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Erin Rose
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Which smartphone is the most coveted? The answer might surprise you. YouTube gets movies on demand, attempts to end era of watching crappy bootlegged copies in 20 parts. The Sony Playstation Network is shut down indefinitely after hackers cracked it…
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iOS 4 is watching you. Biggest break up of the year: NASA dumps LISA! Your cell phone battery can save your mouse. Kindle your Library.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
A big lobbying campaign, funded mostly by foreign corporations, is taking place to prevent the US Government shutting down online poker sites. OKCupid sayz: Frequent twitter users have shorter relationships and masturbate more. Also the higher the GDP of your…
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The White House releases its plan to create trusted identification systems for the Web. Apple’s being hit with a class-action lawsuit that alleges its app structure makes it too easy for children to rack up charges in games without realizing…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
These are actually guest links by my buddy Luke. Apple users soon to be protected from marketers by Lion. U.S. has lag in tech usage, says study. BoingBoing probes NASA’s curiosity. U.S. Senators purportedly supporting online privacy. From butt dialing…
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A bunch of sites are buzzing about a (rumored) method that can unlock an iPhone without jailbreaking it. The era of sales tax-free Internet shopping may be coming to an end. Freelance writers just filed a class-action suit against AOL…
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Google employees testified today that giving private companies, as well as the government, the power to censor search results is an awful idea. Duh. What is Congress thinking? Ah, hypocrisy. Apple’s new iAd app violates its own app guidelines. Microsoft and…
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The vote on whether Twitter and other SF tech companies will get their desired tax break to stay in town is today. Google & Facebook are taking the French government to court over its privacy laws. The Anonymous hacker group…
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Will the Libyan war mean the end of .ly startups? (No, those URLs weren’t created just for twitter.) Apple controls its app system too tightly and Android’s a mess. What’s an app developer to do? AOL, the new owner of…
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The +1 button: Google’s answer to the facebook like button, ‘cept it’ll actually influence your search results. Drama: Paul Allen talks about the early days of Microsoft in his new memoir … and claims that Bill Gates schemed to take…
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Multi-billion dollar valuations of facebook, Groupon and others have led some to ask: Are we in the middle of another, potentially destructive tech bubble? Some foreign political activists have recently run afoul of social networking sites’ rules while documenting struggles…
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Researchers have created the first plastic computer processor. US intelligence agencies are using Google as a tool more and more . . . And Google Search now supports Cherokee. The majority of Americans are now on facebook. This is how…