Shelves Amidst Reported Issues — I went to the New York flagship store this afternoon to look for the Nokia 5800 NAM. Unfortunately, I was told it was no longer available for purchase because of reported issues. I'm guessing it's about the complaints of not getting 3G signal.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video) — When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what's possible, but they also invest so much into communicating these ideas through sights and sounds …
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ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile.com, Steve Clayton and WinExtra, Thanks:zwelgje
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
How to Make Electronic Medical Records a Reality — IN the world of technology, inventors are hailed as heroes. Yet it is more subtle forms of innovation that typically determine the impact of a technology in the marketplace and on society. Clever engineering, smart business models …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
New York Scanned and Indexed by Google — Google has scanned and indexed the entire archives of New York magazine. Issues spanning 40 years have been organized as part of Google Book Search. — New York is one of the first magazines to in the magazine program which was announced in December.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
How To Turn Customers Into Pirates — Meet Mark, an IT guy at a small company who occasionally has to renew licenses for the software utilized by the business. Recently, he had to activate a copy of PaperPort, the scanning and document management software from Nuance.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Is Google App Engine the wrong product for the market? — Earlier this year I was approached about writing a book on cloud computing topics by an editor for one of the big computer book publishers. Given that between my day job and having an infant I barely have time to keep this blog updated, I had to turn down the offer.
Ryan Spoon:
Adam Carolla's Podcast: 1M Downloads... Radio, XM Officially Dead? — Last week, Adam Carolla transitioned from national radio talk show host. His contract with CBS prevents him from returning to radio (supposedly through 2009) - and in exchange, he is paid handsomely in the meantime.
Charles Cooper / CNET News:
Data about Obama's helicopter breached via P2P? — An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopter, according to a report by WPXI, NBC's affiliate in Pittsburgh.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The Times & CUNY (and others) go hyperlocal — The New York Times is about to announce that it is starting a hyperlocal product called The Local working with our students at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism. PaidContent has the story early. So I'll tell you about the school's and my involvement and plans.
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PC World:
Jaunty Jackalope: Where's the Beef? — Ubuntu's upcoming 9.04 release offers few new end-user features. Is Ubuntu losing the end-user focus that made it a smash-hit distro? — Keir Thomas, PC World — Recommends — I'm getting a little worried about the state of open source on the desktop.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
“Kijiji” Isn't Kutting It. How about eBay Classifieds? — eBay is having second thoughts about how easy it will be to spread the Kijiji brand in the U.S. The company is testing out the name “eBay Classifieds” in two cities, San Antonio and Pittsburgh. A letter sent out to Kijiji members states:
