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Edelman / Richard Edelman:
The Edelman Technorati Deal; Why This Matters for Companies. — Although Technorati is best known as the most comprehensive service for searching blogs — they currently index over 40 million of them — the company also provides the best analytic tools for tracking over time and in depth what the blogosphere is talking about.
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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.
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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Mark Peters / Lets Go Digital:
Samsung Digimax L70 — Samsung Digimax L70 : At the Korean Photo & Imaging 2006 event Samsung Techwin showcased their new Samsung Digimax L70 digital camera. The Samsung L70, the Korean name is Samsung Kenox X70, is a new model of the L-series of Samsung digital cameras.
Wired News:
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.
Rafat / paidContent.org:
UK-Heavy Social Network Bebo Gets $15 Million Funding — You're reading it here first: Bebo, an SF-based social networking site which is in the middle-ground between MySpace and Facebook, and among the biggest in UK, Ireland and New Zealand, has received $15 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital.
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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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Don Dodge on The Next …, GOOG, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Investor Relations Blog
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
University server in hackers' hands for a year — An unprecedented string of electronic intrusions has prompted Ohio University to place at least one technician on paid administrative leave and begin a sweeping reorganization of the university's computer services department.
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GigaLaw.com Daily News
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.
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.
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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.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Hollywood reportedly in agreement to delay forced quality downgrades for Blu-ray, HD DVD — As the DVD format welcomes two potential heirs to its kingship as the commercial video medium of choice, there are mounting concerns that these new heirs are nothing but pretenders.
