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12:40 PM ET, January 30, 2009

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beu blog:
GDrive  — by Brian Ussery  —  “Online file backup and storage... GDrive provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents... GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device - be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone”.
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
First Official Description of GDrive  —  Brian Ussery noticed an interesting reference to GDrive in a file used by Google Pack.  The file includes “localized information which is sent to translators”.  —  The product category for GDrive is “online file backup and storage” and there are two lines that describe the application:
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
More Traces of GDrive in Script, Longer PDF File  —  Brian Ussery found the following code in a (Google Pack-related) JavaScript file by Google.  The script mentions Google's GDrive ("Googe Drive") shared storage project (I highlighted the texts):  —  // Localized product category of GDrive
Discussion: Googling Google and Mashable!, Thanks:pinkblob
Scobleizer:
Zuckerberg: Facebook's “intense” year  —  Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, in a tie?  Oh my.  —  If you know Mark you know he's a pretty casual dresser.  Usually seen in T-shirt, jeans, and sandals.  —  But not here at the World Economic Forum where we walked around downtown Davos …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Mark Zuckerberg's sentiment engine?  —  It's sort of cute, really: blogger Robert Scoble went on a nice snowy stroll with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.  —  Of course, he wrote about it.
Discussion: TechCrunch and CNET News
TechCrunch:
The Economy According To Mint  —  Aaron Patzer is the CEO and founder of Mint.com, a personal finance site that helps 900,000 consumers keep track of their spending.  Mint's data is a snapshot of the consumer economy.  In the guest post below, Aaron parses the data to tell us what the economy looks like from consumer's eyes.
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Dell to Make Google and Microsoft Phones - Really?  —  Just when you thought there are enough not-so-good looking and overrated phones out there, Dell is said to announce two iPhone and Blackberry competitors sometime next month.  Code named MePhone (hopefully not the final name) …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Is Dell's Phone Called The MePhone? (DELL)
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
ABC Says Web Viewers Will Tolerate Twice the Ads  —  How Long Before an Online TiVo?  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The web is about to get a little more like TV — minus the ad-skipping.  ABC.com has started to peddle research that shows online viewers will tolerate shows such as “Grey's Anatomy” …
MediaShift:
Warning: Dependence on Facebook, Twitter Could Be Hazardous to Your Business  —  You've probably heard how much the micro-blogging service Twitter can help your business, or that being on social networking site Facebook can boost your company's profile.  But what you might not have considered …
Discussion: Beyond Search
Times of India:
Rs 500 laptop display on Feb 3  —  Text:  —  NEW DELHI: A $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati on February 3 when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Techology is launched.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Sales Surge  —  Snapping the brutal retail slump, Amazon.com Inc. said profit rose 9% and sales surged 18% in the fourth quarter as the Internet giant used its pricing muscle to lure shoppers.  —  Chief Executive Jeff Bezos's goal of establishing Amazon as the Wal-Mart of the Internet …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Profit Rises at Amazon as Shoppers Seek Deals
Discussion: DailyTech
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Steve Jobs a music visionary?  Judge for yourself  —  After reading Steve Jobs' 2003 interview with Rolling Stone, it's easy to see why one label boss called him the smartest man in music.  —  (Credit: Rolling Stone)  — Home - News - Apple  —  Apple  —  January 30, 2009 4:00 AM PST
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
David Schlesinger / Full Disclosure:
Twittering away standards or tweeting the future of journalism?  —  I've been tweeting from the World Economic Forum, using the microblogging platform Twitter to discuss the mundane (describing crepuscular darkness of the Swiss Alps at 5 a.m.) or the interesting (live tweeting from presentations).
Discussion: The FASTForward Blog
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook  —  As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages.  Desktop programs like Microsoft Outlook have always been able to access your old mail.  There is a certain bliss to this …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Gears of War DRM screwup makes PC version unplayable  —  It seems that the DRM on Gears of War came with a built-in shut off date: the digital certificate for the game was only good until January 28, 2009.  Now that the game fails to work unless you adjust your system's clock, what's Epic's response?
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
LimeWire Creator Brings Open-Source Approach to Urban Planning  —  Entrepreneur Mark Gorton wants to do for people what he already helped do for files: move them from here to there in the most efficient way possible using open-source tools.  —  Gorton, whose LimeWire file sharing software …
Discussion: All Points Blog
Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:
Exclusive: Linden Lab executives plot Second Life growth, but interface concerns persist  —  In exclusive interviews with The Industry Standard, Linden Lab's two top executives have confirmed that the company is still profitable and Second Life is continuing to grow users and expand its enterprise services.
Thanks:ilamont
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Once Again, You Don't Get To Use DMCA Takedowns To Remove Any Content You Don't Like  —  from the it-has-to-be-copyright-infringement- of-your-content dept  —  Michael Geist has the latest example of what appears to be a company abusing the DMCA takedown process to try to quiet the speech …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
11 Business Plans For Twitter  —  Start the slideshow  —  Deadline for entry into our Create Twitter's Revenue Model contest is up and we thought we'd share some of the best entries.  We haven't decided on a winner yet, so check them out and let us know what you think.
Mike Dolan / FierceWireless:
T-Mobile's Neville Ray: We will have more G series phones in 2009  —  As the newly elected chairperson of the 3G Americas' Board of Governors, Neville Ray, senior vice president of engineering and operations at T-Mobile USA, will play a pivotal role in promoting and driving 3G growth …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Senate Wants to Stimulate Verizon  —  Four words buried in a provision to help subsidize high-speed Internet service contained the latest Senate's version of the economic stimulus legislation could mean hundreds of millions of dollars a year in tax credits for Verizon, according to telecommunications analysts.
Discussion: AppScout
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A News Corp. Bull Throws in the Towel; Wall Street Journal Layoffs Coming?  —  Pali Research analyst Rich Greenfield loves to tear into media companies-just ask the managers at Time Warner (TWX) or Warner Music Group (WMG).  But he's been a longtime advocate for News Corp. (NWS).  —  No more.
mobiledivide.com:
palm pre @ CES '09 (Part 2)  —  Part 2 of mobiledivide's palm prÄ" interview series from CES '09 is with Peter Skillman.  Peter is the VP of Design at Palm, Inc. and naturally our conversation revolved around the design choices he and his team at Palm made with the palm prÄ".
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Behind the OLPC layoffs: G1G1 failure and reduced sponsorship  —  OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte has revealed that the organization's recent layoffs were necessitated by poor results from the latest Give 1 Get 1 drive and by a steep decline in donations from corporate sponsors.
Discussion: Open Source and Liliputing
James Sherwood / The Register:
Patent app reveals Microsoft's smart smartphone cradle  —  Microsoft has asked for a patent to protect its idea for a smartphone docking cradle that would turn your handheld into a mini-laptop.  —  Microsoft's smartphone cradle  —  The “Smart Interface System for Mobile Communication Devices” …
 
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Mikako Nakajima / Bloomberg:
NEC, Headed for Annual Loss, to Cut More Than 20,000 Workers to Trim Costs
Roger A. Grimes / Security Adviser:
Browser security wars
Discussion: InfoWorld, PC World and Obsessable
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
The Handset Market Is Getting Darwinian
Discussion: ABI Research, Computerworld and eWeek
Neil McAllister / Fatal Exception:
The case against Web apps
Discussion: Slashdot
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Colin Barras / New Scientist:
Cheap, super-efficient LED lights on the horizon
Discussion: Slashdot and digg.com
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Rumor: Sony PS4 Plans Leaked, And It Targets Casual Gamers (SNE)
Thanks:anjrued
Dave Morin / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Connect and Apple's iPhoto '09