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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Microsoft's Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details (update: video!) — We've been dying to know more about Microsoft's Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Courier's Devolution — These fresh images and details of Microsoft's Courier paint a slightly different device than the one uncovered a few months ago—tinier seeming, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter. — This take is built on the same mobile OS core …
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Jonathan Rochelle / Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Docs welcomes DocVerse — The future of productivity applications is in the cloud. We've always believed the web is the best platform for creating and sharing information, and Google Docs has already helped millions of people become more productive.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:Google Buys DocVerse For Reported $25 Million
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke Into A Facebook User's Private Email Account — This is the story of how, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of two Harvard Crimson reporters using data obtained from TheFacebook.com's logs. The details are drawn from a broader investigation …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Origins Of Facebook And Its Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg — The following series of stories detail some of what happened in 2003 and 2004 after then Harvard-sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched a site called theFacebook.com. This site, of course, quickly grew into the dominant global site known …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Steve Jobs emails Swede that the iPad won't tether to the iPhone — Not content with answering tech questions from Americans, Steve Jobs this week answered a question from all the way over in Sweden. — The question was a good one, and one we've had on our minds as well: … Jobs' answer?
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Will the iPad Be Missing a Few iPhone Apps? — Apple on Friday announced the official release date of its iPad — April 3 — but the company also raised more questions. Specifically, Apple's press statement suggests the iPad won't ship with all the apps that came with the iPhone. What will happen to them?
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Electronista:27% of e-reader buyers regret not waiting for iPad
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Dan Moren / Macworld:iPad developers struggle with hands-off approach
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
‘Mariposa’ Botnet Authors May Avoid Jail Time — Three Spanish men were arrested last month for allegedly building an international network of more than 12 million hacked PCs that were used for everything from identity theft to spamming. But according to Spanish authorities and security experts …
Katie Scott / Wired.co.uk:
Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored — Websites are gaining increasing recognition as being culturally valuable — as snapshots of our cultural history. But could a change in the law be the only way to preserve them? — An investigation by Katie Scott
John Furrier / SiliconANGLE:
Cisco Wants To Rule Your Living Room - Launching New High Speed Network With Set Top Box March 9 — {Editor's note: We changed the original title to shorten it down a bit based upon some other sites editors who wanted to link to it.. feedback taken. -Cheers John @Furrier}
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Meet The New Foursquare. Same As The Old Foursquare — But Prettier. — It's hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. One of them peeked out a bit early: Foursquare.
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft sends flowers, card for Internet Explorer 6 funeral — Say this for Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, they've got a sense of humor. The people who make the Redmond company's web browser sent flowers and a card to the widely publicized “funeral” being held today to mark the passing of one of their own, Internet Explorer 6.
Clark Wimberly / Android and Me:
Gowalla 1.0 finally hits the Android Market. Nerds, bar goers rejoice — We've been following Gowalla for some time now. And judging by the funding they've picked up and how quickly they are making progress we can't be the only ones. For months now Gowalla has been available on Android via a webapp at m.gowalla.com.
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Apple's multitouch lawsuit is both dumb and dangerous. … - Is Bart Stupak Deliberately Misinterpreting the Abortion Language in the Senate Health Care Bill? - Not Even the Cheshire Cat Was Smiling by the End of This Movie- Why Steve Martin Stopped Being Funny- Help! Is It OK To Sleep With the Nanny?
Gabor Cselle / reMail:
reMail is now Open Source — Last month, we announced reMail's acquisition by Google. Since we'll be focusing on other projects at Google, we also decided to remove reMail from the App Store. Existing users were able to keep using it because reMail is a client-only application.
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Yahoo Loses Exclusive T-Mobile USA Search Deal To Google — T-Mobile USA has ended its year-old exclusive search deal with Yahoo, and has replaced the company with its chief rival—Google (NSDQ: GOOG). — The deal shifts the U.S. mobile search dominance away from Yahoo and in favor of Google …
Jason Snell / Macworld:
iPhone lessons from Google's Nexus One — Android phone shows key areas where Apple needs to improve — In 2010, as in 2007, the entire technology industry gathered at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, only to have the hot tech news of the week usurped by a smartphone announcement back in the Bay Area.
William M. Bulkeley / Digits:
MIT Unveils New Digital Sandbox — The famed Media Lab at Massachsetts Instiute of Technology unveiled its new home, a $90 million, six-story playpen. It's designed to let some of the world's smartest and most creative engineers explore their inner robot, create new social networking tools or build intelligent music systems.
Abe Sauer / The Awl:
Why Apple Deserves an Oscar Too — Avatar is in contention for an Oscar because it dominated its field, both technologically and financially. But another cinematic player was even more dominant last year: Apple. In the 44 films in 2009 that topped the box office for at least one weekend …
Good Gear Guide:
Bluetooth 4.0 to reach devices in fourth quarter — The new specification will be used in more devices than its predecessors — The Bluetooth 4.0 wireless specification could start to appear in devices such as headsets, smartphones and PCs by the fourth quarter, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group said on Wednesday.
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Andy Greenberg / Velocity:
Where Microsoft Censors Bing For “Sex” — Microsoft, unlike Google, never said that it wouldn't be evil. So when it comes to censorship of its search engine Bing, it should come as no surprise that the company is much more willing than Google to block content rather than risk upsetting censorious governments around the world.
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