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Google juggles China line-up; Lee leaving
The tenure of Kai-fu Lee as president of Google China is ending a lot more quietly than it began. You may remember how Lee’s move from Microsoft to Google back […]
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Follow-ups: Book deal, Word suit, e-voting
Catching up with some running stories: * As scheduled, supporters of the pending Google book scanning settlement unleashed a volley of return fire Thursday, a day after Amazon officially added […]
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“Now, Sergey argues that the correct thing to do is to just connect it straight to your brain. In other words, you know, wire it into your head. And so […]
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The hot ticket in Philadelphia this weekend is “The Gonzales Cantata,” a concert opera based on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Also, “In Praise […]
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How fun — we’ll all do the Monkey Boy dance, then head out back for the Vista bonfire
Some new tech products just naturally generate excitement among the masses. For others, the excitement needs to be manufactured. And right now, Microsoft is cranking up the fertilizer factory in […]
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Amazon minces no words cutting down Google book deal
Like access to affordable health care coverage, the idea of making millions of books available online to millions of people is one that most folks can get behind in a […]
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“There was no apparent reason, nothing that should have made it feel threatened. It was quiet, and then the quiet stopped.” — Valley billionaire Tom Siebel talks publicly for the […]
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Security video of a smash-and-grab crew hitting the Apple Store in Marlton, New Jersey, and making off with 23 Macbook Pros, 14 iPhones and nine iPod Touches in 31 seconds. […]
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And if you fall asleep wearing them, you get annotated dreams
Last week we were talking about augmented reality and how way down the road, we’ll have unobtrusive display technology allowing us to view data overlays related to whatever we’re looking […]
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Gmail degraded by upgrade
Tuesday night, in a blog post that was appropriately apologetic and admirably clear, Google explained what caused the nearly two-hour, widespread Gmail outage earlier in the day, and the problem […]
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