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Mahendra Palsule / Skeptic Geek:
EveryDNS.net Terminates Wikileaks.org DNS Services, Wikileaks.ch Back Up in Switzerland — EveryDNS.net, which provided DNS services to the wikileaks.org domain has terminated them at 10 PM EST, December 2, 2010, citing threats to the stability of their infrastructure.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Troubled Wikileaks Moves To Pirate Party Domain — After being cut off by its nameserver provider EveryDNS, Wikileaks has moved to a domain registered by Pirate Party Switzerland. EveryDNS was forced to stop its services to Wikileaks after continued DDoS attacks, creating yet another setback …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment — The rumors are true! Amazon and daily deals site LivingSocial have just officially confirmed their partnership, with the e-tailer investing a whopping $175 million in the latter. This comes at an interesting time for both companies …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Meet Cloud Picker, Google's Stealthy New Storage Product — What is Google Cloud Picker? According to these Blogger Forums, Sites Forums, and others, Google has been testing a new online storage tool called, you guessed it, Cloud Picker. — From these accounts, it appears that the tool …
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation — Senator Joseph Lieberman and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Maybe We Should Start Burning Books, Too
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Kent Walker / Google Public Policy Blog:
Making Copyright Work Better Online — There are more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the web and more than 35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. It's some pretty fantastic stuff - content that makes us think, laugh, and learn new things. Services we couldn't have imagined ten years ago …
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
In depth: Google's Simon Morrison on its new anti-piracy steps
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Toying With Naming Social Product “Google +1″ As Sergey Brin Gets Involved — Yesterday, after some digging, we were able to confirm that the internal codename for Google's upcoming social project is “Emerald Sea”. Despite some confusion that it may be called “Emerald City” …
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SlashGear, Digital Trends, WebProNews and Gizmodo
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Engineering Shortage Is Real. Former Digg Engineer Gets 7 Offers, Takes One for $150K — In recent months, venture capitalists have been complaining that a shortage of talented engineers is driving up engineering salaries at their portfolio companies. — Turns out all that complaining is warranted.
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Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Verizon LTE Blows Through Monthly Data Cap in 32 Minutes — Verizon's new 4G LTE network is so fast that you can use up your entire 5GB, $50 monthly allotment in 32 minutes. — I'm in the middle of testing Verizon's new LTE network, and the 2010-era speeds are soured by the 2005-era thinking on data plans.
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Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:
Android Gingerbread UI Gets Exposed In The Crispest Video To Date — Wow, this went unnoticed for a while, didn't it? On November 23rd, Google's own GoogleinHK YouTube account posted a video walkthrough of the new Google Voice Search in Cantonese. With only 2100 views …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
A Guided Tour of Computing History — Steve Wozniak with George Stibitz's one-bit computer from 1936 — On January 13th, the seven-year-old Computer History Museum will open its first truly full-blown permanent exhibit:, the 25,000-square-foot, $19 million “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing.”
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola CEO talks smartphones, tablets and 4G; alludes to Q1 Verizon iPhone launch — Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha delivered a keynote yesterday at the Credit Suisse 2010 Technology Conference, and it was quite a doozy. Topics covered included the future of Motorola's smartphone business …
Rebecca Moore / Official google.org Blog:
Introducing Google Earth Engine — Today, we launched a new Google Labs product called Google Earth Engine at the International Climate Change Conference in sunny Cancun, Mexico. Google Earth Engine is a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data …
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Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Buy New York Office Building — Google Inc. has signed a contract to buy the building that houses its New York City offices, in a deal that values the property at close to $1.9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. — The deal for the massive 2.9-million-square-foot property …
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Android OS 2.X upgrade picks up steam — Older phones are being updated, retired or just plain outnumbered by smartphones running Android 2.x — As the release of Google's (GOOG) Android 2.3 looms, the latest report of phones hitting the Android Market shows increased adoption of Android 2.1 and 2.2.
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Amar Toor / Switched:
YouPorn, Perez Hilton Exploit Bug to Obtain Your Browsing History — Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered a bug that many sites are using to track the browsing behavior of their visitors. The flaw was found on some 485 websites, including YouPorn …
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
Native apps are always better than Web apps; Psst, the new way has an escape chute — When we talk about the mobile Web being a good candidate to be a unifying platform for mobile and beyond, we often get nay-sayers telling us that there is no chance of this happening. — Their claims often chanted include:
Justin O'Beirne / 41Latitude:
Google Maps & Label Readability — Why Do Google Maps's City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors? — For months, I've been trying to figure out why Google Maps's city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Silverlight 5 to bring media boost, windowed apps — Microsoft today unveiled the next iteration of its Silverlight technology, Silverlight 5, which the company said will improve things like media playback and the time it takes to develop applications. — “There's been a lot of angst …
Elizabeth Fish / PC World:
AVG Free Update Bricks 64-Bit Windows 7 PCs — If you haven't already downloaded the latest mandatory AVG 2011 Free software update, it may be best not to if you want your computer to turn on again. The December 1 update is causing 64-bit PCs running Windows 7 to totally breakdown.
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W.J. Hennigan / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
WikiLeaks' new home is in a former bomb shelter — WikiLeaks, the website known for publishing top-secret government information, has found a new home for its trove of covert dossiers: inside a Cold War bomb shelter. — Truly the stuff of spy films, the site features solid steel doors …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
iPhone sales in China ‘disappointing’ — But they will improve rapidly, says an analyst, now that Wi-Fi and the iPhone 4 have arrived — Click to enlarge. Source: Morgan Keegan — “In general, smartphones have exploded in China this year,” writes Morgan Keegan's Travis McCourt in a report to clients issued Thursday.
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Paul Krill / Computerworld:
Google upgrades its cloud platform — InfoWorld - Google will upgrade on Thursday its Google App Engine cloud platform and its software development kit, adding capabilities for real-time communications and increased data replication. — The company will roll out Google App Engine 1.4.0 …
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