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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Evidently, good grammar is profitable: Mechanically proofreading users’ online reviews and correcting errors increases sales. Apple says they aren’t tracking the location of iPhones. India is putting strict limitations on Internet free speech. These people can help you convert an…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
First day sales of the BlackBerry Playbook cast some serious doubt on whether it has the potential to be an iPad killer. It looks like the New York Times is drawing in plenty of new online subscribers, but will they…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Couldn’t Apple take it as a compliment that Samsung is copying it’s 3rd generation iPhone style in its new devices, rather than suing for infringement? Here’s another analysis of the suddenly high profile troubles at Twitter. In response to a…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
After all the cool stuff hackers have done with the Kinect for Xbox, I’m excited to see what they’ll come up with when it moves to Windows computers. The internet’s where the money’s at: Internet advertising revenue has surpassed newspaper…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The Vatican likes hackers now, because they make things? Who are they, Hannah Arendt? That’s a far cry from the Pope Benedict XVI’s early writings that say (among other things, obviously) that computer users are living in an alternate reality. Rumors…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
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…