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Earlier this week, free and cross-platform bookmark sync tool Xmarks announced it would be closing up shop come January of next year, but there may be some life left in it yet. This morning, on the Xmarks company blog, CEO James Joaquin said that the company is “revisiting the idea of Xmarks as a premium [...]

Fulfilling a pledge to hasten the pace of Chrome releases, Google has issued its first beta edition of Chrome 7, but the big new changes in the browser come with a new developer-oriented release. The new beta, Chrome 7.0.517.24, matches that of Tuesday’s developer-channel release. That doesn’t include too much directly visible to users–the about:labs [...]

(AP) — WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange lashed out at the mainstream media during a debate at a London university Thursday, fighting back at a string of unfavorable stories that have appeared since his organization’s publication of a cache of U.S. intelligence documents. More information: WikiLeaks: http://wikileaks.org/ City University London: http://www.city.ac.uk/ Index on Censorship: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/ ©2010 [...]

(AP) — A San Francisco group that defends online free speech is taking on a Las Vegas company it says is shaking down news-sharing Internet users through more than 140 copyright infringement lawsuits filed this year. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Facebook announced Thursday some notable upgrades to its photo-sharing product: the ability to share high-resolution photos, “tag” people in bulk, and browse photos in a more streamlined fashion that doesn’t load individual pages each time a new photo is viewed. The announcement was made by Facebook Photos product manager Sam Odio, and the new features [...]

Google’s URL shortening service is now open to the world through a new Web site. In an age of 140-character communication and mobile devices, URL shorteners are a godsend. However, the most popular third-party ones, such as Bit.ly and TinyURL, are run by smaller companies that aren’t guaranteed to stick around for the long run: [...]

The front of The Boston Globe in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 2009. Taking a page from its parent company The New York Times Co., The Boston Globe will begin charging for full access to its website next year, the newspaper announced on Thursday. Taking a page from its parent company The New York Times Co., The [...]

It turns out there was more to Google’s WebM technology than just a plan to revolutionize Web-based video. The company also wants to revolutionize still images on the Web with a new format called WebP. Google plans to announce the new WebP graphics format today along with its research that indicates its use could cut [...]

(AP) — Computer hackers in eastern Europe who used computer viruses to steal usernames and passwords teamed up with associates who opened bank accounts in the U.S. to snatch at least $3 million from American bank accounts, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges against more than 60 people. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. [...]

(AP) — YouTube and France’s leading music industry group have announced a deal that makes sure musical artists get paid when their videos are seen on the online video sharing site. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.