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Karen Wickre / The Official Google Blog:
Google accounts on Twitter — Like lots of you, we've been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we're all about frequent updates ourselves, and there's lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too).
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Virginia Postrel / New York Times:
What You Pay For — Fifteen years ago — before Google or Wikipedia or blogging or Craigslist or podcasts or YouTube — the technology investor and pundit Esther Dyson wrote an article analyzing the business of “creative content” in a future where the Internet made distribution essentially free.
Tim Greene / Network World:
How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data — If attackers intent on data theft can tap into an electrical socket near a computer or if they can draw a bead on the machine with a laser, they can steal whatever is being typed into it. — How to execute these attacks …
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Microsoft Has Turned The Corner — I've got to say: in my opinion, Microsoft has turned The Corner. — You know The Corner. — The one that gets us off of pothole ridden Vista Avenue (one street over from Lincoln in Blue Velvet). The Corner that requires Microsoft to shed some of the fat …
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Chas / ChasNote:
More Bad News for Ad Agencies: Meet Howcast — From today's NY Times profile of Howcast, a site that's producing a deep library of how-to videos. In addition to ad-supported videos on generic topics (how to recognize and avoid poison ivy, or how to how to look hot when you get out of the ocean …
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geeksmack.net:
Windows 7 RTM on Track, Compiled — We previously reported that the RTM build was delayed due to show-stopper bugs, however, WZor reports that they have managed to meet the compile target date of July 10th, and have compiled the RTM build, which, unlike what we previously suspected, is build 7600.16384.090710-1945, and not 7300.
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Redmond Pie, Tech Invaders, Ars Technica, TechSpot, Mobilewhack.com, blogs.chron.com and Neowin.net, Thanks:paulz0r
comScore, Inc.:
Online Gaming Continues Strong Growth in U.S. as Consumers Increasingly Opt for Free Entertainment Alternatives — Distributed Gaming Content Publishers Compare Favorably Against Gaming Destination Sites — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Specs Re-Imply Blackberry Storm 2 Will Probably Forgo Clicky Touchscreen — Additional BlackBerry Storm 2 specs out this morning would appear to all but re-confirm our earlier news that the soon-to-be-released smartphone is ditching the problematic click touchscreen, and will add some much-desired wi-fi goodness.
Todd Lewan / Associated Press:
Electronic identification sparks privacy debate — Government pushes technology despite hacking, tracking fears — Climbing into his Volvo, outfitted with a Matrics antenna and a Motorola reader he'd bought on eBay for $190, Chris Paget cruised the streets of San Francisco with one objective …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
French “3 strikes” law returns, now with judicial oversight! — The French Senate has approved an updated version of the “three strikes” online copyright infringement bill aimed at taking repeat offenders offline. The approval comes exactly one month after the country's Constitutional Council ripped apart …
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Justin Mullins / New Scientist:
Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence — For similar stories, visit the Robots and The Human Brain Topic Guides — EVER had the feeling something is missing? If so, you're in good company. Dmitri Mendeleev did in 1869 when he noticed four gaps in his periodic table.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Twitter Nabs a Legal Eagle from Google — Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, has stolen a prominent Google lawyer. — The startup has hired Alexander Macgillivray, associate general counsel for products and intellectual property at Google, to be its general counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the hiring.
