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Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside
Shortly before Steve Jobs died in October, he received a letter from longtime business adversary Bill Gates that moved him so much that he kept it by his bedside, according to the Apple founder's widow, as relayed by Gates to a British interviewer. Read More


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2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
A look back at the most memorable events and products from 1987 Read More

Just one more: 'S**t programmers say'
Yes, this "S**t (fill in the blank) say" meme is getting tiresome, but I actually laughed at the end of this video, so I can't resist sharing. (Warning: NSFW language.) My apologies if you didn't find it funny. Read More

Tracking-notification bill unlikely to gain traction
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts yesterday announced a bill to require that consumers be told when their phones carry tracking software, an idea that would appear so commonsensical and presumably non-controversial that it would sail through Congress like a resolution proclaiming this Super Bowl Appreciation Week. Read More


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Court affirms felony conviction of Palin e-mail snoop
A federal court has rejected the appeal of a felony conviction filed by a Tennessee man who in 2008 guessed his way into a Yahoo email account owned by Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who was then running for vice president. Read More

DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers
There's essentially nothing but goodness in this latest anti-phishing effort -- called DMARC -- by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Paypal and Bank of America. The idea is to increase public confidence in email received from household-name domains and others by preventing spoofed email from reaching customers at all. Read More

Facebook IPO filing seen coming as early as next week
News reports are reverberating around the Internet at the moment indicating that Facebook's filing for a long-anticipated initial public stock offering could come as early as next week. The Wall Street Journal says: Read More


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Techmeme demonstrates proper use of the word 'indisputably'
The popular technology news aggregation site Techmeme has a new look today, and while it is a marked improvement, I probably wouldn't bother calling attention to it if not for the headline on the blog post announcing the change. Take a look: Now "indisputably" is a word that I would use only with great caution, if at all, because we live in a time where someone will inevitably dispute that today is... Read More

Diving deeper into that 9-0 Supreme Court vote on GPS
Longtime Buzzblog reader George Grenley writes to call our attention to a pair of posts on the SCOTUSblog (Supreme Court of the United States Blog) that analyze this week's unanimous GPS-related ruling and find a lot less agreement - as well as more concern for the future of privacy rights - than the 9-0 vote would indicate. Read More

Website fixes 'missed connections,' engenders envy
How many times have you been seated in an airplane next to an attractive member of the opposite sex - or same, if you're so inclined -- and the two of you trip the flight fantastic to such an extent that romance seems inevitable ... if only before departing the arrival gate you had remembered to exchange contact information? Dreams don't count. Read More

FBI seeking help to monitor social media
So the FBI is in the market for a technology partner that will allow it to monitor social networks? You mean they're not doing this already? From a report on New Scientist: Read More

Prying government eyes hurting U.S. cloud services: EFF
A blog post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation makes the case that the United States is jeopardizing its position in the worldwide cloud-computing market by failing to provide the kinds of privacy assurances demanded by international laws. Moreover, the authors contend that U.S. officials are speaking out of both sides of their mouths on the issue. From the post: Read More

 
 
 

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