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Most new sites do not currently charge for content, but that could all change within a year. During a speech in London, Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber said he could, "confidently predict that within the next 12 months, almost all news organizations will be charging for content."

This prediction comes after Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation made a statement in May in which he said his newspaper websites, such as The New York Times, would likely begin charging for content within a year. Incidentally, the New York Times recently let it slip that it was considering a $5 dollars per month subscription fee.

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If you haven't yet heard, rumors really are going around about Twitter getting a Nobel Peace Prize. It all started when former Deputy National Security Advisor Mark Pfeifle suggested it in an interview with Fox News. He said:

"If there's anybody that should possibly get a Nobel Peace Prize in the next time around, it should be the founders of Twitter who delayed the tuning up of their system in order for an amazing amount of tweets to be sent out in the last week or so."

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Googlers Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson announced on Wednesday that the company was embarking on a new project: the Google Chrome Operating System. After the Web browser launched last year, many people anticipated a Google OS as the company's next move.

Google Chrome OS is open source and will initially be intended for netbooks; however, the system is said to be equipped to power large desktop systems as well. The three main aspects of the operating system are speed, simplicity, and security. Although Google will construct its own windowing system, the new OS will run on top of the kernel from the open source Linux OS.

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