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Opera Press Room:
Opera Unite reinvents the Web  —  Cloud computing and Web-based applications will never be the same  —  Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web.  Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server …
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Lawrence Eng / Opera Labs:
Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time  —  My name is Lawrence Eng, and, as a product analyst for Opera Software, my job is to understand our users and what they need, so we can serve them better.  Today, I will share my thoughts on Opera Unite, a new Opera technology that I'm extremely excited about.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
That Reinvention Of The Web Thing Opera Was Talking About?  It's Called Opera Unite  —  We told you last week that browser maker Opera was generating quite some buzz by being secretive about their plans to ‘reinvent the web’.  Well, the company this morning unveiled what it was referring to …
Discussion: Alec Saunders SquawkBox and Gizmodo, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Opera's Web-Changer: Unite, a Web Server Inside Your Browser  —  In Oslo, the Tuesday workday is well underway, and that means that Opera Software has unveiled the revolutionary technology breakthrough it started touting last week.  The would-be breakthrough turns out to be called Opera Unite …
Bill Ray / The Register:   Opera to take web back to the old days
Hans S. Tømmerholt / Dev Opera:
Opera Unite developer's primer
Chris Mills / Dev Opera:
An introduction to Opera Unite
Discussion: Ajaxian
Biz / Twitter Blog:
Down Time Rescheduled  —  A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter.  In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight.  However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran.
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New York Times:
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online  —  As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians …
Research in Motion:
RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Tour Smartphone  —  New 3G World Phone Keeps You Connected on High-Speed CDMA Networks in North America and UMTS/HSPA Networks Abroad  —  Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry® Tour™ …
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Introduces BlackBerry Tour to Compete With Apple's IPhone, Palm's Pre
Discussion: mocoNews
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Virtual Goods + Mobile Payments = Small Market Worth Fighting For?  —  The promise of “virtual goods"-pretend things you buy with real money in cyberspace-has lured entrepreneurs and venture capitalists for years.  Same goes for mobile payments-using your iPhone instead of your Amex to buy stuff.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Here come the mobile payment wars
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Microsoft Sues Three in Click-Fraud Scheme  —  AFTER an investigation that took more than a year, Microsoft has filed its first lawsuit over click fraud, where people manipulate clicks on a Web advertisement.  —  Microsoft filed the civil complaint on Monday in United States District Court …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses  —  In the future, Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader will display more book formats beyond its own.  And you should also expect to see Kindle books on a lot more devices.  —  That was the clear implication of comments that Jeff Bezos …
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Dasient: Ex-Googler's Launch Website Security as a Service  —  Ever come across a Google search result that has the words ‘this site can harm your computer’ below a link?  What about the Firefox red screen of death?  If you're a Web surfer, chances are you've likely avoided clicking on this type of link.
John Oates / The Register:
Pirate Bay launches encrypted private network  —  Delayed service fires broadside at Hollywood  —  Free whitepaper - Virtualization: optimized power and cooling to maximize benefits  —  The Pirate Bay has opened beta testing on its encrypted virtual private network which it reckons …
John Chan / CNET Asia:
Android to replace Garmin-Asus' current Linux platform  —  The Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 (left) and M20 (right).  —  At CommunicAsia today, Garmin-Asus showed off its nuvifone G60 and M20 devices.  The former was first developed independently by Garmin and later rebadged with the new brand name …
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
The now official Olympus E-P1 digital pen does retro right  —  Well, it's here: The Olympus E-P1 Micro Four Thirds digital camera.  The E-P1, or digital pen, packs in almost all the E-620's magic into an absolute tiny and gorgeous body.  A body that throws-back to the the late 50's when Olympus launched the first Pen camera.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Sony lawyer: $150K damages per song “certainly” appropriate  —  How much cash do the record labels deserve for Jammie Thomas-Rasset's alleged copyright infringement?  Defense lawyer Kiwi Camara pressed Sony Entertainment's Gary Leak on that point today, trying to force him to pick a number.
Chris Piro / Facebook:
