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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Wolfram|Alpha: Our First Impressions — The hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next “Google killer” from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a one-hour web demo with Stephen Wolfram, and from what we've seen …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Earth Helps Solve A Plane Crash Mystery — The idea behind Google Earth has always been a powerful one: It allows users to explore places that they either can't or won't go. But with its vast amount of maps and topographical data, it also is a very powerful tool for combing the Earth …
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Maker: First Android netbook to cost about $250 — Guangzhou Skytone's 1.5-pound Alpha 680 also first netbook to use ARM chip — Computerworld) The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Live Search cashback “exponentially growing”: 5M pageviews and 10k purchases every day — Live Search cashback hasn't publically shared many numbers that we've seen, so these numbers kind of jumped off the screen when we noticed them in a Tweet. Clicking through to the article …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Owen Van Natta's Infamous Tenure At Project Playlist — One of the many unsavory aspects of the hiring of Owen Van Natta as the new CEO of MySpace: the rewriting of recent history around Van Natta's involvement in Project Playlist. The communications group at News Corp. (MySpace's parent company) …
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft names Windows 7 RC1 dates — Two-week wave — Free whitepaper - Seven tips for profiting from lean times with CRM — Stable and completed code for Windows 7 will be released to early adopters during the coming week, with mass availability planned for the following Tuesday.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm Under Attack — Taking on The Pirate Bay in court seems to be asking for trouble. A few days ago the IFPI's website was DDoSed by a group of Pirate Bay supporters. Now MAQS, movie industry lawyer Monique Wadsted's site, has been targeted and taken down.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Surface Is an Incredible User Experience That Sucks a Whole Bunch to Setup — Surface is a triumph of Microsoft usability and design. It's a multitouch table computer. Minority Report! And so on. Setting it up, however? Ominous foreshadowing: It comes with a keyboard and mouse.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why there will be many Twitters — Yesterday I wrote about the Lotus 1-2-3 of twitters, but it may not be obvious why there will be more than one network of networks — so let me explain. — 1. Twitter is growing fast. — 2. Its use as a medium for news has become apparent.
Chris Matyszczyk / Technically Incorrect:
Craigslist founder: No plans to shut down Erotic Services — In the wake of the murder of Craigslist-advertising masseuse Julissa Brisman, and the arrest of Philip Markoff, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist gave interviews Friday to Martin Bashir of ABC's Nightline.
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PhysOrg.com:
‘Sleep talking’ PCs save energy and money — Personal computers may soon save large amounts of energy by “sleep talking.” Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as “sleep talking.”
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Does H.P. Need a Dose of Anarchy? — IT all seems obvious when viewed through hindsight's pristine lens: Hewlett-Packard didn't need a reinvention. It just needed some fierce fiscal discipline to transform itself from a bumbling, lost soul into a well-oiled profit machine.
Arn / Touch Arcade:
‘World of Warcraft’ on an iPhone... For Real? — Most of you have probably seen World of Warcraft-on-iPhone claims/videos/mock-ups before, but this time it looks like it might actually be true. — Someone posted this YouTube video of World of Warcraft running on an iPhone: — A few interesting things to note.
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