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@Veronica on stage at LeWeb 2010 interviewing @playfish co-founder Sebastien de Ha @ Le WEB 10 Conference - Paris

I just unlocked the "LeWeb 2010" badge on @foursquare!

Backstage camera play at #leweb @ Le WEB 10 Conference - Paris

I'm at Mon Vieil Ami

I'm at Mon Vieil Ami

Shoot the Picasso Museum is closed through 2012! Consoling myself with a chocolat and crepe — at Madame De Sevigné

I'm at Eiffel Tower in Paris

I'm at Eiffel Tower in Paris

Champs de Phallus @ Tour Eiffel - Eiffel Tower

I'm at Admirals Club at CDG

Anonymous leaders began distributing software tools to allow anyone with a computer to join Payback. So far more than 9,000 users in the US have downloaded the software; in second place is the UK with 3,000. Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Spain, Poland, Russia and Australia follow with more than 1,000. The 11th country embroiled in the attacks is Sweden, where WikiLeaks's massive underground servers are housed, with 75 downloads.

the iPad could have a deleterious effect on print newspapers, with many iPad users being likely to axe their print subscriptions in favor of consuming news on their tablets.

According to Google's Chrome App guidelines, the limit for "packaged" apps is 10 Mbytes. The company does have a way to get around this limit, however, via hosted apps that require a persistent wired or wireless connection.

In an effort to prevent the kind of intelligence leaks that are making headlines lately, the U.S. military is banning the use of removable disks among its personnel. The servicemen and women in the Air Force and other military branches have recently been ordered to “immediately cease use of removable media on all systems, servers, and stand-alone machines” on Department of Defense classified networks, according to documents obtained by Wired.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is postponing the decision to adopt the much-discussed ".xxx" domain until February 2011 at the earliest. The organization—commonly referred to as ICANN—announced that it's looking to adopt the domain, currently held by ICM Registry, and raise it to the same status as typical .com, .mil, and .edu top-level domains. However, disagreements between ICANN and its Governmental Advisory Committee, whose members represent governments worldwide, have again postponed the move.

Two of the companies said they were making new parts for the next round of iPad production. The main upgrades? Front and rear-facing cameras and an overall improved device: slimmer, lighter and with better resolution.

For the first time this will be a Brightkite app without check-in, posting or stream viewing functionality. Starting from 17th December, you can expect to see the check-in/posting and streams functions start to disappear from our apps and sites. These features were the defining element to our company 2 and 3 years ago, but we no longer believe they are sufficiently unique or defining to be our focus, so we are dropping them.

The partially redacted documents, which surfaced on Radar Online on Tuesday, are dated August 10 and come in the form of a brief filed by Facebook's legal team in response to the ConnectU claims. The twin Harvard graduates, who have for years alleged that Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook after they had hired him to code a social-networking site called Harvard Connection (later ConnectU) for them in late 2003, now allege security fraud against Zuckerberg and Facebook. They claim that Facebook was not open about its actual valuation at the time of the original ConnectU versus Facebook lawsuit's settlement in 2008, and that as a result the ConnectU plaintiffs say they're actually entitled to more than the $65 million in cash and Facebook stock that they were awarded.

Verizon Wireless said on Friday that laptop users with USB modems on its new high-speed LTE (Long Term Evolution) network may experience up to a two minute delay when switching over from a 3G coverage zone. "Hand-offs can take up to a couple minutes, but that was expected and a fix is in the works," Verizon spokesman Jeffrey Nelson told Computerworld by e-mail.

With single-month sales of 8.4 million units across five platforms in the U.S. only, the title not only had the best opening month of any game in American video game sales history, but also leapt to 7th on the all-time best-selling software list.

Top 10 paid apps (iPad) 1. Pages 2. GoodReader for iPad 3. Numbers 4. Angry Birds HD 5. Keynote 6. Glee Karaoke 7. WolframAlpha 8. Pinball HD 9. Friendly for Facebook 10. Star Walk for iPad Top 10 free apps (iPad) 1. iBooks 2. Pandora Radio 3. Netflix 4. Google Mobile App 5. Solitaire 6. Movies by Flixster 7. IMDb Movies & TV 8. Kindle 9. Google Earth 10. Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD

With a focus on improving discoverability and merchandising, we’ve introduced a new carousel on the home and category screens. Users can quickly flip through the carousel to view promoted applications and immediately go to the download page for the application they want. Developers have been very active in creating great Widgets and Live Wallpapers. To make it easier for users to find their favorites, we’re introducing two new categories for Widgets and Live Wallpapers. Applications that include Widgets and Wallpapers will be automatically added to those new categories. We’ll also be adding more categories for popular applications and games in the weeks ahead. In addition, the app details page now includes Related content, which makes it easier for users to quickly find apps of similar interest.