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Financial Times:
Google ditches Windows on security concerns — Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees. — The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
HP's Transition to the Cloud Will Cost 9,000 Jobs — Hewlett-Packard said today that it would cut 9,000 jobs and take a $1 billion restructuring charge, spread out through the end of its 2013 fiscal year, as the company seeks to automate its data centers so it can deliver enterprise business services.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Pulls the Plug on LaLa, Replaces it With... Nada — Remember a month ago? When Apple announced that it was shuttering Lala, and everyone assumed that it was going to replace the streaming music service it bought in December with a streaming music service of its own? — Now Lala's gone.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Adobe reveals magazine iPad-izer software — The Flash Player may be banned from the iPad, but that's not keeping Adobe Systems from other efforts to leave its mark on the Apple devices. The latest development: new viewer software announced Monday that lets publishers create splashy digital versions of their magazines.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
StatCounter: IE6 Usage Falls Below 5% In The US, But IE8 Still On The Rise — Microsoft's oft-lamented browser, Internet Explorer 6, may finally be put to rest. This will make many a Web developer happy - but also Microsoft itself. — Web analytics company StatCounter claims …
Nick / Rough Type:
Experiments in delinkification — A few years back, my friend Steve Gillmor, the long-time technology writer and blogger, went on a crusade against the hyperlink. He stopped putting links into his posts and other online writings. I could never quite understand his motivation, and the whole effort struck me as quixotic and silly.
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
The Coming Data Explosion — One of the key aspects of the emerging Internet of Things - where real-world objects are connected to the Internet - is the massive amount of new data on the Web that will result. As more and more “things” in the world are connected to the Internet …
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Jason D. O'Grady / ZDNet:
More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos) — iPhone Portugal has posted videos of alleged iPhone 4/HD sub-frame assemblies that were purchased in China by one of its readers. The site goes out of its way to state that the parts weren't “stolen or found” but that they were “delivered to us.”
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel debuts new Atom chips for razor-thin netbooks — Intel is debuting new members of its Atom family of microprocessors today that can be the brains of everything from low-power laptops to razor-thin netbooks. — To show off the new technology at the Computex 2010 trade show in Taiwan …
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Wired News:
Amazon Vs. Apple Be Damned: Publishers Pine For A Universal E-Book Format — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Giants and upstarts of publishing gathered at the annual BookExpo America here last week agreed e-books will transform the business but believe the big change will come when there is a standard format across …
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Dell Streak free on contract in UK, assuming £25 monthly plan — You know that Dell Streak tabletphone that's got us all hot and bothered these days? Yeah, well, what with all the stabbing, we totally didn't notice that the device has already been priced in the UK.
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Hitachi touts hard drive for ultra-light PCs that's 26% thinner — New drives will be used in PCs, laptops, video cameras and set top boxes — Computerworld - At the behest of equipment manufacturers looking to build a new class of ultra-thin notebooks, Hitachi GST announced today …
