Amazon’s Kindle: pay to read blogs?  WTF?  —  So lots of people probably know by now (at least if they read Techmeme) that Amazon is launching an electronic book-reading gizmo called the Kindle on Monday, and there’s a gigantic cover story about it in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine.

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Author:   Mathew
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Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanzuo.com  —  Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users.  —  According to The Times, Jack Zhang, Zhanzuo’s chief executive …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/18/facebook-offers…

Facebook’s hopes to enter the tangled web of China gain momentum  —  Facebook appears to have decided on acquisition as its preferred method of entering the booming Chinese market, after months of speculation about how the social networking website would tap the country’s rapid growth and avoid …

Source:   Times of London
Author:   Jeremy Clarkson
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Destination of ‘recycled’ electronics may surprise you  —  SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Most Americans think they’re helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones.  But chances are they’re contributing to a global trade in electronic trash …

Source:   Associated Press
Link:   http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/18/electronics.trash…

Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Reader: The Details And The Devil  —  So it is a bit ridiculous that Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has been trying to keep us from disclosing the details on its Kindle e-book device, while giving Newsweek a cover story two days before the launch.

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Author:   Rafat Ali
Link:   http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-amazoncoms…

The Future of Reading  —  Amazon’s Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore.  Now he believes he can improve upon one of humankind’s most divine creations: the book itself.  —  “Technology,” computer pioneer Alan Kay once said, “is anything that was invented after you were born.”

Source:   Newsweek.com
Author:   Steven Levy
Link:   http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983

In Korea, a Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession  —  MOKCHEON, South Korea — The compound — part boot camp, part rehab center — resembles programs around the world for troubled youths.  Drill instructors drive young men through military-style obstacle courses, counselors lead group sessions …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Martin Fackler
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/technology/18rehab…

Terabit-class data pipes movies in an instant  —  Advanced maths brought to bear on fibre-optic speed problem  —  When it comes to internet speeds, we’ve long-since consigned the humble kilobit-class connection to the dustbin, so a mathematics-based breakthrough has us wondering if megabit …

Source:   Tech.co.uk
Link:   http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/internet-and…

Firefox Exploit can Hack Gmail  —  Vulnerability allows malicious code into browsers, revealing users’ Google accounts.  —  Darren Pauli, Computerworld Australia  —  Recommend this story?  —  Mozilla has taken another security blow with the discovery that Google user accounts can be accessed through a dangerous Firefox exploit.

Source:   PC World
Link:   http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139758-pg,1/article…

Microsoft DNS bug long-known, familiar to researchers  —  Problem goes back at least a decade, say security pros  —  The DNS cache poisoning bug that Microsoft Corp. patched last Tuesday stems from a flaw that has been known to researchers for 10 years or more, the two security firms credited …

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Gregg […]