Chat reaches 1 billion messages sent per day  —  Facebook Chat usage has increased steadily since its launch last year, and this week we reached 1 billion messages sent per day.  As a team we've been looking forward to this milestone; we track lots of statistics in the course of maintaining …
Erica Sadun / TUAW:
AT&T signals an abrupt end for some prepaid iPhone plans (updated)  —  Update 4: I am working with an AT&T spokesperson to try to detangle the contradictory information discussed below.  No results as yet, but will update when that becomes possible.  —  I just spent the last half hour …
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:
Iran using U.S. chip technology in rocket research  —  Chipmaker AMD says it will notify U.S. government of Iran's claims of Opteron use  —  Computerworld - An Iranian research institute claims it used Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron microprocessors to build a high computing performance system.
Discussion: The Register
Dan Woods / Forbes:
Why Oracle Wants Solaris  —  With its future apparently secure, the benefits of Sun's operating system become compelling.  —  Oracle praised the Solaris operating system when it agreed to acquire its creator, Sun Microsystems, but the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
PageRank sculpting  —  People think about PageRank in lots of different ways.  People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page.  Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which the value at position …
Rex Crum / MarketWatch:
Apple could see margins at risk with new price cuts  —  Lower prices for Mac laptops and the 3G iPhone could hit profitability  —  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - It's no secret that products for Apple Inc. have historically come with higher price tags than those of its rivals …
Discussion: I4U News, AppleInsider and Edible Apple
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is QuickTime X The Missing Link For Flash On The iPhone?  —  Now this is interesting.  Apparently, the new version of Apple's video playing software, QuickTime X, will support the playback of .flv files in Snow Leopard.  Yes, Adobe Flash files.  —  The blog, Cateto blog dug …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Weird Al takes on Craigslist with The Doors  —  Geek humor abounds.  —  Parody singer “Weird Al” Yankovic poked fun at Segway riders three years ago with his rap song “White and Nerdy.”  —  His latest single “Craigslist” skewers the people who can be found swapping wares and scoring dates on the classifieds ads site.
Discussion: Mashable! and Boing Boing
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Online and VOD Video Provider Ripe Digital Closes Down; Still Trying To Sell  —  Ripe Digital Entertainment, the LA-based digital entertainment company backed by Hearst-Argyle (NYSE: HTV) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) investments, has closed down, we have confirmed from sources …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
How The Recording Industry Changes Its Own Story  —  We've already discussed how silly the Performance Rights Act is — and how it's basically an attempt by the record labels to get their own bailout courtesy of radio stations.  There are all sorts of problems with it, and Jess Walker does …
Wall Street Journal:
How Are You?  No, How Are You Really?  —  I recently met an acquaintance from college, Chris Costello, whom I hadn't seen in 17 years.  We weren't that close in college, but we kept up sporadically through e-mail.  In more recent years, we updated each other on our lives through Facebook and Twitter.
Gordon Brown / Times of London:
The internet is as vital as water and gas  —  Every home will have broadband access as we aim for a digital Britain fit to take on the world  —  The digital revolution is changing all our lives beyond recognition and today we shall set out how Britain must change with it.
 
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Dolores M Bernal / NEWS JUNKIE:
Cell Phone Execs Will Face Questions On Text Messaging Price Hikes
Discussion: DSLreports
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Western Digital recants, announces its SiliconDrive III range of SSDs
Discussion: Softpedia News and Electronista
Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook Surge - The Gen X/Gen Y Tradeoff
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Inside Facebook
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Bing gets porn domain to filter out explicit images and videos
Discussion: Neowin.net, AppScout and BetaNews
 Earlier Items: 
Dan Zarrella:
Psychological Profiling Via Twitter
Discussion: Social Business and Mashable!
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
10 Reasons To Bet On A Yahoo Turnaround
Discussion: paidContent.org
Taylor Buley / Forbes:
Your Own Private Internet
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
US PC makers in ‘stolen code’ row
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Engadget
 

 
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Financial Times:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who has mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, readies a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Matthew Jordan / The Conversation:
As Congress tries to force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest, it should push licensed stations to abide by public interest standards

 
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