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Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission — In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, we're hearing that Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating …
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RichardDeVries's Journal
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the trials and tribulations of innovation — we just found out that Hulu blocked the boxee browser from accessing the Hulu site. this is a disappointing development since their RSS feeds are publicly available, and our browser, while optimized for a great 10 ft video experience …
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MediaMemo, HipMojo.com, TomsTechBlog.com, CNET News, NewTeeVee, VentureBeat, CenterNetworks, Engadget, Download Squad, Bits and Lifehacker
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Hulu Brushes Off Boxee, And Boxee Comes Back For More
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Why global is the new ‘local’ — The real reason newspapers and radio stations are hurting — and how they can thrive — Computerworld) If you have an iPhone, tap the App Store button, and search for “radio.” Choose “iHeart radio” and then click on the Clear Channel Broadcasting app called “iHeart radio.”
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Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month — The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple's App Store, but it isn't the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We've gotten word from SocialMedia …
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Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account? — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he's been trying to buy - Twitter — since last May. But he's kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basically unused.
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Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Diamond gets pictured — We got our hands on some pictures of a test model of the Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond rocking its sleek, black and shiny casing. Unlike Verizon's Touch Pro, the Diamond has retained the characteristic faceted back.
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Apple has no clue what's going on with dev contracts — Apple seems to be caught flat-footed and unprepared for the upcoming deluge of developer renewals for its iPhone program, Ars has learned. Here's what we found regarding the status of both ADC and iTunes Connect renewals.
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Safekeeping Twitter Accounts — Today we discovered about 750 Twitter accounts were broken into and had a link to a webcam site posted on the accounts. It appears other sites and services have been affected by a similar attack. We reset the passwords of the compromised accounts and removed the spammy updates.
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Softpedia News, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Irregular Enterprise, Mashable!, BetaNews and Countermeasures, Thanks:blogfisher
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Hacking Education (continued) — Last fall I wrote a post on this blog titled Hacking Education. In it, I outlined my thoughts on why the education system (broadly speaking) is failing our society and why hacking it seems like both an important and profitable endeavor.
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HTML Validation: Does It Matter? — The web is, to put it charitably, a rather forgiving place. You can feed web browsers almost any sort of HTML markup or JavaScript code and they'll gamely try to make sense of what you've provided, and render it the best they can.
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Atiz turns books digital without help from Google — An Atiz book-scanning device. Credit: Atiz. — Digitizing books is all the rage these days, with the Kindle 2 being pimped on the “Daily Show,” Amazon allowing its e-books to be read on the iPhone and Barnes & Noble getting deeper into the digital book market.
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TG Daily
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“Now Comes Thomas Dart...” — We will respond to Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart's complaint (we have not yet been served, and learned of it only through press releases and media) sometime soon. Our preliminary view is that the complaint is not well founded in law, and that it should be dismissed.
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Why New H-1B Restrictions Will LOWER (Some) American Tech Wages — New restrictions going into place on the H-1B immigrant worker program have been so extreme some right-groups in India are threatening to boycott of US goods, and American commentators are crying protectionism.