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What We’re Reading: Patents, E-Books and Spy Software
Thursday's highlights of overlooked, unusual or just plain interesting technology news from around the Web.
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Bits Scan: Apple TV, an Improved Xbox and a Week Without Google
Other items in our technology news roundup include a European antitrust inquiry into Google and a look at a new type of augmented reality technology.
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Intel Was Attacked at the Same Time as Google
Intel says it was victim of a cyber attack in January, around the same time that Google was victim of a broad-based attack that started in China.
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Oracle President Admits Affair After Billboards Appear
Oracle's president, Charles Phillips, acknowledges an affair after some unusual billboards apparently featuring him appear in Times Square and elsewhere.
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Big Blue’s Smarter Marketing Playbook
A London speech by I.B.M.'s Sam Palmisano provides a lessons-learned tutorial that explains the success of the company's Smarter Planet campaign.
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New Group Will Fight Drivers’ Cellphone Use
A new group aims to publicize the risks of distracted driving and cut down on multitasking behind the wheel.
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‘We Are All Gadget Nerds Now’
David Carr, on Media Decoder, writes that the new technologies we use to consume media are collectively changing the balance of programming and consumer.
The Y2K That (Thankfully) Never Happened
Fears of Y2K devastation didn't come to fruition. Looking back through The New York Times's archives a decade later helps illustrate some of the public fears.
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Multitouch Screens Could Enliven New Devices
Touchco, a new multi-touch screen technology from New York University's Media Research Lab could change the way consumers interact with sketchbooks or e-readers.
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Hedge Fund Makes $2 Billion Offer for Novell