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More Wikileaks: The 24-hour Athenian democracy … I am talking to members of a group called “Anonymous”, using a web-based collaborative text-editing service. It is the first such interview for all of us, and their answers begin to collide on the page. One member comes from Norway …
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Help Net Security, New York Times, Fast Company, SAI, Computerworld, Agence France Presse, Guardian and CNET News
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Wikileaks' Cables now available on Amazon, reviewers are not happy. — In the interests of keeping the Wikileaks Cables available for all, regardless of whether the official website is taken offline, an enterprising Amazon trader has taken the 5000 Cables and is now selling …
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Fast Company, SAI, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area and TechEye
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Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked
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Inquirer, TechCrunch, The Register, Associated Press, The Lede, Gawker, ReadWriteWeb, Washington Post, CNET News, Fast Company and Guardian
Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You
Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You
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CNET News, The Huffington Post and PC World
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Microsoft: “Yeah, We Tried To Acquire Facebook.” — While on the “How To Get Acquired” panel here at Le Web, Microsoft Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions Fritz Lanman admitted that Microsoft did try to acquire the social network Facebook, acquisition talks first reported …
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CNET News, WinRumors, The Atlantic Online and GeekSmack
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8% of online Americans use Twitter — This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Project had asked internet users whether they “used Twitter or another service …
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TechEye, Tech Daily Dose, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, VentureBeat, USA Today, Guardian, msnbc.com, SiliconANGLE, NetworkEffect, digiphile, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, Adotas, SFGate, eWeek, VatorNews, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, IBD Click, Twittercism, TomsTechBlog.com and Hillicon Valley
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Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps — Ben Kessler woke up to an unexpected surprise on the doorstep of his New York home this morning: a Cr-48. Yes, the just-unveiled Google Chrome Notebook is already rolling out to those who requested one.
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SlashGear, Chrome Story, Softpedia News, Electronista, Liliputing and Engadget
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The Full List Of The Top iPhone And iPad Apps Of 2010 — We've already highlighted the four apps that Apple has chosen as their “award winners” for 2010. But they've also highlighted the following: Overall Paid iPhone Apps, Overall Free iPhone Apps, Overall Grossing iPhone Apps …
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GigaOM, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR, Gearlog, NBC Bay Area and MacStories
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Apple to tap Intel's graphics for future MacBooks — Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors in at least some models of the popular laptops, sources have told CNET.
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, eWeek, MacRumors, Electronista, Softpedia News, TUAW, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Engadget, VizWorld.com and O'Grady's PowerPage
Rajen Sheth / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini — When we acquired Postini in 2007, we incorporated additional cloud-based spam and virus filtering, email archiving and encryption services into our Enterprise products. We had a vision that the power of the cloud could deliver …
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ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, All about Microsoft Blog, eWeek, Google Enterprise Blog and NewEnterprise
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Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day — Google may now be the biggest smartphone vendor on earth. — Andy Rubin just Tweeted that Google (GOOG) is activating 300,000 phones a day. That passes Apple's (AAPL) iOS, that passes Blackberry (RIMM).
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MobileCrunch, VentureBeat, pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, Electronista, DSLreports, Mobilized, Reuters, ITProPortal, AndroidGuys, Appolicious Advisor, blogs.chron.com, ThinkMobile, TechEye, Inquirer, Droid Life, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, MacHackPC, BGR, BeyondVC, Androinica, GeekSmack, PhoneArena, LaptopMemo, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, Erictric and PC Pro, Thanks:markgurman
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Best Buy Mobile offering iPhone 3GS for free on December 10th — We just received a tip from a Best Buy ninja of ours, and well, it seems that Radio Shack isn't the only game in town in you're looking for an Apple iPhone. Best Buy will be offering up Apple's iPhone 3GS for free for one day only, this Friday the 10th.
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Business Wire, IntoMobile, TUAW, PhoneArena, TiPb, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, iLounge, SlashPhone, Electronista, Erictric, Phones Review and Gadgetell
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16 Tycoons Agree to Give Away Fortunes — The billionaire founder of social network Facebook Inc. has agreed to give the majority of his wealth to charity, part of a broader group of rich entrepreneurs committing to philanthropy earlier in their lives. — Mark Zuckerberg has signed onto the …
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Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, ITProPortal, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Gawker and SAI
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Mike Isaac / Social Medium:
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Agrees to Donate Fortune to Charities
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Agrees to Donate Fortune to Charities
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The Raw Feed and Seattle Times, Thanks:mj_isaac
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YouTube 2.1 App Now Available on Android Market — When you're watching a video on YouTube, how often do you JUST watch the video? If you're like me, you scroll down, maybe read the video description and glance over at the related videos to choose what you might watch next.
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GigaOM, AndroidGuys, Download Squad, Eurodroid, PhoneArena and The Next Web
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
To Trend or Not to Trend... Since Twitter first introduced the Trends feature in the summer of 2008, one frequently asked question has been “Why isn't X trending?” This question has come up around a variety of subjects, from #justinbieber and #adamlambert to #flotilla, #iranelection and #demo2010.
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BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on video demo — We promised a hands on demo video of the BlackBerry PlayBook, and that's what you're going to get from us — almost 10 minutes of 1080p joy. As we said previously, we were pretty impressed seeing the PlayBook demo'd in person right in front of us, and well, we could go on for days.
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VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, Gadget Lab, PhoneArena, LAPTOP Magazine, T3.com News, Computerworld, PhoneDog.com, GeekSmack and Pocket-lint
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Apple Loses Its iPhone Game Guru — The man in charge of making sure that Apple's popular portable devices play games well is no longer with the tech titan. — Graeme Devine joined Apple's iPhone Game Technologies division last year. Devine tells Kotaku that his last day at the company was Friday.
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PC World, Edge Online, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, Mashable!, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, Softpedia News and VentureBeat
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Forecast: IPad Will Generate Two Percent of North American Net Traffic by End of 2011 — How's this for a prediction? By the end of 2011, the iPad will generate more than two percent of all North American Web traffic. — That's according to Chitika, which has been tracking iPad adoption rates …
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CNET News, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and The Loop
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Snapstick takes on Apple TV, Google TV — Snapstick in action in CNET headquarters on an iPhone 4 and TV monitor. — A startup called Snapstick is introducing its spin on Internet TV today that it hopes will compete heavily with Apple TV, Google TV, and other set-top boxes.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Pronet Advertising, The Next Web and Electronista
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Donations Ban on iPhone Apps Irritates Nonprofits — The nonprofit world is stewing over the ban Apple has put on making donations on the iPhone via charity apps. — No one, including Apple, has data on how many nonprofits have created apps for the iPhone.
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PC World, Computerworld, MobileBurn.com and Beth's Blog
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iPad-Smuggling Housewives Detained … Chinese housewives carrying dozens of iPads into China can only confirm what the U.S. war on drugs has already shown: Border control can't fully staunch the flow of a product in huge demand. — Customs officials in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city …
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IntoMobile, Techland, SlashGear, PadGadget, ITProPortal, Examiner, Computerworld and The Register
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DST Partner: On A Path To Becoming A $1 Billion Company? Come Talk To Us — Le Web 10 host Loic Le Meur just finished his on-stage interview with Alexander Tamas, Partner at one of the most watched technology investment firms on the planet, DST / Mail.ru Group.
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SAI and Tea & Tech