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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Mac OS X Lion Can Run in Chrome OS-Like Browser Only Mode — While all the focus has been the many new features found in iOS 5 Beta, Apple also released a new developer beta of Mac OS X Lion last week. — Many of Mac OS X Lion's features have been known for months, but Apple has snuck …
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BetaNews, PC World, Electronista, Redmond Pie, Geek.com, Neowin.net and iClarified
New York Times:
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors — The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.
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Engadget and Smart Mobs, Thanks:cltom
New York Times:
I.M.F. Reports Cyberattack Led to ‘Very Major Breach’ — WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated cyberattack whose dimensions are still unknown.
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Guardian, Reuters, Hillicon Valley, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Reuters, Digital Trends, Computerworld, CNET News, Infosecurity.US, thinq_, The Next Web, Pulse2, Gizmodo and Gawker
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Bloomberg:
IMF Computer System Infiltrated by Hackers Said to Work for Foreign State — The International Monetary Fund's computer system was attacked by hackers believed to be connected to a foreign government, resulting in the loss of e-mails and other documents, according to a person familiar with the incident.
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Naked Security and Examiner
Economist:
The test of time — Which of today's technology giants might still be standing tall a century after their founding? — from the print edition — IT IS not, by any means, the world's oldest company. There are Japanese hotels dating back to the 8th century, German breweries that hail …
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / SAI:
For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation — When it became obvious Apple would come out with a cloud computing offering, it would be interesting to see how they would do things differently from Google, the most prominent consumer cloud computing company.
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The Business Insider
Caroline Graham / Daily Mail:
This is not the way I'd imagined Bill Gates... A rare and remarkable interview with the world's second richest man — Rocking gently in his chair, he begins to sing: ‘I wanna be a billionaire so freakin’ bad. Buy all the things I never had. I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine.
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SAI, @dannysullivan and The Business Insider
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
New MacBook Air Due This Wednesday? [Updated with Part Numbers] — On the heels of the Nuance speech screenshots, @ChronicWire claims that Apple will be releasing the new MacBook Air this wednesday. — Apple has been said to be prepping the new Sandy Bridge/Thunderbolt MacBook Airs for June-July.
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@chronicwire, 9 to 5 Mac, @macrumors, Online Social Media and MacStories
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Digital Black Friday: First Bitcoin “Depression” Hits — Currency experiences massive inflation in a single day, markets stay open — The day was October 28, 1929 and the sky was falling. That Monday the DOW Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 12.82 percent.
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@pkedrosky, @lulzsec, @senorprogrammer, @bitrific, @thefraj, @kuja, @adult, @dubsnipe, bitminer.info and Slashdot
Jeanine Poggi / TheStreet.com:
Amazon Sales Tax: The Battle, State by State — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Amazon(AMZN) is in the midst of a heated battle with states over whether it should be required to collect sales taxes. — While this has been an ongoing debate, the dispute recently escalated as states look to recover deficits coming out of the recession.
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Associated Press
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Dan Haar / Hartford Courant:
Amazon Cancels Connecticut Website Sales Agreements, Citing New State Tax
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New Haven Register, Examiner and Capitol Watch
Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Why do Republicans tweet so much more than Democrats? — Representative Anthony Weiner's embarrassing tweet has had a chilling effect on congressional Twitter use, an analysis by Tweetcongress.org shows. — But there's another mystery contained in TweetCongress's infographic …
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Online Social Media, Soshable and CNET News
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Nuance speech-to-text references baked into iOS 5 internal settings — Although it didn't appear in Scott Forstall's presentation and is yet to show up in iOS 5 SDK findings or in the actual developer beta release, references to Nuance integration have appeared in iOS 5′s internal preferences.
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Electronista, MacStories, MacRumors, @chronicwire, SAI, GSMArena Blog, iPhone Download Blog, App Advice, TiPb and parislemon, Thanks:markgurman
