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Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin — Exclusive: Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’ — The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation …
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| Apple: |
New iPad Arrives in South Korea & 11 Additional Countries This Week — CUPERTINO, CaliforniaApril 16, 2012Apple® today announced the new iPad®, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, will arrive in South Korea and 11 additional countries on Friday, April 20.
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| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Confirmed: Redpoint Leads $40M Funding Round for Path — Path, the mobile social networking start-up, is planning to announce it has raised Series B funding as early as tomorrow, according to sources. — Redpoint Ventures led the $40 million round, which values Path at $250 million.
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| Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: |
Netflix CEO calls out Comcast on net neutrality — When most Comcast subscribers complain, it's a blip. When the CEO of Netflix vents to his 120,000 subscribers on Facebook, it's a salvo. Reed Hastings doesn't agree with Comcast's approach to net neutrality and caps — and he wants everyone to know it.
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| Ryan Paul / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS — Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop a rigorously-hardened Linux environment.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Samsung sends out event invites to “come and meet the next Galaxy” on May 3 in London. Galaxy S III incoming? — Update: The event has been confirmed by Samsung. — Samsung could be just weeks away from unveiling its next flagship Android smartphone — the Galaxy S III …
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| Richard Chirgwin / The Register: |
Yet another OSX/Java Trojan spotted in the wild — Kaspersky Labs tags MS Word as the vector — Hard on the heels of the Flashback Trojan, Kaspersky Labs is warning of a new OSX threat, which it's dubbed Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a. — In a post to Securelist, Kaspersky's Costin Raiu …
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| David Carr / New York Times: |
The Media Equation: Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost — The Justice Department finally took aim at the monopolistic monolith that threatened to dominate the book industry. So imagine the shock when the bullet aimed at threats to competition went whizzing by Amazon … | Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By — THE lights dimmed. The crowd hushed. The teleprompters flickered. — Kazuo Hirai stepped up and flashed a winning smile: it was show time. The scene was oddly upbeat inside the Sony Corporation last Thursday as Mr. Hirai, the company's new chief executive, faced the cameras.
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| PC World: |
Twitter Tech Support: How Effective Is Tweeting a Tech Problem? — Companies do answer customer support questions sent via Twitter. Here's how they handle it and how to be heard when you tweet your problem. — As the Web becomes increasingly social, more and more companies turn to Twitter …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs — Netflix awarded a $1 million prize to a developer team in 2009 for an algorithm that increased the accuracy of the company's recommendation engine by 10 percent. But today it doesn't use the million-dollar code …
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| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars — (Reuters) - Five years ago, Justin Edmund arrived at Carnegie Mellon University, a floppy-haired freshman, with artistic talent and dreams of joining a venerable design firm like IDEO or Frog. But during his sophomore year … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
FCC Clears Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping But Fines It $25,000 For “Noncompliance” With Requests — The US Federal Communications Commission has cleared Google of any legal wrong-doing over its Street View cars that intercepted wifi transmissions. That's the good news for the company. The bad news?| Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal: |
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