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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
Famous hacker suddenly finds himself infamous, in some quarters — On Thursday afternoon, Adrian Lamo sat quietly in the corner of a Starbucks inside the Carmichael Safeway, tapping on a laptop that requires his thumbprint to turn on and answering his cell phone.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Soldier leaked Google attack investigation details, hacker says
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Project Natal Officially Renamed “Kinect”, More Games Revealed — There's no need for conjecture; Microsoft's upcoming motion control peripheral, once known as Project Natal, is now to be officially known as “Kinect”. — “For lots of people, that controller is a barrier,” Microsoft creative director Kudo Tsunoda told USA Today.
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Microsoft previews controller-free games for Xbox 360 — The company is expected to unveil so-called Project Natal titles at Electronic Entertainment Expo. — Microsoft's Project Natal games for Xbox 360 use a device that reads movement. (Xbox Lifestyle, Stuart Isett / June 13, 2010)
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is it time to reconsider Google Buzz vs Facebook or Twitter? — OK, Google Buzz has been out several months now (you can see my Google Buzz items on my Google profile page). When it first came out lots of people tried it. But they just as quickly went away.
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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Thus spake Steve Jobs: The PC isn't dead yet — Daniel Lyons, the Newsweek tech writer notorious for his Fake Steve Jobs blog, penned an epistolary piece last week (R.I.P., Macintosh) in which he asks and answers the question: “Is Apple ignoring its signature line of computers and laptops? Yup.”
Nick Bilton / Bits:
AT&T Explains iPad Security Breach — On Sunday evening, AT&T sent an e-mail to owners of the Apple 3G iPad notifying them of a security breach that was publicized early last week. — The e-mail, which was sent from Dorothy Attwood, a senior vice president and chief privacy officer at AT&T …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Chatroulette Enlists Shawn Fanning In The Fight Against The Masturbators — Russian website Chatroulette, founded by Andrey Ternovskiy, is perhaps most well known as a place to watch men expose their genitals. — But that hasn't stopped up to a million people a day from visiting the site.
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
First Chrome OS systems to come from Acer, Dell, and HP? — Last month at Computex, Acer's rumored Chrome OS netbook was nowhere to be found. Of course, I'd already said it wasn't going to be on display — and Acer backed up my prediction days later with an official press release.
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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
iPad Media Apps: can do better — It's time for a first assessment of a few iPad media applications. To sum up: a) most are disappointing; b) no need to worry. Instead of subjectively pointing fingers at hits and misses, let's rise to a bird's eye view and see if we can understand why some apps work and why others don't.
Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Coming soon: an open source Dropbox alternative with collaboration — Dropbox is a great little service (and app). Developer Hylke Bons seems to like it — but he's got designs on building an alternative with a few improvements. As he writes on his blog, “Dropbox has a great user experience …
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Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
The world's most unusual outsourcing destination — IDG News Service - Think of North Korea, and repression, starvation and military provocation are probably the first things that come to mind. But beyond the geopolitical posturing, North Korea has also been quietly building up its IT industry.
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Yelp & Foursquare: Utility vs. Hipster Chic — I told myself this morning I wasn't going to write any blog posts to work on a couple of client deliverables. But I can't resist commenting on a Robert Scoble post: “Foursquare's Yelp problem.” — Scoble makes a number of points about Yelp …
Nick / Rough Type:
Steven Pinker and the Internet — As someone who has enjoyed and learned a lot from Steven Pinker's books about language and cognition, I was disappointed to see the Harvard psychologist write, in Friday's New York Times, a cursory op-ed column about people's very real concerns …
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