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Daryl Deino / Examiner:
HP Hurricane webOS tablet may be released in 3rd quarter — We first speculated that since HP bought out Palm, they would come out wth a webOS tablet. According to many industry insiders, this appears to be more of a reality now. An insider at HP tells us that a webOS tablet under …
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
The Tell-All Generation Learns When Not To, at Least Online — Min Liu, a 21-year-old liberal arts student at the New School in New York City, got a Facebook account at 17 and chronicled her college life in detail, from rooftop drinks with friends to dancing at a downtown club.
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Facebook's Gone Rogue; It's Time for an Open Alternative — Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of world domination. It's time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.
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Matt McKeon:
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
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Silicon Alley Insider, rc3.org, Gawker, Wikinomics, FlowingData, Digits, Asa Dotzler and The Huffington Post, Thanks:atul
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Much ado about privacy on Facebook (I wish Facebook were MORE open!!!)
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Yet another Facebook privacy risk: emails Facebook sends leak user IP address
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Zee / The Next Web:
How to access the old Google Search. No hacks or scripts required. — As you will probably know, Google Search has had somewhat of a face lift over the last week. — To say there has been an uproar over the latest update would be a lie, but there are plenty of people (as with any change) …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Weighs in on iPad International Pricing and Taxes — With Apple's announcement on Friday regarding availability of the iPad in nine new countries later this month, a number of potential customers expressed dismay at the apparent higher prices in those countries relative to those in the United States.
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Chris / cdixon.org:
Facebook, Zynga, and buyer-supplier hold up — The brewing fight between Facebook and Zynga is what is known in economic strategy circles as “buyer-supplier hold up.” The classic framework for analyzing a firm's strategic position is Michael Porter's Five Forces.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
New attack bypasses virtually all AV protection — Bait, switch, exploit! — Researchers say they've devised a way to bypass protections built in to dozens of the most popular desktop anti-virus products, including those offered by McAfee, Trend Micro, AVG, and BitDefender.
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
The Ever-Widening World of Tiny Projectors — WAVING your hand to get the bartender's attention may not be the only way to order a martini in crowded bars of the future — even if they're as busy as the cantina in “Star Wars.” — Instead, you may be able to peruse a drinks menu beamed onto …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
An Early Look At Twitter Annotations Or, “Twannotations” — During a presentation in London today, Twitter engineer Raffi Krikorian offered up an early glimpse of what Twitter's highly anticipated new annotations feature (or, as he refers to them at one point “Twannotations") will look like.
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Alexia Tsotsis / SFWeekly Tech:
Conan O'Brien at Google: The World Has Completely Changed — Rounding out an unofficial tour of Silicon Valley, Conan O'Brien visited Google's Mountain View headquarters on Wednesday, ribbing Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra about the company's infamous aloofness: “You guys are so power mad …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Test Flights Into the Google Cloud — JORDON WING is a devoted user of Google products like Gmail, the Chrome browser and Google Docs, the Web-based word processing program. — A few weeks ago, Mr. Wing, a high school student from Spokane, Wash., took another Google product out for a spin: the Chrome Operating System.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Google attorney slams ACTA copyright treaty — PALO ALTO, Calif.—An attorney for Google slammed a controversial intellectual property treaty on Friday, saying it has “metastasized” from a proposal to address border security and counterfeit goods to an international legal framework sweeping in copyright and the Internet.
