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Surprising: Charlie Angus Proposing iPod ‘You Must Be A Criminal’ Tax In Canada

Every few months or so we hear about proposals in Canada to extend Canada’s blank media tax (they prefer “levy”) to MP3 players, such as iPods. The Canadian …

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The Coming Botnet Stock Exchange

Trailrunner7 writes “Robert Hansen, a security researcher and CEO of SecTheory, has been gleaning intelligence from professional attackers in recent months, having a series of off-the-record conversations with spammers and …

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Hitwise says Facebook Most Popular U.S. Site


New data released from analytics service Hitwise today names Facebook the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google …

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Windows Phone 7: New Details and App Partners Revealed

Microsoft has just announced an avalanche of new details surrounding …

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Venezuela Next Up To Try To Censor The Internet

Having just criminalized video games the government doesn’t like, it looks like Hugo Chavez is looking to have Venezuela be the next country to massively censor the

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Scientology Tries To Block German Documentary

eldavojohn writes “The Guardian is reporting on the strained relationship that Scientology is having with the German government and the airing of a pesky documentary on Southwest Broadcasting. Until Nothing …

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Brightcove To Power Online Video Platform For EMI Music In North America

The war between the enterprise-grade online video platform providers rages on, and Brightcove will announce later today at the SXSW conference that it …

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Song Downloads Coming to Next Version of Rhapsody

rhapsodyReal Networks’ Rhapsody To Go subscription includes a …

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In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue

laron writes “In Israel, a new law is in the making: Holders of donor cards and their families would get preference if they should need an organ for themselves. Apparently …

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Hunch Takes $12 Million From Khosla Ventures, Adds Former Facebook CFO To Board Of Directors

Recommendation engine Hunch confirms that they’ve raised a new round of financing – $12 million – led by Khosla Ventures. …

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How To Make Your Own iPhone RFID Reader

andylim writes “It’s been rumoured for some time now that Apple will include RFID technology in a future iPhone. An RFID-packing iPhone could interact with various objects including opening doors …

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Eko: Mobile Banking for India’s “Dial-Up” Internet

I mentioned in my last post that mobile is bridging the digital—not to mention analog— divide in …

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Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends

Hugh Pickens writes “Techflash reports that Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending deceptive …

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Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson

At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, …

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How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the …

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Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove


Editor’s note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability …

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Why User Competency Matters in Social Design

friendwheelAdrian Chan is a Sr …

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Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea

this_boat_is_real writes “Somewhere off the coast of Chile a pioneering underwater robot named Abe lies in a watery grave today. The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was one of the first truly …

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