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So if Google, as the Aggregator in Chief, is as some publishers believe the bête noire of the newspaper industry, does that make Microsoft look like a white knight? The Redmond behemoth has apparently sensed such an opportunity, because according to the Financial Times (and TechCrunch ...
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In slimming down for its early December spinoff from Time Warner (see “Soon to be single again, AOL starts a crash diet“), AOL is not only planning to shed 2,500 employees, it’s also laying off two of the three capital letters in its logo. After years of service in good times ...
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Here’s a new case for our growing file on social media and law enforcement (see “Facebook Defense gets robbery suspect off the hook“).
First, given the demographics of the GMSV readership, I need to tell you that Justin Bieber is a 15-year-old Canadian pop singer who, despite ...
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“I screamed, but there was nothing to hear. I became a witness to my own suffering as doctors and nurses tried to speak with me until they gave up all hope. … I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me — it was my second birth. All that [...] ...
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Expert Labs, a nonpartisan incubator for technology that can help the government tap the expertise of the crowd, and the new Online Media Legal Network, which offers pro bono assistance to online journalists and digital media creators. Also, Pingtest.net and Autocomplete Me.
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Thwarted in its initial efforts to have Verizon’s disparaging “There’s a Map For That” commercials pulled off the air, AT&T is taking its rebuttal to the public with its own new ad.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten Sr. in Atlanta allowed as ...
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With its divorce from Time Warner becoming official in less than a month, AOL is taking steps to shed some weight.
In one of several moves intended to create a smaller, better focused company after the December 9 spinoff, CEO Tim Armstrong this morning asked for 2,500 employees, or about a ...
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In the latest news from the Land of Mythical Devices, the much anticipated but still unconfirmed Apple tablet will materialize in the second half of 2010, not March as hoped, but it will arrive in two flavors, one with a snazzy OLED display. This update comes to us via DigiTimes, a Taiwan tech ...
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“Instead of measuring energy use at the end of each billing period, smart meters will provide this information at much shorter intervals. Even if electricity use is not recorded minute by minute, or at the appliance level, information may be gleaned from ongoing monitoring of ...
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The rich annotations of the University of Glasgow Library’s Book of the Month archive; the economics of pinball; and Broadway actor Lin-Manuel Miranda performing an Alexander Hamilton rap at the White House.
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Singularity, here we come. IBM announced today that, with the help of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab and top university scientists, its researchers had reached two important milestones on the way to the day we build machines smarter than ourselves and enter the Post-Human era.
At the ...
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As soon as word got out a couple of years ago that Google was cooking up some sort of mobile phone initiative, speculation arose that the search sovereign would get into the handset business with its own Gphone to rival the iPhone. Google discouraged such talk (see “It all depends on what ...
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“Instead of working on updates to our apps, we find we are trying to make each app work for multiple versions of the OS and different hardware capabilities. We are not complaining about all the growth, but if you are a small or a new Android developer coming in and trying to learn, I ...
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Microsoft Store employees in the thrall of the terpsichorean muse; a Toshiba commercial that takes the arm chair to new heights; and a stethoscope adapter for the iPhone. Also, born from the vision of author and 2008 TED prize winner Karen Armstrong, the Charter for Compassion (and a very ...
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The production pipeline that regularly pumps tweaks and upgrades out of the Googleplex continues its steady flow. The latest:
* Google Translate has been give a new look and some new features. For one, you can now see the translation in real time as you type. And if you’re translating...
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Some quick updates on developments in a whole pile of ongoing sagas:
* In its response to AT&T’s suit to halt its “There’s a Map For That” commercials (see “AT&T sues Verizon, calls map ad a bum steer“), Verizon said that when it comes to comparing ...
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“I want to let you know that Paul was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He received the diagnosis early this month and has begun chemotherapy. Doctors say he has diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a relatively common form of lymphoma. This is tough news for Paul and the... ...
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A half-century of brochures from theme parks around the U.S., a vintage doll reference, and Significant Objects. Also, beating out contenders like “sexting,” “freemium,”teabagger” and “tramp stamp,” the 2009 Oxford Word of the Year is...
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As diplomatically as they were phrased, President Obama’s
comments today to a town hall meeting of Chinese
students in Shanghai about the value of a free and open Internet probably made his hosts glad they had refused to give him the national ...
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With Net comments, Obama sends an instant message to China
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Some of the tech blogosphere topics you might have missed if you were enjoying a healthy, analog weekend:
* Right from the start, a year and a half ago, the fate of Psystar’s cheeky attempt to make a business out of selling Mac clones on non-Apple hardware seemed foreordained (see ...
