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Daily Variety: We’re Putting In A Paywall So We Don’t Have To Write About Gossip

Andy Marx writes in to share a letter Daily Variety magazine sent to its subscribers, letting them know that it will soon be putting up a paywall, or as it …

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The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives

An anonymous reader writes “Over recent years Solid State Drives (SSDs) have moved from luxury to affordable additions to one’s PC, but mechanical hard drives are still king when it …

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Apple Finally Releases Core i5 and Core i7 MacBook Pros

Finally, finally. Apple finally released MacBook Pros with Intel’s latest chips while updating nearly everything else, too. The just announced MBPs forgo the Core 2 …

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Apple Store is Down

Once again, it’s a time of anticipation for Apple fans everywhere as …

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Realtime Media Sharing Service TweetPhoto Raises $2.6 Million Series A

Realtime media sharing platform TweetPhoto this morning announced that it has raised $2.6 million in a Series A financing led by …

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Infosys Seeks U.S. Patent On Offshoring U.S. Jobs

theodp writes “It’s interesting to see that famed offshoring firm Infosys is now seeking U.S. patent protection for its Framework for Supporting Transition of One or More Applications of

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Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec

Several reader noted Google’s reported intention to open source the VP8 codec it acquired with On2 last February — as the FSF had urged. “HTML5 has the potential to capture …

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Full Details On Twitter’s Long-Awaited Ad Platform: Promoted Tweets

Earlier this evening, we broke the news that Twitter was about to launch its new ad platform. The news has just been …

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Latest Flip Camcorder Unveiled: Touchscreen and Slide-Up Design

Tonight, Cisco-owned Flip has …

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Publisher Warns Fans That Liking A Book Too Much May Be Illegal

When will they learn? Apparently, one of the hot book series out there is the “Millennium Trilogy” by author Stieg Larsson. Apparently, the first couple of books have …

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Companies Skeptical of Commercial Space Market

Hugh Pickens writes “The NY Times reports that Boeing and Lockheed Martin will happily sell rockets to carry astronauts into space, but are leery about taking a leading role in …

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5 Tips for Creating the Perfect Profile Pic

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Google Plans To Expand Cloud Computing Services: Think AWS On Steroids

When you think of developer-focused web computing services, the first thing that probably comes to mind is Amazon’s hugely popular AWS, which includes …

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Bloomberg Reports That Palm Is Up For Sale

leetrout writes with this excerpt from a story at Bloomberg News “Palm Inc., creator of the Pre smartphone, put itself up for sale and is seeking bids for the company …

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Overture Founder Launches Tweetup, “Adsense For Twitter”

idealab, the incubator behind the company that invented search engine marketing as we know it today, is launching a new startup that …

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Streamy Awards 2010: Here Are the Winners

The winners of the …

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Google Incorporates Site Speed Into PageRank Calculation

lee1 writes “Google is now taking into account how fast a page loads in calculating its PageRank. In their own words: ‘[W]e’re including a new signal in our search ranking …

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Just Because I Loved My Etch-A-Sketch Doesn’t Mean The iPad Will Save Newspapers

Thirty five years ago, give or take, I was presented with my first etch-a-sketch. And it looked a little bit like the …

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10 Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube

YouTube Photoshop TutorialPhotoshop has been a mainstay of the design software pantheon …

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