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Hardware

A War Photographer’s Storage Casualties

4:00AM Matt Buchanan | The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war photographer, Teru Kuwayama, how his storage and backup system has changed to accommodate the data boom. More »
Software

Macs Vs PCs On Operating System Security

2:13AM Mark Wilson | Security expert Charlie Miller on the record-breaking 20 zero-day security holes soon to be announced in OS X. [H-Online]
Entertainment

The Entertainment Industry’s Biggest Problem: “Piracy”

1:00PM Brian Barrett | It’s tough being a record label or a movie studio these days. People are stealing your content, all because they want to be Jack Sparrow. No, seriously: they think the problem is that “piracy” is too sexy a word. More »
Networks

Google Buzz Is The Polar Express Of Social Networks

1:00PM Kyle VanHemert | Social media researcher and general internet guru Danah Boyd gave the keynote address at SXSWi earlier today, focusing on matters of privacy. On paper, Google Buzz was a perfect social network. So why did it freak everyone out so much? More »
Software

Steve Jobs’s Threatening Phone Call Revealed

9:45AM Jesus Diaz | According to Jonathan Schwartz – then Sun’s CEO – that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass, a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz verbally cockpunched His Steveness and shut him up: More »
Business

Steve Ballmer Wants To Touch You Through The Cloud

6:59AM Jesus Diaz | He is right. The truth is that, like Google and Apple, Microsoft’s CEO knows the future is the cloud and mobile computing.
Computers

Desktop’s Dead, Baby, Desktop’s Dead

1:30AM Jesus Diaz | John Herlihy, Google Europe’s big chief, says that desktops will be irrelevant in three years. Which is precisely why Apple and Google are trying to kill each other, fiercely fighting for the domination of the mobile device world. More »
Business

Patent Claims Are Stifling Innovation

11:00AM Kyle VanHemert | Eric Von Hippel, a professor at MIT, took a step back from yesterday’s action to survey the greater state of patents in society today. With lawsuits like Apple’s becoming increasingly common, are patents hurting technology more than they’re helping it? More »
Games

Nickel-and-Diming Downloadable Content Is Gaming’s Future

4:40AM Adam Frucci | Are you frustrated by game publishers releasing same-day DLC that screw used game purchasers over? How about making you pay for what should be essential, built-in parts of a game? Well, get ready for more of it. More »
Business

The Best Google-Yahoo Comparison To Date

10:20AM Brian Barrett | Happy Birthday, Yahoo! You turned 15 today. As a present, here’s a pretty scathing assessment of you from Ditherati, compliments of Twitter. You know, your new content-sharing partner! It’s OK… everyone’s teen years are awkward. More »