Top Items:
Krishna Bharat / The Official Google Blog:
Read news fast with Google Fast Flip — One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles …
Discussion:
Google Mobile Blog, eWeek, Google Operating System, Phone Scoop, Times of London, Lifehacker, Regular Geek, Android Central, Webware.com, Search Engine Roundtable, paidContent, SEO and Tech Daily, Softpedia News, Technologizer, PC Pro, Google Blogoscoped, broadstuff, TeleRead, Beyond Search, The iPhone Blog, Twist Image, Bloomberg, Search Engine Land, PC World, Mashable!, GigaOM, Pocket-lint.com, Search Engine Journal, Tech Beat and ResourceShelf, Thanks:arpitnext
RELATED:
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
New Google Service Allows Readers to Flip Through the News — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, long seen as an enemy by many in the news industry, is making a bold attempt to be seen as its friend with a new service it hopes will make it easier for readers to view newspaper and magazine articles.
Discussion:
Media Decoder, Bits, Content Bridges, Publishing 2.0, MediaFile, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Screenwerk, TechCrunch, MobileContentToday, Search Engine Watch, InformationWeek, Telegraph, seattlepi.com, Technology Live, Digits, internetnews.com, Gear Diary, AndroidGuys, blogs.ft.com, DailyFinance and Search Engine Land
Shane Richmond / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Fake Eric Schmidt: Google Fast Flip has saved newspapers. Happy now, bitches? — Below is an email that we received this morning from Fake Eric Schmidt about Google Fast Flip, the search company's new news service. The email was headlined MESSAGE FOR THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Zune HD to get Twitter, Facebook as Microsoft abandons ‘squirting’ — One of Microsoft's big bets when it decided to challenge Apple's iPod in 2006 was a feature known as Zune-to-Zune wireless sharing — or “squirting,” as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dubbed it.
Discussion:
Electronista, Ars Technica, Crave, Engadget, CNET News, Reuters and MobileTechWorld, Thanks:atul
RELATED:
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Microsoft launches Zune, clarifies what's up apps, raps iPod — Microsoft's third and perhaps best Zune effort goes on sale today, taking on the new generation of camera and app-equipped Apple iPods with a relatively pure music and video player. — This time the emphasis isn't on the Zune's funky design or wireless sharing feature.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Zune HD gaming and app downloads confirmed: Twitter, Facebook …
Discussion:
PR Newswire, Boy Genius Report, pocketnow.com, Electricpig.co.uk, WMPoweruser.com and MobileTechWorld
Bing / Search Blog:
Visual Search - Why type when you can see it? — How many times have you seen a movie trailer and forgotten the name of it the next day? You go online to search for it but you can't seem to find the movie with “what's-his-name” in it anywhere but you can picture the actor in your head.
RELATED:
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Taiwan Economic News: 9.6-inch, PA Semi Apple Tablet due in February, cost $800-$1000 — We went a few weeks without a tablet rumor - which was scary - but the Taiwan Economic News chimes in today with a bunch of parts information on Apple's forthcoming Tablet.
Discussion:
Digital Daily, AppleInsider, CENS.com, Engadget, TeleRead, tabletage.com, MacRumors, SlashGear, Mobilewhack.com, Electricpig.co.uk and MobileContentToday
RELATED:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Fresh Apple tablet rumors: February launch. $800-$1,000. AT&T, not Verizon
Paul Miller / Engadget:
HP ENVY 13 and 15 bring luxury to the everyman, look like MacBooks — There's no getting around it, so we'll just say right at the outset: HP's new ENVY 13 and 15 laptops might've been built on the “Voodoo ENVY legacy,” but they sure look a lot like Apple's unibody MacBook Pros.
