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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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| Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary: |
What Amazon's ebook strategy means — It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry. — So I'm going to take a stab at explaining.
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Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections — SAN FRANCISCO — Past midnight, in a dimly lighted warehouse jutting into the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger introduced something they had been working on for weeks: a photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram.
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher to cover Apple from 1971 to 2000, filming starts next month — We've got a few more details on the recently-revealed Steve Jobs movie starring Ashton Kutcher, thanks to a Neowin interview with the producer, Mark Hulme.
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| 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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| 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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
How former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold could have created the iPhone — Myhrvold's ‘consumer computer’ vision in 1991, as published by Men's Journal. — Nathan Myhrvold is back in the national spotlight again, but in a very different way this time. — Myhrvold in his chef's garb
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| Keith Teare / TechCrunch: |
The Mobile Paradox — Google's stock declined by over 4% yesterday. Many have put this down to the company's decision to create a non-voting class of stock as part of a control-retention exercise as the founders sell shares. But more is going on here. In the same week as Facebook acquired Instagram … | 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Smartphone Patents: The Never-Ending War — Even Minor Features Figure in Big Battles as Rivalry Heats Up — Customers shopping for Apple Inc.'s iPhone might pay little attention to the gadget's “slide to unlock” feature, but you would never know that from a quick glance at Apple's current roster of patent lawsuits.| 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.| Jason Calacanis / LAUNCH: |
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