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Read news fast with Google Fast Flip — One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles …
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New Google Service Allows Readers to Flip Through the News — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, long seen as an enemy by many in the news industry, is making a bold attempt to be seen as its friend with a new service it hopes will make it easier for readers to view newspaper and magazine articles.
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Fake Eric Schmidt: Google Fast Flip has saved newspapers. Happy now, bitches? — Below is an email that we received this morning from Fake Eric Schmidt about Google Fast Flip, the search company's new news service. The email was headlined MESSAGE FOR THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY.


Zune HD to get Twitter, Facebook as Microsoft abandons ‘squirting’ — One of Microsoft's big bets when it decided to challenge Apple's iPod in 2006 was a feature known as Zune-to-Zune wireless sharing — or “squirting,” as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dubbed it.
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Microsoft launches Zune, clarifies what's up apps, raps iPod — Microsoft's third and perhaps best Zune effort goes on sale today, taking on the new generation of camera and app-equipped Apple iPods with a relatively pure music and video player. — This time the emphasis isn't on the Zune's funky design or wireless sharing feature.
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Engadget, ITworld.com, PR Newswire, Crave, pocketnow.com, Brainstorm Tech and VentureBeat


Visual Search - Why type when you can see it? — How many times have you seen a movie trailer and forgotten the name of it the next day? You go online to search for it but you can't seem to find the movie with “what's-his-name” in it anywhere but you can picture the actor in your head.
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Taiwan Economic News: 9.6-inch, PA Semi Apple Tablet due in February, cost $800-$1000 — We went a few weeks without a tablet rumor - which was scary - but the Taiwan Economic News chimes in today with a bunch of parts information on Apple's forthcoming Tablet.
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AppleInsider, CENS.com, TeleRead, Engadget, MacRumors, SlashGear, tabletage.com, Electricpig.co.uk, Mobilewhack.com and MobileContentToday
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Fresh Apple tablet rumors: February launch. $800-$1,000. AT&T, not Verizon


HP ENVY 13 and 15 bring luxury to the everyman, look like MacBooks — There's no getting around it, so we'll just say right at the outset: HP's new ENVY 13 and 15 laptops might've been built on the “Voodoo ENVY legacy,” but they sure look a lot like Apple's unibody MacBook Pros.
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HP Introduces New Netbooks, a Prosumer and a Consumer Notebook
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eWeek, Brainstorm Tech, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Crave, Reuters, VentureBeat, T3.com News and Engadget


The Top Cyber Security Risks — Two risks dwarf all others, but organizations fail to mitigate them … Executive Summary — Priority One: Client-side software that remains unpatched. — Waves of targeted email attacks, often called spear phishing, are exploiting client-side vulnerabilities …
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Massive Study of Net Vulnerabilities: They're Not Where You Think They Are


First real pictures of HTC Leo - All rumours confirmed — PDA.Pl has been lucky enough to have the very first real pictures of HTC Leo (Via PDAClub.pl forums), and the device is a stonker! Present is the massive screen, the gigahertz processor, the amazing thinness, the dual flash and even the words at the back.
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Engadget, Newlaunches.com, Gizmodo, Electronista, Pocket-lint.com, Pulse2, MobileTechWorld, pocketnow.com, Gadgetell, WMExperts and SlashGear

Times Web Ads Show Security Breach — OVER the weekend, some visitors to the Web site of The New York Times received a nasty surprise. An unknown person or group sneaked a rogue advertisement onto the site's pages. — The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people visiting the site …
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Facebook support for Twitter-like mentions now live — Facebook is now supporting @ symbol for tagging friends in posts and status updates. The company said last week it would move toward adopting the convention, which started on Twitter. — The symbol has been part of Twitter etiquette for a long time.
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Lenovo introduces multitouch ThinkPad X200 Tablet and T400s laptop — Lenovo's getting a little jump on the wave of Windows 7 machines due to hit next month with a multitouch update to the X200 convertible and a new multitouch version of the T400s. The new X200 Tablet is pretty much what you'd expect …


Galleries: Unleash your inner curator — There's a long list of features that we've wanted to develop for our members. Giving our members a way to celebrate the creativity of their fellow members has always been high on that list. Today, we're thrilled to launch our newest feature: galleries.
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Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Mashable!, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Webware.com and TechCrunch


Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data! — Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at any time; however, you cannot take all of your things with you - not your photos, your keepsakes, or your clothing.
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Lifehacker, Guardian, Ars Technica, Data Liberation, Webmonkey, Gear Diary, Appfrica, Google Blogoscoped, techno.blog, Network World, WebProNews and InformationWeek, Thanks:atul


Voice chat coming to Facebook — The new Vivox voice chat system for Facebook will allow any user to start a conversation with anyone on their friends list. The service will also be available to third-party developers who want to integrate voice into their applications.
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WITTC50?: The TechCrunch 50 Day Two Drinking Game — So that was day one of Techcrunch 50. The best tech conference in the universe, that pays my wages. — And what did I learn today? Today I learned that the Rocky soundtrack makes any technical hitch a million times more dramatic.
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Gaming veteran Shane Kim to leave Microsoft — Shane Kim — who, last year became the Corporate Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) — is leaving the company, according to a September 15 post on Gamespot.
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Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos — The state of Virginia has backed away from its attempts to force Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation, narrowly avoiding what promised to be a high-profile privacy battle in federal court.

HP MediaSmart home servers get cozier with Macs — Hewlett-Packard is introducing its third generation of MediaSmart home servers today, with more features for Mac users and multimedia-philes. — Hewlett-Packard Co. is introducing its third generation of MediaSmart home servers today …
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TC50: Clicker Wants To Be TV Guide For The Web — More and more television content is making its way online. But because of different deals by various networks, it's all over the place. Even the huge sites like Hulu, only skim the surface in showing what is out there.


Windows Live adds to its list of third-party partners to bring more of your updates and contacts to your Windows Live network — Last year, when we updated Windows Live services, we added a broad range of partnerships with leading web companies, to make it simpler for you to share …


TC50: Mota Motors Takes The Pain Out Of The Used Car Marketplace — It's not often that you hear about innovation in the used car space, but Mota Motors, a new site that's launching today at TechCrunch50, has managed to pull it off. Mota's multi-faceted service effectively holds your hand through …