Top Items:
Wall Street Journal:
Mark Hurd in Talks With Oracle — Mark Hurd, who resigned as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. last month, is in talks to join Oracle Corp. as a top executive, people familiar with the matter said. — The exact nature of Mr. Hurd's new job couldn't be learned.
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Computerworld, Reuters, New York Times, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog and Silicon Alley Insider
Randall Stross / New York Times:
A Strong Password Isn't the Strongest Security — MAKE your password strong, with a unique jumble of letters, numbers and punctuation marks. But memorize it — never write it down. And, oh yes, change it every few months. — These instructions are supposed to protect us. But they don't.
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Pitos Blog
John Markoff / New York Times:
The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You — SACRAMENTO — Dr. Alan Shatzel's pager beeped at 9 on a Saturday morning. A man had suffered a stroke, and someone had to decide, quickly, whether to give him an anticlotting drug that could mean the difference between life and death.
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Geek News Central
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Emergency Facetime calls? — Interesting little button on lower right hand corner of the 4th generation iPod touch Passcode screen. — Is this another Photoshop error by Apple's web artisans? Or maybe VoIP falls under the Emergency calling guidelines. — Here's another Photoshop error (see the phone icon?)
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Erictric
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation — If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press and journalism really works - the sausage making - to show just how much of a beautiful, subjective and chaotic mess it all is.
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SmoothSpan Blog
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HTC's dual-mode CDMA / GSM Android slider hits the FCC, decked out in shades of Verizon — Remember that big, honking red-and-black HTC slider that dwarfed an EVO 4G? It's back sporting Verizon colors just as we were told, and with a few more confirmed specifications thanks to the ever-reliable FCC.
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Fone Arena, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, AndroidGuys, PhoneDog.com and Phones Review
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Mr. Extreme Closeup suggests next-gen iPad is testing FaceTime... right now — Honestly, from this distance it's hard to tell what's going on, but 9 to 5 Mac says we're looking at a next-gen camera-equipped iPad fielded specifically to test video calls. As you may recall …
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9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, IntoMobile, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Michael Stevens / Security Week:
Defense Department's Cyberwar Credibility Gap — Undersecretary of Defense William J. Lynn has published an essay in Foreign Affairs magazine redefining the United States' stance towards cyberwarfare, and he's already getting shot at - primarily by IT pundits who find it hard to believe …
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SANS Internet Storm Center … and The Firewall, Thanks:wiredmike
Jack Schofield / ZDNet:
Google's Buckyballs doodle costs people money, drives users away — Within a couple of seconds of sitting down at my PC on Saturday I realised something was badly wrong, and since Google has been my browser home page for the past decade, it was dead easy to spot the guilty party: Google.
Economist:
Untangling the social web — Software: From retailing to counterterrorism, the ability to analyse social connections is proving increasingly useful — TELECOMS operators naturally prize mobile-phone subscribers who spend a lot, but some thriftier customers, it turns out, are actually more valuable.
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Gawker, UMBC ebiquity and broadstuff
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Tech revolution spurs debate over antitrust law — The antitrust scrutiny of Google, Apple and Intel has reignited a simmering debate in academic and legal circles over the appropriate regulation of dominant technology companies. — Put simply: Is antitrust outdated for the Information Age?
