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Krishna Bharat / The Official Google Blog:
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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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
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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Shane Richmond / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:Fake Eric Schmidt: Google Fast Flip has saved newspapers. Happy now, bitches?
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
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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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
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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PR Newswire:
Microsoft Introduces a Powerful New Zune Media Player, PC Software and Online Services — Microsoft company logo. (PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) — REDMOND, WA UNITED STATES — A new Zune software feature, Quickplay, offers one-touch or one-click access to recently added, played and favorite content on the home screen of Zune HD or PC.
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Bruce Sewell to Join Apple as General Counsel & SVP — Daniel Cooperman to Retire — Apple® today announced that Bruce Sewell, formerly senior vice president and general counsel of Intel Corporation, will join Apple as the company's General Counsel and senior vice president …
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AppleInsider:
Intel's top attorney to take reins of Apple's legal team — Announced as Apple's new general counsel and senior vice president Tuesday, Bruce Sewell held the same title when he previously worked with Intel Corporation. — Sewell will work in legal and government affairs for Apple and report directly to company co-founder Steve Jobs.
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:Apple hires Intel's top lawyer, Brian Sewell, part of the team …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Fresh Apple tablet rumors: February launch. $800-$1,000. AT&T, not Verizon
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Second time a charm? Seagate launches new version of its entertainment player — After an unsuccessful attempt last spring, Seagate is launching a new and improved version of its backup device that lets you play your computer's videos and pictures on a living room TV.
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Seagate Technology:
Seagate's New FreeAgent Theater+™ HD Media Player Enhances The Enjoyment Of Digital Home Movies And Photos — Bring Your Digital Media to Life with True HD and Dolby® Digital Surround Sound Technology — Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
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 …
Clearwire News Room:
Clearwire Launches CLEAR 4G WiMAX Innovation Network in Silicon Valley — Bright House, Comcast, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable Join Cisco, Intel and Google in Clearwire's 4G application development initiative — Largest 4G WiMAX “sandbox” for developers to cover more than 20 square miles in Santa Clara …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Google Gets Its WiMAX; Clearwire Launches Silicon Valley Network
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SANS:
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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Stephen Wildstrom / Tech Beat:Massive Study of Net Vulnerabilities: They're Not Where You Think They Are
Paul Miller / Engadget:
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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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:HP Introduces New Netbooks, a Prosumer and a Consumer Notebook
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
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.
Bing / Search Blog:
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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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
iPhone predicted to drive Apple stock to $235 — A new report predicts Apple stock will break past the $200 milestone, riding high on the successful and profitable iPhone, even as the company's other businesses are predicted to lose value. — In a note to investors, Charlie Wolf of Needham & Co …
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Galen Gruman / Computerworld:
Apple betrays the iPhone's business hopes — InfoWorld - Fixing a major but unacknowledged bug in the operating system, last week's iPhone OS 3.1 update has rendered most iPhones and all iPod Touches incompatible with Exchange 2007 servers that require on-device data be encrypted, a standard safeguard used by businesses.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Gist opens up, adds noise and friends filters — Communication organization tool Gist is opening up to everyone on Tuesday, and has come a long way since we profiled its private beta offering back in January. It can still plug into your Gmail, Outlook and LinkedIn accounts and help organize things …
