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| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images (exclusive) — As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement. But a site-wide update to Flickr promises to better protect members and their copyrighted works.
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CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Technology Review, Fast Company and Plagiarism Today
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Judge awards iPhone user $850 in throttling case — SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — When AT&T started slowing down the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country's largest telecommunications company to small claims court. And won.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Sony Music Boss: Censored YouTube Videos Cost Us Millions — For years the music industry has blamed Internet piracy for all their troubles. — Slowly, however, the record labels are starting to realize that the Internet is the future and it will ultimately do more good than harm.
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| Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat: |
Facebook resuscitates Digg, traffic up 35% — Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again. The news aggregation site is showing new signs of life and has Facebook to thank for its recent resuscitation. — Digg's pageviews jumped 35 percent in January, and the struggling company saw …
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Digg Blog, Fast Company, TechCrunch and Inside Facebook
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
How Microsoft is killing off the Zune and Windows Live brands in Windows 8 — Microsoft appears to be killing off two of its key user-facing brands with the upcoming Consumer Preview release of Windows 8. Windows Live applications have been rolled into preinstalled apps that work as the core … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
CNBC: Sprint board rejects $8b MetroPCS acquisition ‘hours’ before announcement — CNBC is reporting that Sprint and regional carrier MetroPCS were literally hours from announcing an $8 billion merger when Sprint's executive board rejected it — even after it had CEO Dan Hesse's sign-off.
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Gizmodo, Reuters, PandoDaily, Engadget, CNBC, Android Phone Fans, androinica.com, CNET, GigaOM, PC Magazine, IntoMobile, Android and Me, DSLreports, Sprintfeed, PhoneArena, Electronista and Dow Jones Newswires. Tweets: @davidfabercnbc
| Mike Daisey: |
David Pogue Is Only Competent To Review Gadgets — David Pogue weighed in yesterday about the Nightline piece. — I have been trying to engage with Mr. Pogue, but it hasn't gone well. — I hate to take the gloves off, but I feel like there's little choice after this latest column.
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See also Mediagazer| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Reddit Writes A Law: First Draft Of The Free Internet Act Emerges — As we noted last month, the community at Reddit responded to the whole SOPA mess by deciding that they should collaborate to write their own piece of legislation that protects internet freedoms.
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| James B. Stewart / New York Times: |
A Law Apple Would Like to Break — These days, it's hard to find a superlative that adequately describes Apple. But maybe simplest is best: biggest. — Measured by market capitalization, Apple is the world's biggest company. This week it solidified its lead over Exxon Mobil …
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| Stephen Chapman / ZDNet: |
Windows 8 SKUs mentioned on HP.com — Summary: Windows 8 SKUs get a shout-out in some recent documentation on HP.com. Are they the real deal, document placeholders, or something else altogether? — During a bout of recent research, I stumbled upon a couple of driver documents on HP's Web site … | Jack Purcher / Patently Apple: |
Google Invents an Original Search Gesture for Future Devices — Google has invented an original search based gesture for future Android devices. In some cases, the new “continuous gestures” will allow a user to simply and quickly draw a circle around what they want to search for in the form of the letter …
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9to5Google, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, SlashGear and Android Community
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Caterina Fake: Fast Growth for a New Social App Is a Very Bad Thing — Social Web entrepreneurs with successful careers just can't seem to find their way to a happy and boring retirement. Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake just announced Pinwheel, joining Ev Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter and now Obvious …
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Business Insider and Social Media
| Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror: |
Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted? — The prevalence of free, open WiFi has made it rather easy for a WiFi eavesdropper to steal your identity cookie for the websites you visit while you're connected to that WiFi access point. This is something I talked about in Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar.| Carl Franzen / TPM Idea Lab: |
Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA — NEW YORK — Kickstarter is having an amazing year, even by the standards of other white hot Web startup companies, and more is yet to come. — One of the company's three co-founders, Yancey Strickler … | Andy Greenberg / The Firewall: |
Two Cases' Lessons: If Cops Don't Know What You Encrypted, They Can't Make You Decrypt It — The last 24 hours have produced two opposite rulings about whether suspects in legal cases have to cough up the password to potentially incriminating data that they've encrypted on a hard drive.
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CNET, Examiner, Electronista, Law Blog, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Wired, The Verge and The H Security
| Rafe Needleman / CNET: |
We're not paying enough for apps — Rafe Needleman tries to convince a developer he's charging too much for his utility, ends up convincing himself that a lot of software is underpriced instead. — If the cool automatic monitor and computer location algorithm gets things wrong … | Enigmax / TorrentFreak: |
RapidShare Slows Download Speeds To Drive Away Pirates — During the wake of the Megaupload raids in January, TorrentFreak continuously monitored the cyberlocker world. We watched file-hosters panic and we watched bewildered users of their services try to find alternatives.
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Ars Technica, GamePolitics blogs, Neowin.net, ITProPortal and Softpedia News
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Rovio's CEO on Growing His Flock and Whether to Fly Solo — Last week was a big one for Rovio, the maker of the hit game Angry Birds. — The company released its Facebook game, joined up with a Finnish theme park and announced plans to blast off into space. — But the company is also at a crossroads.| Nicola Clark / New York Times: |
Selecting a Seatmate to Make Skies Friendlier — PARIS — On his eight-hour flight to New York from Switzerland last month, Jeff Jarvis, a well-known blogger and journalism professor, found himself seated next to a woman eager to discuss the finer points of management theory.| Cade Metz / Wired Enterprise: |
Facebook Shakes Hardware World With Own Storage Gear — Facebook's hardware team is now building storage gear — while decorating the walls at the company's new HQ in Menlo Park, California. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — Facebook already built its own data center and its own servers.Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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