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Microsoft's lack of action will slow Podcasting Growth — Well it is pretty obvious that Microsoft did not get Podcasting support built into Windows Media Player 11 and all I can say is that they obviously blew it. I have been debating what to say for a few days.
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Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut — Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges that AT&T cooperated in an illegal National Security Agency domestic surveillance program.
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Evan Hansen / Wired News:
Why We Published the AT&T Docs — A file detailing aspects of AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic wiretap operation is sitting in a San Francisco courthouse. But the public cannot see it because, at AT&T's insistence, it remains under seal in court records.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Pay-As-You-Go Personal Computing Designed for Emerging Market Consumers — Broad range of partners supports Microsoft FlexGo technology. — REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the industry's first pay-as-you-go personal computing offerings powered …
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:Microsoft tests 'pay as you go' computers
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Mark Peters / Lets Go Digital:
Samsung GX2 — Samsung GX2 : At the Seoul International Photo & Imaging Industry Show 2006, held in Korea, Samsung Techwin unveiled a sample of what seems to be there first 10 Megapixel digital SLR camera: Samsung GX2. At first look the Samsung GX II sample looks quite similar …
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Betsya / MSN Search's WebLog:
Opting Out of Open Directory Listings for Webmasters — Here in Search, we are always interested in hearing about ways to improve the search experience. And, along with Danny Sullivan and Dave Winer, customers have let us know that they wanted us to change how we used Open Directory descriptions in search results.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google retains lead in U.S. search market — Google's share of the U.S. Web search market continues to edge beyond Yahoo and Microsoft, according to the latest monthly numbers released by analysis firm ComScore Networks. — The search giant's market share among home …
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:New from Google Labs: Google Underused Portal Service
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
That After-Dinner Speech Remains a Favorite Dish — The after-dinner speech that refuses to go away has scored another distinction: top of the charts. — An audio version of the roast of President Bush by Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central rose to the rank of No. 1 album at Apple's iTunes store …
bit-tech.net:
WMD Part II by G-gnome — Published: 22nd May 2006 by Peter Dickison — WMD Part II — Welcome to the second installment of Project WMD - The Weapon of Mass Destruction. — It has been a while since the first part of this project was published on bit-tech.net.
Bob Thompson / Washington Post:
Explosive Words — At BookExpo America, Publishing's Digital Wave Crashes Against a Literary Pillar — Think of it as the publishing industry's version of "Survivor." — It was late Saturday afternoon at the Washington Convention Center. Half a dozen editors confronted an audience …
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Peter Hirshberg / Technorati Weblog:
Technorati and Edelman Partner on International Blogosphere — If there was one big take-away to Technorati's most recent State of the Blogosphere, its that the Blogosphere is going international in a Big Way. — Only a third of blog posts are in English; today more people post in Japanese than in any other language.
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Chris Gaither / Los Angeles Times:
The One Bit of Info Google Withholds: How It Works — Advertisers, competitors and Wall Street analysts are frustrated by the company's secrecy. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. evolved from a tiny start-up to the shining star of American enterprise in less than a decade by bringing knowledge to billions of people.
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Business 2.0:
Your wireless future — Phones that get you into concerts, tell co-workers not to call now - or even display which friends are at a show. The next phase of the mobile revolution is about to begin. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Want to get a sense of where wireless technology is headed?
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Free Broadband for the Masses — Backed by VC cash, a former FCC official's startup is out to provide no-fee, ad-supported wireless service — There's little debate whether the U.S. is a laggard in high-speed Internet access. About 40% of U.S. households surf the Net over so-called broadband connections.
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Tales From Packaging Hell — The stubborn plastic casing around the Microsoft Xbox 360 faceplate seemed to laugh first at the kitchen scissors and then the steak knife that tried to penetrate it. When 14-year-old Daniel Mroue's attempt to open the thing with a long, serrated bagel knife failed, his parents became concerned.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Voice Encryption May Draw U.S. Scrutiny — SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 — Philip R. Zimmermann wants to protect online privacy. Who could object to that? — He has found out once already. Trained as a computer scientist, he developed a program in 1991 called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, for scrambling and unscrambling e-mail messages.
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