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Google Music, Apple wireless, Sony streaming

Everyone tech company wants a game-changing technology. Among the latest efforts coming to light: •Google is finally entering the online music market, but as Bloomberg News asks, are they too late to the game? Almost a decade Read More →

Quoted: Scoffing at Google’s Wi-Fi opt-out

"It has to be the most disingenuous opt-out functionality ever. Google might as well make people solve calculus problems to opt out." -- MG Siegler, a TechCrunch columnist and CrunchFund venture capitalist, writing on his ParisLemon blog criticizing Google's blog Read More →

Off topic: Album art, Rebecca Black, NASA’s hiring, and Bruce Wayne’s medical records

Artists reinterpret classic album covers (I love the Pixies and Sleigh Bells ones). Rebecca Black is back! (Sorry fans, this isn't the new theme song to the CBS show "Person of Interest.") Want to be an Read More →

Android surges to dominant mobile operating system

Android is taking the smartphone world by storm at the expense of other operating systems, according to a new report. A survey released today by tech research company Gartner found that Google's Android OS doubled its market Read More →

Terms-of-service prosecutions, Facebook porn, Apple vs. Samsung

Tech and the law -- there's a lot going on this morning: •Everyone knows online dating profiles often -- ahem -- "enhance" the truth: Age: 29. (still). Height: 6 feet (well, almost). Body: Athletic (um...). And if those little white lies Read More →

Quoted: Remembering entrepreneur Ilya Zhitomirskiy

"There's something deeper than making money off stuff. . . . Being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome." -- Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of the social networking site Diaspora, in a 2010 interview. Read More →

Off topic: Live-tweeting WWII, Gobi desert mystery, NBA lockout and TV nerdom

It's 60 years too late, but World War II is finally getting live-tweeted. Well, kinda. Check out some mysterious patterns in the Gobi Desert. An economist explains the NBA lockout. And for TV nerds, Read More →

iPhone, iPod Nano battery problems add to Apple’s woes

It was a rough weekend for Apple and its devices' batteries, as a software update to fix the battery drain that has plagued iOS 5-equipped iPhones didn't entirely work and a new problem emerged with overheating first-generation iPod Read More →

Reviews are in for Kindle Fire; Google’s music store; ideal jobs in Silicon Valley

A quick swing around the tech world this morning: •Amazon's new Kindle Fire starts shipping today, and the first reviews are rolling in. The consensus? It may not an iPad-killer, but it's off to a pretty good start. The Read More →

Quoted: Black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley

"Maybe venture capitalists have their model and we're not all the traditional model. . . . We're not all Stanford-educated and we're not all male and we don't all wear hoodies." -- Juanita Lott, a black woman who founded Read More →
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