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Quoted: Garlinghouse quits AOL

"Hard decision as I'm leaving a bunch of awesome people -- working on some very good stuff -- but decided it was time." -- Brad Garlinghouse, who the Los Angeles Times reports has resigned from AOL. Garlinghouse was hired Read More →

Off topic: Ugliness in Miami, pizza=veggie, slap-happy teddy bear and unfriend your friends

Somehow the Miami Marlins found something stupider than Rusty, the Giants' short-lived home-run-celebrating robot. To the delight of 9-year-olds and college students, pizza is now officially a vegetable. Tired of snoring? This Read More →

Silicon Valley tech giants unite against piracy bill

Google and some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies are leading the charge against the Stop Online Piracy Act currently making its way through Congress. The bill, which counts the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Industry of Read More →

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 →
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