1. Dwight Freeney of Indianapolis Colts in pain, still hopes to play despite ankle ligament tear 3 hours ago   permalink

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Colts All-Pro defensive end Dwight Freeney is in pain, but still hopes to play in Sunday's Super Bowl against the Saints.

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2. IE8, Chrome have most momentum in browser wars 2 hours ago   permalink

Digg.com

Chrome is maintaining its third place position in terms of worldwide market share numbers. Internet Explorer 8 is now being used by one in four users on the Web.

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3. Facebook Formally Announces HipHop For PHP 11 minutes ago   permalink

Fatbird / Newsvine

After ongoing rumors of a new version of PHP being released by Facebook today, the company has officially announced HipHop for PHP: a source code transformer.

4. Vorhang auf f�r das Anti-iPad 21 minutes ago   permalink

Www.spiegel.de

Plant Google einen Tablet-Computer? Seit auf einer offiziellen Google-Seite entsprechende Bilder aufgetaucht sind, wird in der Blogosphäre heftig gestritten, ob und wie der Suchmaschinenkonzern dem Apple-iPad Konkurrenz machen könnte. SPIEGEL ONLINE erklärt, was an den Gerüchten dran ist.

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5. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.mobilecrunch.com

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

6. Study: 73% use bank password everywhere 2 hours ago   permalink

Shub Tnediserp Remrof / Newsvine

For years computer security experts have been preaching that users should never share the same password across their connected lives -- at online banking sites, at Amazon, on their Web mail services, even on their cell phones. Apparently, most people ignore that advice.

7. Chinese diplomat: Ties with US deteriorated recently. Ronen Medzini. 02.02.10, 16:34 / Israel News 3 hours ago   permalink

Larry H-189743 / Newsvine

Ever since the US arms sales to Taiwan, the American administration has been trying to undermine relations, the deputy head of Chinese Embassy in Israel said in a special interview with Ynet on the heels of the dispute that has unraveled between China and the United States.

8. Feature: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo 3 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

Mozilla announced last week the availability of Firefox for Maemo 1.0, the first official release of Firefox Mobile for Nokia's Linux-based smartphone operating system. It offers adequate browsing performance, support for add-ons, and a finger-friendly user interface that includes popular Firefox features like the AwesomeBar. This Firefox ...

9. Stage collapse at Sun Life Stadium injures four 3 hours ago   permalink

Associated Press / ESPN.com

Four people were injured when a small stage collapsed outside Sun Life Stadium, where the Super Bowl is being played this weekend.

10. Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs 10 hours ago   permalink

Www.wired.com

After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.

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11. 'Ochocinco News Network' covering Super Bowl with fellow NFL players 6 hours ago   permalink

Associated Press / ESPN.com

Chad Ochocinco and other prominent NFL players will be asking the questions and giving reports during Super Bowl week.

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12. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market 4 hours ago   permalink

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

13. Brokers must think twice before tweeting, Facebooking 4 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting ...

14. Dallas Cowboys fullback Deon Anderson arrested after disturbance. 5 hours ago   permalink

Calvin Watkins / ESPN.com

Cowboys starting fullback Deon Anderson was arrested on traffic warrants after a disturbance early Tuesday morning and weapons were confiscated.

15. January giveaway wrap-up and more freebies for new subscribers 5 hours ago   permalink

Ars Technica

We had a great response to our January giveaway . We're sending out e-mails to our winners today; if you commented on last month's post or are an Ars Premier Subscriber , keep an eye on your inbox (and possibly spam folder). Additionally, if you were one of the first 20 Ars Premier subscribers after we made the original posting on January 11 or ...

16. Reports: Texans, Kubiak OK new deal 6 hours ago   permalink

NFL

Coach Gary Kubiak has agreed to a new contract that will keep him with the Houston Texans through the 2012 season according to two reports Tuesday.

17. John Carlson 6 hours ago   permalink

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18. Is an Insurance Scam Racist? 8 hours ago   permalink

Admin / Duncanriley.com

The Age: Burned Indian faked attack to claim car insurance: police And this follows the recent murder of an Indian man by other Indians. Both cases were cited in the Indian media as examples of Australian racism. So is an insurance scam racist? Side note: the funniest thing this morning was listening to the head of the Indian [...]

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19. Finding Out a Visitor’s Name by Checking Their Social Network Browser History 7 hours ago   permalink

Blogoscoped.com

In this paper, we introduce a novel de-anonymization attack against users of social networking sites. In particular, we show that information about the group memberships of a user (i.e., the groups of a social network to which a user belongs) is often sufficient to uniquely identify this user. When unique identification is not possible, then the ...

20. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack 7 hours ago   permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...