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John Markoff / New York Times:
Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries — TORONTO — A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around the world, including those of the Dalai Lama, Canadian researchers have concluded.
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ReadWriteWeb, ThreatChaos, Gawker, Silicon Alley Insider, Slashdot and digg.com, Thanks:blogfisher
Philip Lam / PreThinking:
Palm Pre beta tester on Twitter, says release date is 4/30 — As I was questing for new Palm Pre news, I stumbled upon this interesting tweet from Jim Van, a very smart guy in the IT field. In his own words: — “Got Pre to work on Twitter, but it's a tad cludgy...”
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jkOnTheRun, Palm WebOS, Mobility Today, Gizmodo, Simply Everything Palm Pre, GPS Obsessed and CrunchGear
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple uses a jailbroken iPhone in patent application — Uh oh Apple — it looks like even your attorneys are dirty, thieving jailbreakers. Tipster a| e § was poring through that iPhone biometric security patent application we posted earlier and noticed that the images show a jailbroken phone …
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Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, Communications …, 9 to 5 Mac, The iPhone Blog, Neowin.net, Life On the Wicked Stage, AppleInsider and digg.com, Thanks:atul
Rob Minto / Financial Times:
The genius behind Google's web browser — About five miles outside Aarhus in Denmark - the country's second-biggest city and the unofficial capital of Jutland - sits a converted farmhouse. Inside, in a large wood-floored space with vaulted ceilings - once part of the stables …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Is Facebook Growing Up Too Fast? — WHEN Facebook signed up its 100 millionth member last August, its employees spread out in two parks in Palo Alto, Calif., for a huge barbecue. Sometime this week, this five-year-old start-up, born in a dorm room at Harvard, expects to register its 200 millionth user.
Michelle Meyers / CNET News:
Verizon confirms plans to sell Netbooks — Verizon Wireless has confirmed earlier reports that it's ready to enter the Netbook market. Spokeswoman Brenda Raney, who was quoted to a similar effect in an Internetnews.com story Friday, said Saturday that the plan is for the company …
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Boy Genius Report, Silicon Alley Insider, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo, Eee PC, Datamation and FierceWireless
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How Google Shot Microsoft After It Took A Knife To A Gunfight — Google's a split-personality company. On the one hand, it wants people to believe that it could lose its customers at any time, lest it get viewed as a monopoly. But question its ability on the technical front, and the Big G will go off on you like nobody's business.
James Urquhart / CNET News:
Cloud computing: What we learned from Manifestogate — Cloud computing is the first major IT market disruption that has taken place in the world of open source software, “the wisdom of crowds” and the community collaboration revolution of Web 2.0. The concept of the cloud is trying to grow …
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Open Gardens, internetnews.com, Commercial Open Source …, deal architect, ElasticVapor and Thinking Out Cloud
TechCrunch:
Steel Cage Debate On The Future Of Online Advertising: Danny Sullivan Vs. Eric Clemons — Editor's note: Last Sunday, we published a guest post by Wharton Professor Eric Clemons on “Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet.” The post questioned a basic assumption that many of us in the tech industry hold near and dear.
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Maynard Webb's next big thing: homeshoring — When Maynard Webb retired as chief operating officer of eBay in August 2006, he was widely viewed as one of the top technologists in Silicon Valley. Famous for saving the online auction house from several critical computer meltdowns …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Dell Belatedly Buys Adamo.com Domain For Its Hot Notebook — Last week, a blog post hit Techmeme detailing how Dell had screwed up by not securing Adamo.com for its ultra-thin notebook, which CrunchGear's John Biggs spotted at SXSW a day before its official release on March 17.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RIAA, MPAA Copyright Warnings: Facts and Fiction — It's has been a good week for the entertainment industry lobbyists. Hundreds of news outlets wrote in detail about how the RIAA and MPAA are negotiating with Internet service providers to warn alleged copyright infringers.
