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Techmeme has redesigned. Drudge Report is now indisputably the web's ugliest news site — In the beginning, links on web pages were underlined, because that let us know they were links. And it was good. But all those underlined words started to afflict the eye, particularly on pages with many links.
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The New Techmeme Design: Plus Your World, Minus Underlined Links — In a world of personalized, distributed information sharing, Techmeme and its sister sites have successfully gone the opposite direction. They're machine-powered, human-controlled news aggregators that have readers …
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Say Goodbye to the Menu Button — Before Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), all Android-powered devices included a dedicated Menu button. As a developer, you could use the Menu button to display whatever options were relevant to the user, often using the activity's built-in options menu.| Betsy Masiello / Google Public Policy Blog: |
Setting the record straight about our privacy policy changes — A lot has been said about our new privacy policy. Some have praised us for making our privacy policy easier to understand. Others have asked questions, including members of Congress, and that's understandable too.
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Twitter Now Able To Censor Tweets, If Required By Law, On A Country-By-Country Basis — Until now, Twitter's not had the ability to censor certain tweets or accounts, to prevent them from being seen — if legally required — by users in particular countries.| Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: |
| Michael Gorman / Engadget: |
Samsung 2011 Q4 earnings official: $42 billion in sales, $4.7 billion operating profit — It might not be making as much money as the competition in Cupertino, but that doesn't mean Samsung isn't raking in cash at an astonishing clip. We reported earnings estimates a few weeks ago … | Miyoung Kim / Reuters: |
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Apple's universal remote concept hints at future television set — Apple has shown interest in building a new, simplified remote control that would automatically control a variety of devices while reducing setup and frustration for the user. — The concept was revealed this week … | Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter: |
Google Earth 6.2: A Seamless Globe That's Ready for Sharing on Google+ — Google just launched a major update for Google Earth. The program now offers one seamless image of the globe instead of a patchwork of separate images that made the Earth look a bit like a quilt in earlier versions.
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Facebook, Washington State AG Target Clickjackers — Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna announced the latest step in an ongoing fight against spammers and scammers today: dual lawsuits against the co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, an ad network that is alleged to develop … | John Cook / GeekWire: |
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Steam hits iOS and Android for buying, but not playing games — Steam Mobile live for iOS and Android — Valve has partly fulfilled one of the most common wishes of gamers Thursday by posting Steam Mobile. Versions for both iOS (App Store) and Android (Market) lets users both keep up with their Steam chats and groups while away.
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MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files — The place where breaking news, BitTorrent and copyright collide — MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files — In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven.
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Privacy Less Controversial Than Piracy? For Now, Web Giants Don't Sound the Alarm on EU Data Protection. — Though Internet companies seemed to have found their political voices during the U.S. SOPA/PIPA debate over Internet piracy last week, they're less up in arms about another proposed bill … | Kelly Fiveash / The Register: |
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Forrester: Nearly 50% of businesses now issuing Macs, 27% support the iPad — The myth that Macs aren't welcome in the enterprise appears to be finally dying out, according to new research from Forrester. The company reports that almost 50 percent of businesses in North America and Western Europe now issue Mac computers.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out new Music Manager with options to download songs, YouTube integration — Google just announced Android users will now be able to download all of their songs from a new version of Google Music Manager, allowing you to create a backup of both purchased music from the Google Music store … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The ‘Masquerade’ Behind ACTA — This is interesting. Kader Arif, the “rapporteur” for ACTA, has quit that role in disgust over the process behind getting the EU to sign onto ACTA. A rapporteur is a person “appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue.”
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North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as ‘war criminals’ — North Korea has warned that any of its citizens caught trying to defect to China or using mobile phones during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il will be branded as “war criminals” and punished accordingly.| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
Nation's first Super Wi-Fi network arrives — New Hanover County in North Carolina on Thursday became the first county in the United States to deploy a Super Wi-Fi network, but the real question is will it also be the last? The technology, which uses the unlicensed spectrum between … | John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
HTC to Give Up on Quantity and Try Quality — HTC's disappointing fourth-quarter earnings seem to have inspired a sea change at the company — or at least given it cause to reconsider its strength-in-SKU-numbers handset strategy. — Rather than compulsively adding to the cluttered cavalcade of Titans … | Reuters: |
Analysis: Asia may not be such easy pickings for Apple — (Reuters) - Investors in Apple Inc have a one-word answer for those who wonder whether this corporate juggernaut can maintain its phenomenal momentum in the years ahead: Asia. — The iconic maker of the iPhone …
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Motorola Lost $285 Million In 2011 Selling Phones — Having already warned investors that its fourth quarter was going to be rough, Motorola (NYSE: MMI) didn't disappoint when the actual numbers arrived Thursday. Smartphone shipments were up slightly but the company continues to lose money … | Preston Gralla / Computerworld: |
Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in fourth quarter to adopt Windows Phone 7; billions more to follow — Nokia's fourth quarter earnings report last night contains a juicy tidbit: Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million in the quarter for “platform support payments” — in other words, payment for Nokia to adopt Windows Phone 7.
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