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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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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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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 …
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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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.
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Alex Howard / digiphile:
On the failure of Quit Facebook Day, Social Utility and Privacy — At 10:19 PM EST tonight, the organizers of Quit Facebook Day reported that all of 33,313 people had dropped out of the Facebook universe. That figure represents a tiny fraction of Facebook's 400 million users.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Keeping up with Intel, Qualcomm ships its first dual-core Snapdragon chips — Intel is applying pressure to the cell phone chip makers as it barges into the market with its Atom microprocessors. In response, Qualcomm is announcing today it has created its first dual-core Snapdragon chip set for smartphones.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Stanford Graduates Release Pulse, A Must-Have News App For The iPad — Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University's Institute of Design (aka d.school), could have hardly chosen a better path to try their hands at startup life.
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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.
Kontra / counternotions:
Corporations and Hypocrisy: Inconvenient truths about Google — Google evangelist Tim Bray, whose Twitter jihad against Apple's “curated computing” dissected here earlier, says: … This, incredibly, is the same man who started his Google “evangelism” gig with the words “I hate it” referring to Apple and its App Store policies.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Loopt Star Keeps It Simple: Check-Ins, Specials, And Facebook — Back in January, we noted that Loopt was sending around a deck to advertisers showing off a new product. The product was focused on check-in specials (the kind popularized by Foursquare) and was entirely built on top of Facebook's social graph.
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.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Android Fanboys Have Arrived. And That's A Good Thing — By now, just about everyone on the planet has heard the term “Apple Fanboy.” If you've ever said anything good about an Apple product, you've likely been called one. But a new class of fanboy has emerged — one that, amazingly, may be be equally as passionate.
