Tech News Flash: Monday -- March 1, 2010
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Today's Headlines
Facebook's News Feed Patent Lock - Vaguely Menacing?
Was the iPad a Mistake?
Mac App Transcribes Speech to Text in a Snap
EU Grouses at Google Over Privacy on Its Streets
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Microsoft vs. the Zombie Hordes (15:10 minutes)
In this episode: Microsoft vanquishes an army of zombies; the European
Commission hears complaints about Google's search results; an Italian
court convicts Google execs over an offensive online video they didn't
produce or post; new rules for credit card issuers go into effect; FCC
identifies categories of digital have-nots; Wal-Mart buys online video
streamer Vudu; UN warns of growing e-waste pains in developing nations;
Bloom Energy unveils refrigerator-sized power plant.
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Today's Story Highlights
Facebook's News Feed Patent Lock - Vaguely Menacing?
Facebook last week won the right to call the news feed its very own.
Patent 7,699,123 was issued by the U.S. Patent Office last Tuesday to
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and seven other Facebook executives. It's described
as a method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69442.html
Was the iPad a Mistake?
This isn't to ask whether it will be successful. Apple is a master at
setting goals and then exceeding them, and a lot of folks are clearly
excited about the iPad -- but the first generation iPhone was kind of a
mistake that got corrected in later versions. I'm increasingly thinking
that Steve Jobs' initial concerns with this offering were well founded.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69433.html
Mac App Transcribes Speech to Text in a Snap
Talking to your Mac and watching your words appear on its screen can be
an empowering experience, but what about those times you're away from
your "iron?" If you have a gadget that records sound files, you can now
turn those bytes into text with a new program from MacSpeech.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69437.html
EU Grouses at Google Over Privacy on Its Streets
The European Union has requested that Google make some changes to its
Street View service. It wants Google to delete the images that it
captures after six months, according to a letter sent to Google from the
head of the EU Article 29 Data Protection Group, which is comprised of
data protection officials from EU countries.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69432.html
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