Discussion:
Crave, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, PC World, Techgeist, Electronista, The Register, jkOnTheRun and DisplayBlog
RELATED:
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:HP Introduces New Netbooks, a Prosumer and a Consumer Notebook
Discussion:
eWeek, Brainstorm Tech, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Crave, Reuters, VentureBeat, T3.com News and Engadget
SANS:
The Top Cyber Security Risks — Two risks dwarf all others, but organizations fail to mitigate them … Executive Summary — Priority One: Client-side software that remains unpatched. — Waves of targeted email attacks, often called spear phishing, are exploiting client-side vulnerabilities …
RELATED:
Stephen Wildstrom / Tech Beat:Massive Study of Net Vulnerabilities: They're Not Where You Think They Are
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Times Web Ads Show Security Breach — OVER the weekend, some visitors to the Web site of The New York Times received a nasty surprise. An unknown person or group sneaked a rogue advertisement onto the site's pages. — The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people visiting the site …
Discussion:
Computerworld, Search Engine Roundtable, the Econsultancy blog, Graham Cluley's blog and MediaMemo
RELATED:
David Kravets / Threat Level:New York Times Reforms Online Ad Sales After Malware Scam
Discussion:
Spyware Sucks
WMPoweruser.com:
First real pictures of HTC Leo - All rumours confirmed — PDA.Pl has been lucky enough to have the very first real pictures of HTC Leo (Via PDAClub.pl forums), and the device is a stonker! Present is the massive screen, the gigahertz processor, the amazing thinness, the dual flash and even the words at the back.
Discussion:
SlashPhone, Engadget, Gizmodo, Electronista, Pocket-lint.com, Newlaunches.com, Pulse2, MobileTechWorld, pocketnow.com, Gadgetell, WMExperts and SlashGear
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook support for Twitter-like mentions now live — Facebook is now supporting @ symbol for tagging friends in posts and status updates. The company said last week it would move toward adopting the convention, which started on Twitter. — The symbol has been part of Twitter etiquette for a long time.
RELATED:
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Lenovo introduces multitouch ThinkPad X200 Tablet and T400s laptop — Lenovo's getting a little jump on the wave of Windows 7 machines due to hit next month with a multitouch update to the X200 convertible and a new multitouch version of the T400s. The new X200 Tablet is pretty much what you'd expect …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Voice chat coming to Facebook — The new Vivox voice chat system for Facebook will allow any user to start a conversation with anyone on their friends list. The service will also be available to third-party developers who want to integrate voice into their applications.
Discussion:
VentureBeat
Heather Champ / Flickr Blog:
Galleries: Unleash your inner curator — There's a long list of features that we've wanted to develop for our members. Giving our members a way to celebrate the creativity of their fellow members has always been high on that list. Today, we're thrilled to launch our newest feature: galleries.
Discussion:
Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Webware.com, Softpedia News and TechCrunch
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
WITTC50?: The TechCrunch 50 Day Two Drinking Game — So that was day one of Techcrunch 50. The best tech conference in the universe, that pays my wages. — And what did I learn today? Today I learned that the Rocky soundtrack makes any technical hitch a million times more dramatic.
Discussion:
broadstuff
Brian Fitzpatrick / Google Public Policy Blog:
Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data! — Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at any time; however, you cannot take all of your things with you - not your photos, your keepsakes, or your clothing.
Discussion:
Lifehacker, Guardian, Data Liberation, Ars Technica, Webmonkey, Gear Diary, Appfrica, Google Blogoscoped, techno.blog and Network World, Thanks:atul
Will Head / The Register:
Freecom MediaPlayer II 500GB … Review Despite its name, the Freecom MediaPlayer II is more than just media streamer - it's a Nas box too. So, not only can you use it to play video files in your lounge, but it's easy to get content on to it as well. Just hook it up to your network, and drag and drop what you want to watch.
Discussion:
Engadget
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Gist opens up, adds noise and friends filters — Communication organization tool Gist is opening up to everyone on Tuesday, and has come a long way since we profiled its private beta offering back in January. It can still plug into your Gmail, Outlook and LinkedIn accounts and help organize things …
Tom Hogarty / Lightroom Journal:
Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 Now Available — Lightroom 2.5 and Camera Raw 5.5 are now available as final releases on Adobe.com and through the update mechanisms available in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2. These updates include camera support for the following models: — Nikon D300s
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos — The state of Virginia has backed away from its attempts to force Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation, narrowly avoiding what promised to be a high-profile privacy battle in federal court.
windowslivewire.spaces.live.com:
Windows Live adds to its list of third-party partners to bring more of your updates and contacts to your Windows Live network — Last year, when we updated Windows Live services, we added a broad range of partnerships with leading web companies, to make it simpler for you to share …
