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Erin Rose
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Lots of tweets and texts and facebook updates may actually encourage more in-depth analysis. Tablets schmablets. Americans really just want more smartphones and TVs. Is RSS dying? Yeah, right. Police don’t need a warrant to dig through your cellphone (at…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Apple support company sues customer for complaining. China wants to be a leader in innovation. One strategy: Trying to drastically increase the number of patents it holds. Goldman Sachs just put a lot of money into facebook. Smartphones are racing…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
A great breakdown of how much each tech company spends on lobbying and for what. Trying to explain to Mom or Granddad for the 100th time how to upload videos or attach a file? There’s an app for that. Literature isn’t…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
It’s a day for (hopefully productive) outrage. The FCC is meeting today to discuss net neutrality regulations. If you use the Internet, you should probably be paying attention. Speaking of free speech, Apple removed the Wikileaks app from its App…
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Smartphones users skew male among 15-24 year olds everywhere . . . but the US. Yeah, yeah, Gawker (& deviantART & McDonald’s . . .) users got hacked. This guy explains how to do it. Gyst, Myte, and Veer: Role playing…
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Microsoft to throw their hat, I mean, tablet into the ring. Aggregations of daily minutiae like status updates into larger trends = weirdly irresistible. A facebook intern has posted a striking image that visualizes (facebook) friendships around the world. For the first time…
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Chatroulette was more popular than the iPad and Justin Beiber, who woulda thunk? Google visualizes a year in search. Someone is now selling the Wikileaks cables on Amazon. Reviewers are pissed. This robot can debone a ham, so you’d better hope…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Rumor has it the iPad 2 is coming in February. Google expands into yet another underserved sector: eBooks. And shows off a new tablet prototype. Facebook changed their profile page again. These miniature cities made of old computer parts are beautiful.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Wikileaks witch-hunt: Lieberman wants new legislation targeting it, and Amazon & Everydns.net are being big cowards about the site. Silver lining: At least Wikileaks has cool new digs. Potentially terrifying but important: Open Data project lets you see what information…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Today’s tech links left me with some questions: Does the Internet need more benevolent editors or should the would-be experts pipe down and let the crowd speak for itself? Everyone’s wondering: Is Google buying Groupon? 8-ball says “most likely.” Who would pay…
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Research confirms the obvious: people with more money use tech differently than those with less. There is now an open-source alternative to facebook. Choose to have your house blurred in Google Street View? You might end up with egg on…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
If you have an i-device, you may care that the new iOS is out today. Tigers and panthers and snow leopards, oh my! They’re all dying out. Should Apple help? The largest network of electric vehicle chargers will soon be…