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Posted by Tamar Fruchtman, Senior Corporate Counsel Today, Stanford University announced that it has expanded our original partnership to take advantage of our settlement agreement to make millions of works from its library collection accessible to readers, researchers, and book lovers across the United States. That means that if the settlement agreement is approved by the court, anyone in the US will be able to find, preview and buy online access to books from Stanford’s library. Stanford joins the University of Michigan , University of Wisconsin-Madison , and University of Texas , who also expanded their original partnerships with Google.

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Stanford expands Google Books agreement

Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube’s Head of News & Politics (cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog ) Today, President Obama had his first exclusive interview after his State of the Union speech with you, the YouTube community. The President engaged in a direct conversation about a broad range of issues, from generating jobs to opening up the health care process to investments in nuclear energy.

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Your Questions for President Obama

As painfully garish color schemes go, Sony’s new VAIO E series will take some beating.  The company has taken a 15.5-inch notebook with an Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM and up to a 500GB hard-drive, and clad it in a variety of hues and finishes; they’ll even sell you a matching (or…

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Sony VAIO E Series: Core i3/i5 overshadowed by color

I should start considering more fiber enclosures for electronics, look how awesome this soft crawly earth robot is! However, creators Osamu Iwasaki and Hanakomet still call it RobotKnit, despite the fact that it is clearly crochet. After watching the video on repeat for the last fifteen minutes, I think I can forgive them.

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Crawling crochet earth

Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Barnes & Noble Inc. rose 9.3 percent in New York trading after the bookseller’s largest outside shareholder, Ron Burkle, asked it to waive a provision preventing unwanted takeovers and allow him to acquire as much as 37 percent of the shares.Barnes & Noble surged $1.67 to…

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Barnes & Noble Jumps; Burkle Seeks Poison-Pill Waiver (Update1)

Sony Ericsson have just announced the “Aspen” which looks to be the “Faith” we saw earlier. It’s the first phone to use the new finger-friendly Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and packs a QWERTY, 3.2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), stereo speakers, FM radio with RDS, 3.5mm audio port, aGPS, WiFi and a 2.4″ (240×320 QVGA) screen. The phone is part of the Sony Ericsson “GreenHeart” portfolio to reduce the overall impact on the environment.

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Sony Ericsson launch the Aspen

Satyam Computer Services has probably been the buzzword of the year gone by, albeit for unfortunate reasons. Satyam was one of the top most IT services company and shouldered the industry veterans like Infosys and Wipro. Who would have known what was cooking behind the glamorous walls and the highly profitable balance sheets

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Mahindra Satyam Turnaround- The Phoenix That Rose From The Ashes Story

MSN (Microsoft Network) India has entered into a deal with the Mumbai Indians Team Owners according to which MSN India will manage the Internet presence of the Mumbai Indians team for the forthcoming IPL3 by setting up, managing and maintaining the official website of the Mumbai Indians Team.

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Microsoft’s Dose Of IPL3 – Signs Deal With Mumbai Indians Team

Apple achieved its all-time best quarterly results for its fiscal first quarter of 2010 with the help of huge sales of its iconic iPhone smartphones and Mac laptops during the holiday shopping season. The company sold a total of 8.7 million iPhones during the three-month period ended December 26. Although falling short of Wall Street’s expectation of 9 million handsets, the shipments more than doubled from the same quarter last year

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iPhone’s Strong Sales Bring Apple’s Best Quarterly Profit

Wikileaks, the controversial whistleblower site, has temporarily shuttered its operations. It finds itself out of funds to meet its operating costs. The site announced last December that it planned to temporarily cease operations, save for its anonymous submission tool, until it could raise money to operate

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Wikileaks Closes Operations Temporarily Due to Budget Woes

Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy Counsel When it comes to cloud computing , the Obama Administration is putting some skin in the game. Everyone talks about the capacity of cloud computing to transform government and reduce costs (one study estimates that federal agencies could eventually save 85% of their IT budgets by moving to the cloud)

