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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft shows off single game running on Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox — Guess we don't have to wait until MIX to have all our Windows Phone 7 Series questions answered! Microsoft's Eric Rudder, speaking at TechEd Middle East, showed off a game developed in Visual Studio as a singular project …
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Adam Overa / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked — Table of contents — “The fastest browser on Earth.” — That's what the Opera homepage has said since Tuesday. After five release candidates and two betas, the boys from Oslo just recently launched the final build of Opera 10.50.
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Larry Magid / CNET News:
Police get Webcam pictures in school spy case — Two IT employees at Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District have been put on administrative leave, and pictures taken from Webcams on school-issued computers have been turned over to the local police department, according to the attorney of one of the employees now on leave.
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Why Google Android Favoritism Isn't Punishing Consumers and Partners — Late last night, Mark Spoonauer of Laptop Magazine penned an editorial about Google. It's a smart opinion piece with the stance that Google is showing favoritism for their own platform and specificially for the most current versions of Android.
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme now has a share button. Read this post if you can't find it. — Frequent Techmeme readers may have heard of both “Facebook” and “Twitter”, up and coming social networking services where, among other activities, users tend to share links. Sharing is in fact a core activity on these sites …
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
New York Isn't Silicon Valley. That's Why They Like It. — THE two dozen or so people arranged around wooden tables, warming their hands and bellies with steaming mugs of coffee and plates of homemade biscuits, looked like just another Sunday brunch set in New York.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Security Pros Question Deployment of Smart Meters — The country's swift deployment of smart-grid technology has security professionals concerned that utilities and smart-meter vendors are repeating the mistakes made in the rollout of the public internet, when security became a priority …
Tolles / blog.topix.com:
Topix Clears 100,000,000 Comments — Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one — We launched our commentary system at the end of 2005, by giving people not only the ability to comment on the headlines we aggregated here at Topix, but also the opportunity to come forward …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Etacts Launches First Implementation of oAuth For Gmail IMAP Accounts — Earlier this week, we reported on a number of new security enhancements that we expect Gmail to launch in the next few days, including oAuth support. It looks like we were right: a small startup called Etacts …
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Domain Name Czar Seeks .OnlineUnity — For the last few years, policy makers and netizens have been battling over net neutrality — the idea that the net is and should remain an open, fair platform where packets flow freely and web services just work, everywhere and without favoritism.
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Jennifer Merritt / Wall Street Journal:
Web Searches Preview Hiring Trends — Payroll and unemployment data released Friday offered a snapshot of the labor market's health last month. But some researchers say they can get a read on such trends days or weeks ahead of the official numbers by studying Google searches, tweets and even queries at an online phone directory.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T announces slew of network investments for 2010 — AT&T's preaching about the mucho dinero it's dropping into renovating its network to pretty much anyone who'll listen these days, and a veritable cornucopia of press releases this week start to go into detail on some of the upgrades we'll be seeing over the course of 2010.
