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Financial Times:
‘Extraordinary’ attack on Microsoft — By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Nikki Tait in Brussels — By reopening an old battle over Microsoft's dominance of the internet browser market, European regulators late last week took a controversial step that some legal and technology observers argued …
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Ars Technica
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Google Watch:
Is Google Talking Trash to the European Commission Over Internet Explorer? — So Microsoft is again being called to the anticompetitive carpet by the European Commission (Wall Street Journal pay wall), this time over the bundling of its Internet Explorer Browser with its Windows operating system.
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AdAge
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Belkin replies to Mechanical Turk shilling — Belkin responded to the Mechanical Turk Shilling Incident (as it's now called around the office.) Their response? “We're sorry, we didn't know it was going on, and we're doing something about it.” Read the full note from Belkin's President Mark Reynoso below.
BBC:
New phone features ‘baffle users’ — The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research suggests. — Setting up a new handset is as challenging as changing bank accounts, said 61% of those interviewed. — Compiled by consultants Mformation …
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All About Symbian
Zephoria / apophenia:
Taken Out of Context — my PhD dissertation — Without further ado... my PhD dissertation: — Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics … Knowing that I would share my dissertation publicly, I desperately wanted to create a perfect dissertation.
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The Noisy Channel
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Time Inc. Tops List of Digital Earners — Ad Age Analysis Shows Whole Mag Business Has a Lot of Web Work to Do — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Time Inc. leads the big magazine publishers in building a digital business, but the industry as a whole still has a lot of work to do if it's prepping …
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Paul Foy / Associated Press:
Technology to block phones in cars isn't foolproof — SALT LAKE CITY - Many parents would love to be able to give their teenagers a cell phone that couldn't be used while driving. Now some inventors say they have come up with ways to make that possible, but they appear to be relying on wishful thinking.
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Identity Woman
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New Lives — IN barely 100 years, photography has gone from a magical, even mystical process, to an afterthought. Nothing better captures how much of an afterthought photography is today than the banal miracle that is Flickr …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance — It's no huge surprise, since Microsoft was planning on improving performance on this front, but now we've got some of our first solid numbers on Windows 7 Beta SSD performance. Nothing crazy spectacular …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Text Ads in Google Image Search — After months of experimentation, Google choose to show text ads above image search results. It's not clear if the ads are actually useful for those who visit Google Image Search to find images, but Google mentioned last year that the volume of commercial queries has increased significantly.
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Aviv / MacBlogz:
Steve Wozniak Sheds Some Light On Steve Jobs' Health Issues (Video) — Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been making rounds in the media weighing in on Steve Jobs' medical leave of absence with his own analysis. The latest is a video interview on NBC where he mentions …
L.M.Orchard / 0xDECAFBAD:
Tags do work (for me, at least) — For the “too long; didn't read” crowd: — I've been using a lot of tags on Delicious over a relatively long time, so they seem very useful to me. — Delicious encourages the use of tags through UI convention and tool usage patterns …
