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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity — Unsubstantiated statements implicate US Secret Service in Swartz's prosecution and break Wikileaks' own ‘doxxing’ rules — Aaron Swartz died a week ago. A public memorial service in New York City will be held later today.
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Thanks:@daveying99| Edward Moyer / CNET: |
Memorial service honors Swartz as activist, individual — At a memorial gathering for Aaron Swartz in New York City, the tech activist's death prompts tender recollections and fierce resolve. — Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 — Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the main threads running through … | James Boyle / The Public Domain: |
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Harper's, The Verge, The Huffington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy, Techdirt and Doc Searls Weblog. Tweets: @lessig
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Google's Eric Schmidt calls for an open Internet as he lifts the lid on his visit to North Korea — Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, has shared extensive thoughts about his recent trip to North Korea which he attended alongside former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, and others.
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Sophie In North Korea, PC World, Yahoo! News, Quartz, Geekosystem and Google+. Tweets: @pourmecoffee
| AFP: |
Foreigners can now take own phones to North Korea: Xinhua — BEIJING: Foreigners visiting North Korea can now take their own mobile phones into the country, Chinese state media reported Sunday, citing an employee with the operator of the country's mobile network.
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Face to face with Kim Dotcom as he launches Mega, talks about Megakey and the future of free content — If there's one place that you want to be for the launch of Mega.co.nz, it's within Kim Dotcom's mansion. That's precisely where I've been today. Sure we knew that Dotcom was larger than life …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Mega-Launch: a fake FBI raid, dancing girls—oh, and human rights! — Amid wild theatrics, Kim Dotcom launches super-private cloud storage service. — Kim Dotcom may see himself as being at war with Hollywood, but the man has quite a sense of theatrics himself.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The Trend Against Skeuomorphic Textures and Effects in User Interface Design — Dave Wiskus, in a thoughtful piece for Macworld, “Apple and the Future of Design”: … I've been giving this a lot of thought lately, and I think I've figured it out. — There is a shift going on, fashion-wise.
| Business Insider: |
Normal, Non-Geeky People Are Running Rampant On A New Dating App, Tinder — Today, one of our “normal” colleagues approached us about a new app all of her college-age friends and roommates use. It's called Tinder. — Tinder is a simple dating app that anonymously finds out who likes your looks nearby.| Aaron Levie / TechCrunch: |
The Changing Of The Enterprise Guard — Editor's note: Aaron Levie is CEO and co-founder of Box. Follow him on Twitter @levie. — When we decided to focus on selling to enterprises five years ago at Box, we saw some exciting emerging trends: workers needed tools that were far simpler to use … | New York Times: |
With Graph Search, Facebook Bets on More Sharing — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's greatest triumph has been to persuade a seventh of the world's population to share their personal lives online. — Now the social network is taking on its archrival, Google, with a search tool to mine … | Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala — Aubrey Johnson, a former Color employee, shares two stories behind the scenes at Apple's acquisitions of both Color and Lala — both firms were founded by Bill Nguyen before being acquired by Apple for two very different reasons.
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Aubrey Johnson, ZDNet, The Verge, Softpedia News, MacNN, TUAW, Business Insider, App Advice, iClarified, iPhone Hacks and iDownloadBlog.com
| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
“Downloaded”: Napster documentary on Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning premiering at the SXSW Film Festival — The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference has announced that the Napster documentary “Downloaded” will be premiering this March during its Film Festival.| The Register: |
Orange boasts: We made Google PAY US for traffic — Some packets are more neutral than others ... France Telecom-Orange is making a wad of cash from Google, the company's CEO boasted in an interview with French media yesterday. — Talking to BFM Business TV, CEO Stephane Richard didn't give …
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The Verge, Beyond Search and Agence France Presse
| David Meyer / GigaOM: |
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