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Bitcasa moves your hard drive to the cloud | Rafe's Radar - CNET News | |

Google's post-JavaScript Web plan raises hackles | Deep Tech - CNET News | |

Google Docs Continues Kicking the Butts of Paid Apps Everywhere | | ?

Amazon to Publishers: Don't Worry, the Kindle Isn't That Popular Anyway | | ?

Posterous Reborn: Spaces Challenge Google Plus and Facebook | | ?

Another nail in the coffin of Google’s global library — Tech News and Analysis | | ?

Report on tablet growth shows market is ripe for iPad competitor | | ?

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The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits and costs of analyzing information from Twitter, Google, Verizon, 23andMe, Facebook, Wikipedia, and every space where large groups of people leave digital traces and deposit data. Significant questions emerge. Will large-scale analysis of DNA help cure diseases? Or will it usher in a new wave of medical inequality? Will data analytics help make people’s access to information more efficient and effective? Or will it be used to track protesters in the streets of major cities? Will it transform how we study human communication and culture, or narrow the palette of research options and alter what ‘research’ means? Some or all of the above?

Rdio Offers Free Music, Joins MOG, Spotify - Peter Kafka - Media - AllThingsD | |

you buy it because it is absolutely the voice of a single person primarily, with some other people working for him — but it’s Michael Arrington’s voice, and you know when you buy it, that that voice is biased and mean and capable of saying anything, and is playing a hundred different games. And you know that. And that’s why you buy it — because it’s a good voice, and you like it. This is, to me, the definition of that rocket going up and then getting underneath… And then somebody calls you up and says, “I’m the Editor in Chief, and you can’t let him do that, because he’s now in a conflict of interest.” Instead of saying, “Shut up and go back to your room”… and it’s not because you don’t respect journalism, it’s because this has nothing to do with that. To apply that standard to something where the guy says, “I’m filled with conflicts. You don’t have to listen, you don’t have to read me. Take the stuff for whatever it’s worth.” It’s not a journalistic enterprise, TechCrunch. And so to have treated it as such is to destroy it. So now, he’s gone, and now they own this thing, which has no voice. Congratulations. What a good piece of business. “

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Also new to the S100 is its built-in GPS unit, similar to that used in the Powershot SX230 HS 'travel zoom'. This not only allows you to tag images with the location at which they were taken, but also includes a logger function that can keep track of your movements (regardless of whether or not you're taking pictures) and plot the result on Google Maps.

It took less than seven weeks, but it became more expensive quickly. From the first discussions in early July to a formal announcement on Aug. 15, Google moved swiftly this summer to secure a $12.5 billion takeover of Motorola Mobility, according to a filing submitted on Tuesday. The search giant, which was eager to own Motorola’s extensive patent portfolio, was also willing to pay up.

AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch its first five LTE markets this Sunday Sept. 18, AT&T CFO John Stephens said during an appearance at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Entertainment & Communications conference. AT&T said in May that it will launch LTE service in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The company expects to deploy LTE across 70 million POPs in 15 markets by year-end.

FTC proposes stricter online privacy rules for children | |

MOG makes move to freemium | |

Report: Foxconn's Brazil factory ready for business, will begin shipping iPads in December -- Engadget | |

Apple to let multiple Apple IDs merge, report says | The Digital Home - CNET News | |

States join feds in opposing AT&T's T-Mobile buy | Wireless - CNET News | |

A "Late 2011 iMac" update may be imminent | | ?

Apple scrambling to merge Apple IDs to stave off iCloud sync mess | | ?

Apple's Steve Jobs gets shout-out from Stevie Wonder - latimes.com | | ?

Google+ welcomes sign language users to Hangouts - latimes.com | | ?

"Once all this stuff can be recorded, there's going to be a lot more of this snooping around by reporters and bloggers," he said. He was particularly worried that allowing recording would impact police work. "I'm always suspicious when the civil liberties people start telling the police how to do their business," he said. He speculated that gangs would love the ACLU's argument because recordings would make it easier to discover and retaliate against informants.

This week, according to numerous media and technology executives, Facebook will unveil a media platform that will allow people to easily share their favorite music, television shows and movies, effectively making the basic profile page a primary entertainment hub. Facebook, which has more than 750 million users, has not revealed its plans, but the company is widely expected to announce the service at its F8 developers’ conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

No iPad 3 Until 2012 - John Paczkowski - News - AllThingsD | |