Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:Martin drops porn filtering from FCC free wireless broadband plan — Kevin Martin, the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission, called Ars Technica today to let us know that he has revised his proposal to roll out a free (and smut-free) wireless broadband service.
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:What does the “netbook” craze tell us about the future of laptops. — There isn’t much mystery to why a little-marketed computer known as the Eee PC has lately seized the top spot on Amazon’s laptop best-seller list. The machine, a three-pound ugly duckling made by the Taiwanese company Asus … [...]
President-elect Barack Obama’s top asset in pushing his agenda will not be his Cabinet secretaries or aides, but rather his online network.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:Brightkite Integrates with Facebook — Do you want your Facebook friends to know where you are and what you’re doing at all times? That’s now possible thanks to mobile social network Brightkite and its recent integration with Facebook. Through the addition of Facebook Connect …
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Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent?The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate — and protests — and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother’s breast.
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Who needs an e-book reader from Amazon or Sony when you can download tomes to a smartphone, often at a fraction of the cost. Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books.
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win.tue.nl:MD5 considered harmful today — Creating a rogue CA certificate — Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger — We have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Content Sites Bracing For 50% Revenue Slowdown — The U.S. economy has likely been in recession for a year, and tech companies have been bracing for a big slowdown in growth. But the fact is that revenues for most Internet-based companies haven’t dropped yet.
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:Researchers Show How to Forge Site Certificates — Today at the Chaos Computing Congress, a group of researchers (Alex Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jake Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, Benne de Weger, and David Molnar) announced that they have found a way to forge website certificates that will be accepted as valid [...]
There isn’t much mystery to why a little-marketed computer known as the Eee PC has lately seized the top spot on Amazon’s laptop best-seller list.
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International Team Discovers Way to Mimic Digital Identity.
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Arn / MacRumors:Vaja Also Hints at iPhone Nano? — Relatively well-known iPhone case manufacturer Vaja has curiously added an “iPhone Nano” listing to their website. The link simply directs you to a form asking you to sign up for information about “the upcoming release of our iPhone nano cases.”
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:It’s Not How Many Followers You Have That Counts, It’s How Many Times You Get Retweeted — Over the weekend a lot of tech bloggers got into a tizzy over a suggestion that Twitter search should rank Tweets by authority, with Tweets from people who have the most followers coming up [...]
TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
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If you’ve been having trouble accessing some of the web’s most popular sites this morning, you aren’t alone - reports have been pouring in that major sites like Amazon, CNN, and ESPN have been having sporadic outages in some areas across the United States.
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