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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
How the Kindle will change the world. — I'm doing my best not to become a Kindle bore. When I catch myself evangelizing to someone who couldn't care less about the marvels of the 2.0 version of Amazon's reading machine—I can take a whole library on vacation! Adjust the type size!
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facebook “stream” redesign: Disruptive companies don't listen to their customers - Mark Zuckerburg — Facebook's latest redesign which has been clearly inspired Twitter's real-time stream of status updates has had a ton of detractors from all corners. One of the biggest places where the outcry …
Technology Review:
The coming censorship wars — If you thought the most serious threat from internet censorship comes from countries such as China, Pakistan and Iran, you could be in for a shock. — In February last year, Pakistan Telecom began routing the prefix 208.65.153.0/24 to a null site inside Pakistan.
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Jeanne Meserve / CNN:
‘Smart Grid’ may be vulnerable to hackers — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Is it really so smart to forge ahead with the high technology, digitally based electricity distribution and transmission system known as the “Smart Grid”? Tests have shown that a hacker can break into the system …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Amazon to Sell HD TV Shows for $2.99 Each — Amazon looks set to start selling HD video downloads any day now, hot on the heels of Apple's iTunes HD movie offering, which was unveiled yesterday. Amazon's web site already contains links to HD versions of TV show downloads …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
I Can Has Internet Millions — The company behind lolcats and Failblog tries to turn memes into money. — For the Web's cognoscenti, the lolcats fad is so over. I Can Has Cheezburger, the site that sparked captioned-cat-picture mania, launched in January 2007.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Dell: Dude, What Did You Do With Your Cell Phone? — So, uh, wasn't Dell (DELL) supposed to be working on a cell phone? — Well, that was the scuttlebutt. But Dell has failed to show at recent mobile trade shows. Shaw Wu, an analyst at Kaufman Bros., asserts in a research note today …
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AppleInsider, Unwired View, mocoNews, Engadget Mobile, MarketWatch, Electronista and Voices on All Things Digital
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Psycho-Thriller ‘Blank’ Premieres For Free on BitTorrent — Times are certainly changing and slowly but surely people are beginning to realize that rather than trying to fight piracy and destroy file-sharing networks, the best approach is to embrace your one-time rivals and try and create something positive.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Turns Three — Twitter, that ubiquitous little collection of emotional grunts and other 140 character ramblings, is turning 3 years old today at 1:02 PM California time. Founding CEO Jack Dorsey Twittered earlier today linking back to one of the first Twitter messages …
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VentureBeat, TECH.BLORGE.com, bub.blicio.us, GigaOM, Twitterrati and Mashable!, Thanks:blogfisher
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek:
What if the Palm Pre Bombs? — Palm has a lot of prestige and funds riding on the success of the Palm Pre smartphone. Advance buzz for the device has reached a fever pitch, but in the face of such enormous expectations, not to mention competition from the Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry mobile …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
How Advertisers Can Foil the Fast-Forward Button: Ads You Have to Watch — Web video may pose a real threat to the TV business, one day. But the DVR is threatening it now. More than a third of all US homes now have TiVo-like digital video recorders, and the majority of DVR users fast-forward through ads when they watch TV.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Are we headed into an era of “dumb tech?” — Cisco bought Flip Video. The Peek e-mail device is outselling some smartphones and launching a new version. The wi-fi-enabled media player is fighting it out with the TV for precedence in the living room and netbooks are beating down desktops at school and in the den.
