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Greg Yardley / Greg Yardley's Internet Blog:
Mechanical Turk = Genius — Amazon is attempting to disintermediate the whole 'let's farm out our manual, monotonous tasks to the third world via some exploitative local company with ties to the home country' industry with their Amazon Mechanical Turk - an example of 'artificial Artificial Intelligence …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wide-Flying Moguls: Google Duo's New Jet Is a Boeing 767-200 — Included Are Two Staterooms, — A Shower, Seats for 50; — It's 'Good for the World' — On the road, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have owned environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius.
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Motley Fool:
Google's Next Buy — By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick) — Don't tell me that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) printed out 14 million new shares back in mid-September without a game plan. Don't tell me that Google fattened up its balance sheet to $7.6 billion just because legal tender …
Microsoft Team RSS Blog:
Feeds and well-formed XML — Here in Windows, we're working hard on Windows Vista Beta 2, and we've recently been doing some work on how we parse feeds. — Our years of experience in with HTML in Internet Explorer have taught us the long-term pain that results from being too liberal with what you accept from others.
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Seb Janacek / silicon.com:
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones? — A wise move, or just an old one? … In the months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac was making the seismic shift from PowerPC to Intel processors, the murmurs about the possible resurrection of the clones programme have been getting louder …
Jenstar / JenSense:
New AdSense referral feature launched — If you have wanted to make money by referring publishers to AdSense, yet haven't been accepted into the AdSense & AdWords referral program, you are in luck! You can now earn $100 per new publisher, when they sign up for AdSense and earn $100 in revenue.
Peter Judge / Techworld.com:
xMax sparks low power wireless revolution — A little-known start-up has demonstrated wireless broadband 1000 times more efficient than WiMax - and claims the technique could also make wireless LANs that will run for years on watch batteries. — xG Technology, based in Sarasota, Florida …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Xbox 360 and iPod interoperability? Sort of — If you play "Project Gotham Racing 3" on an Xbox 360 after the console hits stores later this month, Microsoft invites you to use tunes straight off your iPod as an alternative to the game's sound track. — Officially, the company …
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Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
CBS Crosses Online 'Threshold,' Distributes It Via CBS.com — CBS IS CROSSING ANOTHER DIGITAL threshold - literally. The broadcast network, Wednesday unveiled plans to distribute three episodes of prime-time sci-fi series "Threshold" online via CBS.com. The move represents yet another …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:CBS considering offering shows for download via iTunes
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Kevin Mitnick on hacking's evolution — To many, the name Kevin Mitnick is synonymous with "notorious hacker." He was caught by the FBI in 1995 after a well-publicized pursuit. Mitnick pled guilty to charges of wire and computer fraud and served five years behind bars.
Guy J Kewney / newswireless.net:
WiFi Internet cafes "must have firewall" - Westchester County — Just outside New York City, Westchester County has become the scene of the latest WiFi scare, with County Executive Andy Spano [left] announcing legislation to prevent insecure WiFi hotspot operation.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Zvents to announce they are going with Yahoo — Very strange. I went to the Zvents blog a few minutes ago and they had a whole post here about how they are announcing that they are adding a "powered by Yahoo's Web services" logo to their site and their geocoding API calls will be driving the percentage of …
Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Microsoft's "Live" strategy is a good and smart move — I was at the launch event for Windows Live and Office Live on Tuesday morning and have been running ever since, so apologies for not posting this sooner. I wrote a Forrester piece on this (subscription required). Here's the executive summary:
Ethan Zuckerman / WorldChanging:
One Laptop Per Child - a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop — I took a day off from this year's Pop! Tech conference to hang out with some friends in Portland. But before driving from Camden to Portland, I dropped into the Opera House to check email and bumped into Nicholas Negroponte …
Business Week:
Invasion of the Stock Hackers — An alarmed SEC says that teams of thieves are lifting passwords from home PCs — and emptying online brokerage accounts — Arriving home from a five-week trip to Belgium and India on Aug. 14, a jet-lagged Korukonda L. Murty picked up his mail — and got the shock of his life.
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