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30 Dec 2009 11:15

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Tech: Make Steve Jobs look good when he’s sick, get paid big bucks

  • $12 million – COO Tim Cook’s reward for Applesitting source
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30 Dec 2009 10:44

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Tech: Facebook commits Seppukoo on its public relations arm

  • neat An Italian artistic collective creates an art project called Seppukoo, designed to allow people to kill their virtual Facebook identities. It’s clearly a novelty.
  • lame Facebook, claiming it’s a big, bad privacy violation and a bunch of other things, gets lawyers involved. Seppukoo, bravely, doesn’t back down at all. source
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30 Dec 2009 09:34

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Tech: The Mac/PC debate works better when children explain it

  • “We’re different brands of computers.” “And we #)&)@&) hate each other.” Ah, the never-ending Mac/PC debate. Somehow it never gets old, especially in the hands of these 4-year-old Asian girls, who come to blows trying to explain why their computer is better. Hilarious, cute, and a bunch of other amusing things.
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29 Dec 2009 10:39

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Tech: Broadband customers in the U.K. may have to pay big for piracy

  • Broadband consumers shouldn’t have to bail out the music industry. If they really think it’s worth spending vast sums of money on these measures then they should be footing the bill; not the consumer.
  • Carphone Warehouse CEO Charles Dunstone (which runs the TalkTalk consumer broadband service in the U.K.) • Regarding the reported £500 million British broadband consumers will be forced to pay as part of an online piracy bill. Yes, you read that right – to fight online piracy for movie and music companies, the U.K. is working on a bill that benefits those companies, specifically, at the cost to consumers, with no real benefit to consumers. May we call bull(#$&( on this already? source
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29 Dec 2009 09:48

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Tech: Netflix’s online streaming a hit, but studios don’t like it much

  • 47% of Netflix users take advantage of on-demand streaming content
  • annoyed the movie studios’ take on the uber-popular product source
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28 Dec 2009 10:52

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Tech: Was this decade the “Search Decade”? Here’s why it might be.

  • Our searches tell the story of the decade. They show sometimes what we need, but always what we want; sometimes who we strive to be, but always who we really are.
  • St. Petersburg Times writer Michael Kruse • Arguing why this decade was the “Search Decade” – which, of the many descriptions we’ve heard this week, probably makes the most sense. We’re a society that searches for everything, not the least of which bigger answers. And Google has become the center of so many of our lives that, really, could it be anything else? source
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27 Dec 2009 20:38

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Tech: AT&T is a company run by people who don’t want your money

  • problem AT&T has a sucky network that can’t handle iPhones making phone calls in New York City because they don’t have the infrastructure.
  • solution They’ve stopped the sale of iPhones in the NYC area on their Web site, blaming the lack of coverage. Freaking brilliant! source
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26 Dec 2009 22:17

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Tech: Apple “iSlate”? There’s a ton of freaking rumors about right now

You know, we’re gonna tune out until it actually gets within shouting distance of actually happening. But here’s the rumor mill, in case you’re curious. source
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26 Dec 2009 15:07

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Tech: Kindle had a banner day on Christmas Day, Amazon says

  • eBooks > books and Amazon’s investors go wild source
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26 Dec 2009 11:15

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Tech: Montgomery County, Texas will do the drunk-Tweeting for you

  • It’s not a magic bullet that’s going to end DWIs, but its something to make people think twice before they get behind the wheel of a car and drive while they’re intoxicated.
  • Montgomery County Vehicular Crimes Prosecutor Warren Diepraam • On the county’s decision to out DWI suspects on Twitter, using the account of the District Attorney’s Office, @MontgomeryTXDAO, during major holidays. The decision is controversial for its public shaming aspect as well as the fact that using Tweets seems to go a lot further than simply newspapers or other sources used for this kind of policy in the past. On the plus side, they’ll only stick around for a couple of minutes, as long as someone doesn’t decide your moment of shame is worth a retweet. Or fifty. source
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