Techmeme: Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks (Noah Shachtman/Danger Room)

2:35 PM ET, December 10, 2010

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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:

Military Bans Disks, Threatens Courts-Martial to Stop New Leaks — It's too late to stop WikiLeaks from publishing thousands more classified documents, nabbed from the Pentagon's secret network. But the U.S. military is telling its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every …

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Philip Dorling / Sydney Morning Herald:

How I met Julian Assange and secured the American embassy cables — GETTING to WikiLeaks's secret headquarters took quite some time and was not without complications. — This year a careful reading of statements by the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, led me to conclude his small organisation …

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Sean Bonner / Boing Boing:
Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
First arrest made in WikiLeaks revenge attacks

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Reuters:

Apple preps new camera-toting iPads: sources — (Reuters) - Apple Inc is preparing new iPads, including models that are about half the size of the current tablet computer, and will include front- and back-mounted cameras, supply chain sources told Reuters. — Component suppliers …

Ossi Carp / Nyheter - DN.se:

“A new WikiLeaks” revolts against Assange … The new project, “Openleaks,” has been under way for some time and will be launched Monday. DN.se has spoken to individuals behind the new site and the message is clear. … “As a short-term goal, this is about completing the technical infrastructure …

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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Ex-WikiLeaker Explains His Spinoff Group, OpenLeaks

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Peter Solderitsch / Docs Blog:

Tips & Tricks: More options for mobile editing on the the iPad — A couple weeks ago, we made is possible to edit your documents on many popular mobile phones and on the iPad. — The new mobile editor is fast and lightweight, but sometimes you want to make more style edits like changing a font, or center aligning a paragraph.

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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Desktop version of Google Docs now works on iPad — Google has announced that the full desktop version of their Google Docs word processing service now works on the iPad. The desktop version should be used on the iPad for advanced document edits such as font or alignment changes.

Brian Heater / Gearlog:

Droid 2 Was Dropped, Didn't Explode - Motorola Employee — Earlier this month, we told you the story of a man in north Texas whose exploding Droid 2 sent him to the hospital, resulting in a blood splattered handset and a face full of stitches. — The man, Aron Embry, told the press …

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Tom Warren / WinRumors:

Microsoft set to detail second Windows Phone update at Mobile World Congress in February … Microsoft is planning to unveil and detail a second Windows Phone 7 update in February. — The software giant has chosen the Mobile World Congress venue according to sources familiar with the plans.

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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Verizon's Cure for CrackBerry Addiction: Android — Another handful of worrisome data points for Research in Motion, which appears to be slipping down carriers' priority lists as the BlackBerry struggles for purchase in an increasingly sophisticated market.

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Computerworld:

Oracle asks Apache to reconsider Java committee departure — Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation to reconsider its decision to quit the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, and is also acknowledging the ASF's importance to Java's future. — Oracle has asked the Apache Software Foundation …

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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

World Map Of Social Networks Shows Facebook's Ever-Increasing Dominance — Just in case you had any doubts about the fact we live in the age of Facebook, just check out Vincenzo Cosenza's latest edition of the World Map Of Social Networks. — Based on this month's Alexa & Google Trends …

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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:

With Kinect, Xbox outsells Wii, PS3 for sixth-straight month — A combination of Kinect and Microsoft's biggest Black Friday week ever propelled the Xbox 360 to the top of NPD Group's sales chart for the sixth month in a row. — Microsoft sold 1.37 million Xboxes during November …

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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Fed Up With Android Market, Angry Birds Flies to Carrier Billing — Rovio is taking its success with mobile game Angry Birds — 50 million downloads and counting — and using it to launch a new in-app purchase, carrier-billing payment system. The mobile developer said it's launching Bad …

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Eric Schmidt / The Official Google Blog:

Cloud computing: the latest chapter in an epic journey — On Tuesday, we announced a number of updates to Chrome and Chrome OS. For me, these announcements were among the most important of my working life—demonstrating the real power of computer science to transform people's lives.

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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google's Chrome OS: Printing works fine

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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:

HTC aims to roll out 60 million handsets in 2011 — HTC has reportedly informed its suppliers that it will eventually need parts and components for the production of up to 60 million handsets in 2011 compared to shipments of 20 million units projected for 2010, according to industry sources.

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Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:

Sprint Says 4G Tablet Coming In 2011, 80% Of CIOs Want To Buy Tablets — When Sprint Nextel introduced its first tablet in November, some were disappointed that the device was only compatible with 3G instead of the faster “4G” flavor of mobile broadband. After all, Sprint has offered 4G …

Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:

Microsoft's Hotmail, struggling to fight Gmail et al, looks to Reddit users for hope — The team behind Microsoft's oft-maligned email service, Hotmail, is hoping to score back some of its users from the titans in the industry like Gmail by doing something Google hasn't quite pulled off: showing they are human.

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