The violence, ongoing turmoil, and occasional triumphs in Egypt impacted our news coverage every day this past week. But it was Marshall Kirkpatrick’s tale of life on the AOL content farm that ended up as readers’ top choice in the week’s most popular stories. Verizon, and its plan to throttle high-data users in the wake of the new iPhone release was the top mobile post. In location news, Facebook Deals arrived in Europe. And Richard MacManus profiled a leading innovator in the Internet of Things. Read on to find out who, as well as more top stories.
Top Stories of the Week
- I Worked on the AOL Content Farm & It Changed My Life
- ATDHE Seized: How Site Takedowns Are Ceremonial
- Step By Step, Google Docs Becoming the Mythical “GDrive”
- You Can Now Buy Up to 16 Terabytes of Storage from Google
- How to Jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 – Now, Untethered!
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Location
- Facebook Deals Launches in Europe
- Google Adds 3 New Ways to Check In to Places, Including Automatically
Mobile
- Ericsson Launches Mobile Banking System to Rival Western Union
- In Preparation for the iPhone, Verizon Plans to Throttle Its Heaviest Data Users
Internet of Things
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