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Joseph Menn / Financial Times:
US experts close in on Google hackers — US analysts believe they have identified the Chinese author of the critical programming code used in the alleged state-sponsored hacking attacks on Google and other western companies, making it far harder for the Chinese government to deny involvement.
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David Barboza / New York Times:
Hacking Inquiry Puts China's Elite in New Light — SHANGHAI — With its sterling reputation and its scientific bent, Shanghai Jiaotong University has the feel of an Ivy League institution. — The university has alliances with elite American ones like Duke and the University of Michigan.
Charleneli / Altimeter Group:
Google Buzz and Kids - Parental Control Nightmare — Like many parents, I try to take steps to keep my kids safe online, making sure that they understand not to share personal information online, or even to use their real names. They know how to write appropriate emails …
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James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:Privacy, complexity seen as Google blind spots
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Why we don't trust Devil Mountain Software (and neither should you) — Ed note: We were going to publish this investigation Monday morning after buttoning down a few more key facts. Given the fact that IDG just severed ties with Randall C. Kennedy over having an alter ego …
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Guardian, Slashdot, TomsTechBlog.com, Lockergnome Blog Network, iKnerd.com and CNET News, Thanks:edbott
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InfoWorld:
An unfortunate ending — Due to a serious breach of trust, Randall C. Kennedy will no longer be writing for InfoWorld — On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally — Readers can modify content on the Web, so why not in books? — In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing software called DynamicBooks …
Esther Schindler / IT Expert Voice:
Why You Can't Pry IE6 Out Of Their Cold Dead Hands — Among the barriers to Windows 7 deployment is the need to upgrade users (and their applications) from IE 6 to IE 8. But too many of those users apparently refuse to give up the older Microsoft web browser. Here's what's holding them back.
Paul Meller / PC World:
EU Data Protection Chief Slams Secret ACTA Talks — The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the U.S., E.U. and others potentially runs roughshod over European data protection requirements, European data protection supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx said Monday.
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Tehseen Baweja / Techie Buzz:
Hey Apple! Workout Clothes Are Overtly Sexual and PlayBoy Is Not? — Apple has been constantly criticized for their app store's policies by developers and bloggers alike. Earlier it was the mysterious process of rejecting apps for almost stupid reasons and now it is the removal of over 5000 apps without any prior notice.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
For Chip Makers, the Next Battle Is in Smartphones — The semiconductor industry has long been a game for titans. — The going rate for a state-of-the-art chip factory is about $3 billion. The plants typically take years to build. And the microscopic size of chip circuitry requires engineering …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Microsoft's Challenge With Windows Phone 7 Is Wooing Developers — Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. Recruiting a ton of them to create a rich app experience for Windows Phone 7 Series is going to be Microsoft's toughest challenge if it wants to get its groove back in the mobile space.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace's Hail Mary Strategy: “Discovery” — MySpace's new slogan, and the theme of their new product strategy, will be “Discover and be Discovered,” we've confirmed from multiple sources. This will be their differentiating factor from Facebook, execs told employees at an all hands meeting last Thursday.
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
AOL Moves to Build Tech ‘Newsroom of the Future’ — CEO Tim Armstrong deploys software that helps journalists collaborate on articles readers seem to want, then reports the traffic they generate — Tacked to the newsroom walls in AOL's downtown Manhattan headquarters are pages and pages of Web traffic data.
Raju Vegesna / CloudAve:
Impact of Touch on WebApps — For the past 20+ years, we are used to using intermediate devices like Mouse and Keyboard for input. Their replacements are Touch and Voice. While we are not there today for Voice, we certainly are getting there on Touch replacing mouse (atleast in portable devices).
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