Techmeme: The Statute of Anne, the Digital Economy Bill and the Red Flag Act (Kevin Marks/Epeus' epigone)

6:50 AM ET, April 6, 2010

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Ina Fried / CNET News:

Microsoft's mystery event revealed — Microsoft's mystery event is a mystery no more. — A source confirms I was on target with my prediction that the event will herald the introduction of Microsoft's long-awaited new phones for the always-connected crowd.

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft invites us to mystery event, April 12th! (update: for Pink phones?)

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

HP Slate to cost $549, have 1.6GHz Atom Z530, 5 hour battery? — Well, well — what's this? We just got our hands on what looks like an internal HP Slate presentation given to cool down some of the iPad hype amongst HP employees, and it just happens to have specs and pricing details on the elusive Windows 7 tablet.

Phil McKinney / HP Voodoo Blog:

HP's Slate Device Delivers a Holistic Mobile Experience — Up to now, we've given you only tiny glimpses of the HP slate device coming out later this year. You saw it first in a video we released during CES and most recently in videos demoing its Web experience and Adobe Flash and Air support.

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

6 Features to Expect in iPhone OS 4.0 — Less than a week after the introduction of the iPad, Apple plans to share details on “the future of iPhone OS” at a press event this Thursday, where the company is widely expected to lift the wraps off version 4.0 of Apple's mobile operating system …

Discussion: Computerworld, MobileContentToday and TheAppleBlog

Boy Genius Report:

Apple's iPhone 4.0 OS to be revealed Thursday — Uh oh... Apple just sent out invitations for press to get a sneak peak at their next generation iPhone OS, 4.0. We can't wait for April 8th.

Jeremy Stoppelman / Yelp Official Blog:

We're Increasing Transparency and Eliminating ‘Favorite Review’ — User trust is the foundation on which Yelp is built and the reason 31 million consumers turned to the site last month to find a great local business. Today we're announcing two important product changes to reinforce that trust …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Bits, Search Engine Land, PE Hub Blog, GigaOM and The Next Web

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Yelp Makes Big Changes in Effort to End Extortion Claims

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:

The iPad Flies Through Airport Security — The iPad, as Steve Jobs told us from his comfy leather chair at Macworld, represents a new computing form factor that falls squarely between the laptop and the smartphone. Which raises a curious problem for the Transportation Security Administration …

Kleiner Perkins Caufield / TechCrunch:

John Doerr: The Next Big Thing — This guest post was written by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Chi-Hua Chien and Ellen Pao. We covered KP's increase in the size of the iFund last week, and additional insights from KP's Matt Murphy on the iPad.

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Todd Jackson / Gmail Blog:

Confirm your Buzz settings — Shortly after launching Google Buzz, we quickly realized we didn't get everything right and moved as fast as possible to improve the Buzz experience. We made a number of changes to the getting started experience based on your feedback, the most significant …

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, SocialTimes.com, ReadWriteWeb, MediaPost, Epicenter, TechCrunch, Google Watch, GeekSugar, eWeek, GMSV and GigaOM

BBC:
Google rolls out privacy reset for Buzz social network

Discussion: VentureBeat, p2pnet, The Next Web, Lifehacker, Search Engine Journal and Mashable!

Owen Fletcher / Computerworld:

China rejects hacking ‘insinuations’ after spy ring revealed — IDG News Service - China on Tuesday rejected “insinuations” of involvement by its government in cyberattacks after North American researchers exposed a China-based cyber-espionage ring that targeted computers in the Indian military and elsewhere.

New York Times:
Researchers Trace Data Theft to China

Discussion: PC World and Canada NewsWire Group

James Lewin / Podcasting News:

iPad Peek Lets You See What Your Site Looks Like On An iPad - Except That It Doesn't — Mashable today highlighted a site called iPad Peek, calling it a “nifty tool that lets you see how any website will be rendered on the iPad.” — It sounds like a good idea, Unfortunately …

Discussion: Digital Inspiration …, Mashable!, AppScout, Fone Arena, Webmonkey, hypebot and GeekSmack

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

The iPad's Not So Revolutionary Inside — The inner workings of the iPad reveal that Apple has learned much from its iPhone development, using many of the same components and cramming those chips onto a pretty small board behind the device's 9.7-inch screen.

