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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A — Update on the TechCrunch Tablet: A humble (and messy) beginning. Prototype A has been built. It's in a temporary aluminum case that a local sheet metal shop put together for us that's at least twice as thick as it needs to be, but the hardware has been defined and is nearing lockdown.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HTC's Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos — Sure, we've seen some blurry videos and managed a few stolen glimpses when Andy Rubin demonstrated this beast, but now we've gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory.
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data — PEOPLE share their videos on YouTube and their photos at Flickr. Now they can share more technical types of displays: graphs, charts and other visuals they create to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables or text.
Reuters:
German customs raid Hyundai at Berlin tech fair — BERLIN (Reuters) - German customs police raided South Korea's Hyundai IT Corp (048410.KQ: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in Berlin on Saturday, seizing flat-screen televisions from its stand at IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics fair.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. — SAN FRANCISCO — The era of the American Internet is ending. — Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network's first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bit.ly, The Smarter TinyURL, Getting A Revenue Plan — Bit.ly, the smart URL shortener from Betaworks, keeps getting new features. Will it start making money, soon, too? — Betaworks CEO John Borthwick tells us that Bit.ly's first revenue generator could be coming soon …
Spiegel Online:
Tracking the Terrorists Online — For years, al-Qaida and other terror groups have set up shop in the Internet. Those who track them have covertly followed. The companies SITE and IntelCenter have penetrated even deeper into the terror Web than most intelligence agencies.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s — Late last year we discovered that MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson, arguably the most popular individual on the Internet with 240+ million MySpace friends (he is added by default to every MySpace account) …
John Cox / Network World:
Wireless LANs face huge scaling challenges — 802.11n is no silver bullet either, university WLAN managers warn — Philippe Hanset is wondering about the intersection of the Slingbox and the campuswide wireless LAN at University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he's IT manager.
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Dennis Carter / eSchool News:
Colleges push back against RIAA's methods — Many universities say helping the recording industry track down students is taking too much time and too many resources — Administrators and IT chiefs at public universities nationwide say the recording industry's search for students accused …
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks — In the days leading up to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate announcement, political junkies glued to broadcasts and blogs for clues of McCain's veep choice might have done better to keep a sharp eye on each candidate's Wikipedia entry.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RED's next move: Monstro super DSLRs — Red CEO, Jim Jannard, is stirring up trouble in the RED User forums, J. Wong-style. His latest volley discusses the new Mysterium “Monstro” sensor program, the next evolution (and future free upgrade) to the Mysterium X sensor slated for RED's 5k Epic.
