Top Items:
Edward Helmore / Guardian:
iPad ‘newspaper’ created by Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch — Apple and News Corp reportedly set to launch joint iPad news publication exclusively via download — Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital …
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WWD.COM, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, PadGadget, Gizmodo, Electronista, Virtualeconomics, iClarified and MacDailyNews, more at Mediagazer »
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Whoa, Google, That's A Pretty Big Security Hole — See Updates at bottom of post. — Facebook would probably just consider this a feature, but the rest of us will definitely consider this a big security hole. The creator of http://guntada.blogspot.com (don't visit that site just yet) emailed us this morning to explain.
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Naked Security and Techie Buzz
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Removing Gmail From List Of Third Party Email Providers — Something is up on the Facebook vs. Google data reciprocity front. It looks like Facebook is removing Gmail from the list of third party email providers on “Find Friends”, whereas we were seeing direct link downloads …
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SAI
Michael Gartenberg / Macworld:
The Mac is back — Why Apple's computer platform isn't going anywhere but up — Last month, Steve Jobs took to the stage, most likely for the final time this year, to launch a new version of iLife and new updates to the MacBook Air line. More importantly, he spent a lot of time talking …
Joel Evans / The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog:
Verizon Wireless really screwed up the Samsung Tab with pricing and policy — I've been playing with a Samsung Tab from Verizon Wireless since November 11th. I will share my impressions of the device in the coming days but in the interim, I wanted to let the world know about how crazy Verizon Wireless …
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displayblog, PhoneNews.com and Geek.com
BelfastTelegraph.co.uk:
Google warns Irish government against tax increase — The Republic of Ireland's biggest US employers yesterday hit back at calls from Europe's big guns for a hike in the country's controversial low corporation tax rate. — The 12.5pc company profit tax is one of the lowest in Europe …
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Telegraph
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 hitting Verizon stores ‘this holiday season,’ according to Microsoft tweet (update) — Looks like Microsoft took Big Red's challenge and decided to respond in kind, as the official Windows Phone Twitter feed claims that Windows Phone 7 devices are finally headed to Verizon.
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Neowin.net, MobileTechWorld, WMPoweruser.com, PhoneDog.com, Gizmodo, Erictric, IntoMobile, PhoneArena and WPCentral.com
Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story:
Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill — It's too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. — A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor …
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Computerworld, SAI, Examiner, ZeroPaid.com, ITworld.com and Techdirt
RELATED:
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet
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Technology Liberation Front, Faster Forward and DSLreports
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
New Twitter Now Showing Full Conversations In The Side Pane — A couple days ago, we noted that Twitter was back on the new feature charge with the new People area they're testing out. Well, make it two-for-two, as yesterday they rolled out another new feature — one that many users …
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Windows @ 25 — Today marks the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Windows, since the first version of the product was launched on this day in 1985. (To put this in perspective, I graduated from high school in 1985.) Like most people, I never used Windows 1., which was by all accounts nothing …
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Gizmodo and The Register
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is the tech press needed anymore? (how Apple iPhone apps take off now) — Datapoint one: John Gruber is noting that Android doesn't have very many of the industry's best apps. — Datapoint two. Starbucks CIO says that he's forced to use HTML 5 to support Apple iOS users …
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Daring Fireball, more at Mediagazer »
Joab Jackson / Computerworld:
Supercomputing Top500 brews discontent — IBM, Intel, others question the usefulness of the Top500 key metric, the Linpack test — Like Hollywood's Academy Awards, the Top500 list of supercomputers is dutifully watched by high-performance computing (HPC) participants and observers …
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EE Times, New York Times, GenomeWeb and Gawker
cdixon's posterous:
The anti-bubble of 2001-2004 — Us old timers remember 2001-2004 when anything related to the internet was ridiculed as a ponzi scheme. The conventional wisdom was no internet company would ever make money and all the ideas of the dot-com boom were stupid.
