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09 Feb 2010 10:23

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Tech: Google sorta understands the need for Nexus One phone support

  • ter­ri­ble When Google launched its Nexus One, it for­got to offer some­thing obvi­ous it usu­ally doesn’t offer for its prod­ucts – live phone sup­port. Users loudly complained.
  • bet­ter Google just started offer­ing it, over a month after they launched the freak­ing phone. About time. It only cov­ers sta­tus and ship­ping issues, though. WTF, guys? source
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09 Feb 2010 09:55

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Tech: Apple releases Aperture 3, photographers collectively freak out

  • Sure, it’s a prod­uct Steve Jobs doesn’t show off, but it doesn’t mean peo­ple still aren’t excited. The photo-editing tool, which is avail­able as a free trial, report­edly has 200 enhance­ments big and small. It also hasn’t been updated in a cou­ple of years. So it’s due. source
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08 Feb 2010 10:35

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Tech: Don’t think you’re shoving your iPhone’s SIM in your iPad

  • great The iPad’s 3G mod­els will be sold report­edly unlocked, which means you should be able to use some­one other than AT&T if you want.
  • ter­ri­ble How­ever, the iPad uses a new micro SIM for­mat, which is incom­pat­i­ble with the iPhone. Well, that’s just frig­gin’ lame. Bad Apple! source
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08 Feb 2010 09:38

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Tech: 4chan blocked by Verizon Wireless. Will they ever learn?

  • You just don’t block 4chan. You just don’t. Back in July, the site – which rev­els in offen­sive­ness and the more con­tro­ver­sial end of free speech – was blocked by AT&T over reports of a denial of ser­vice attack, later found to be caused by a “net­work error.” The case with Ver­i­zon Wire­less, how­ever (which doesn’t affect land­line DSL con­nec­tions, by the way), was based on con­tent. Site owner moot was told the site was “explic­itly blocked” by the com­pany. Net neu­tral­ity was cre­ated for this rea­son, guys. source
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06 Feb 2010 22:56

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Tech: Facebook as news source: The danger of getting news from friends

  • Face­book is a unique and won­der­ful artery to our friends’ lives and inter­ests. But if we define our read­ing by our friends’ libraries, we will all find what we already expected rather than what we need to know.
  • Atlantic writer Derek Thomp­son • Regard­ing recent reports that Face­book has become a pri­mary source of find­ing news for many peo­ple. He brings up a good point, one that news like this only empha­sizes: With the change in jour­nal­ism to some­thing sug­gested to us by friends, all cook­ies instead of a well-balanced meal, we end up lim­it­ing our infor­ma­tion to what we want to know rather than what we need to know. And, con­sid­er­ing how often it shows up in pol­i­tics already, that’s pretty dan­ger­ous. source
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06 Feb 2010 10:36

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Tech: Google underestimates the uses of Chrome’s “Incognito Mode”

  • For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for exam­ple, to plan sur­prises like gifts or birth­days, Google Chrome offers the incog­nito brows­ing mode.
  • A note on the Google Chrome help page • Regard­ing the site’s incog­nito mode, which allows one to hide their brows­ing habits from their cache. This is hilar­i­ous, because every­one knows the feature’s in there to hide people’s porn brows­ing habits. It’s pos­si­ble, though, that the sur­prise gift might be porn. source
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05 Feb 2010 16:19

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Tech: TechCrunch proves that tech gossip blogs have ethics, too

  • In some way or another, a line was crossed that should have never been. At this time, I do not want to go into details, but I will pub­licly say that I am truly sorry to my fam­ily, friends, TechCrunch, and espe­cially the tech community.
  • For­mer TechCrunch writer Daniel Brusilovsky • Regard­ing an eth­i­cal error he made as an intern for the site. TechCrunch reports (in an apol­ogy) that Brusilovsky report­edly tried to barter cov­er­age on TechCrunch on mul­ti­ple occa­sions, which is a def­i­nite no-no when it comes to jour­nal­is­tic behav­ior. TechCrunch chose not to reveal his name at first due to his age, but Brusilovsky apol­o­gized for the mat­ter him­self. Good idea. source
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05 Feb 2010 10:57

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Tech: Amazon’s got a full-on Kindle publisher revolt on its hands

  • 3 major publishers are opting out of Kindle's $9.99 pricing scheme source
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04 Feb 2010 23:34

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Tech: Jesus hell, Facebook, another goddamn redesign? Aargh.

  • Happy sixth birth­day dudes, but for the love of God, stop it. In the past, we’ve been for Facebook’s con­stant push to inno­vate, but it seems like they’re redesign­ing again just because. We’re sure it’s pow­er­ful and does a lot of cool stuff, but your last redesign was plenty use­ful. There seems to be no rea­son to screw with it again so soon. This hits 80 mil­lion users tonight, by the way. source
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04 Feb 2010 21:10

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Tech: Former VP: Microsoft’s shooting itself in the foot, big time

  • What hap­pened? Unlike other com­pa­nies, Microsoft never devel­oped a true sys­tem for inno­va­tion. Some of my for­mer col­leagues argue that it actu­ally devel­oped a sys­tem to thwart innovation.
  • For­mer Microsoft Vice Pres­i­dent Dick Brass • On why Microsoft’s inter­nal struc­ture is hurt­ing its abil­i­ties to cre­ate future inno­va­tions, forc­ing them to coast on prior vic­to­ries such as Win­dows and Office. Basi­cally, he claims that there is a strong sys­tem of cor­po­rate com­pe­ti­tion in the cul­ture, one that has the effect of sti­fling inno­v­a­tive ideas. Their suc­cesses led to them lim­it­ing risk. He knows, because he was push­ing e-Books and tablet PCs years ago, long before Apple made a big deal about it. One of his team’s most inno­v­a­tive ideas, ClearType, was pre­vented from being fully imple­mented in Win­dows for years because other teams held it back. These sorts of image issues don’t help Microsoft’s long-term cause. source
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