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Internet road rules near FCC vote — (Reuters) - A controversial proposal for Internet traffic rules that would allow providers to ration access to their networks is scheduled to come before communications regulators for a vote on Tuesday. — The rules would ban high-speed Internet providers …
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Multichannel News and DSLreports
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Neutrality Or Bust — Access to fast, affordable and open broadband, for users and developers alike is, I believe, the single most important driver of innovation in our business. The FCC will likely vote next week on a framework for net neutrality—we got aspects of this wrong ten years ago, we can't afford to be wrong again.
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New York Times

GOP Opposition to FCC Net Neutrality Plan Mounts
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Hillicon Valley and Post Tech


The Best HTML5 Game Yet: A Threat To Flash? — Casual gaming is a bastion for Adobe's Flash format, but we are told that it is just a matter of time until HTML5 will replace Flash as we know it today. Grant Skinner has released the best casual HTML5 game we have seen to date and we wonder …
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gskinner.com, Pulse2, Computerworld and MSDN Blogs


Former Yahoo Engineers Shed Light On Why Delicious And Other Acquisitions Failed — As we've written a number of times over the past few days, Yahoo appears to be in complete disarray. Following layoffs at the company this week, a leaked memo revealed that Yahoo is “sunsetting” …
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ReadWriteWeb, unique hazards may exist, Pulse2, Wap Review and Enterprise Irregulars

The Cloud OS — My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response. Some said that my prediction was obvious and boring, but others disagreed, arguing instead that I am ugly and “don't get it”. I won't disagree with either side …
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Macworld, eWeek, Beyond Search and Life On the Wicked Stage, Thanks:zee


When OCR Goes Bad: Google's Ngram Viewer & The F-Word — Google launched its Google Books Ngram Viewer this week, a tool that lets you research how popular words and phrases have been over several centuries, based on their appearance in books. But can you trust it?
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TeleRead

Facebook: Why our ‘next-gen’ comms ditched MySQL — Cassandra founder plays Ace of HBase — About a year ago, when Facebook set out to build its email-meets-chat-meets-everything- else messaging system, the company knew its infrastructure couldn't run the thing.
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Pulse2


Joe Biden Compares Julian Assange To ‘High-Tech Terrorist,’ Says Justice Dept. Looking Into Charges — From Meet the Press this morning. — Vice President Joe Biden sounded quite grave on the subject of Julian Assange, whom he compared to “a high-tech terrorist”


Instagram Gains Suggested Users, 7 New Languages, And Yes, 2 New Filters — An update to Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app for the iPhone, has just hit the App Store. And while the version numbering (1.0.6) may not make it seem like a big update, there are a few notable things about the latest version.
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Pulse2, Download Squad and The Next Web


Thanks In Part To Free Shipping Offers, Online Holiday Spending Up 12 Percent To $27.5B — We know that online holiday spending is reaching highs this year, as consumers are looking to the web for deals this season. To date, comScore is reporting that $27.46 billion has been spent online …
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VentureBeat


Notion Ink releases Adam demo video, attempts to explain itself (update: second vid) — As promised, Notion Ink has just released a video of the Adam tablet in action, complete with that snazzy new Eden UI — the first anyone's seen of the device since its first working prototype.
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Notion Ink, Android Police, TeleRead, Pulse2, SlashGear, Androinica, jkkmobile, Electronista, CrunchGear, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile and LAPTOP Magazine


Broadband firms urged to block sex websites to protect children — Government wants BT, Virgin and other internet providers to put access to adult pornography on ‘opt-in’ basis — Internet service providers are to be asked by the government to tighten up on website pornography to try to combat the early sexualisation of children.
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The Next Web, Telegraph, Erictric and SlashGear


Groupon's $6 Billion Gambler — The 30-year-old CEO in Chicago is changing the way we buy from local businesses. And trying to make billions doing it. — Chicago — Enter the offices of Groupon, the hottest Internet start-up in the country, and staring down at you from the wall is 30-year-old CEO Andrew Mason.
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Thinking Out Loud: What's Driving Groupon?
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