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10:55 AM ET, February 25, 2009

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Roy Blount Jr / New York Times:
The Kindle Swindle?  —  BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave.  The lesson in this was not lost on me.  But now I am president of the Authors Guild, whose mission is to sustain book-writing as a viable occupation.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz  —  Today's first witness is Tobias Andersson from Piratbyrån and later on the IFPI's CEO John Kennedy will testify, although it's not expected that he will respond to the open letter and peace offering issued yesterday by the ‘Kopimists’.
Discussion: Gizmodo, p2pnet and digg.com
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John Leyden / The Register:
Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage  —  Oh the humanity  —  Free whitepaper - Lower security risks and costs by minimizing the time to protection  —  Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout.
Discussion: Sophos
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Ryan Spoon:
Perez Hilton Hits 14,000,000 Pageviews Yesterday.  Wow.  —  You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip...  You might not consider it important or meaningful...  But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
Sundar Pichai / Google Public Policy Blog:
Browsers powered by user choice  —  Last month the European Commission confirmed that it had sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about the tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system, which it said “harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
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Kevin J. O'Brien / International Herald Tribune:
Microsoft fears EU fine over browser
Discussion: BetaNews
Mitchell / Mitchell's Blog:
EC: List of Potential Principles
Bad Science:
“Facebook causes cancer”  —  I was on newsnight a second ago, debating the rather indulgent claims of Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield and Dr Aric Sigman about Facebook and Twitter.  It's 40 minutes in to the show, which can be seen here as a wmv/rm file or here on iPlayer:
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:   Age Concern backs social networks but Ben Goldacre's blood pressure still rising
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The unrecognizable Internet of 1996.  —  The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today.  —  It's 1996, and you're bored.  What do you do?  If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online.
Discussion: Vacuum, The Progress & … and Slashdot
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Connected Life Head Marco Boerries To Leave Yahoo  —  Yahoo's top mobile exec Marco Boerries is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to sent to some staffers on Sunday.  —  I have also confirmed Boerries' departure with company insiders familiar with the situation.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Members of Congress twitter through Obama's big speech  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Members of Congress twittered their way through President Obama's nationally televised speech Tuesday night, providing a first-of-its-kind running commentary that took users of the social networking site inside the packed House chamber.
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Rick Turoczy / ReadWriteWeb:
Just Work Please: Mainstream Media Meets the Fail Whale
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Microblink
Bloomberg:
Ballmer Says He Doesn't Want to Become ‘Jerry Yang’ of Web Search Market  —  Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is pushing Yahoo! Inc. for an Internet- search alliance, even as he goes after Yahoo's top talent.  —  The two companies should pool resources …
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Lester Haines / The Register:
Ryanair trades blows with ‘idiot blogger’  —  Online booking glitch provokes almighty punch-up  —  Free whitepaper - Lessons learned in successful implementation of enterprise learning  —  Hats off this fine morning to Ryanair, which last week traded blows with “idiot blogger” …
Amazon Web Services Blog:
New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia  —  We have just released four additional AWS public data sets, and have updated another one.  —  In the Economics category, we have added a set of transportation databases from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple updates Apple TV software to version 2.3.1  —  Apple overnight released a minor software update for owners of its Apple TV set-top media box but it's not clear whether the patch delivers any new features.  —  As of this morning, the company has yet to update its Apple TV software updates page …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's Amazon Kindle 2 Review Matrix  —  You don't wanna wear out your eyes reading superlong Kindle 2 reviews before you get one, right?  Well here's our review matrix for quick, easy-on-the-eyes digestion of reviews from tech's biggest names.  —  We've got reviews here from the NYT's David Pogue …
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
What Sells Online?  Unsexy Newsletters  —  They're not the newest fad, but these daily digests sent via e-mail can generate some much needed ad revenue when there's not much of it to go around  —  We San Franciscans think New York isn't quite as Web savvy are we are.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
15 online photo editors compared  —  Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years.  We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors—big and small, to see what each one is capable of.
Discussion: Download Squad and Imaging Insider
IDC:
Worldwide Server Market Contracts Sharply in Fourth Quarter as Market Revenues Decline to $53.3 Billion in 2008, According to IDC  —  According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market declined 14.0% year-over-year to $13.5 billion …
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Michael Moritz: Lessons from a Long-Ball Hitter  —  The journalist-turned-venture capitalist was early to ring the alarm bells about the weakening economy, but he remains optimistic  —  In 1984 a young British journalist named Michael Moritz wrote a short piece in Time magazine …
Discussion: Time
BBC:
UK government backs open source  —  The UK government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software in public services.  —  Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows.
Discussion: Slashdot
BBC:
Texting ‘improves language skill’  —  Text speak, rather than harming literacy, could have a positive effect on the way children interact with language, says a study.  —  Researchers from Coventry University studied 88 children aged between 10 and 12 to understand the impact of text messaging on their language skills.
Discussion: DailyTech
Acacio Cruz / Gmail Blog:
Update on today's Gmail outage  —  Gmail had a major outage early this morning: for about two and a half hours starting at 1:30 am PST while many of our users in the US were asleep, many people couldn't access their email.  Lots of people around the world who rely on Gmail were disrupted during …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
RockYou Gears Up to Distribute Content  —  RockYou, one of the largest developers of applications for social networks, has tremendous reach — 130 million global users and 18 billion page views per month.  Though some content creators might consider glitter text and slideshows beneath them …
 
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Who profits from the App Store?
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Global Crossing Confirms CDN Initiative
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Aster Data raises $5M more for data warehousing
Discussion: GigaOM
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Obama's new Commerce pick has strong ties to tech, China
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
World Economic Forum Announces New Batch Of Young Global Leaders …
Discussion: White African
Paul Venezia / The Deep End:
Could the Childs case put all network admins in danger?
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An Abundant Present  —  Recently we enabled a quiet little feature …
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Ben Rothke / Computerworld:
Why Information Must Be Destroyed
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Premium-priced MacBook Pros top sales at Apple retail stores
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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