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Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:
Using Microsoft, Russia Suppresses Dissent — IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away.
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Computerworld, Engadget, TechFlash, OSNews and open
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Microdata: HTML5's Best-Kept Secret — Given the amount of industry noise about native video and scripted animations, you'd be forgiven if you had never heard of the new microdata specification included in HTML5. — Similar to outside efforts like Microformats, HTML5's microdata offers …
Mike Elgan / mikelgan's blog:
Why is Google so condescending? — Recent comments by Google's top PR guy and even its CEO make me wonder whether the company understands how such comments do far more harm than good. — I like it! — Google's Gabriel Stricker, director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, opened the Google Instant launch this week.
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Associated Press:
Report: HP close to buying ArcSight for $1.5B — NEW YORK — Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. may be close to another major acquisition. — The company is nearing a deal to buy security software provider ArcSight for about $1.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal said on its website Sunday.
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Wall Street Journal, Silicon Alley Insider and Reuters
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Nokia's New CEO: Challenges — Here we are, back from last June's Nokia science-fiction romp. The company has finally elected a new CEO to replace OPK, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. 43-year-old Stephen Elop's bona fides are in order: As President of Microsoft's Business Division (since January 2008) …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
As “Instant” Services Proliferate, Instantise Gives Them All A Home — Yesterday I wrote about how all web services could possibly be more useful with some “Instantization”; Scottish engineer Tam Denholm had the very same idea, and built Instantise to house the recent outcrop …
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PC Magazine and WebProNews
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Feross Aboukhadijeh / Feross.org:
YouTube Instant. The last two days...
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Mashable!, Quick Online Tips, TechCrunch and TopINews Blog, Thanks:atul
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Page Discovery “Browser” — Facebook has launched a new way to “Discover Facebook's Popular Pages” called Browser. It shows icons of Pages that are popular in a user's country, but factors in which Pages which are popular amongst their unique friend network.
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Mashable!, WebProNews and UMBC ebiquity
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Reading E-Books in All the Colors of the Rainbow — BLACK-AND-WHITE movies have their film noir appeal, yet it's glowing color that rules on most consumer displays these days, with one exception: the pages of e-book readers. There, color is still supplied the old-fashioned way — not by filtered pixels, but by readers' imaginations.
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Alex Gasparski / TechReviewSource News Blog:
Leaked: Acer Laptop with Dual Touchscreens — From one of our sources, we have received pictures of a laptop from Acer that is currently in development. It has two touch screens, one as the laptop's display and one as the keyboard/trackpad. In other words, it has no physical keyboard …
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CrunchGear, Liliputing, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Electronista and Engadget
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Europe to Back Plan to Create Pan-European Mobile Market — BERLIN — The European Commission is poised this week to back a plan that would divert a portion of the valuable broadcast spectrum used by television stations to mobile operators by 2013, in a bid to create an E.U.-wide market for wireless broadband services.
Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
Is Game Center capped at 500 friends? — Game Center, Apple's new live gaming network for iOS, seems to be capped at roughly 500 friends per account. A few days ago, after reaching 501, my account stopped receiving new friend requests. I didn't notice at first since I'd turned off popups and trumpets …
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IMAK Creations, 9 to 5 Mac and Covering Web, Thanks:pand21b
Ross Rubin / Engadget:
Switched On: Why the digital hub died — Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. — A decade ago at Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs provided a rare look into the vision guiding Apple. Breaking with naysayers foretelling the demise of the PC …
