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7:45 AM ET, February 3, 2009

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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video  —  Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google's Italian site.  —  The case involves a three-minute cellphone video …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Reyes, Drummond On Trial In Italy (GOOG)  —  This one is outrageous:  —  Saul Hansell, NYT: Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google's Italian site.
Michael Bolin / Gmail Blog:
Tasks: Paper vs. iPhone  —  Among the world's leading productivity tools is an advanced technology known as paper.  Many of the world's top corporations and most active internet users have adopted paper as a method of organizing their daily lives.  When they think of something they need to do …
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Lawrence Chang / Google Mobile Blog:
Tasks now available for your phone  —  A couple months ago, Tasks launched in Gmail Labs.  Tasks lets you easily create and manage to-do lists right in Gmail.  Now, you can access and manage your task lists from your phone, too.  Just go to gmail.com/tasks in your mobile browser and log in.
Discussion: WebWorkerDaily and Phone Scoop
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Crackulous Allows for App Store Piracy  —  Crackulous, a program for pirating apps from the iPhone App Store, was just released.  Great for cheapskates, terrible for independent developers trying to make a living.  Updated: 4:35pm  —  You'll need to jailbreak your phone to get in on the fun …
John Hanke / The Official Google Blog:
Dive into the new Google Earth  —  As you read this, I am at the beautiful California Academy of Sciences, announcing the launch of the newest version of Google Earth.  This launch is particularly special to me because it marks the moment when Google Earth becomes much more complete — it now has an ocean.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Leading futurists, thinkers to launch Silicon Valley university … Starting this summer, some of the world's leading thinkers in exponentially growing technologies will be gathering annually at NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, for 10 weeks of discussions on how to change the future.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
World-Renowned Scientists Team With Google And NASA To Launch Singularity University
Discussion: Forbes
New York Times:
Angels Flee From Tech Start-Ups  —  Technology entrepreneurs are having a devil of a time finding angels.  —  Angel investors are the optimistic financiers who give entrepreneurs their crucial first infusion of cash to bring their ideas to life.  Now, in the midst of a punishing economic downturn …
Wall Street Journal:
Job Loss in the Age of Blogs, Twitter  —  It's been decades since Americans had this much time on their hands and — thanks to the Web — never have there been so many opportunities to burn it.  —  In November, Julia Otto was headed to her first day on a new job, car keys in hand …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Apple Hints at Video Conferencing for Future iPhones  —  Apple's recently approved iPhone patent reveals the company's plans to introduce video conferencing to future generations of the popular handset.  —  InformationWeek spotted a few sections and images in the patent that make references to a …
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Phil Carson / RCR Wireless News:
Analyst: Apple's IP battle over iPhone's multi-touch capabilities is ill-advised
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Watched Any Good Books Lately?  HarperCollins Tries ‘Video Books’  —  For those who don't have the time to listen to an audiobook, let alone read a hardback or e-Book, HarperCollins brings you: the video book.  Perhaps fittingly, the first author to get the video treatment is BuzzMachine's Jeff Jarvis …
PC World:
Weak Pound Boosts Vodafone Results  —  Vodafone Group's revenue rose 14.3 percent year on year for the quarter ended Dec. 31, in large part thanks to a weak pound.  Excluding the favorable exchange rate and acquisitions, revenue would have declined by 1 percent, the mobile operator reported Tuesday.
Discussion: Pocket-lint.co.uk
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company  —  Jill Nash, Yahoo's chief communications officer, has told CEO Carol Bartz and other Yahoo staff this afternoon that she is leaving the company.  —  Yahoo has not made Nash's resignation official, but is likely to do so quickly as Bartz tries …
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Jessica Vascellaro / Digits:
Yahoo's Bartz Vents as Exec Departs
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and BoomTown
English Russia:
Canon Vacuum Cleaners  —  Recently Russian service centers of Canon have started receiving complains from the people having the troubles with their Canon... vacuum cleaners.  It seems that one large electronics supplier in Russia has bought somewhere what they truely believed to be Canon Vacuum Cleaners, and even advertised them.
Discussion: Canon Rumors and Engadget
David / TmoNews:
G1 fans rejoice, RC33 update on its way, cupcake not included  —  Attention G1 owners, while answers to the many cupcake questions are still unavailable, T-mobile and Google are still working fast and hard to bring updates to the masses.  Tips are pouring into the inbox regarding internal docs going out touting an RC33 update:
Glyn Moody / Computerworld UK:
Is This the Solution to Spam?  —  I think I may have come up with a possible solution for spam.  But first, some background.  —  I have read somewhere (can't find the reference, unfortunately) that when intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) were first introduced in the US …
Discussion: Slashdot
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
IBM Offers To Move Laid Off Workers To India  —  Big Blue wants to help redundant U.S. employees relocate to developing markets, according to an internal document.  —  The climate is warm, there's no shortage of exotic food, and the cost of living is rock bottom.
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James Niccolai / PC World:
US Orders Massive Supercomputer to Manage Nuclear Stockpile  —  The U.S. government has commissioned IBM to build a massive supercomputer that will have 1.6 million processor cores and be 15 times faster than today's most powerful machine, IBM announced Tuesday.
David Gonzales / Electronic Pulp:
Apple patent shows possible design for upcoming Tablet PC/MID  —  On the last day of 2008, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington sparked a rumor about Apple's plans to unveil a “large sized iPod touch with a 7 or 9 inch screen” in the fall of 2009 that will be their very first tablet PC.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Russian rides Phantom to OS immortality  —  The iPhone that never dies  —  It's nine degrees Fahrenheit in Moscow right now.  That's the kind of cold that makes a man concentrate on his work so he can keep from remembering that the tears the wind blows out of his eyes will freeze on the side of his face before they hit the ground.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Venture Capital Returns Dip Below Zero  —  Like almost all investors, those who invested in venture capital funds lost money last year.  Venture investments returned -1.6 percent in the year ended Sept. 30, according to new data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.
Brad Spirrison / vcjnews.com:
Real Change: New President Gets VC  —  Barack Obama has an affinity for venture capital that dates back to his days as a state senator  —  Steven Lazarus had just sat down after accepting a lifetime achievement award from the Illinois Venture Capital Association when he was approached …
Discussion: PE Hub Blog
John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age  —  A veteran of a former turning of the e-book wheel looks at the past, present, and future of reading books on things that are not books.  —  Rocket eBook (1998), Amazon Kindle (2007)  —  I was pitched headfirst into the world …
Discussion: TeleRead and Boing Boing
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Has Over 4 Million Daily Mobile Users  —  Last week while at Davos, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the company currently has over 25 million people accessing the site via their mobile devices on a monthly basis.  As of today, the company has over 4 million daily active users just between their top 3 mobile applications.
Discussion: SlashGear and mocoNews.net
 
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Podcasters Set Ad, Measurement Standards
Discussion: Association … and Beet.TV
Moira Herbst / Business Week:
Microsoft: Layoffs for Some, Visas for Others
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
Study: Certain IT Skills in Demand Despite Economy
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: “We Can Go Public Any Time We Want To”
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Shuts Down Publisher Network RSS Ads
Tom Espiner / CNET News:
IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google: “We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data”
Discussion: Data Methods and The Noisy Channel