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Graeme Wearden / CNET News.com:
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code — More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. — The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Details unfolding on Microsoft's 'Origami' — As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company's Origami Project is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway — The network neutrality war is just starting to heat up. A campaign to make new fees for existing Internet services palatable is underway. At stake is the ability of the Internet to scale from the edges or a surrender and return …
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Required reading: Kevin Marks' Internet regeneration. — Kevin and his sources — Douglas Adams, Susan Crawford, Suw Charman (from this audio) and Danah Boyd — come at the Net this time from a generational angle. — Read the whole thing, which concludes, … An additional note.
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo claims start-up stole trade secrets — Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma, charging the San Francisco-based company and a group of ex-Yahoo employees there with theft of trade secrets. — According to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cable VoIP, Hotter Than Ever — What a whopper of a year for cable telephony! — Cablevision, the last MSO to report its fourth quarter earnings added 130,000 new VoIP customers, up just 7,000 from the previous quarter. The company also added, 94,000 new broadband customers, up from 81,000 adds in the previous quarter.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
WWJD 3 - Results! — So, what would Steve Jobs do? We asked last week, and we took your answers in the form of over three hundred and fifty photoshopped mockups. We had acouple of Newtons, a ton of tablets, and a huge swarm of video iPods — and a ton of miscellaneous stuff that bothamused …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Feds: Google's privacy concerns unfounded — The U.S. Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search engine's users, as the company recently contended. — And by trying to block the government's efforts to review a week's worth of search terms …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
New York, New York! (Danny wants better RSS in his SPOT watch) — I'm writing to you from a bus heading toward Manhattan. I love my Verizon card. It's like having wifi EVERYWHERE! — Anyway, I'm up for a midnight snack tonight. Anyone game? Call my cell phone at 425-205-1921.
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
One percent for art: Napkin Math a.k.a. The Calculator in OneNote 2007 — I like to love the software I use. I gather many of you do too. In the process of designing a new release of OneNote its important to keep this in mind, since it is easy to make a product that meets a lot of business criteria but has no soul.
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Stephan Spencer / Stephan Spencer's Scatterings:
Blog SEO Tip #6: Make "sticky" posts — A "sticky" post is one that always appears at the top regardless of the date/time posted. The "sticky" feature is available in some blog systems by default (e.g. Blogger.com) and in others through the use of a plugin (e.g. the Adhesive plugin for WordPress).
Burt Helm / Business Week:
Click Fraud Gets Smarter — Internet ad-traffic scams could be ripping off as much as $1 billion annually. Are Web companies like Google doing enough to foil them? — Web consultant Greg Boser has an ingenious method for sending loads of traffic to clients' Internet sites.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Pick Up the Phone, Your Search Term Is Calling — GOOGLE is going 20th century. — The company, whose empire is based on its ability to connect people and businesses through computers, is now connecting them the old-fashioned way — over the phone. — Starting late last year …
David Downs / Wired News:
Dragnet, Reinvented … Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! I'm riding in the backseat of an LAPD cruiser, and it sounds like the inside of a giant slot machine. As officer Christine Labriola speeds down the side streets of LA's notorious Rampart district, a Dell laptop mounted on the Crown Victoria's dashboard chimes intermittently.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Is Mac OS as safe as ever? — Apple Computer fans have long loved to point out the safety of using Mac OS X, which has mostly been left alone by hackers. But the recent arrival of three threats has some asking: Is the software's charmed security life over?
Tim Doyle / Forbes:
No Go For TV-To-Go? — The creators of Slingbox, a nifty gadget that lets consumers watch their home TV on any computer screen with an Internet connection, have another clever idea: Let consumers watch their home TV on handheld devices. — One catch, though: In order for Sling Media's mobile service …
