Articles of Note: January-February 2010

• Charles Leadbeater talks about the threats behind cloud computing by analyzing the position of profit-seeking companies in their attempts at centralizing the Internet #;

• Brand new presentation by chef-superstar Jamie Oliver at TED 2010 #;

• Facebook brings into discussion something about a fully-fledged webmail service able to compete with the big names, dubbed as Project Titan;

• Curious to find out which of the movies nominated for this year’s Oscars were most pirated? #;

• Intriguing point made by Abe Sauer on Apple’s “We’ll be back soon” brand at brandchannel.com # (via Kit Blog);

• Carl Honore, author of In Praise of Slowness talks about slow sex at The Huffington Post #;

• Microsoft demoes its Windows Phone 7 series. Seems amazing! #;

• Symbian Foundation unveiled Symbian^3, the next reincarnation of the popular OS expected to work on netbooks as well #;

• Google launches Buzz, some say it’s more about business than about social networks #;

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Romanian Internet Industry updates:

• Vodafone Romania starts offering its customers personalized phone numbers #;

• About 700,000 people in Romania use Facebook (via refresh.ro);

• The first Web Show episode airs #;

• With the acquisition made by CME, MediaPro Interactiv becomes Apropo Media #;

• Yahoo.ro will become a reality starting July 2010.