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Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Google CEO on Obama tech czar job: No thanks — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Friday he would not serve as technology czar in Barack Obama's administration if he was asked. — “I love working at Google and I'm very happy to stay at Google …
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Markcuban / blog maverick:
PE Obama's 1st Big Mistake — Its great to see President Elect Obama aggressively taking on the economy prior to his taking office. Unfortunately, the economic advisory team that he has put together looks more like a semester's worth of great guest speakers for an MBA class than an economic advisory team that can truly help him.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android Bug Reboots Phone Every Time You Type “Reboot” — The latest big bug discovered in Android has to be one of the craziest that's shipped with a phone. Basically, Android invisibly interprets every word as a command and executes it with “superuser privileges.”
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Ballmer: Microsoft working on App Store-like software distribution — But he rejects the idea of using WebKit to power IE — Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. is working on a software distribution scheme along the lines of Apple's iPhone App Store, CEO Steve Ballmer said yesterday at a developer's conference in Sydney, Australia.
Reuters:
U.S. judge orders Apple executive to stop work — A U.S. District Court judge in New York ordered a newly hired Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) executive to stop work immediately because he might be violating an agreement with his former employer, IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz).
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
TeleNav Shotgun Web-Connected GPS Delivers Real-Time Traffic, Finds Cheap Gas for $300 — Just as Dash—makers of the internet-connected, traffic-terminating GPS—is bailing out of the hardware game to sell its awesome software to other companies, TeleNav is officially doing the exact opposite …
DeWitt Clinton:
Clearing up inaccuracies about the Google OpenID IDP launch — Not exactly the post I want to write after a long week, but there have been several posts following the developer launch of the Google OpenID IDP. Unfortunately, those posts are inaccurate, and it is worth clarifying …
Mark Evans:
Help, We're Being Digitally Bombarded — I love the Web and the fascinating number of useful and useless tools but it can also a huge time-suck and productivity killer. — Like many digital animals, the Web constantly seduces you. Just when you've got e-mail and IM within your communications arsenal …
FreeHTC.com:
AT&T Quickfire is Being Sold Early...Like Today — AT&T Quickfire On Sale Today — One of our ninjas informed us that the AT&T Quickfire is being sold in an AT&T wireless store right now. The super slick sidekick rival was spotted in a small town in... In order to protect her/his identity …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Breaking Down The Election Season Minute-By-Minute — Now that the election is over there is going to be no shortage of punditry looking to pinpoint exactly what moments in the last 18 months contributed to Barack Obama's victory over John McCain. No one is better equipped for this analysis than Auditude …
locusmag.com:
Cory Doctorow: Why I Copyfight — Why does all this copyright reform stuff matter, anyway? What's at stake? — Everything. — Until a very short time ago, copyright was an industrial regulation. If you fell under copyright's domain, it meant that you were using a piece …
LinuxDevices.com:
Voting-machine firm sued for GPL violations — Yet another Linux device maker has been sued over alleged GPL violations. Diebold subsidiary PES allegedly used a GPL-licensed copy of the Ghostscript Postscript interpreter in its optical-scan voting machines, without abiding by the license's terms …
