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Danya Glabau
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Microsoft is gearing up to take an anti-competition complaint against Google to the European Commission. Google’s monopolistic search practices, they’re claiming, prevented the growth of their Bing search engine. Speaking of Google, how would you like a Google smartphone app…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Meme alert: The @BronxZoosCobra is making waves on the internet after a real cobra from the real Bronx Zoo went missing. MIT has designed an artificial “leaf” that produces energy from sunlight and water. Tweeting has been deemed not broadcasting…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
New photo-sharing-location-based-social-media-venture-funded-start-up Color is making waves. While the idea is pretty cool, the $41 million thrown behind it raises more tech bubble questions. And of course, there are the inevitable parodies… It looks like the FCC will be paying special attention…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
First Amazon took on Netflix with streaming movies, and now it’s going after the Android store with its new Appstore. Oh, and Apple is suing over the name. There are more questions than answers when it comes to the newly…
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Al Jazeera English
Will the recent visibility of Al Jazeera English in the wake of the Egyptian revolution translate into more American viewers? Two communication researchers at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, William Youmans and Katie Brown, tested how receptive Americans might…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Apple’s newest tool for convincing people to buy an iPhone? Shame. Helping blind people navigate their environment is the newest awesome Kinect hack. The porn industry might soon have its own ICANN-approved domain. The New York Times officially announced its…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Google seems to be inching closer to testing a new smartphone payment system. Goodbye, paper money? Another likely impact of the Japanese earthquake seems to be rising prices for computer components. The Obama administration is rolling out an extensive wishlist of…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
AOL is planning big layoffs in the wake of their acquisition of the Huffington Post. Here’s an interesting take on Hollywood’s attachment to old-school artificial scarcity of popular movies. Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds,…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Take a deep breath, Steve Jobs: Adobe releases a Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool. Movie rentals are coming soon to Facebook, putting it in competition with big video content providers like Hulu and Netflix. A mini app roundup: Bizzy’s “check out” system…
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iPad 2 Roundup
A skinny but charismatic Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2 on Wednesday. You can get your new device basically everywhere starting next Friday. AT&T is offering new non-contract, “postpaid” billing for iPad 2 data use. For those recent iPad purchasers…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Now that the iPad 2 has been released, bloggers are wondering about what wasn’t included in the update. Twitter is staying away from the IPO gravy train… for now. Nintendo joins in on the “death of console video games” rhetoric.…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The iPad 2 announcement came today! And it’s coming in multiple colors from the get go. Google pulled over fifty programs infected with malware today. Are you infected? Here’s the full list. An excellent parody Steve Jobs Twitter account has been…