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Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual'
news.cnet.com — CNN anchor Rick Sanchez wasn't really high on crack this morning, and the reason his Twitter feed said so wasn't the phishing scam that's been going around--it was a lone hacker, the microblogging service said later on Monday.More… (Tech Industry News)
China Launches Crackdown on Internet Pornography
nytimes.com — China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google.More… (Tech Industry News)
Campaign to Stop File-Sharers Being “Guilty Upon Accusation”
torrentfreak.com — Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately guilty. The punishment - summary Internet disconnection.More… (Tech Industry News)
Google to Release Picasa Beta for Mac
news.cnet.com — Google plans to release on Monday a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloging, and uploading photos.More… (Apple)
Comcast Able To Slow Bandwidth Hogs Across Its Network Again
gigaom.com — Comcast, which got in trouble with the FCC for its P2P-throttling approach to network management has now completed its plan that deals with bandwidth hogs by slowing all broadband traffic for heavy Internet users during times of congestion. The new system is Protocol-Agnostic which means it isn't targeting P2P protocols only, therefor ok by the FCCMore… (Tech Industry News)
Cheap Thrills: Gadget Makers Bet on Budget Gear in 2009
blog.wired.com — Get ready for an onslaught of the cheap. With the economy more unstable than Plaxico Burress' mental state, electronics manufacturers are putting the e-brakes on their budgets,More… (Gadgets)
Security and your mother's Linux box
techradar.com — As the professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, Ross Anderson is one of the founders of security economics as an academic discipline. Perhaps more impressively, though, he wants your ISP to send you cash every time you get spam.More… (Linux/Unix)
In Depth: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 - the story so far
techradar.com — As Macworld Expo gears up, we preview Apple's next OS. With OS X 10.5 so well received, how can you go one better with 10.6? The solution is as simple as it is surprising. You don't try…More… (Apple)
World's top gadget show plugging into the Internet
physorg.com — Smart gadgets, lifelike video, and pocket versions of laptop computers are expected to be Consumer Electronics Show (CES) stars as the annual extravaganza follows its gizmos onto the Web.More… (Tech Industry News)
MacRumors' Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup
macrumors.com — With Macworld San Francisco 2009 (MWSF) beginning next week, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the event. While this rumor season started off slowly, the past few weeks have raised some interesting possibilities. More… (Apple)
13 Predictions of 2009
battellemedia.com — Like every year, John Battelle makes 13 Solid Prediction of 2009 surrounding Technology, Social Media & the World Economy. More… (Tech Industry News)
Steve Jobs says a hormone imbalance to blame for weight loss
engadget.com — A mere day before the big shindig at the Moscone, Steve Jobs has come clean about his much-discussed weight loss in a open letter to the Apple community, saying that a hormone imbalance is to blame.More… (Apple)
CES: Samsung To Unveil 7mm-thick TV
macworld.com — Samsung Electronics plans to unveil a flat-panel TV that’s as thin as just 6.5-millimeters at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it said Sunday. The TV set, few details of which were immediately available, is between 6.5mm and 7mm across its width and has an LED (light emitting diode) backlight.More… (Gadgets)
Steamiest iPhone Apps: iFog vs iSteam
mashable.com — We could have never predicted that our coverage of the iSteam iPhone app would result in a battle between apps that let you blow air on the mic to add steam, or fog-like effects to photos and backgrounds. More… (Apple)
Netflix Streaming To Be Built Into TVs
alleyinsider.com — More options on the way for watching Netflix (NFLX) streaming movies in your living room: Beginning this spring, Korean electronics giant LG will build Netflix streaming directly into some of its plasma and LCD HDTVs, the companies will announce today.More… (Tech Industry News)
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