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Understanding the IP Wars

Today, technology companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter are getting a scary wake-up call on the importance of IP issues.

To Mitt: Here’s Your Digital Etch A Sketch

Why race to buy a plastic Etch A Sketch when you can download an app or make a Kinect-a-Sketch?
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Remember Obama’s National Broadband Plan? Neither Does Anyone Else.

Two years after the introduction of the National Broadband Plan, a new study finds that not many more Americans have fast access at home than they did before.
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The President of the United States Visits Intel Again (Video)

President Obama likes Intel. And why wouldn’t he?
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Longtime Google Policy Guy Andrew McLaughlin Headed to Tumblr

Andrew McLaughlin, who led global public policy at Google for five years and was deputy CTO in the Obama administration, joined Tumblr today as executive vice president.
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IBM Stakes $1 Billion on Hope of Spurring Small Business Buying

Big Blue is hoping to prod small and medium companies to boost their tech spending with a billion dollars worth of easy credit.
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Obama: I Want YOU to Crash John Boehner’s Web Server

Last night the president of the United States asked Americans to contact their representatives in Congress about the stalemate in Washington over the debt ceiling. Oh boy, did they ever respond.
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Facebook Seeking Friends in Beltway

President Barack Obama will travel to Facebook Inc.’s Silicon Valley headquarters Wednesday to hold a “town hall” meeting on the economy with users of the social-networking site.

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U.S. Technology Firms, China Tangle Again Over Contracts

There’s an old proverb in China: The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away–meaning, if you’re a bureaucrat out in the hustings, you can pretty much forget about Beijing and do whatever you like.

Fade to Black…This Is How It Ends for the Flip Digital Video Camera?

Cisco Systems always seemed a strange owner for Pure Digital, the company that made the Flip video camera. The biggest question left over from Cisco’s announcement that it will shut the Flip business down is this: Why didn’t Cisco try to sell it to someone else?