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Submission + - How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus (silicon-news.com)

Submitted by Anthony_Cargile
Anthony_Cargile writes: Everyone thinks of Google Plus as a social networking website competing with Facebook, but that is no longer the case — even Google recognizes its failure in that regard. But in a meeting with Sergey Brin and Larry Page shortly before his death, Steve Jobs gave key advice as to what direction to take their company with regards to Google Plus, as is evidenced by their controversial new "umbrella" privacy policy that went in effect this year. Privacy advocates beware, as the problem is almost certainly worse than ever anticipated.

Feed Wired: Rejected By Apple, iPhone Developers Go Underground (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
The act of jailbreaking (i.e., hacking) your iPhone to run unauthorized apps may be more appealing thanks to recent restrictions imposed by Apple, such as the rejection of Google Voice. In fact, some developers are actually making good money selling forbidden wares through Cydia, the underground app store that Apple can't seem to shut down.



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Submission + - The World's (very) First Netbook (thecoffeedesk.com) 5

Submitted by Not-A-Microsoft-Fan
Not-A-Microsoft-Fan writes: Netbooks are making huge waves within the hardware and software industries today, but not many would believe that the whole Netbook craze actually started back around 1996 with the Toshiba Libretto 70CT. Termed technically as a subnotebook because of its small dimensions (given below), the computer is the first that fits all of the qualifications of being what we would term a Netbook today, due in part to its built-in Infrared and PCMCIA hardware, and it's (albeit early) web browsing software.

The hardware includes the two (potentially) wireless PCMCIA and Infrared network connections, Windows 95 OSR 2 with Internet Explorer 2.0, a whole 16MB of RAM and a 120Mhz Intel Pentium processor (we're flying now!).

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