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Cloud computing in the President’s 2011 budget

YouTuber bluworm took on the task of making a great big octopus puppet for stop-motion animation in a film by his friend Daniel Lennéer . Along the way he produced this informative and entertaining video describing the casting, sculpting, and armature-work that went into it, as well as showing off some of the finished animation (starting around 5:00)

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How-To: Make a giant octopus

Honda recently announced a recall on their Honda Jazz / Fit models worldwide – However, in India we will not be having any recalls as the models in India are 2nd generation and do not carry the fault. Now, this “ recall ” term is very new to India – I am not sure how many of you know, but what a car recall means – When a car is sold to you and if there is any company defect found, they have issue a notice to all the car owners to bring back their cars to authorized company workshops.

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Car recalls – will we see it in Indian Auto Industry?

Three fascinating new takes on Mumbai as an international financial centre: Mukul Asher and Azad Singh Bali in DNA a few weeks ago. In the February 2010 issue of Pragati released yesterday, there are two articles on this: by Percy Mistry himself, and by V. Anantha Nageswaran

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Mumbai as an international financial centre

All of a sudden what is the ‘one’ service you would find in every agency’s array of services?  I think you got it right – Social Media Optimization . A new rat race is initiated…Every body….all brands, enterprises are all of a sudden flocking into this wave of change, talking about how Exposure Business dying its slow death, discussing the advantages of conversational advertising. To “ feed the need ” we see our social media ‘ expert ‘  friends coming up with a package…a “ success mix ” (so called – tested) of different social media vehicles like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr etc irrespective of the genre of business, brand positioning and brand attitude.

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What Is Your Brand’s Social Media Attitude?

I know it’s just a video of a 3D printer laying down plastic, but Festo sure does a great job of showing how sexy the hardware is! I love the spool holding the plastic, and the threaded rods spinning as the extruder rises and drops. [via the Technocratic Anarchist ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in 3D printing | Digg this!

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Festo iFab in action

Since I have got your attention now let me confess that the headline is a gimmick , and the person behind cracking the Indian Govt Ad issue is none other than yours truely! For past 4-5 days all news channels bugged my ears broadcasting the news of a full-page newspaper advertisements from ‘The Women and Child development Ministry’ against female feticide with the picture of a former Pakistani air chief adorning it. I was not getting the motive behind such furor as I always thought that it’s another ‘Aman Ki Asha’ campaign’s marketing strategy [please don’t raise eyebrows ]! I think the Congress got it all wrong.

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Media Monday- Mystery behind the Indian Govt Ad revealed!

We have earlier told you about the web based language translation tool from Google for Indian Languages. The problem with all web based tools are generic – you can not use them when you are not connected to the internet and are not integrated with the applications that are already installed on your desktop

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Desi Language Transliteration Comes To Desktop Courtesy Google

The Bluetooth headset market is one of the most severely affected industries amid the economic recession. In the face of declining consumer demand, headset manufacturers are working on more innovative designs to make the products a hit again. As pointed out by market analyst firm IMS Research, although the industry got off a flying start by shipping over 40 million units within the first four years, there has been a slump of around 20 to 30 percent in the number of Bluetooth headsets sold over the past year.

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Consumers Desire Bluetooth Headsets with More Stylish and Innovative Design

The National Security Agency allegedly siphoned Americans' communications without warrants from behind this door at an AT&T office in San Francisco. Heads spun four years ago this weekend, when AT&T was accused of funneling every one of its customers’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency — without warrants.

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Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warrantless Eavesdropping

Top 20 great secrets of google http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1306756,00.asp excl.gif No Active Links, Read the Rules – Edit by Ninja excl.gif Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see www.pcmag.com/searchengines But most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best?

