September 2009
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Irate Android devs aim to replace Google's... →
Google has angered the Android enthusiast community by sending a cease and desist notice to a third-party developer who is building a popular custom version of the open source platform. Google doesn’t want its proprietary bits included in cooked ROMs.
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Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn... →
People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.
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FCC To Introduce Net Neutrality Rule →
Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to sources at the agency.
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Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this →
So here’s the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you’ll miss the boat. And it’s a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation. In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself....
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On Saying No →
Not “No, thanks.” Not “nope.” Just “no.” clear, unambiguous, empowering “no.” But not in a mean way.
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Welcome to Yahoo! U →
Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which “going to college” means packing up, getting a dorm room, and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S....
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"The Cloud": that term does not mean what you... →
A recent anti-cloud computing rant in the Guardian raises a good point, but the author’s vision of what the cloud is and where it’s going is a bit, er, cloudy. If you get your cloud information from enterprise IT vendors and not Web 2.0 hustlers, then the picture gets a lot clearer.
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Lost or stolen Kindle? Amazon says you're out of... →
As the Kindle takes off in popularity, losses and thefts will as well. After hearing one reader’s tale of woe after losing his Kindle, we discovered that there are not that many options for recovery, though there could be if Amazon really wanted to offer them.
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