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Steven Levy / Epicenter:
Stephen Wolfram Reveals Radical New Formula for Web Search — The home page is nearly blank. At the center, just below a colorful logo, you'll find an empty data field. Type in a phrase, hit Return, and knowledge appears. — No, it's not Google. It's Wolfram|Alpha, named after its creator …
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Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
iPhones in Iraq - the US Army's new weapon — Applications prove invaluable for soldiers on the battlefield — In Basra's Hayaniyah district, a notorious stronghold of Shia militias, a US army sergeant leading a patrol faced two suspects in the street. Amid rising tension he produced …
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Nathan Eddy / eWeek:
University of Missouri Requires Students Buy iPhone or iPod — Budding reporters and editors at the Missouri School of Journalism will be required to own an Apple iPhone or iPod touch starting this fall. — Journalism students at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism …
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Financial Times:
Micro-payments considered for WSJ website — News Corp is planning to introduce micro-payments for individual articles and premium subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal's website this year, in a milestone in the news industry's race to find better online business models.
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Serge Jespers:
The future of newspapers is now: New York Times Reader v2 released — Ever tried reading a newspaper on a plane? I bet you kept bumping into your neighbour, didn't you? Have you ever tried locating an article that you read last Wednesday in a stack of newspapers?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jew Haters Welcome At Facebook, As Long As They Aren't Lactating — Way more countries have laws against holocaust denial (11 or so) than breast feeding (0), but guess which one is banned on Facebook? That's right. Pictures of breast feeding babies are indecent, so they're a no go.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Assuming There's a New York Times in 2040, I Hope It's Not This One — I just went to NYTimes.com, as I do multiple times a day. A split-second after I arrived at the homepage, it was covered up with a full-page ad overlay. That was irritating, but I'm willing to tolerate some annoyance in return for excellent free content.
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Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Firefox passive-aggressives adjudicate Nerd Law — Better than a severed horse head — Free whitepaper - Achieving Efficient Governance Risk and Compliance — Fail and You Last week, blood was shed in the Firefox community as two popular extensions to the browser - NoScript and Adblock Plus …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up As Its Biggest Customer — Video search startup EveryZing just landed its biggest fish yet: NBC Universal. Boston-based EveryZing signed a master service agreement with NBC to provide video search and search-optimization technologies across …
Scott Gilbertson / The Register:
OpenOffice 3.1 ready to lick Microsoft's suite? — Huzzah for Windows, ho-hum for Linux, OS X — Free whitepaper - Achieving Efficient Governance Risk and Compliance — Review OpenOffice.org remains the most popular open source answer to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office suite …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Survey: one in five US households are cellphone only — The latest results from the National Center for Health Statistics' survey on wireless phone use are in, and they reveal that just over 20 percent of all US households have now cut the wire and exclusively use cell phones for voice communication.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Chrome Has the Most Effective Updater — A paper published last week titled “Why Silent Updates Boost Security” showed that Google Chrome is the browser that has the most effective updating mechanism. Google Chrome's updater works automatically, it requires no user interaction and it can't be disabled from the interface.
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NTT DOCOMO Global Site:
DOCOMO Develops Spatial Audio Transmission Technology for Mobile Phones — NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has developed a highly efficient mobile spatial audio transmission technology that enables a mobile phone user to assign a spatial position to each sound source when listening …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
CubeTree Launches As A Facebook + FriendFeed + Twitter For Enterprise — As they mature, social networks are increasingly becoming viable systems for information management. We're seeing this with Facebook, and with FriendFeed and even to some extent with Twitter.
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