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Quoted: on cloaking advance
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500 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Quoted: on cloaking advance

"The cartoon version is a robber coming in, opening a safe, stealing and running out, while a closed-circuit television just sees the safe as closed." — Martin McCall, a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, on how researchers at Read More →
Off topic: Great Depression slang, Angus beef chart, Southern food and quizzes: ’90s films and Legos
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500 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Off topic: Great Depression slang, Angus beef chart, Southern food and quizzes: ’90s films and Legos

From "boogie-woogie" to "zap," slang from the Great Depression. The 1990s film alphabet, a follow-up to the '80s one we linked to recently. Where's the beef come from, charted. Speaking of food, serving up Read More →
Screen/stock watch: TiVo, Netflix rising
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501 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Screen/stock watch: TiVo, Netflix rising

• TiVo shares are surging today, up more than 9.5 percent to about $9.75 after news that it won a patent claim against AT&T — and amid optimism in the broader stock markets. AT&T reportedly will pay the Read More →
Content matters: Google paid link, Twitter’s verified goof
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501 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Content matters: Google paid link, Twitter’s verified goof

• Google is punishing itself. It has demoted search results for its Chrome Web browser for at least 60 days in response to news that one of its ad campaigns violated its own policies on paid links. After Read More →
Quoted: on PayPal’s future
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501 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Quoted: on PayPal’s future

"While I’m sure Scott’s decision is a shock to many of you, as it was to me, there is one thing I am certain of: PayPal has an enormous opportunity in front of it and we will not slow down. Read More →
Can Yahoo’s new CEO bring its mojo back?
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501 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Can Yahoo’s new CEO bring its mojo back?

About three months after firing CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo is turning to a Silicon Valley executive to fix what ails it. Can Scott Thompson deliver? As president of PayPal, a division of eBay, Thompson didn't have to answer Read More →
Off topic: eye watching, the ‘right’ side of driving, Minnesota lake logos, pantsless on the subway, apocalypse myths
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501 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Off topic: eye watching, the ‘right’ side of driving, Minnesota lake logos, pantsless on the subway, apocalypse myths

Paying attention to pupils, or what your eyes say about you. (via @GuyKawasaki) Who drives on what side of the road, mapped. A designer is creating a logo a day for Minnesota's 10,000 lakes. Read More →
Google search for publicity yields the bad kind
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502 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Google search for publicity yields the bad kind

In ramping up its ads and marketing amid growing competition, scrutiny and controversy, as the Mercury News' Mike Swift reported last month (and as the New York Times wrote about over the weekend), at least one effort by Read More →
Tablet talk: RIM Playbook and Sony discounts, plus HP’s webOS
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502 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Tablet talk: RIM Playbook and Sony discounts, plus HP’s webOS

It's a new year, time to take your tablets news: • RIM has lowered the price of all BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to $299. The promotion, which lasts till Feb. 4, is available on the company's website. The regular price for the Read More →
Quoted: Belarus foreign-website ban
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502 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Quoted: Belarus foreign-website ban

"An authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives." — Alexander Lukashenko, president of Belarus, in 2003, Read More →

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