Alex Payne / al3x:

The Moderate's Position on iPad Openness — When Apple's iPad was announced in January, I immediately posted a reaction. Now that the device is out, it seems worth revisiting the subject. — Do You Feel Like A Hypocrite Yet? — First thing's first. Back in January …

Discussion: Guardian, Umair Haque, p2pnet and The Open Road

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Why Is Time Charging $5 for Its iPad App? — One subplot amid the iPad hype: A lot of grumbling about the cost of the apps, particularly from established media companies. — Example A: Time Magazine, which is asking $4.99 a week for its app-the same price you'd pay if you bought the paper edition at a newsstand.

Discussion: TUAW, Daring Fireball and ReadWriteWeb

Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:

The Statute of Anne, the Digital Economy Bill and the Red Flag Act — This week marks the Tercentenary of the 1710 Statute of Anne - the world's first Copyright law. It also marks the first discussion of the Digital Economy Bill in the Commons. And in 1865, the Locomotive act was being discussed in the Commons too.

Fox News:

iPad Finally Purchased, Teenagers Start Destroying — After years of waiting, Apple has finally released the tablet computer fans have been panting after for years. To celebrate, a group of teenagers broke out a baseball bat and destroyed one.

Discussion: Softpedia News and Fast Company

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Facebook's iPad Impostor ‘Facebook Ultimate’ Removed From The App Store (Updated) — This weekend, as hundreds of thousands of people explored their iPads for the first time, many of them tried downloading the iPad edition of the App Store's most popular application ever: Facebook.

Discussion: Inside Facebook, All Facebook, TUAW and Fast Company

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Is permission needed to retweet hot news? — When an aggregator like Google News publishes newspaper headlines, is the company treading on thin ice? What about aggregators that publish headlines and a one-line excerpt? What about those that simply rewrite the facts contained in the story …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Digg's Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave” — Last summer we'd heard that the Digg board of directors was considering terminating Digg cofounder and CEO Jay Adelson. But everything was fine, said senior Digg employees, and the fact that the company moved Adelson out to California from New York …

Discussion: The Social, Digg Blog, Bits, The Snitch, Gawker, Erictric, VentureBeat and Between the Lines

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Kevin Rose to Replace Jay Adelson as Digg CEO

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, MediaMemo and The Next Web

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Brightcove Raises Another $12 Million; Says An IPO May Come Next Year — Online video platform company Brightcove has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding—and is now talking about going public as soon as next year. CEO Jeremy Allaire (pictured) told us this fall that his company …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Brightcove Blog, VentureBeat, VatorNews, AdExchanger.com, The Business Of Online Video, NewTeeVee, Voices on All Things Digital and Beet.TV

Kyle Wiens / ifixit:

Apple A4 Teardown — Deconstructing processors like the A4 usually happens behind the closed doors of only a handful of companies. These global reverse engineering firms are the investigative arm of the electronics marketplace, gumshoes who do research for people who need to find …

Discussion: Engadget and Velocity

Julien Sobrier / Zscaler Research:

Google search: more links are malicious than you realize — It is not uncommon to find malicious links in 15% to 20% of the first 100 results returned by Google for any popular search term (according to Google trends). If Google doesn't take the Blackhat SEO problem more seriously …

James McQuivey / paidContent:

Why The iPad Actually Strengthens Amazon's Position — Round 1 goes to Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The iPad, as expected, has caused a big stir, and given people like Walt Mossberg reason to gush with enthusiasm about the death of laptops. Throughout, as various members of the press have mused …

Discussion: IntoMobile, CNET News and Kindle Review

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Pricey iPad Not A Must-Have Dedicated E-Reader; Kindle App …

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