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Danya Glabau
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The iPhone arrives on Verizon! But it might not make sense to get one right away… The Internet’s next big rumor is concerned with a round of impending MySpace layoffs. Are data-hogging Windows products still surprising to anyone? Korean director Chan-wook Park’s…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
My favorite NY Times columnist, Virginia Heffernan, takes on headphones. The Times also analyzes a changing television market after seeing what’s on offer at CES. See how designers updated an old classic – the boombox – to make something that…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
As Facebook grows, will it be able to maintain its small business vibe? The surge in internet-connected consumer devices means that parts of the world will run out of IPv4 addresses this year. Is the iPhone the new Mac? This…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Cell phones are increasingly cropping up in prisons, giving inmates the resources to organize strikes and play FarmVille. Travel websites Expedia and Orbitz are creating controversy by dropping American Airlines flights from search results. Tech bubble 2.0: Facebook is worth $50…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
In 2010, people really wanted to get to the Facebook website, using all kinds of silly search terms. Here’s a cool infographic showing how technology use in the world has changed in the past decade. Profile Maker now makes it…
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iPhone users can now text in Cherokee as part of the effort to preserve this endangered language. Given all of Apple’s recent successes, it’s no wonder the Financial Times picked Steve Jobs as person of the year. The FAA upgraded Santa’s…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Yahoo is probably shutting down social bookmark site Delicious, and tech types are really upset about it. In another corner of the social internet, Tumblr gets more page views than WordPress, and they’re busy raising money to keep it up.…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The Internet saw this one coming: FBI finally realizes that a Barbie doll with a built-in camera might be used by child predators. Some neat techie talk about WikiLeaks’ hosting problems adds a new dimension to the ordeal. Data caps…
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Browser wars, again? Chrome is gaining in popularity, Firefox is complaining about being manipulated by the big guys, and permanent best-kept-secret Opera reached 150 million users. Google is about to start a bookstore featuring access to content from any device.…
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The US government doesn’t like it when we steal things on the Internet, so it petulantly revoked a handful of domains. Comcast levies bandwidth fees on a company that delivers streaming Netflix content, threatening net neutrality yet again. Also in Netflix:…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Now that a trademark for “Face” seems likely to be awarded to Facebook, are they thinking about going after “book,” too? Academia is trying to bring cred to Wikipedia. A new Netflix pricing plan lets you watch online content without…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
At Google, “do no evil” means “pay us if you want us to do evil” when it comes to helping the government spy on you. For the mobile gamers: Pocket Legends MMO goes cross-platform, adding Android support to the iOS…