Fastweb reveals that Google Chrome won the browser wars for February.

AP Reports (via Google News) are ruling by German high court: Telecom data cannot be retained

Fast Company reports: Google Execs are found guilty by an Italian court for privacy violations.

LA Times reports: China will require individuals seeking to establish personal websites to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken.

FCC Reports: 93 Million Americans Disconnected From Broadband Opportunities. (PDF found here) Here is an additional press release on broadband.gov.

Big news today:

Google says: Sorry China, we will not be kowtowing to you any more.

Good question posed by FastCompany:

And there’s also the issue that Google’s pull-out of China might make the overall human rights situation slightly worse. Because whether or not you approve of Google, while it was operating in China it was pushing for relaxations of censorship–using its size as a global giant to try to lever open some cracks in the censorship wall. And if it leaves the country, then what’s to stop the Chinese government running roughshod over any other players in the Internet tech game–likely far smaller ones than mighty Google–and forcing them to comply?

Rockstar San Diego Wive’s do as the EA Spouse did and post a letter to the Internet calling for better working conditions.

The WSJ reports that the US Court of Appeals reinstated an antitrust lawsuit against the major record labels over alleged price-fixing of Internet music downloads.

Ars Technica reports that Comcast wants clarity from the FCC even if it means Net Neutrality.

E3: New game news!
Microsoft’s Natal Controller & a BBC Report on it
PSP Go

Little late on this one:
Wolfram|Alpha
However, they are holding a live Q&A tomorrow!

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The list for today:

TweetDeck – I had seen this pop up on screens all across SXSW and had no idea what it was. Though it was weird feeling as though I was behind the times, I did eventually ask what it was and am glad I did!
Cyark.org – Archaeology Online! – Got this one from the Real Tech of Indiana Jones panel.
Happiness Hypothesis – There seems to be a lot of upper management/CEOs/thought leaders looking into happiness. I got this one from the Zappos Keynote.
Four Hour Work Week Blog – also got from the Zappos Keynote.
Funology: From Usability to Enjoyment – this I got after doing a search on Funologist after attending the Funologist – Guerrilla Game Research (which was very cool – I’d like to have that title some day!) – but wow is the book expensive…
Adaptive Path Reading List – interesting how many of these I already own/have read.

Lastly, I’ve added the Anthropologist For Hire! link at the top. This is to help garner interest of companies who may be in need of the services of an anthropologist as I am looking for a company to be my practicum partner so that I may finish up the last requirements for my masters degree. Then I’ll be moving on to my PhD!

Because there is so much going on and I’m super busy these days this will be just a quick rundown of the top three things on my list of interesting happenings.

• First is the really neat mashup between Google and Twitter for Super Tuesday, go check it out.
• Second is the Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google exchange going on.
• Third are the Internet outages affecting India and the toll it’s taking on business there.

Here are two articles I’ve read recently that I found to be very interesting. First is Wired’s Students On How Social Networking Is Transforming Politics, second is a post that was made to Tera Nova on the governance of cyber worlds.

If you’ve seen anything else interesting as of late please pass it my way!