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Geeks Gang up on on Twitter at SXSW Again, Dis Interviewer of Twitter CEO

Source: Michael Ricci
March 16, 2010

The South by Southwest crowd was the source of another public stoning on Monday when Harvard Business Review's Umair Haque, author of the The Awesomeness Manifesto," was anything but awesome.

Geeks attending the widely anticipated interview with Twitter CEO and founder Evan Williams protested with their feet and their tweets, departing en masse and digitally broadcasting their growing frustration to their followers on Twitter that Haque spent too much time speaking about himself and asking boring questions. “Kanye this keynote," ...

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Secret Document Calls Wikileaks Threat to U.S. Army

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2010

Wikileaks presents a threat to the U.S. Army and publishes potentially actionable information for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site. The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups? (.pdf) indicates the governments concern that current employees or moles within the Defense Department or the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks. To stop this, the 2008 report had suggested a ...

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Apple Details Super-Simple Ipad 3g Data Sign-Up

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2010

The trickle of new iPad information continues with these details of the contract-free 3G data plan. It looks about as painless as it could possibly be: you don't even have to deal with AT&T. Once you have your iPad with 3G, you can sign up from within the iPad settings: fill out your credit card details, pick your plan and you're off. If you choose the limited, 250GB-per-month plan, you'll get handy warnings as you approach your data cap: You'll ...

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FCC Chief's Broadband Goals in His Words

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2010

Since Julius Genachowski became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last year, his main priority has been overhauling the government's strategy for expanding high-speed Internet access. Genachowski, who has been an executive and investor in technology companies, argues that people who lack fast Internet connectivity have fewer economic opportunities. He also says the entire nation needs faster access in order to remain competitive with other countries for digital-age jobs and investment. As the FCC's broadband plan was being finished ...

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China Warns Google over Search Censorship

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2010

Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the worlds largest search engine, is now 99.9 percent certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. A Google spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the report to Wired.com, saying only, We cant confirm that story. Google also declined to elaborate on any aspect of the conflict or talks with the Chinese government. The Financial Times said in a report on its website ...

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Middle East: Iran and Arab Countries "Enemies of the Internet"

Source: Michael Ricci
March 16, 2010

As of last week, the advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders counted nearly 120 bloggers, journalists and others behind bars for their online activities more than any other time since the creation of the Internet. On Saturday, that number went up by 30 when Iranian authorities announced the arrest of an alleged U.S.-backed “cyber network." Members of the network were accused of bypassing government filters, waging “psychological warfare" against the Islamic Republic, fomenting unrest, and spying. Although China still holds the ...

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You're Leaving a Bacterial Fingureprint on Your Keyboard

Source: All About Jazz
March 16, 2010

The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch.

In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then compared the genomic variation between the communities to deduce whose hands had been touching what. The people were clearly identifiable from the bacterial communities they'd transferred to their computer input devices. “The ...

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SXSW: Twitter Ceo Launches @anywhere to Tepid Audience Reaction

Source: Michael Ricci
March 16, 2010

Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced a new app platform Monday that will integrate the service into the rest of the web. Dubbed @anywhere, the simple script empowers sites to link web content to Twitter accounts that users can follow without leaving the site. Williams told a massive crowd at South by Southwest that participating sites can now use a hover card a little window that pops up on third-party websites when they mouse over an authors byline, for instance not ...

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