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David Carr / New York Times:
Team From Engadget Makes Jump to SB Nation — In 2005, Jim Bankoff was working at AOL as executive vice president in charge of products and programming. He decided that AOL needed to move aggressively into news if the business, then still a portal clinging to dial-up customers …
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BoomTown, SAI, Nilay Patel, @futurepaul, @danshanoff and @saschasegan
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Joshua Topolsky:
This is my next project — As you may have already heard (or read), there's some activity going on in the world of Joshua Topolsky. Earlier this evening, David Carr published a piece in the New York Times about a new project that I'm embarking on... and I want to just say a few things about it.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft's Windows 8 recipe: Hint of Office, dash of Xbox, ounce of Windows Phone — Microsoft has already hinted that it wants to make Windows more like Xbox by supporting the Kinect sensor technology and adopting elements of the Xbox Live interface for Windows-based games.
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PC World, WWWery, Mashable!, Windows 8 Center and Neowin.net
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 8 Explorer teases file syncing and web sharing — Earlier today, Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott released the second batch of screenshots featuring unlocked features inside the latest build of Windows 8 to be leaked. It's apparent now Microsoft is committed to bringing the Ribbon user experience …
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LiveSide.net, Download Squad, Microsoft News, Within Windows, WinRumors, Windows 8 Beta and GeekSmack
Daniel Bailey / ConceivablyTech:
Firefox 5: Social Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer, Tab Apps — Details about the next version of Firefox are slowly emerging. The browser will receive significant UI revisions and feature updates that will make Firefox more social and adopt several features that are already working well in Google's Chrome browser.
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Digital Trends, MacHackPC, Techie Buzz and Slashdot
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's Larry Page must mend image of firm, self — Tackling Google's mounting public perception challenges should sit high on the “to do” list as co-founder Larry Page steps into the CEO role on Monday, observers say. — A series of antitrust probes, privacy blunders and regulatory slaps …
Thanks:techchronicle
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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Larry Page set to take over as Google CEO starting Monday — When Google (GOOG) co-founder Larry Page reclaims the role of CEO on Monday, it will be business as usual at the Googleplex. No formal ceremonies are planned. There will be no speeches. — The absence of pomp underscores Page's focus …
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Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Erasing the Digital Past — THE Internet never forgets. — Just ask the New York City teacher who recently divorced his wife of five years. Drop his name into Google, and his ex-wife appears in pictures of vacations and Christmas parties. “It's difficult when you're trying to date …
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Examiner, Digital Trends and Gawker
John Markoff / Bits:
The Asymmetrical Online War — In 1975, John Brunner wrote a science fiction novel, “Shockwave Rider,” about a lone programmer who creates a computer worm that exposes a repressive regime's secrets and ultimately undermines a tyrannical government. — Life invariably seems to find a way to imitate art …
Michael Stone / Examiner:
Anonymous attacks Sony: Operation PayBack continues — #OpSony — Saturday the Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous launched a cyber attack on media giant Sony. According to a press release issued in the name of Anonymous the attack is part of Operation PayBack.
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VentureBeat, AnonNews, AnonOps Communications and pastebin.com
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Ballmer HAD To Make Windows The Center Of Microsoft's Tablet Strategy — Even If It Kills Them — Microsoft's tablet strategy — wait for the next version of Windows — will probably end up costing the company its long-held Windows monopoly, at least among consumers.
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Electronista, GottaBeMobile, Life On the Wicked Stage and Fortune
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why the US needs to blacklist, censor pirate websites — Piracy runs rampant on the Internet, but Daniel Castro says it doesn't have to be this way. He wants the US government to start creating a blacklist of Internet sites; once approved by a judge, each site would be cut off …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iOS 5 packs Photo Stream social feature into Photos.app? — We already told you that Apple has a photo-based social component called Photo Stream up its sleeve and now glimpses of this feature are appearing in customer's iPhones. 9to5mac reader Mario Piombo spotted references to Photo Stream albums in his iOS 4.3 iPhone 4.
Dan Hart / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan, Kroger, Capital One, TiVo Warn of E-Mail Breaches — JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Kroger Co., Capital One Financial Corp. (COF) and TiVo Inc. (TIVO) said they were affected by a security breach that may have enabled an unauthorized person to see some customers' names and e-mail addresses.
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Examiner, Reuters, The Next Web, CNET News and Joe Manna
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Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:
Massive Breach at Epsilon Compromises Customer Lists of Major Brands
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PC World, The Register, MarketWatch, msnbc.com, TechCrunch, blogs.chron.com, GottaBeMobile, BetaNews, Mashable!, VoIP Watch, Techie Buzz, BGR, Engadget, Electronista, VentureBeat, Epsilon, Reuters, WindowsObserver.com, I4U News, Digital Trends, Computerworld, Neowin.net, Tech Broiler Blog, Krebs on Security and Slashdot, Thanks:wiredmike