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250 plus tech books online 1 10 minute guide to lotus notes mail 4.5 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 2 10 minute guide to Microsoft exchange 5.0 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 3 10 minute guide to outlook 97 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 4 10 minute guide to schedule+ for windows 95 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 5 ActiveX programming unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 6 ActiveX programming unleashed http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 7 Advanced perl programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 8 Advanced PL/SQL programming with packages http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 9 Adventure in Prolog/AMZI www.oopweb.com 10 Algorithms CMSC251/Mount, David www.oopweb.com 11 Alison Balter’s Mastering Access 95 development, premier ed. http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 12 Apache : The definitive guide, 3rd.ed. http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 13 Beej’s guide to network programming/Hall, Brain www.oopweb.com 14 Beyond Linux from Scratch/BLFS Development Team http://book.onairweb.net/computer/os/linux/Administration/Beyond_Linux_From_Scratch/ 15 Borland C++ builder unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 16 Building an intranet with windows NT 4 http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 17 Building an Intranet with Windows NT 4 http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 18 Building expert systems in prolog/AMZI www.oopweb.com 19 C programming language http://book.onairweb.net/computer/pl/C/The_C_Programming_Language_by_K&R/ 20 C Programming/Holmes, Steven www.oopweb.com 21 C++ Annotations www.oopweb.com 22 CGI developer’s guide http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 23 CGI manual of style http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 24 CGI manual of style online http://www.emu.edu.tr/english/facilitiesservices/computercenter/bookslib/ 25 CGI programming http://www.hk8.org/old_web/ 26 CGI programming unleashed http://www.parsian.net/set1252/pages/books.htm 27 CGI programming with Perl, 2nd.ed.

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Anne Smith and Maura Moritz ’s ninth graders are currently finishing up reading Cory Doctorow ’s Little Brother . Previously they read 1984 and their task is to look at both books and answer the questions: What have we learned – or what have we not learned – over the past 60 years [from Orwell's time to the present]? What does our future hold for us?

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Discussing Little Brother with Cory Doctorow

The Davos summit is on top of every top executive worldwide. The most rich and powerful from each country attend this high profile meet. There is a little exercise that carried out during this meet – World’s top Investment Managers get together in one small room and are given mock $1 billion and half an hour to create a winning portfolio for each of the following categories.

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The Best Money Managers show which country they will invest in !

This is a guest post by Daniel Tenner, CTO and co-founder of Woobius , a web-based document sharing tool for architects, engineers and designers. Woobius is his second start-up. Daniel spent four years consulting at Accenture with large investment banks.

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Get real, geeks – The iPad is the Apple for Mum, not you

From healthcare to public debt, pundits are attacking President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address from almost every conceivable angle. When it comes to Obama transparency, Electronic Frontier Foundation privacy attorney Kurt Opsahl points out that the chief executive told the American public one thing Wednesday night and a federal appeals court another just a few weeks ago. The issue at hand surrounds lobbying

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Obama Speaks Transparency, Practices Subterfuge

Critical infrastructure systems around the world are the targets of repeated cyberattacks, according to a new global survey of technology executives in these industries. They believe some of the attacks are coming not just from individual cybercriminals but terrorists and foreign nation states.

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Report: Critical Infrastructures Under Constant Cyberattack Globally

Posted by Jane Horvath and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel Did you know that today is an international holiday, one that’s celebrated in the U.S., Canada, and 27 countries in Europe? Known as Data Privacy Day in North America and Data Protection Day in Europe, today is meant to increase public awareness about privacy in the information age.

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Celebrating Data Privacy Day

Yes, you’ve never probably never heard of the Markit Group . But today it announced a $250m investment by General Atlantic valuing the 6/7 year old company headquartered in London at $3.3 billion

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The ‘unsexy’ Markit.com secures $250m backing – Financial startups take note

When people are choosing a capacitive touchscreen phone, screen size and resolution are probably their main concerns. But in fact, accuracy is also an important aspect that determines the performance of a screen display. To find out which touchscreen smartphone can most accurately interpret finger inputs, the MOTO Development Group (not related to Motorola has conducted a simple test between four popular devices on the market

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Capacitive Touchscreen Accuracy Test