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Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’ — People's plutocrat Bill Gates talks about friendly rivalry, and how to get bankers to part with their money. — Change the world: 'If you have a dream and it comes true, it's a very cool thing,' says Bill Gates| Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat: |
Pass the popcorn: Y Combinator startup caught stealing from 37signals — Here's some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure's 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37signals.| David Beren / TmoNews: |
T-Mobile To Offer Additional Unlocked iPhone Support Beginning January 30th — Starting on January 30th, T-Mobile will “begin offering additional support to customers using an Apple iPhone on our network.” T-Mobile's added iPhone support will include “common procedures … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land — Despite its “rogue site” status and various other warnings, when MegaUpload went down last week it still came as a shock. — But what came next was unprecedented, a dramatic reaction in cyberlocker land that took out vast libraries of digital content and capacity.| Jennifer Granick / The Shout: |
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think — The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective. A few preliminaries: I'm responsible for the musings below …
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The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do — The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SOPA-like rules) …
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We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA — If there's one thing that encapsulates what's wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn't know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden …
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That Was Fast: Betaworks Returns All Capital... And Then Some — The New York tech scene has certainly received a lot of hype, but a lot of people are waiting for results that prove it's more than just that. Proof that New York is really a tech ecosystem that is here to stay, no matter what may happen to Foursquare and Gilt.| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Someone Finally Makes “S**t Silicon Valley Says” — After an onslaught of “S**t [blank] Says” videos in my Facebook Newsfeed, I appealed to Twitter yesterday, surprised that the industry that invented YouTube hadn't weighed in on the phenomenon. — Little did I know that husband … | Reporters Without Borders: |
Letter to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey urging him not to cooperate with censors — Reporters Without Borders has written to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey voicing deep concern about yesterday's announcement that Twitter will introduce geolocated censorship … | Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time — Two weeks ago, Google launched Search Plus Your World. Since then, Google has faced strong criticisms that SPYW is making its search relevancy worse and favoring its Google+ social network too much.| Heather Kelly / VentureBeat: |
Macworld finds its footing as a “hardcore consumer lifestyle event” — Macworld Expo, a once powerful Mac tradeshow, is getting new life as smaller event for Apple consumers and fans. The revamped three-day event, now called Macworld | iWorld, is taking place this week in San Francisco.Sponsor Posts
Cloud Foundry:
Micro Cloud Foundry Streamlines Offline Support And Adds Java Debugging — The Cloud Foundry team released a new version of Micro Cloud FoundryTM including streamlined offline support, Java debugging …
Micro Cloud Foundry Streamlines Offline Support And Adds Java Debugging — The Cloud Foundry team released a new version of Micro Cloud FoundryTM including streamlined offline support, Java debugging …
SoftLayer Blog:
Tips and Tricks - Remote Audio Over RDP in Windows 2008 — I was working on my server the other night, and I found myself needing to get sound from my Windows 2008 box through an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) connection.
Tips and Tricks - Remote Audio Over RDP in Windows 2008 — I was working on my server the other night, and I found myself needing to get sound from my Windows 2008 box through an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) connection.
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured BizSpark Startup on Azure - TicTacTi — Interview with Tsafrir Peles, CEO of TicTacTi. — Web site: www.tictacti.com — Tell us who you are and your role in the company: — Newly appointed CEO, veteran in interactive advertising.
Featured BizSpark Startup on Azure - TicTacTi — Interview with Tsafrir Peles, CEO of TicTacTi. — Web site: www.tictacti.com — Tell us who you are and your role in the company: — Newly appointed CEO, veteran in interactive advertising.
TechFreedom:
‘Next Digital Decade’ eBook a Must-Read for Digital Policy — TechFreedom launched just over a year ago with the publication of The Next Digital Decade, a free ebook that brought together 26 scholars of Internet law …
‘Next Digital Decade’ eBook a Must-Read for Digital Policy — TechFreedom launched just over a year ago with the publication of The Next Digital Decade, a free ebook that brought together 26 scholars of Internet law …
Adobe EchoSign Blog:
60 Tickets Left: Feb 23rd in San Jose: EchoSign's First Annual Web Contracts Conference with Groupon, Cigna, Taleo, United Healthcare, Marketo, BT and More — We're pleased our first annual user conference …
60 Tickets Left: Feb 23rd in San Jose: EchoSign's First Annual Web Contracts Conference with Groupon, Cigna, Taleo, United Healthcare, Marketo, BT and More — We're pleased our first annual user conference … Who's Hiring In Tech?
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