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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” — Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
And BitTorrent's Oscar Goes To.... District 9 — Tonight, Hollywoods biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony. — In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 nominees …
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 Pash / Lifehacker:
Rapportive Replaces Gmail Ads with Contact Info, Is Very Cool — Firefox/Chrome: Sure it's nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren't really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with contact info about the sender.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Typical Windows user patches every 5 days — 75 Microsoft, third-party patch events each year are a burden most users can't bear, says Secunia — Computerworld - The typical home user running Windows faces the “unreasonable” task of patching software an average of every five days …
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 and G10 Micro Four Thirds Cameras: G2 Gets Touchscreen Control, Both Get HD Video — Panasonic has pulled the sheets off two new Lumix Micro Four Thirds cameras: the touchscreen DMC-G2 and the super light G10. Both shoot 720p video, but the G2's bendy …
Mary Lou Jepsen / What's Happening at Pixel Qi:
DIY Pixel Qi Kits — Just a quick note to say the DIY kits from our distributor will be available towards the end of Q2. We will be announcing with them prior to distrbution. Thanks for your patience. — One of the reasons I'm personally committed to doing this goes …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
What Would You Do For $5? — Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5.
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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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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 …
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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.
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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.
